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Armenia-Azerbaijan
Residents Flee Nagorno-Karabakh
Following an offensive campaign by Azerbaijan that killed 200 people, the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has decided to dissolve its armed forces. Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev stated the country has re-established control over Nagorno-Karabakh and requires ethnic Armenians who stay there to apply for Azerbaijani citizenship. At least 3,000 Armenians from the area have left Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia out of fear of ethnic cleansing. Most of those fleeing are women and children, and evacuations have been mired due to Azerbaijani blockades that have cut off access to fuel and medicine.
This map depicts the Azerbaijan’s majority-Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where separatist fighters are being disarmed and thousands of ethnic Armenians are attempting to flee to Armenia following miliitary action in the region by the Azerbaijani government. Click on the map to learn more.
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Kosovo
Three Dead after Monastery Siege
Kosovo police killed three armed attackers and arrested another on Sunday during a shootout in the village of Banjska in northern Kosovo. The standoff between police and 30 armed men began a few hours after an ambush incident left one police officer dead and another injured. The armed group then occupied a nearby monastery. Kosovo police forces eventually regained control, but it remains unclear if all the gunmen were taken into custody as only two gunmen and four other suspects have been confirmed arrested and are suspected of being related to a terrorist group. The incident marks a serious escalation in a region already prone to unrest. Kosovo is majority Albanian, but like other villages in the North, Banjska is predominantly Serbian. Serbian President Aleksander Vučić denied his country’s involvement in the incident and said the men killed were Serbs from Kosovo.
This map depicts the village of Banjska and its monastery, where most of the violence unfolded. This map is from a Russian media source, who has used ‘Kosovo and Metohija’ to label the province, an old Serbian term that has officially been dropped. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Pravda ES
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United States
Saltwater in the Mississippi River
The ongoing drought affecting the central United States has led to alarmingly low water levels in the Mississippi River, resulting in the intrusion of saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico into the river in southeast Louisiana. Without sufficient flow of fresh water from upstream, the drinking water supply for thousands of residents may be reduced in the coming weeks, a threat not seen in New Orleans and southeast Louisiana since the late 1980s. With no significant rainfall expected in the foreseeable future, experts warn that the saltwater intrusion could reach parts of New Orleans by late October. On Friday, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed an emergency declaration in preparation for the impacts.
This map depicts how far saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has intruded into the Mississippi River. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Who were the first native peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus on the island of Hispaniola?
A: Taino
Columbus established the first American colony at La Isabela, on the north coast of Hispaniola, in 1494. After a brief period of coexistence, relations between the newcomers and Taino natives deteriorated. Spaniards removed men from villages to work in gold mines and colonial plantations. Smallpox, starvation, violence eliminated the bulk of the Taino population. However, Tainos are still present in Caribbean populations, and their culture endures. Their world, which had its origins among the Arawak tribes of the Orinoco Delta, gradually spread from Venezuela across the Antilles in waves of voyaging and settlement begun around 400 B.C. Mingling with people already established in the Caribbean, they developed self-sufficient communities on the island of Hispaniola, in what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic; in Jamaica and eastern Cuba; in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. Some scholars estimate the Taíno population may have reached more than three million on Hispaniola alone as the 15th century drew to a close, with smaller settlements elsewhere in the Caribbean. Whatever the number, the Taíno towns described by Spanish chroniclers were densely settled, well organized and widely dispersed.
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Q: What popular social dance with African roots originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay?
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