UN court tells Armenia and Azerbaijan to cool feud

The Hague, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):The UN’s top court ordered rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan Tuesday to prevent racial hatred and avoid aggravating their feud following last year’s war between the Caucasus arch-foes. Azerbaijan was also told to protect Armenian prisoners from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and […]

Customers hit by Amazon cloud outage

San Francisco, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):A partial outage on Tuesday hit Amazon’s cloud-computing business, which powers many of the online sites people rely on, affecting some of the tech giant’s many customers. The e-commerce colossus’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), used by firms to store data without […]

France arrests man suspected of Khashoggi murder link

Paris, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):French police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of being a member of the hit squad that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, multiple sources close to the case said. Investigators were seeking to confirm […]

US hits Iran with new sanctions for human rights abuses

Washington, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):The United States slapped fresh sanctions on a dozen Iranian officials and entities for “serious” human rights abuses Tuesday, days after nuclear talks with Tehran halted with no sign of progress. The sanctions announced by the Treasury and State Department targeted government […]

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