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Houses are seen burning in the town of Lachin (Berdzor in Armenian), as Armenia is to hand back the district to Azerbaijan Tuesday as part of a peace deal that ended six weeks of fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. IMAGES
Images of Armenians gathering to take part in an anti-government protest in central Yerevan. Azerbaijan's lightning military takeover of the Nagorno-Karabakh, ethnic Armenian enclave, last week, sparked a sudden exodus of 100,417 people, according to Yerevan, from an estimated population of 120,000 since the breakaway region saw its decades-long fight against Azerbaijani rule end in sudden defeat. IMAGES
An Armenian military convoy is seen crossing the Kalbajar district ahead of its handover to Azerbaijan. Armenia is set to handover the Kalbajar district wedged between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia on November 25 and the Lachin district by December 1, as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end weeks of brutal fighting in the region. IMAGES
The Armenians heave freshly-slaughtered pigs into the back of a van as they rush to pack every single one of their possessions before Azerbaijani forces arrive. As the village of Nor Maragha empties, even an entire house is loaded onto a flatbed truck so the incoming Azerbaijanis have nothing left to recover. IMAGES
Palestinians burn tyres in Beitunia, near the Ofer prison, ahead of the release of a new group of Palestinian prisoners on the fourth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. IMAGES
EU-hosted talks between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, aimed at reducing tensions after Baku's lightning offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh will take place this month, EU chief Charles Michel tells AFP. "The goal is to have this meeting by the end of October" he says, speaking on the sidelines of a European Political Community summit in Granada, southern Spain. SOUNDBITE
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