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.

The absence of the ambassadors of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries, the United States, France and Russia, among the ambassadors of other countries who visited the Armenian towns of Shushi on July 9-10, has been actively discussed in Azerbaijan. The local media applied to the ambassadors of the three countries in Baku for comment. …

At the July 12 special meeting of the government, Argishti Kyaramyan was appointed the chairman of the Investigations Committee to replace Hayk Grigoryan. Since December 24, 2020, Kyaramyan was Committee’s deputy chairman. He was the assistant to the head of the State Control Service since March 1, 2019. Between April 10, 2019 and May 4, …

The UK House of Commons is set to debate a bill on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide on December 10, the Armenian National Committee of the United Kingdom reports. The bill was introduced by MP John Spellar of the Labour Party. ANC UK described the move as “historic”, which it said would help correct the 106-year injustice …

Ambassadors of 46 countries accredited in Azerbaijan and representatives of international organizations, including the World Health Organization and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), joint with top Muslim leaders to visit the occupied territories of Artsakh, in particular Shushi Varanda. The group visited St. Hovhannes the Baptist Church in Shushi, …

Under the CSTO agreement, the deployment of US military bases or other military facilities in the territory of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states requires approval in the organization, but no one has submitted such an application so far, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told a news conference, TASS reported. “According to …