Azerbaijan president criticizes mediators; fighting rages on

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan on Saturday said heavy fighting is continuing in their conflict over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan’s president criticized the international mediators who have tried for decades to resolve the dispute. Fighting that started Sept. 27 is the worst to afflict Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas since the 1994 end of a war that left the region in Azerbaijan under the control of ethnic Armenian local forces backed