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The buzzing of a drone rings out across Stepanakert, the capital of the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, followed by an explosion atop a mountain on the city's outskirts. IMAGES
Hundreds of people rally in the capital Yerevan in protests against the Armenian government's plans to concede land to concede land to the Caucasus nation's historic foe, Azerbaijan. According to Armenian police, it detained dozens of people attempting to block streets in Yerevan as part of protests. Armenia has agreed to hand over territory it has controlled since the 1990s and has started border delimitation efforts, in a bid to secure an elusive peace deal with Baku and avoid another bloody conflict. IMAGES
EU-hosted talks between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, aimed at reducing tensions after Baku's lightning offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh will take place this month, EU chief Charles Michel tells AFP. "The goal is to have this meeting by the end of October" he says, speaking on the sidelines of a European Political Community summit in Granada, southern Spain. SOUNDBITE
EU lawmakers approve a resolution that accuses Azerbaijan of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" against the Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, and urges the bloc to impose sanctions on Baku. According to the resolution, the European Parliament "considers that the current situation amounts to ethnic cleansing and strongly condemns threats and violence committed by Azerbaijani troops". IMAGES
Images show Russian military as part of a peacekeeping force at a checkpoint on the Lachin Corridor in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh now stands practically empty after almost all ethnic Armenians fled the self-proclaimed republic following Azerbaijan's lightning military offensive in late September. IMAGES
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