Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk in Baku today, local media reported, citing Aliyev’s press service. “Issues related to the activities of the trilateral working group chaired by deputy prime ministers of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia were discussed during the conversation,” the statement said. In addition, Aliyev and Overchuk discussed …

A man accompanying a group searching in Artsakh’s Martuni district for bodies of soldiers missing in action was gravely wounded yesterday in a landmine explosion. Hunan Tadevosyan, the head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Artsakh Ministry of Internal Affairs, told Factor.am that Norayr Sarsadanyan was given first aid first by our …

The Taliban warned Turkey on Tuesday against possible plans to keep some troops in Afghanistan to run and guard Kabul’s main airport after the withdrawal of foreign troops, calling the strategy “reprehensible” and warning of “consequences”. Ankara, which has offered to run and guard the airport in the capital after NATO’s withdraws, has been in …

The United Nations said Monday that global hunger grew dramatically in 2020, due in large part to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cost of and access to food.  “The reality is worse than expected,” World Food Program chief economist Arif Husain said. “In one year alone, the number of people in the …

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the incident where a group of people climbed over the entrance gate of the Surp Takavor Armenian Church in İstanbul and danced on top of the gate on July 11. “I see it as a provocation targeting our unity and solidarity that [a group of people] showed disrespect …

We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the organization on July 10, 2021 by the Azerbaijani authorities of the visit of staffers of foreign diplomatic missions accredited in Azerbaijan to the occupied territories of the Republic of Artsakh, including the city of Shоushi. By such actions, Azerbaijan is trying to consolidate the results of the …

Former Meghri mayor Mkhitar Zakaryan has been detained for two months. Zakaryan, who was the No 17 on the electoral slate of the Armenia bloc was charged with abuse of authority and fraud. His lawyer Yerem Sargsyan told Factor.am that though the arrest of his client had been appealed in court and recognized illegal, Zakaryan, …

Congressman Adam Schiff has attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Armenian-American Museum and Cultural Center. Congressman Schiff wrote in his Facebook post: “It was an honor to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for what will soon become the Armenian-American Museum and Cultural Center of California in the beautiful heart of Glendale. Armenian-Americans are an essential component …

More than 50 people have died after a fire in a coronavirus isolation ward at a hospital in the Iraqi city of Nasiriya, tBBC reported.. Much of Iraq’s health care system is in poor condition after years of conflict and angry relatives of the victims have been protesting outside the facility. The cause of the …

Some 4,150 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 138 new cases; 4 people died; 3,128 patients are currently receiving treatment. As of 11:00 am on July 11, a total of 1,242,361 tests have been performed in Armenia, 226,597 of them were positive.