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Five killed in new Azerbaijan-Armenia clash in Nagorno-Karabakh
Two Azerbaijani servicemen and three Armenian officers killed in an alternate of fireside within the contested enclave.
Azerbaijani troops and ethnic Armenians have exchanged gunfire in Azerbaijan’s contested area of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing at the very least 5 individuals.
Azerbaijan’s defence ministry mentioned on Sunday two servicemen have been killed after Azerbaijani troops stopped a convoy it suspected of carrying weapons from the area’s most important city to outlying areas. It mentioned the convoy had used an unauthorised street.
Armenia’s overseas ministry mentioned three officers from the Karabakh inside ministry have been killed. The convoy had been carrying paperwork and a service pistol, it mentioned, dismissing Azerbaijani allegations that weapons have been being carried as “absurd”.
It mentioned Azerbaijan’s model of occasions was a “provocation deliberate upfront and instructed by the highest management”.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have engaged in two wars within the greater than 30 years each ex-Soviet states have been unbiased.
The preventing for the management of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave of Karabakh has claimed 1000’s of lives.
A fragile truce has been in drive between the neighbours since a 2020 conflict that left greater than 6,500 lifeless and compelled Armenia to cede territories it had managed for many years.
Since mid-December, a gaggle of self-styled Azerbaijani environmental activists has barred the one street linking Karabakh to Armenia, the Lachin hall, to protest in opposition to what they are saying is prohibited mining.
Yerevan has accused Baku of making a blockade there.
Professional-Armenian separatist authorities blamed Sunday’s fireplace alternate on “a sabotage group of the Azerbaijani armed forces” that “opened fireplace on the automobile of a Passport and Visa Division of the police.”
Azerbaijan’s defence ministry mentioned the incident “as soon as once more reveals that Azerbaijan must create an acceptable checkpoint on the Lachin-Khankendi street”.
Armenia’s overseas ministry mentioned “sending a global fact-finding crew to the Lachin hall and Nagorno-Karabakh is turning into a significant necessity”.
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Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway, pausing traffic
A group of climate protesters have been arrested in Germany after breaking into an airport and gluing themselves to the runway.
Six activists broke through security fencing at Munich airport in the German state of Bavaria on Saturday, according to the news outlet dpa.
Approximately sixty flights were canceled after the half-dozen protesters glued themselves to the tarmac, forcing officials to temporarily close the airport.
CLIMATE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED FOR BLOCKING AIRSTRIP IN MASSACHUSETTS
An additional fourteen flights into Munich were forced to divert to other nearby airports to avoid the disruption.
Climate protest coalition Last Generation took credit for the stunt, claiming it was intended to draw attention to the German government’s inaction on the airline industry’s environmental impact.
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All six protesters were arrested and charged by law enforcement.
“Trespassing in the aviation security area is no trivial offense. Over hundreds of thousands of passengers were prevented from a relaxed and punctual start to their Pentecost holiday,” German Airports Association General Manager Ralph Beisel told dpa.
“Such criminal actions threaten air traffic and harm climate protection because they only cause lack of understanding and anger,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wrote about the protests on social media platform X.
The Munich incident was just one of many similar protests around the world against air transportation. Last Generation has performed at least two similar airport disruptions in Germany since last year.
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Russian court seizes two European banks’ assets amid Western sanctions
Freezing hundreds of billions of dollars in lenders’ assets was part of dispute over gas project halted by sanctions.
A Russian court has ordered the seizure of the assets, accounts, property and shares of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank in the country as part of a lawsuit involving the German banks, court documents showed.
The banks are among the guarantor lenders under a contract for the construction of a gas processing plant in Russia with the German company Linde. The project was terminated due to Western sanctions.
European banks have largely exited Russia after Moscow launched its offensive on Ukraine in 2022.
A court in St Petersburg ruled in favour of seizing 239 million euros ($260m) from Deutsche Bank, documents dated May 16 showed.
Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt said it had already provisioned about 260 million euros ($283m) for the case.
“We will need to see how this claim is implemented by the Russian courts and assess the immediate operational impact in Russia,” the bank added in a statement.
The court also seized the assets of Commerzbank, another German financial institution, worth 93.7 million euros ($101.85m) as well as securities and the bank’s building in central Moscow.
The bank is yet to comment on the case.
In a parallel lawsuit on Friday, the Russian court also ordered UniCredit’s assets, accounts and property, as well as shares in two subsidiaries, to be seized. The ruling covered 462.7 million euros ($503m) in assets.
UniCredit said it “has been made aware” of the decision and was “reviewing” the situation in detail. The bank was one of the most exposed European banks when Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, with a large local subsidiary operating in Russia.
It began preliminary discussions on a sale last year, but the talks have not advanced. Chief executive Andrea Orcel said UniCredit wants to leave Russia, but added that gifting an operation worth three billion euros ($3.3bn) was not a good way to respect the spirit of Western sanctions on Moscow over the conflict.
Russia has faced heavy Western sanctions, including on its banking sector, since the start of the war in Ukraine. Dozens of US and European companies have also stopped doing business in the country.
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