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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visits a military cemetery as Armenia and Azerbaijan mourn the thousands killed in their brief but brutal war for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region on the first anniversary of the conflict. The war for control of the mountainous region left some 6,500 people dead and sparked mutual allegations of war crimes. It ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that saw Armenia hand over to Baku swathes of contested territories it had controlled for decades. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Sochi ahead of trilateral talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev a month after the worst clashes between the two countries since their war in 2020. Moscow is seeking to reassert its role as a key powerbroker between the Caucasus arch-foes amid the growing Western engagement in the region, where Russia -- distracted by its war in Ukraine -- is visibly losing influence after decades of domination. IMAGES
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks to army reservists before they go to join the frontline in Nagorno-Karabakh. Later in the early hours of Saturday, a missile strike levelled a row of homes in Azerbaijan's second city of Ganja on Saturday, killing 12 people in a sharp escalation of the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. IMAGES
Images show aid workers and refugees in the Armenian city of Goris as people continue to arrive from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. On Thursday, Yerevan reported that more than 65,000 people have fled the enclave, representing more than half of its ethnic Armenian population. IMAGES
Images filmed from the edge of Azerbaijani territory show Armenian ambulances heading into Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh to help victims of a massive explosion at a fuel depot in the city of Stepanakert, which killed 20 people and injured more than 200. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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