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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urges voters to back the referendum on rights and recognition for Indigenous citizens, as voters begin to cast their ballots. SOUNDBITE
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 abandoned cars along the Lachin Corridor road that connects Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia and which some one hundred-thousand Armenians moved down as they fled the breakaway enclave, according to a count by the Armenian authorities. IMAGES
Images filmed from a car driving on the road as journalists enter to the city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert in Armenian, at the same time as Azerbaijani officials. The AFP team is reporting from the former breakaway region on a government press tour. IMAGES