In the first quarter of 2021, Armenia’s unemployment rate has dropped by 2.7 percent compared to the same period in 2020, to 17% instead of 19.7%, according to the Government’s Facebook page. The pages also says that the employment rate has meanwhile increased by 1.5 percent to 46.6%.

An explosion caused by a gas leak at a pipeline pumping station killed three workers and injured four in southwestern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian state media reported. “The accident took place…today, Tuesday, due to an explosion caused by a gas leak at the pipeline (pumping) station,” Adnan Ghazi, governor of the nearby town of Shush, …

Russian President’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told RIA Novosti that the visit of Armenian acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Moscow is important, He said the two leaders will hold talks at a working dinner, adding that this is Pashinyan’s first foreign visit after his victory in the parliamentary elections. “A rather confident, convincing victory,” …

A court in Baku resumed today the trial of Ludvig Mkrtchyan and Alyosha Khosrovyan, Armenian POWs, falsely charged with torturing Azerbaijani captives and committing other crimes in the First Artsakh War. The first session in this case was held on June 2. Baku has fabricated criminal cases against Armenian prisoners of war held in Azerbaijan, …

Acting Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan has said that the ruling Civil Contract party would present its legal position on the applications filed with the Constitutional Court regarding the early parliamentary elections. Per its own request and subsequent  decision of the court, the Civil Contract party has been included as a third party in the …

The shootings of the Azerbaijani soldiers near the village of Verin Shorzha prove that the very presence of Azeri troops on the roads near the Armenian border villages is a violation of the right to life of the the residents, Armenia’s Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan has said in his personal Facebook page. With regards to the …

Some 6,086 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 140 new cases; 1 person died; 2,866 patients are currently receiving treatment. As of 11:00 am on July 7, a total of 1,215,373 tests have been performed in Armenia, 225,661 of them were positive; 217,303 people have recovered, 4,531 have died.

The Constitutional Court examined the motions on the self-withdrawal of judges at the working session. “At the moment, I can clearly say that there have been more than one motion, all of which have been rejected,” Yeva Tovmasyan, spokeswoman for the Constitutional Court, told Factor TV. To the question, to which judges was the motion …

Finland’s northernmost Arctic Lapland region has recorded its hottest temperature for more than a century at 33.6 degrees Celsius (92.5 Fahrenheit), during a heatwave that’s been afflicting the entire Nordic country for weeks. The temperature was measured Monday at Finland’s northernmost Utsjoki-Kevo weather station near the border with Norway by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The …