World News Briefs -- October 27, 2020 (Evening Edition)

 


YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to pursue a diplomatic solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as fighting in and around the mountain enclave entered a second month on Tuesday, defying a ceasefire brokered in Washington. 

Armenia acknowledged overnight that Nagorno-Karabakh forces had withdrawn from a strategic town between the enclave and the Iranian border, an apparent military gain for Azerbaijan. Both sides accused each other on Tuesday of striking targets outside Nagorno-Karabakh itself in defiance of a truce brokered by Pompeo at the weekend. 

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 MIDDLE EAST 










 ASIA 






Thai student-protesters aim for ambitious political change. 


AFRICA 

UN Security Council ratifies Libya ceasefire deal. 








 EUROPE 







Calls for UK national lockdown grow as coronavirus death toll passes 60,000. 





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TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR 




BUSINESS/ECONOMY/FINANCE 






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