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The negotiations in Brussels came amid a series of fatal clashes along the shared border between the two former Soviet republics. An end to decades of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be in sight, European Council President Charles Michel said Sunday following negotiations between the...

Armenia and Azerbaijan have blamed each other for gunfire along their restive border, days in advance of EU-hosted talks aimed at resolving their 30-year-old territorial dispute. The fighting came on Thursday as the two countries are in negotiations on a peace agreement to end a decades-long...

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are to meet next week in Brussels, the European Union said on Monday, the latest attempt to secure a durable peace accord and resolve longstanding differences over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The meeting on May 14 between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol...

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to cooperate to locate and identify hundreds of people still missing from the 1998-99 war. More than 13,000 people were killed during the conflict which pitted the overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian majority of Kosovo against Serbia. According to the European...

France has been criticized by the United Nations Human Rights Council for increased police violence, including against protesters, as widespread Labor Day demonstrations take over the country. France must “take measures to, in a transparent manner, address allegations regarding excessive use of...

Reporters across Europe are working under increasingly challenging conditions and attempts to silence them have grown, the Committee to Protect Journalists has warned. In an extensive study released on Wednesday, the US-headquartered organization said that while the European Union has initiated laws...

Turkish authorities banned the commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide for the second year running Monday in a decision condemned as “unacceptable” by organizers. The blocking of a memorial event in Istanbul came as issues affecting Turkey’s minorities took hold ahead of next month’s elections...

Azerbaijan has said it has established a checkpoint on the only land route to the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a step that was followed by claims of border shootings by both Azeri and Armenian forces. Azerbaijan said on Sunday that it had established a checkpoint on the road leading to...

Switzerland’s attorney general has filed an indictment against The Gambia’s former interior minister for crimes against humanity committed under former authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Ousman Sonko is accused of having supported, participated in, and failed to...

A Russian court on Monday convicted top opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. of treason for publicly denouncing Moscow’s war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 25 years in prison as part of the Kremlin’s relentless crackdown on critics of the invasion. The political activist and journalist, who...