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BAKU, Azerbaijan 鈥?Armenia and Azerbaijan on Saturday announced a new attempt to establish a cease-fire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh starting from midnight, a move that comes a week after a Russia-brokered truce frayed immediately after stanley cup it took force.The new agreement was announced following Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovs calls with his counterparts from the two nations, in which he strongly urged them to abide by the Moscow deal.Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a war there ended in 1994. The latest fighting that began on Sept. 27 has involved heavy artillery, rockets and drones, killing hundreds in the largest escalation of hostilities between the South Caucasus neighbors in more than stanley cup a quarter-century.Russia, which has a security pact with Armenia but has cultivated warm ties with Azerbaijan, hosted top diplomats from both countries for more than 10 hours of talks that ended with the initial cease-fire agreement. But the deal frayed immediately after the truce took effect last Saturday, with both sides blaming each other for breaching it.The full-scale fighting continued to rage through the week.In a new stanley cup escalation, Azerbaijan on Saturday accused Armenia of striking its second-largest city with a ballistic missile that killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 50 others.The Armenian Defense Ministry denied launching the strike, but the separatist authorities in Nagorno Pyxq Dispute over Ohio drop box limit ends as advocates drop suit
MUMBAI, India 鈥?Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffered a significant political setback Sunday in a widely watched state assembly election, losing a bitterly fought campaign to an alliance of rival parties.The loss in Bihar, where Modi campaigned fiercely, was viewed as a rebuke of the governing Bharatiya Janata Partys often divisive rhetoric and of Modis year-and-a-half in power, during which critics say he has failed to bring the economic reforms he promised.The campaign in Bihar, one of Indias poorest states, was marred by allegations that Modis conservative party was trying to exploit caste and religious differences 鈥?particularly between majority Hindus and minority Muslims 鈥?to appeal to voters. Amit Shah, the BJPs president, was critic stanley website i stanley uk zed for saying that if the party lost in Bihar, fireworks would be set off in Muslim-dominated Pakistan, Indias regional rival.It was the second major state election that Modis party lost this year, after an upstart anti-corruption party won control of the local government in the national capital, New Delhi, in February.The winning alliance, led by the states two-term chief executive, Nitish Kumar, won nearly three-quarters of the 243 state assembly seats. The BJP won less than a quarter. Narendra Modis authority will decr stanley quencher ease, said Shaibal Gupta, a prominent social scientist in Patna, Bihars capital. Critics within the party might pounce on him. Gupta said Modis economic agenda could be further derailed because the BJP lost a cha |
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