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MOSCOW, October 29: Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran presented Tehran’s Nagorno-Karabakh settlement plan, based on a regional approach, to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Iranian Embassy in Moscow told TASS Thursday.

PARIS, October 29. /TASS/: The police of France’s Lyon apprehended a man armed with a knife at a train terminal Thursday, CNews reported citing a police source.

According to the police, the man was about to carry out an attack.

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/: President Vladimir Putin excoriated schemes to "put a spoke in the wheel" of Russia’s gas projects branding them a non-market way to restrict the competitiveness of the Russian economy, during a speech on Thursday at the Russia Calling! VTB Capital Investment Forum.

KIEV, Oct 29 (NNN-XINHUA) – Systemic violations of flight rules have been found to be main causes of the An-26 military plane crash in Sept, in north-east Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Oleg Urusky, said on Wednesday.

The main causes of the crash included a lack of effective control over the organisation and flights, systemic violations of flight rules and insufficient professional training of the crew, local media quoted Urusky as saying.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko partially closed the country’s land borders and replaced his interior minister and named three security hawks to new roles on Thursday in an attempt to tighten his grip after months of mass protests.

Minsk announced restrictions at its borders with Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Poland said only Belarusian citizens and trucks were being allowed to travel to Belarus at some of its border.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s Labour opposition suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday after he downplayed a report that detailed serious failings in the party’s handling of persistent anti-Semitism complaints during his 2015-2019 leadership.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it had found evidence of political interference in the processing of anti-Semitism complaints, failure to provide adequate training to people handling the complaints, and harassment.

BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Faced with a veto from the United States, the World Trade Organization has two unpalatable options for selecting its next leader - override its biggest paymaster with a vote or hope for a change of U.S. president and wait until he takes charge.

With just days to go before the U.S. election, Donald Trump’s administration struck another blow to the global trade watchdog on Wednesday by rejecting Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the woman proposed by a nomination “troika” to be the WTO’s next director-general.

Moscow, Oct 29, IRNA – The negotiations about the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan started on Thursday between Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Russia's ِDeputy Foreign Minister for Central Asia and Caucasus Andrei Rudenko in Moscow.

Araghchi had told IRNA earlier on Thursday that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), otherwise known as Minsk Group, has been unable to solve the border dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the past three decades

29 Oct 2020; MEMO: Campaigners in Britain have launched a new legal challenge to the government’s decision to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Activists for Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) have filed for a judicial review of the decision which saw British arms sales resume in July after a year-long moratorium on granting new export licences.

PARIS, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- France will go into national lockdown starting from Friday to stem the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday evening.

"The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts had anticipated," said Macron in a televised address to the nation. "Like all our neighbors, we are at the same point, overwhelmed by a second wave which will undoubtedly be harder and more deadly than the first."