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Nagorno-Karabakh Receives First Aid In Months, But Route To Armenia Remains Closed

A Russian Red Cross truck carrying humanitarian aid entered Nagorno-Karabakh from the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam on September 12. It was the first delivery of supplies to the territory in nearly three months, since Azerbaijan shut down all traffic on the Lachin corridor, the only road connecting the Armenian-populated region …

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DOZENS OF MIGRANTS STAGE HUNGER STRIKE AT POLAND’S ‘GUANTANAMO’

Many of the almost 100 migrants held in the detention centre at Przemysl, in southeast Poland, have gone on hunger strike, demanding an end to what they see as arbitrary detention, BIRN can confirm. A hunger strike by migrants held in the Przemysl detention centre, which began on September 5 …

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SLOVAKIA FINDS ITSELF IN EYE OF ILLEGAL MIGRATION STORM

Migrants have been arriving in Slovakia in ever-larger numbers, attracted by a document introduced by a former Smer government five years ago which they believe, wrongly, grants them the right to stay in the EU. The country’s neighbours are making the situation worse.Zyad, a refugee, left his wife and two …

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