Today, on March 18, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili demonstratively took the AstraZeneca vaccine on live TV. Georgia received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines on March 13, when 43,200 doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford arrived in Tbilisi. On March 15, the vaccination process has been launched across the country. After taking the AstraZeneca jab, Zurabishvili noted that …

US President Joe Biden has sent a congratulatory message to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of Nowruz, in which he stated that his administration is committed to assisting the parties of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in achieving a lasting and peaceful settlement. This was reported by the Azerbaijani media. “My administration will work with …

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent coronavirus skeptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday after a more than two-week absence from public life that led to speculation about his health. She said he died from the heart disease that had plagued him for a decade. She …

As of 11:00 on March 18, a total of 181.165 cases of COVID have been confirmed, 167.186 of which have recovered and 3.301 died. 9.830 patients are currently under treatment. A total of 788.953 tests has been performed so far. Thus, 4.687 tests were performed yesterday, which confirmed 1.024 new cases of COVID. Since yesterday …

Today the meeting of the RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the leader of “Prosperous Armenia” party Gagik Tsarukyan will take place. The information was provided to Factor.am by the RA Prime Minister’s spokesman Mane Gevorgyan. It should be noted that Tsarukyan and Pashinyan will discuss the issue of holding snap elections.

On 9 March 2021 the European Court of Human Rights (sitting as a Chamber of seven judges) decided to notify the Committee of Ministers, pursuant to Rule 39 § 2 of the Rules of Court, of the following interim measures indicated under Rule 39 in relation to the recent armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan: …

The search operations in Hadrut did not yield any results today, the State Service of Emergency Situations of Artsakh reports. The rescuers did not find the body of the dead servicemen, as there is still a thick layer of snow in the area. The report says that it is planned to continue the search tomorrow …

With summer looming and tourism-reliant countries anxiously waiting for the return of a steady influx of visitors amid the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union’s executive body presented a proposal Wednesday that would allow the bloc’s 450 million people — vaccinated or not — to travel freely across the 27-nation bloc by the summer. The plan, …

The Green Church in Shushi, which came under the control of Azerbaijan, has turned into ruins. This is evidenced by satellite photos. Journalist Hovhannes Nazaretyan posted satellite photos of Google Earth on his Twitter page, in which it is seen that in the photo of October 17, 2020, the church is standing, not damaged, and …

A new US intelligence report that finds Russia interfered in the 2020 election to help Donald Trump and hurt Joe Biden also underscores a fundamental truth: The gravest threat to US democracy comes from within. The report, released by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, finds that Moscow sought to inject misleading information about Biden into the campaign through officials and …