Armenia and Azerbaijan agree Karabakh truce
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Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the agreement just before 03:00 local time (01:00 BST), following 10 hours of talks in Moscow.
The two countries will now enter "substantive" talks, he said.
More than 300 people have died and thousands displaced since the latest violence in the long-running conflict broke out on 27 September.
Nagorno-Karabakh is run by ethnic Armenians although it is officially part of Azerbaijan. The two former Soviet republics have blamed each other for the latest outbreak of violence - the worst in decades.
Russia has a military base in Armenia and both are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) alliance. But Moscow also has good relations with Azerbaijan.
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