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People in Martuni, Armenia have been issued guns to defend their town as skirmishes between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue.
After China, Italy has been the worse-affected country, with more than 1,000 deaths and more than 15,000 confirmed cases of the virus. The whole country is facing an unprecedented lockdown and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has imposed a series of measures in the fight against the virus.
Sewell (Chile), Dec 4 (EFE), (Camera: Jose Caviedes/Alberto Valdes).- Nestled in the heart of the Andes mountain range, at the foot of the world's largest underground copper mine, Sewell is a ghost town that is looking for tourists to preserve its legacy.FOOTAGE OF THE MINING TOWN OF SEWELL, CHILE. SOUNDBITES OF FELIPE RAVINET, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SEWELL FOUNDATION:"Chile's copper mining started here. Chile is a mining country, mostly copper mining, and here, in 1905, William Braden began industrial exploitation of the El Teniente mine."
Dozens of protesters, including 10 prominent opposition figures were arrested for their role in violent unrest that erupted after the government signed a peace deal with Azerbaijan that ceded swathes of territory. IMAGES
Since fighting erupted three weeks ago in Nagorno-Karabakh – an Armenian separatist enclave in Azerbaijan – thousands of people have fled their homes to seek safety elsewhere. As the conflict rages on, FRANCE 24 met with some of the refugees in the Armenian town of Goris.
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