The situation in parliament became tense after the speech of NA Deputy Speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan, when the leader of the Civil Contract faction Hayk Konjoryan was going to speak. The MPs of the opposition faction started shouting. NA Speaker Alen Simonyan issued a warning to MPs of the Armenia faction Agnesa Khamoyan and Armen Rustamyan. …

As part of the European Union’s efforts to support vaccination in partner countries, the Commission today increased from €40 million to €75 million its assistance package to deploy safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines and speed up the vaccination campaigns in the six Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. With …

Artsakh Defense Army said in a statement today that on August 11, at 08:29 and 08:58, the Azeri forces used strike drones to attack Defense Army positions. No casualties are reported. Russian peacekeeping forces command was informed about the incident.

Some 6,425 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 313 new cases As of August 11 Total number of tests performed in Armenia- 1,409,091 Confirmed positive cases – 233,001 Deaths – 4,664 Recovered – 221,729 Patients currently receiving treatment – 5,479

Azerbaijan has awarded President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko with a new medal. In particular, yesterday in Minsk, Lukashenko was awarded the Friend of Azerbaijan medal of the international magazine My Azerbaijan for “great service to the friendly and fraternal attitude towards the Azerbaijani people and the establishment, strengthening and development of bilateral relations with Azerbaijan.” …

Global heating above 1.5C will be “catastrophic” for Pacific island nations and could lead to the loss of entire countries due to sea level rise within the century, experts have warned. The Pacific has long been seen as the “canary in the coalmine” for the climate crisis, as the region has suffered from king tides, catastrophic cyclones, …

Former mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan has been charged with misappropriation of numerous state or community property through criminal abuses, the press service of the Prosecutor’s Office reported. “Sufficient evidence has been obtained in the criminal case under investigation in the Shirak Regional Investigation Department that, being the head of Gyumri community, Vardayn Ghukasyan, during …

A delegation headed by the Armenian Minister of Defense Arshak Karapetyan has arrived in Moscow, Ministry of Defense has told Armenpress, adding that the invitation to visit Russia was received from the Russian Minister of Defense on July 26 during a telephone conversation between Arshak Karapetyan and Sergey Shoigu. The Armenian delegation consists of top …

Georgia has become the world leader in the rate of spread of the coronavirus, according to The New York Times. “This is the worst-case scenario considered by the Ministry of Health. The bed stock is limited to 8,000; there are practically no empty beds left,” said Georgian Health Minister Ykaterina Tikaradze. The country’s authorities are …