Author: Vahram Arzumanian

The Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship may be one of the final DP World Tour events that LIV Golf defectors can compete in The golfing tensions of 2022 have carried over into the first DP World Tour event of the year in Abu Dhabi, where a number of LIV Golf defectors continue their pursuit of ranking points while they still can. The desire of the DP World Tour to ban LIV players will be decided at arbitration next month. In the meantime, the likes of Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson and Patrick Reed share a DP World Tour locker-room with big name supporters of the established…

Efforts to get the United Nations Security Council to issue a joint statement on the ongoing de facto blockade of the Armenian population of Karabakh have reportedly failed, setting off a chain of claims and counterclaims about who was responsible. Accounts from both Armenia and Azerbaijan have reported that Armenia, with the help of France, was trying in the last days of 2022 to get the Security Council to issue a press statement condemning Azerbaijan for the blockade. On December 31, Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Brussels reported in a tweet that “Today France lost another battle to Azerbaijan in [the] UN…

Pope Francis on Sunday (December 18) made an appeal during his Sunday address for end to escalating tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. His appeal has come on the heels of blocking of a key road linking Armenia to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. A group of Azerbaijanis claiming to be environmental activists blocked the Lachin corridor, the only land route for people, goods, food and medical supplies to reach Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia across Azerbaijani territory at the start of this week. Armenia and Azerbaijan have a dispute between them over Nagorno-Karabakh region. The two countries have fought repeated wars over the…