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Italy on Friday expressed regret at the deaths of reporter Maharram Ibrahimov and cameraman Siraj Abishov, who were killed by landmine in Azerbaijan's western Kalbajar district - territory vacated by ethnic Armenian forces last November.

A total 57 journalists were killed worldwide in 2019 - the annual lowest death-toll in a decade - but while the number who died in countries gripped by armed conflict fell sharply, those killed elsewhere reached the highest level in recent years, the United Nations said on Monday.