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For a week now armed clashes have been raging in the border region between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the fiercest confrontations between the two nations since 2016. At least a dozen people have been killed. The frozen conflict over the Armenian-populated and occupied Nagorno-Karabakh area in Azerbaijan has been threatening to turn into a full-blown war for 30 years, but the current skirmishes are outside this region.

The Latvian Ministry of Education wants to amend the country's Education Act and among other things oblige parents to make sure that their school-age children have a computer with an Internet connection. Latvian journalists shake their heads in disbelief.

In January, despite pressure from the US, London decided to allow Huawei, the Chinese global leader in communications services, to participate in the development of the new 5G mobile network in the UK. Now the government has reversed the decision and announced that all components that have already been installed will be removed from the network. Commentators discuss how the rest of Europe should respond.

The Social Democratic Union led by Zoran Zaev has narrowly won the parliamentary elections held in North Macedonia on 15 July. It obtained just under 36 percent of the vote; its main rival, the national conservative VRMO, secured 34.5 percent. Zaev had resigned as prime minister in January after the EU Council once again postponed accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania.