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British Airways investigating data breach from 380,000 card payments

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The British Airways website and mobile application have suffered a breach of customers’ personal and financial data from around 380,000 card payments, the carrier’s parent International Airlines Group said on Thursday.

The breach covered customers who made bookings between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5, IAG said.

IAG said the stolen data did not include travel or passport details.

The airline had launched an investigation and was communicating with affected customers. It had notified police and relevant authorities.

The breach has been resolved and the British Airways website is working normally, IAG said.

Mechanisms for investigating truce violations to be installed in Karabakh

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212411President Serzh Sargsyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev participated in a Vienna-hosted meeting on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement on Monday, May 16.

The summit was the first one since the escalation in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone.

Also attending the meeting were the foreign policy chiefs of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries – Russia, France and the United States – Sergey Lavrov, Jean-Marc Ayrault and John Kerry, as well as French Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir.

Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov, the Minsk Group Co-chairs – James Warlick of the United States, Igor Popov of Russia, Pierre Andrieu of France – and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk also took part in the 2-hour meeting.

At the meeting, the parties discussed the situation in the Karabakh conflict zone following early April’s 4-day war, and the ways to overcome the consequences. The representatives of the co-chairing countries insisted on the need for an unconditional adherence to the 1994 ceasefire agreement and the 1995 ceasefire consolidation agreements.

Also, the sides agreed to take steps to install mechanisms for monitoring and investigating ceasefire violations, increase the capacity of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office’s team, also pledging to work towards a possible renewal of the negotiation process.

Prior to this, President Sargsyan met with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and Secretary Kerry.

 

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out as result of the ethnic cleansing launched by the Azeri authorities in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994 (when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions are now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.