Former Armenia Prosecutor General and former Chairman of the Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan will stay in detention for two more months, his attorney, Erik Aleksanyan, told Factor.am. The Criminal Court of Appeal ruled today to reject Hovsepyan’s appeal. Hovsepyan was detained on November 2. He is accused of a number of wrongdoings when serving as …

The report of the ombudsman of the Artsakh Republic on the killing of Artsakh civilians by the Azerbaijani armed forces has been published as an official document at the United Nations, Atsakh Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan said. The report is available here.

the Federal Parliament’s House of Representatives unanimously debated in favour of a motion calling on the Australian Government to recognise the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU). The motion paid respect to the upcoming International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide …

The State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan has officially confirmed the information that 14 servicemen were killed in a military helicopter crash today, Azerbaijani media reported. The deputy head of the Border Guard Service said that 14 people were killed, two others — Lt. Col. Emil Jafarov and Capt. Ramin Adilov — injured. Thirteen out …

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar met in Yerevan today and discussed bilateral relations, as well as issues of regional significance. Issues related to the agenda of the Eastern Partnership Summit to be held in Brussels on December 15 this year were …

Israel has shared intelligence over the past two weeks with the U.S. and several European allies suggesting that Iran is taking technical steps to prepare to enrich uranium to 90% purity — the level needed to produce a nuclear weapon, Axios reported. Enriching to 90% would bring Iran closer than ever to the nuclear threshold. …

Armen Muradyan, the rector of the Medical University, and Haykuhi Minasyan, the director of the Soldier’s House, briefed today Ambassador of the European Union to Armenia Andrea Wiktorin, who visited the Soldier’s House, on the treatment and rehabilitation process of servicemen in the House. They also presented to the Ambassador Wiktorin the social, educational and …

In the village of Shikahogh, Kapan community, Syunik region, people face many personal problems on the Chakaten-Kapan road, from education to agriculture, due to so-called border and customs control imposed by Azerbaijan; the same goes for Chakaten, Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan wrote on his Facebook page. Yesterday, accompanied by head of Kapan community Gevorg Parsyan, …

The head of drugmaker Moderna  said COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as they have been previously, sparking fresh worry in financial markets about the trajectory of the pandemic, Reuters reported. “There is no world, I think, where (the effectiveness) is the same level . . . we had …