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Images show aid workers and refugees in the Armenian city of Goris as people continue to arrive from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. On Thursday, Yerevan reported that more than 65,000 people have fled the enclave, representing more than half of its ethnic Armenian population. IMAGES
People fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh continue to flow into the Armenian town of Goris as the number of displaced people reaches 80,000. Nagorno-Karabakh's long and bloody dream of independence ended on Thursday with a decree declaring that the ethnic Armenian statelet in Azerbaijan "ceases to exist" at the end of the year. IMAGES
EU lawmakers approve a resolution that accuses Azerbaijan of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" against the Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, and urges the bloc to impose sanctions on Baku. According to the resolution, the European Parliament "considers that the current situation amounts to ethnic cleansing and strongly condemns threats and violence committed by Azerbaijani troops". IMAGES
Members of the Armenian Church pray for Nagorno-Karabakh refugees at a service held in the St Sargis church in Yerevan. Armenian separatists, who had controlled the region for three decades, agreed to disarm, dissolve their government and reintegrate with Baku following a one-day Azerbaijani offensive last week. Nearly all of Karabakh's estimated 120,000 residents fled the territory over the following days, sparking a refugee crisis. IMAGES
Refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh region continue to arrive in Armenia, following Azerbaijan gaining full control of the disputed enclave. Images show volunteers handing out water and helping refugees at medical aid tents set up by the roadside near the town of Kornidzor. The number of people who have now entered Armenia since Baku's lightning offensive last week has surpassed 28,000. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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