{"id":24547,"date":"2020-11-08T19:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/08\/azerbaijan-claims-to-have-captured-key-city-in-nagorno-karabakh"},"modified":"2020-11-09T01:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:04:05","slug":"azerbaijan-claims-to-have-captured-key-city-in-nagorno-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24547","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan claims to have captured key town in Nagorno-Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Aliyev says country\u2019s forces have taken Shusha, despite Armenian denials<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/azerbaijan\">Azerbaijan<\/a> has said it has recaptured the symbolic town of Shusha, a claim denied by Armenian officials as fighting in the bloody six-week-old battle over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nagorno-karabakh\">Nagorno-Karabakh<\/a> territory appeared to reach an apex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[This day] will become a great day in the history of Azerbaijan,\u201d said Azerbaijan\u2019s president, Ilham Aliyev, in a televised address. His announcement on Sunday was greeted with celebrations on the streets of Baku as Azerbaijanis gathered to wave flags and sing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/08\/azerbaijan-claims-to-have-captured-key-city-in-nagorno-karabakh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Aliyev says country\u2019s forces have taken Shusha, despite Armenian denialsAzerbaijan has said it has recaptured the symbolic town of Shusha, a claim denied by Armenian officials as fighting in the bloody six-week-old battle over the Nagorno-Kar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,221,1724,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-nagorno-karabakh","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24569,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547\/revisions\/24569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}