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According to a report, Arnon Nampa shot to prominence in August 2020 when taking part in student led protests against the military backed government. Reportedly, he said the monarchy should be part of wider calls for reforms. It was quite a risky thing to say, the unused Lese-majeste law forbids dissent.

According to the report, a week after Mr Nampa’s proposition, students at Thammasat university issued a manifesto calling for changes to the monarchy, followed by demonstrations after which the Lese-majeste law came into use again.

Reportedly, Arnon Nampa has 14 charges against him, some under the Lese-majeste law. According to the report, protests petered out but many of the ideas from the youth movement were adopted for the election campaign of the up and coming party, Move forward, including an amendment of the Lese-majeste law. According to the report, Move forward defied expectations in the general election by winning the largest number of seats in parliament, but the request to amend the law was cited by the military appointed senate as reason to block Move forward from forming a government.

According to a report, a fuel depot explosion of unknown cause killed 20 and injured hundreds more in Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh on Monday evening. Reportedly, the armenian government said 13,350 armenians have crossed the border from Karabakh to Armenia. According to the report, the region was home to 120,000 armenians.

Reportedly, Azerbaijan said it has confiscated a large number of rockets, artillery shells, mines and ammunition. According to the report, the armenian government said ethnic cleansing is underway. According to the report, national security advisers from Azerbaijan and Armenia are meeting in Brussels on Tuesday for eu backed talks.

According to reports, Kosovo police say an officer was killed in the village of Banjska Close when a band of 30 armed men shot into a group of police officers and killed one officer. Reportedly, they ran and hid in a monastry where three died in a shootout. Not all of the gun men have been apprehended.

According to reports, tensions between serbs and albanians have been high for months following the Kosovo government’s decision to appoint albanian mayors to four predominantly serbian municipalities that border Serbia. Reportedly, the appointments instigated a violent riot by serb protesters, injuring security forces including 30 nato peacekeepers.

Nato have been active in Kosovo since 1999 when they intervened in the war which was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia. According to a report, following air attacks on serbs, nato pushed serbian troops out to what is now Serbia.

Kosovo and Serbia were one prior to Kosovo’s independence in 2008. Reportedly, the Kosovo prime minister blamed the serbian government for the murders in Banjska Close, calling the incident organised crime with support from officials in Belgrade. According to reports, eu brokered peace talks came to nothing earlier this month when Serbia refused to recognise Kosovo’s independence. Reportedly, Josep Borrell, eu representative said the stalemate is hurting both parties’ desire to join the eu. According to the report, border crossings between Kosovo and Serbia are closed.

According to a report, protests broke out in Armenia last week over the government’s handling of the crisis in Nagorno Karabakh. Reportedly, the prime minister has been accused of granting too many concessions to Azerbaijan.

According to the report, the armenian government has made plans to help move armenians from Karabakh who have been made homeless by the fighting. Reportedly, an armenian contingent in Karabakh said he expected everyone to leave. According to the report, more than 3,000 refugees have crossed over to Armenia, and hundreds have already got accommodation. Reportedly, the armenian prime minister has announced that plans were in place to look after 40,000 refugees. According to the report, he said that his government were prepared to lovingly welcome armenians from Karabakh who he called brothers and sisters.

According to a report, the french president said that France was withdrawing its ambassador to Niger, who is expected to return to France in the next hours, along with other diplomats. Reportedly, the president added that french troops will be withdrawing from Nuger in the months to come. There are about 1500 french troops in Niger, and reportedly 1000 u.s. troops, but they have not been asked to leave.

According to the report, the decision to withdraw follows months of protests in the country. Reportedly, Niger is only one former french colony where the military has seized control, following Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Chad and Gabon. According to the report, many politicians have accused France of carrying out neocolonialist policies.

Reportedly, Niger’s airspace will be closed to french commercial flights and all military flights unless they receive prior authorisation. According to the report, Niger hosts the u.s.’s largest drone base in the region, which also trained Niger’s soldiers. It is unclear if training operations will resume. Reportedly, there have been concerns in the west over the growing role of wagner in the region.

According to a report, in Nagorno-Karabakh thousands of armenians are without food and shelter and many are displaced from villages and sleeping in tents or in the open air in the main city known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan. Reportedly, Khankendi hosts a base for russian peacekeepers, five of whom were killed during the fighting. According to the report, Azerbaijan said it was working with russian peacekeepers to disarm armenian militants, one of its demands in return for a ceasefire. Reportedly, Azerbaijan showed off weapons such as a few tanks and many guns captured when armenian militants agreed to disarm.

According to the report, the region has been under armenian control for three decades and armenians have asked for a u.n. mission to monitor the rights of armenians living in Karabakh now, saying their very existence is under threat. Reportedly, Azerbaijan who deny the accusation say they envisage an amnesty for armenian militants who give up their arms, who can leave for Armenia if they choose. According to the report, Armenia has set up facilities to take in thousands of armenians from Karabakh.

In his speech to the u.n. general assembly on Friday the israeli prime minister urged palestinians to reconcile themselves to the state of Israel. He began with an analogy of two israeli mountains, mount Gerizim, the site on which a great blessing would be proclaimed, and mount Ebal, the site of a great curse. He said that the blessing was the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, the curse, war, terrorism and despair.

He went on to talk about the possibility of normalising relations with Saudi Arabia, and said that palestinians could benefit from a broader peace and should be part of the process. He said that making peace with more arab states would increase the prospect of making peace between Israel and palestinians. He went on to say that relations with Saudi Arabia have warmed and that he is looking forward to a historic peace and the end of the arab israeli conflict. He said that peace agreements with the United Arab emirates, Bahraine, Sudan and Morrocco have boosted trade and investment.

He talked about peace and what it means to him, an end to the horrors of war. And he talked about the benefits and dreams of artificial intelligence. He said that Israel is to be a major hub in trade routes connecting europe to India, Africa and beyond. Could be controvesial.

According to a report, the Azerbaijan army has moved towards the major city of Karabakh as Armenians flee. Reportedly, many families have been seperated and many do not know if their relatives are alive. According to the report, atleast 200 Armenians of Karabakh and 100 Azerbaijan soldiers have been killed this week.

Reportedly, there have been boundary conflicts between Armenians and Azerbaijan since the fall of the russian empire which coincided with the end of the first world war. According to reports, the three main ethnic groups in the region tried to get on, but following an attempt to form a government the region split into Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Reportedly, the british backed Azerbaijan in the Paris peace convention of 1920 which rewrote the map of europe and elsewhere.

According to reports, thousands have lost their lives in wars in Karabakh. Reportedly, the first war between Armenians living in Karabakh and the Azerbaijan republic backed by the soviet union resulted in an Armenian victory. According to the report, the region’s parliament voted in favour of uniting with Armenia, but a public referendum voted in favour of independence and the Artsakh republic was born.

The second war in Artsakh/Karabakh erupted in 2020. Reportedly, Azerbaijans were accused of ethnic cleansing. According to reports, an Azerbaijan victory resulted in clashes with the police and territorial conflict.

According to a report, the u.s. plans to give Ukraine advanced long range missiles with a range of up to 300 km to help Kyiv in its ongoing counter offensive. Reportedly, Ukraine will get a small number of army tactical missile system missiles (atacms), some say will be supplied with cluster bomblets rather than a single warhead, the weapons will be sent in the coming weeks. According to the report, Kyiv has been asking for long range missiles in order to target russian supply lines well behind the front line. Reportedly, russian positions in the south, including Crimea would be vulnerable.

According to the report, the u.s. have announced a new installment of $325 million to Ukraine. It is uncle ar whether this is a loan.

According to a report, a meeting took place between the u.s. president and the prime minister of Israel in New York this week. Reportedly, twelve members of Mr Netanyahu’s government wrote him an open letter warning him not to make any concessions towards a two state solution which they are against, but a normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel was the focus of the meeting. Mr Netanyahu stressed that with u.s. leadership normalisation was possible, but the u.s. brokered Abraham accords only resulted in two sheepish delegates from Bahrain and the United Arab emirates coming forward to shake hands.

According to the report, Israel is luke warm about Saudi’s reward for normalisation, a civilian, possibly commercial nuclear plan for uranium enrichment on arabian soil. If that is a reward.