International call for ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh

The move came as the death toll rose in the heaviest clashes since the 1990s around the region - part of Azerbaijan but run by its mostly ethnic Armenian inhabitants.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the crisis with his country's Security Council, the Kremlin spokesman said. Dozens of people have been reported killed and hundreds wounded since then. Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in a 1991-94 war that killed 30,000 people, but is not recognised internationally as an independent republic.

Armenia said two French nationals working for France's Le Monde newspaper had been wounded during Azeri shelling of the Armenian town of Martuni and taken to hospital. An Armenian government source said they were in grave condition. The Kremlin said there was no alternative to using "political and diplomatic methods" to resolve the crisis.

Turkey, a close ally of mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, has said it will "do what is necessary" to support Azerbaijan, but has denied sending mercenaries.

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