Renowned singer and songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan has asked Diaspora Armenian celebrities  Kim Kardashian, Cherilyn Sarkisian (Cehr) and Serzh Tankian to “help us get our 200 prisoners out of Turkish or Azerbaijani prisons.” Kardashian, Tankian, Cher and other celebrities have recently called on to join the “Teach, Armenia” initiative aimed at expanding the educational opportunities of …

A wildfire in a record heat wave in western Canada has ordered residents to evacuate a British Columbia village that broke the record for the third consecutive day of the week. Mayor Jan Polderman of Lytton issued an evacuation order on Wednesday, saying on Twitter that the fire threatened the structure and safety of local …

Kyrgyzstan proposes to create a new interregional platform uniting the countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbekov said today at a joint news conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Baku today. The press conference was preceded by talks between the foreign ministers of the two countries, Azerbaijani …

The spokesperson of the Constitutional Court, Yeva Tovmasyan, has said in a Facebook post that three applications have been filed with the Constitutional Court requested that the results of the National Assembly election be invalidated. The forces demanding invalidation of the election results are  the Armenian Homeland party, which filed its application on July 2, …

The trial of 14 Armenian prisoners of war from Shirak Province continued in Baku’s Court for Grave Crimes. The POWs standing the trial are Hrachya Avagyan, Armen Bagasyan, Gor Gasparyan, Kamo Sefilyan, Volodya Hakobyan, Gevorg Asatryan, Romik Sedrakyan, Aram Minasyan, Mkrtich Minasyan, Edgar Matevosyan, Yuri Karapetyan. Baku accuses Armenian the captives of committing terrorism and …

Twenty years later, US troops gathered their suitcases and left Afghanistan’s Bagram airport, official sources have told DW. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, this place was the epicenter of the US war in Afghanistan. According to DW, an anonymous source from the US law enforcement agency said that “all coalition forces have left …

NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai has met with Georgian Foreign Minister David Zakaliani to discuss key issues related to foreign policy and security, apsny.ge reported. The parties also talk about the role of Georgia in the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the report says. …

Crowds at Euro 2020 football stadiums and in pubs and bars in host cities are driving the current rise in coronavirus infections in Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. A 10-week decline in new coronavirus infections across the region has come to an end and a new wave of infections is inevitable …

The Prosecutor General’s Office has referred the first vote buying related case to the court, Gor Abrahamyan, an advisor to Prosecutor General said in a Facebook post. According to the post, a resident of Arjut village of Lori Province, during the June 20 National Assembly snap election, offered sums of money to two residents of …

The call of the civil society about the priority challenges of Armenia addressed to the Armenian government The results of the snap parliamentary election that took place on 20 June 2021 show that the Civil Contract party led by Nikol Pashinyan received a significant majority of the citizens’ votes. This political force will undertake the …