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More than 210 dead in Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes this week
More than 210 dead in Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes this week
by  AFP

Armenia and Azerbaijan said Friday that more than 210 people died in border clashes this week, with Yerevan accusing Baku troops of atrocities in the arch foes' worst fighting in two years. The six weeks of fighting in 2020 claimed the lives of more than 6,500 troops from both sides and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire.

Air strikes, floods displace Nigeria jihadists
Air strikes, floods displace Nigeria jihadists
by  AFP

Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military and floods from torrential rains to seek shelter on Niger's side of Lake Chad, sources told AFP. Northeast Nigeria is facing a 13-year armed insurgency by jihadist groups which has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around two million from their homes.

China-Russia: an unequal and fragile relationship
China-Russia: an unequal and fragile relationship
by  AFP

President Xi Jinping of China and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have talked up the Beijing-Moscow relationship as the new centre of a multipolar world, but their alliance is unequal and its future far from clear.

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