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Azeri Army Death-wish

No-one in Azerbaijan is prepared to take responsibility for the increasingly parlous state of the armed forces

Azerbaijan Flexes Muscles Over Karabakh

A militaristic rally in Baku - with a symbolic Turkish presence - fails to disguise the weakness of President Aliev's "military option" in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Bosnian Smuggling Ring Smashed

The UN exposes major people-smuggling ring implicating a leading Bosnian airline.

Tehran Guns for Caspian Oil

Regional tensions run deep in the Caspian, where gun boats, sharp tongues and bellicose threats are making serious waves.

Nato's Questionable Harvest

The alliance's operation to disarm Albanian fighters hangs in the balance as violence flares.

Bucharest's NATO Hopes Falter

Romanian plans to join NATO are threatened by the government's inability to come up with the funds to reform its armed forces.

Washington Dithers Over Macedonia

US reluctance to get involved in Macedonia could undermine peace prospects.

Yerevan Sceptical Over Ankara Dialogue Bid

A body has been set up to try to bridge the long-standing rift between Armenia and Turkey.

Aliev Succession Race

Azerbaijan president Heidar Aliev is facing stiff opposition from loyalists over plans to name his son, Ilham, as his successor.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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