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Economy 13:51 • 05.06.20 Tesla's Musk calls for breakup of Amazon in tweet “Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!” Musk tweeted two days after saying he was taking a break from the social networking service. Musk does not have legal ...
Science/tech 13:13 • 05.06.20 Drug firm to begin making potential coronavirus vaccine Trials of the drug are under way but Pascal Soriot said the firm must start making doses now so that it can meet demand if the vaccine proves ...
Press digest 12:33 • 05.06.20 Hraparak: Arayik Harutyunyan may be named Yerevan State University's rector "Arayik Harutyunyan saw the serious resistance at the University around the issue, so they are now trying to form a council based on the 'old principles', so to speak ...
Entertainment 12:02 • 05.06.20 Kanye West joins Chicago protestors rallying against racial inequality and police brutality The rapper, 42, was seen walking in a Justice for George Floyd/CPD out of CPS protest ...
Coronavirus Event 11:31 • 05.06.20 COVID-19 update: Armenia reports 596 new cases, bringing total to 11,817 Seven patients died since Thursday mornning, raising the officially reported fatalities to 183. One more person infected with COVID-19 died of causes unrelated to the virus. A total of ...
Politics 11:10 • 05.06.20 Prime minister announces plans for reforms in State Revenue Committee Nikol Pashinyan, who joined the meeting remotely from his private residence, noted that the hearing was taking place shortly after Davit Ananyan's resignation ...
Science/tech 10:32 • 05.06.20 Google: Foreign hackers targeted emails of Trump and Biden campaign staffers It appears that state-backed hackers from China tried to target staffers on the Biden campaign, while Iranian hackers targeted the email accounts ...
Event 10:08 • 05.06.20 Area around White House to remain closed until June 10 "These closures are in an effort to maintain the necessary security measures surrounding the White House complex, while also allowing for peaceful demonstration ...
Coronavirus Event 09:54 • 05.06.20 Georgians urge government to aid Armenia in fight against COVID-19 "We ask the Georgian government to think about aiding the neighboring country at this difficult moment. We are willing to offer help to Armenia ....
Event 09:25 • 05.06.20 Some active US duty troops in Washington, DC area returning to home base after being on standby in the region The movement out of the area comes just days after the Pentagon announced that 1,600 active duty troops were in the Washington region to be ready if called upon amid unrest over the death ...
Sports 09:07 • 05.06.20 Real Madrid accelerate talks with Eduardo Camavinga An offer is expected to be made in the coming weeks by Los Blancos to the Ligue 1 player, despite the fact that the Brittany side has no intention of allowing the teenager ....
Event 18:25 • 04.06.20 Head of Armenia's State Revenue Committee resigns Davit Ananyan announced his decision in a public post on Facenook afternoon, thanking the prime minister and colleagues in the government team ...
Coronavirus Event 17:48 • 04.06.20 We could have avoided high mortality from COVID-19 'if more asymptomatic patients had been tested' - Medical University rector Armen Muradyan highlighted the low number of patients turning to medical centers "under conditions of the officially registered ...
Event 16:59 • 04.06.20 Meghan Markle says 'George Floyd's life mattered' in speech on US protests at her former school in LA The 38-year-old former actress, who attended the school from the age of 11 to 18, said: "George Floyd's life mattered and Breonna Taylor's life mattered and Philando Castile's life mattered and ...
Coronavirus Politics 16:22 • 04.06.20 Pashinyan now responsible 'for every single death' in COVID-19 crisis - analyst "The prime minister is from now on the number one responsible person for every death because he himself decided, at his own discretion, to launch ...
Culture 14:58 • 04.06.20 Australian star Margot Robbie officially named Hollywood's hardest working actress The Birds of Prey star, 29, starred in 15 feature length films, had a cameo in two films, worked exclusively as a producer on one film and starred in a short film ...
Event 14:36 • 04.06.20 Trump claims he just happened to be inspecting the White House bunker, not hiding in it, during DC protests "I was there for a tiny, short little period of time," Business Insider quotes the US president as saying. "They said it would be a good time to go down and take a look because ...
Entertainment 14:26 • 04.06.20 Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not seeing eye-to-eye in COVID-19 lockdown after sixth anniversary The power couple have been at home in quarantine from the COVID-19 pandemic with their four children - North, six, Saint, four, Chicago, two, and Psalm, 12 months - but have not seen ․․․
Event 13:59 • 04.06.20 'Your lives matter': Obama offers words of hope to young people of color Obama spoke at an event by the My Brother’s Keeper alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation, that was called “Reimagining Policing in the Wake of Continued Police Violence.” It was the first ...
Science/tech 13:34 • 04.06.20 Apple is tracking iPhones stolen from its stores The company is actively disabling the iPhones that are stolen from the displays of its retail stores, leaving them inoperable ...
Law 13:22 • 04.06.20 Appellate court drops motion to arrest Mikayel Minasyan - lawyer In a public post shared after the hearing earlier today, Mihran Poghosyan slammed the earlier ruling by a first instance court as "extremely unlawful", calling attention to the differences ...
Press digest 12:31 • 04.06.20 Hraparak: Parliament commission investigating April War planning interrogation with former Artsakh leader Bako Sahakyan, who completed his second term in May, will be contacted online to testify before the panel. The paper notes that the commission was long hesitant ...
Coronavirus Event 11:31 • 04.06.20 Armenia's official coronavirus tally rises to 11,221 after reports of 697 new cases As many as six deaths were registered since Wednesday morning, raising the official toll to 176. Nine more patients ....
Press digest 11:15 • 04.06.20 Past: Armenian government 'considering national ideology concept' Citing its sources, the paper says that the staff of thee prime minister has now actively embarked on drafting a legislative package which, though not finalized for now, is said to be ready for submission ...
Coronavirus Event 10:20 • 04.06.20 Armenia's healthcare sector 'bending under heavy weight' - prime minister reports record spike in COVID-19 infections In a live Facebook broadcast, Nikol Pashinyan said that as many as 697 new infections were registered in the past 24 hours, marking an unprecedented daily increase ...
Economy 09:38 • 04.06.20 Oil prices fall on doubts over output cuts Brent crude LCOc1 futures fell 1.46%, or 58 cents, to $39.21 a barrel as of 0459 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 futures slid 1.98%, or 74 cents ...
Event 09:09 • 04.06.20 US Defense secretary: Officers at scene of Floyd's death should be "held accountable for his murder" "Let me say upfront, the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman is a horrible crime. The officers on the scene that day should be held accountable for his murder. It is a tragedy ...
Event 17:50 • 03.06.20 Armenian soldier dies in traffic accident in Nagorno-Karabakh The deceased was identified as Sargis M Ghulyan, 19. The Artsakh Ministry of Defense has extended condolences to the soldier's family, relatives and ...
Coronavirus Event 17:33 • 03.06.20 Sweden admits it could have avoided high COVID-19 toll if tight restrictions had been in place The Swedish government chose to ignore advice from countless health experts to lock the country down, and has kept things largely business-as-usual during the pandemic. Primary and secondary schools ...
Event 17:11 • 03.06.20 Former Armenian parliament speaker, Armen Khachatryan, dies He was elected President of the National Assembly in 1999. Upon the completion of his tenure in 2003, Khachatryan was promoted to the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, representing Armenia in Ukraine ...