The British government hopes that its plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda will be the law of the land before the week is out.
MPs will vote on it, again, later.
It follows the latest attempts by the House of Lords to change it, which are (...)
Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to a prisoner exchange, and to work towards normalizing ties and a peace deal to a decades-long conflict — a move the United States and European Union have welcomed.
Azerbaijan will release 32 prisoners of war to (...)
The UN and its partners launched on Saturday an emergency response plan to help 136,000 refugees, appealing for $97 million to respond to urgent needs of those who fled the Karabakh region and their hosts in Armenia.
"We call upon the international (...)
The humanitarian response to the Karabakh crisis continued apace on Tuesday as UN agencies and partners warned of urgent health needs among the more than 100,000 refugees who have entered Armenia.
Concerns also remain for those unable to leave the (...)
UN World Health Organization (WHO) teams in Goris, Armenia, are tirelessly working to assist not only the vast numbers of refugees fleeing the Karabakh region but also to provide urgent medical support to individuals grappling with severe burn (...)
Over 88,000 refugees from the Karabakh region have fled to Armenia in less than a week and humanitarian needs are surging, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
Some 65,000 have already been registered at government-run centers where long (...)
More than 100,000 people have fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenia said.
It means that almost the entire population of the ethnic Armenian enclave has left since Azerbaijan seized the region last week.
Azerbaijan has said it wants to (...)
Every hour, the number of people fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh climbs even further. The official count of refugees is now close to half the population of the enclave.
The scenes at the border suggest the region is being emptied of ethnic Armenians. As (...)
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concerns on Tuesday over the movement of a large number of civilians to Armenia as a result of the recent hostilities in the region.
Some 19,000 refugees have reportedly left the Karabakh Economic Region of the (...)
An explosion at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh has killed 20 people and injured hundreds more, local Armenian authorities say.
Nearly 300 people were admitted to hospitals, with dozens of them "still in critical condition".
It comes as the (...)
Armenia's prime minister has called his country's security relationships "ineffective," in a swipe at Russia after Azerbaijan claimed the breakaway province of Nagorno-Karabakh following a swift military campaign.
Armenia is part of the Collective (...)
A growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the disputed region last week.
More than 3,000 people have so far crossed into Armenia from the enclave, which is home to a majority of some (...)
The first group of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in Armenia, days after the enclave was seized by Azerbaijan.
They entered shortly after local officials announced plans to move those made homeless by the fighting.
Azerbaijan (...)
It took just 24 hours for Azerbaijan's military to force the surrender of an enclave that is home to 120,000 ethnic Armenians.
What happens next to the men, women and children in this corner of the South Caucasus is a source of increasing (...)
Azerbaijan's president has declared that his country's sovereignty has been restored over Nagorno-Karabakh after a 24-hour military offensive against ethnic-Armenian forces.
Ilham Aliyev praised the heroism of Azerbaijan's army hours after Karabakh (...)
Azerbaijan has launched "anti-terror" operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, and said it will not stop until ethnic-Armenian separatists surrender.
Tensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the breakaway enclave, recognized (...)
They call it the Road of Life, as it is the only route connecting 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region with the Republic of Armenia.
But for nearly nine months the Lachin Corridor has been blocked by Azerbaijani (...)
When President Vladimir Putin announced a military mobilization last September, thousands of Russians rushed to the border.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians are estimated to have left their country since the start of the full-scale invasion of (...)
Azerbaijan's president and Armenia's prime minister met European leaders in Moldova in a renewed effort to resolve tensions between the two countries.
Armenia and Azerbaijan appear to have taken another step towards normalizing ties following a (...)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said his country is ready to recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave as part of Azerbaijan if Baku guarantees the security of its ethnic Armenian population, Reuters reported citing Russian news (...)
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of firing across their shared border on Thursday as international efforts intensify to calm tensions over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"Azerbaijani forces are firing artillery and mortars at (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia continued its massive evacuation operation for its citizens and other nationals from war-torn Sudan.
A new batch of 187 evacuees belonging to at least 25 nationalities arrived in Jeddah aboard the Saudi vessel HMS Taif on (...)
In continuation of the evacuation efforts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the directives of the Kingdom's Leadership, several evacuees arrived in Jeddah this morning from the Republic of Sudan. The number of arrivals is 187 from the (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia on Wednesday evacuated a total of 1687 people from Sudan, including its own citizens and nationals of 58 other countries.
The evacuees, who included 13 Saudis, arrived in Jeddah, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Among (...)
In continuation of the evacuation efforts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the directives of the Kingdoms Leadership, several evacuees arrived from the Republic of Sudan to the city of Jeddah today by a Kingdoms ship, which included 13 (...)