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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia sign Karabakh peace deal

KARABAKH, Nov 10 (BBC): Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed an agreement to end military conflict over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the deal "incredibly painful both for me and both for our people".It comes after six weeks of fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians.The...

Hundreds die in Ethiopian conflict

ABUJA, Nov 10 (Reuters): An escalating conflict in Ethiopia's restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people, sources on the government side said, even as the prime minister sought on Monday to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war.The flare-up in the northern area bordering Eritrea...

S Africa launches third Covid vaccine trial

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 10 (Xinhua): South Africa on Monday launched the country's third COVID-19 vaccine trial, which tests whether an experimental vaccine can protect people from contracting the novel coronavirus or developing serious symptoms.Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial with Janssen Pharmaceutica, owned by American multinational corporation Johnson & Johnson, is expected to...

Trump administration faces UN rights review

GENEVA, Nov 10 (AFP): Officials representing the Trump administration countered a barrage of criticism at the UN Monday over police violence and racial tensions, the treatment of migrants, among other rights concerns.Some 120 country representatives took part in the half-day, largely virtual public debate about the US human rights record,...

US sanctions four Chinese officials over HK crackdown

BEIJING, Nov 10 (AP): The U.S. State Department has announced sanctions against an additional four Chinese officials over the crackdown on political rights in Hong Kong.A statement issued by the department on Monday said the four would be banned from traveling to the U.S. and have any assets in the...

1,000-yr-old clay jar with gold coins found in Israel

JERUSALEM, Nov 10 (Xinhua): Israeli archaeologists unearthed a 1,000-year-old pottery juglet containing four gold coins in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Monday.The small clay jar from the early Islamic period was found near the Western Wall Plaza.According to IAA, the coins were in excellent preservation and immediately identifiable...

Spokesman for Palestinians Erekat dies

JERUSALEM, Nov 10 (AP): Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died on Tuesday, weeks after being infected by the coronavirus. He was 65.The American-educated Erekat was involved in nearly every round of peace negotiations between Israel and the...

News in Brief (11-11-2020)

Over a dozen killed, hurt in Afghan car bomb attackMAIMANA, Afghanistan, Nov 10: Over a dozen police and civilians were killed or injured as a car bomb exploded next to a police base in Almar district of northern Faryab province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Abdul Karim Yurash said. —...