At today’s government session, a draft amendment to the Law on Military Service and the Status of Servicemen was discussed and approved. The amendment proposes reducing the duration of mandatory milit...
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The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the independent expert body of the Council of Europe, has published its assessment of Armenia’s implementation of the recommendations giv...
A defrocked priest, Stepan Asatryan, has once again conducted a wedding ceremony — this time at Hovhannavank Monastery. During the ceremony, locals prevented journalists from entering the church. What...
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, responded to the OSCE’s report on the detention and criminal prosecution of lawyer and human rights defender Alexander Ko...
Posts allegedly made by the online retail company Wildberries have begun to appear on social networks, spreading false information about the arrest of people who placed orders on the marketplace, the ...
Nike is building what it calls the electric bike for feet, a shoe built to let average runners go further with less effort, Euronews writes. Dubbed “Project Amplify,” Nike said in a statement that the...
Each year, the world’s finest timepieces are celebrated at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) award ceremony, which is marking its 25th anniversary in November, Euronews writes. Ninety watch...
A student at a school in İzmir in Western Turkey was arrested after a video filmed to a Kurdish song, Ermenihaber reports. The video, in which the detainee filmed his classmates dancing a national dan...
Samsung Electronics has introduced a three-part foldable smartphone, The Verge reports. The device was revealed in Gyeongju, South Korea, during an exhibition held alongside the Asia-Pacific Economic ...
In Mississippi monkeys infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID-19 escaped from a truck involved in an accident, The Independent reports. “The truck was transporting Rhesus macaques from Tulane Un...
For 16 months, the United States tried to secretly persuade a Venezuelan Air Force pilot to divert President Nicolás Maduro’s plane in order to capture him. According to the Associated Press, the pilo...
Upon disembarking from the plane, security forces arrested Masis Mayor and opposition candidate for prime minister, Davit Hambardzumyan, at Zvartnots Airport. He was sentenced to more than 6 years in ...