World News Briefs -- November 12, 2020 (Night Edition)

 


MOSCOW/YELPIN, Armenia (Reuters) - France and the United States are expected to send diplomats to Moscow soon to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russia said on Thursday, two days after the Kremlin deployed troops to the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan to secure a truce. 

The arrival on Tuesday of the peacekeepers to oversee the ceasefire between Azeri troops and ethnic Armenian forces in the enclave extends Russia’s military footprint among the former Soviet republics it views as its strategic back yard. Moscow co-chairs an international group overseeing the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute with Washington and Paris, but they were not involved in the deal signed by Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to end six weeks of fighting over the enclave. 

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 MIDDLE EAST 







Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, world's longest serving PM, dies at 84. 


Eight international peacekeepers killed in Sinai helicopter crash. 

 ASIA 










 AFRICA 










 EUROPE 


Thousands of Armenian civilians flee their homes in wake of Nagorno-Karabakh truce. 





French PM says lockdown to remain in force, any easing of Covid-19 measures to be 'strictly limited'.





 AMERICAS 










TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR 





ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS 





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