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The Prime Minister of Armenia has announced that there is no diplomatic solution in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and subsequent war with Azerbaijan. He has vowed to fight "until the end".
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire that came into force midnight on Sunday. In the early hours of Sunday, Azerbaijan fired artillery shells and rockets. This was reported by Shusan Stepanyan, a spokeswoman for Armenia’s defence ministry. Azerbaijan later accused Armenia of breaking the truce.
The countries have been fighting over Azerbaijan’s ethnic Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian army has struck Ganja, the second-largest city in Azerbaijan with a missile attack. Twelve civilians have been killed and over 40 have been injured.
Hikmet Hajiyev, the assistant to the Azerbaijani president and Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department, has stated that Azerbaijan is "responding them in the battleground. We are not fighting with civilians".
After around ten hours of talks between diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan, both countries have agreed to a cease-fire in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. It came into effect only hours later at noon local time on Saturday.
The negotiations had been initiated and taken place under Russian supervision. The cease-fire happens "on humanitarian grounds for exchanging POWs and other detained persons and dead bodies" according to a statement.
Both the Armenian and the Azerbaijani government have announced that they will join peace talks in Moscow.
Armenia has announced that they are ready to work together with the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in order to return to cease-fire terms with Azerbaijan. In the announcement, they referred to the terms set out in an agreement from 1994-1195.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has stated that they "only have one condition: Armenian armed forces must unconditionally, fully, and immediately leave our lands".
Fights had previously broken out in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and over 100 deaths have been reported.
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Armenia says a Turkish F-16 shot down one of its SU-25 fighter jets in a significant escalation of the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Turkey, which openly backs Azerbaijan in the conflict, has denied the claim.
The prime minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, has claimed that Azerbaijan has initiated a "missile & aerial attack" against Artsakh, a territory that is claimed by Armenia.
Azerbaijan claims to have launched a "counter-offensive" against Armenia.
Both countries are now at war.
According to a 6,600-word memo that has been obtained by BuzzFeed News, a former Facebook data scientist accuses Facebook of ignoring political manipulation on a global scale.
In the memo, Sophie Zhang gives "concrete examples of heads of government and political parties in Azerbaijan and Honduras using fake accounts or misrepresenting themselves to sway public opinion".
One of the examples given is that 672,000 fake accounts have been removed that globally manipulated the narrative during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Zhang also stated that she has "personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count".