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Armenia, Azerbaijan agree on ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh

MOSCOW (AP) – Armenia and Azerbaijan say they have agreed on a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh from Saturday afternoon. The foreign ministers of the countries said in a statement that the purpose of the ceasefire was to restore prisoners and restore the dead, adding that certain details would be agreed later. …

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Remote learning begins in the virus-affected Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Grade school and high school students in the Philippines began classes from home on Monday after a coronavirus epidemic forced remote-learning on an education system already struggling to fund schools. Distance education has been a rational nightmare for a long-time poverty-stricken Southeast Asian country that lacks …

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Tight security, many arrests for Ethiopian Erica festival

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, celebrated Erica’s annual Thanksgiving celebration on Saturday amid tight security and political tensions and significantly less crowds due to the Kovid-19 epidemic. Hundreds of people were arrested ahead of the festival, accused by some officials of plotting a terrorist attack and …

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