Author: Serop Khederlarian

Lenice Divina Ramos weaves through knee-high weeds and scorched shrubs before halting abruptly near the slice of jungle where, not long ago, she found the charred carcass of her pet monkey. “The little fellow had no way to escape,” she says wistfully, waving toward the burnt-orange patch of vegetation that remains. “The flames came and burned everything. They burned the farm; they burned the forest, too.” A few months earlier, in mid-2022, at the height of the Amazon’s dry season, out-of-control flames swept through her 20-hectare (49-acre) plot in the Triunfo do Xingu reserve, in the Amazonian state of Pará.…

Harassments that include spitting, cursing and pushing Armenian priests in the alleys of the Old City have already become routine. Police have so far failed to provide even a minimal response. Miran Krikorian never thought his restaurant Taboon & Wine, located at the New Gate leading into the Old City’s Christian Quarter, would be targeted by a bunch of young Jewish hooligans. But that is exactly what happened on the eve of January 30 when his employees sent him an urgent message describing the attack and destruction caused by a group of extremist Jewish boys while customers, some of them Jewish,…

Social worker Sikandar Ali, who brought the matter to the notice of the authorities, had said the stranded labourers alleged that their employer has seized their passports. The Jharkhand government has written to the Indian embassy in Tajikistan, requesting it to expedite the safe return of migrant labourers from the state, who have been stranded in the central Asian country for the last several months, an official said on Friday. The State Migrant Control Room (SMCR) under the Labour Department confirmed that 35 labourers from the state are stranded in Tajikistan, and it is in touch with them, he said.…

MOSCOW (AP) — Two years after Azerbaijan and Armenia ended a war that killed about 6,800 soldiers and displaced around 90,000 civilians, tensions between the countries are again high in a dispute over a six-kilometer (nearly four-mile) road known as the Lachin Corridor. The winding road, which is the only land connection between Armenia and the ethnic Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan, has been blocked by protesters claiming to be environmental activists since mid-December, threatening food supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh’s 120,000 people. The dispute raises fears that new fighting could break out. It also could destabilize Armenia’s chronically excitable politics. As…

All supplies to his home city of Stepanakert and the villages that surround it have stopped, because the only road in has been blockaded for 26 days. Stepanakert lies in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan. Even its name is contested. Azerbaijan calls it Khankendi, but it is populated exclusively by ethnic Armenians. “I live right next to the main market which supplies the city, and it’s been closed for some time; there are just two ladies sitting there selling dried thyme,” Vanyan, a journalist, told the BBC over the phone. The only route for food, medical supplies and…

France’s position poses a grave threat to the Armenians, Azerbaijani political scientist Elshad Hasanov told Trend. According to him, France has always pursued a biased policy against Azerbaijan, and the article recently published by the French Charlie Hebdo magazine is proof of this. “As can be seen from the article, France is unequivocally on the side of Armenia. In the meantime, the publication is to ignore peace efforts aimed to ensure regional stability. France has always stood with Armenia and backed it. French President Emmanuel Macron has declared support for Armenia and tried to blame Azerbaijan lately,” Hasanov said. As…