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Heavy fighting erupts in Karabakh (with updates)

Heavy fighting erupts in Karabakh (with updates)

The South Caucasus has been plunged back to war as Armenian and Azerbaijani forces battled each other with heavy weaponary across the line of contact in the Karabakh conflict zone. Casualties, both military and civilian, are reported to be high.
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Kazakhstan to abolish the death penalty

Kazakhstan to abolish the death penalty

At the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Kairat Omarov has signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at the abolition of the death penalty.