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Entertainment 17:57 • 24.03.20 Australia police launch hunt for robbers who stole 500 toilet rolls from supermarket stores The hunt is on for a pair of raiders who stole more than 500 rolls of toilet paper in a string of burglaries at Woolworths supermarkets in Australia, the Mirror reports Police said the men have targeted four branches i
Culture 17:37 • 24.03.20 Meghan Markle is offered voiceover job on The Simpsons after Disney snub Meghan, who is married to Prince Harry, is reportedly keen to get back into acting after rising to fame on Suits. Harry was filmed telling ...
Event 17:29 • 24.03.20 Armenian online shopping platforms ready to expand orders Meeting with Minister of High Technology Industry Hakob Arsakyan earlier today, representatives of many online stores also raised the urgency of modernizing ...
Sports 17:14 • 24.03.20 Tokyo Olympics delayed to 2021, easing athletes' angst It was the first time in the Olympics’ 124-year history that they had been postponed, though they were canceled outright several times during the two ...
Coronavirus Event 16:55 • 24.03.20 Spain's coronavirus toll jumps 514 in 24 hours Official figures show that 2,696 people have now died in the country and close to 40,000 are infected. About 5,400 health care workers are among ...
Law 16:41 • 24.03.20 Bill criminalizing breaches of quarantine rules 'contains serious flaws' - ex-minister "I think the problem has to do with public consciousness, because force and punitive action alone are not enough to secure the desired ...
Coronavirus Event 16:03 • 24.03.20 Armenia announces tougher restrictions on public services amid coronavirus concerns Tigran Avinyan announced plans for imposing seven-day restrictions on the activity of all public facilities "apart from primary services, stores and pharmacies". Promising to unveil ...
Politics 15:25 • 24.03.20 Zero interest-rate credit policies 'inefficient' for real target groups - opposition MP There is a risk that the banks will give those credits to their close businessmen at a 0% interest rate, and those businessmen will take them ...
Coronavirus Event 14:51 • 24.03.20 Armenian opposition MP discusses anti-coronaviirus measures with Chinese envoy The leader of the opposition Bright Armenia faction on Tuesday had a telephone conversation with the Chinese ambassador in Yerevan to discuss ...
Coronavirus Event 14:26 • 24.03.20 Armenia fully supports appeal for global ceasefire - Zohrab Mnatsakanyan "Armenia fully supports UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' appeal for a global ceasefire in all corners of the world while humanity faces common enemy ...
Coronavirus Event 14:15 • 24.03.20 Artsakh president holds enlarged session with agencies coordinating anti-coronavirus measures The president emphasized the necessity of a constant monitoring of the epidemiological situation across the republic and the prompt implementation of all preventive and organizational measures ...
Coronavirus Science/tech 13:43 • 24.03.20 Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air pollution Readings from ESA’s Sentinel-5P satellite show that over the past six weeks, levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) over cities and industrial clusters in Asia and Europe were markedly lower than ...
Politics 13:11 • 24.03.20 US mulls $16M aid package for Armenia The intended amount is the highest ever since the 2018 "Velvet Revolution", the Armenian Center for American Studies reports, noting that the US assistance used to be much higher ...
Economy 12:21 • 24.03.20 Oil prices climb as US ramps up economic support measures “Oil is clawing its way higher mainly on the back of the weaker dollar that stemmed from the Fed’s unprecedented measures,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst ...
Press digest 12:00 • 24.03.20 Hraparak: What caused Washington to suspend aid for Artsakh? The real reason behind the United States' move to suspend its demining assistance to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) is reported to be Armenian sappers' presence in Syria
Press digest 11:19 • 24.03.20 Zhoghovurd: National emergency 'may be prolonged' for extra 30-day period "We need to develop a certain understanding of how to organize life in our republic. The general logic and strategy must prompt further steps enabling us ...
Coronavirus Event 10:27 • 24.03.20 WHO, FIFA launch joint campaign to equip football community to tackle COVID-19 “FIFA and its President Gianni Infantino have been actively involved in passing the message against this pandemic since the very beginning,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...
Event 10:14 • 24.03.20 'The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war' - Antonio Guterres The most vulnerable — women and children, people with disabilities, the marginalized and the displaced — pay the highest price. They are also at the highest ...
Coronavirus Event 09:55 • 24.03.20 Armenia acquires 'all globally available medicines' to fight coronavirus In a Facebook live on Monday, Arsen Torosyan said that all the medicine proven positive at least on an experimental level are now in their arsenal and ...
Sports 09:34 • 24.03.20 Messi named world's highest-paid footballer This is according to a survey by France Football (h/t Neil McLeman of the Mirror), which reports Messi's basic salary of £26 million is "almost doubled" when his commercial earnings ....
Coronavirus Event 09:24 • 24.03.20 Armenia's confirmed coronavirus cases spike to 235 Agreeing that the coronavirus is gaining a new speed globally, Prime Minister Nikkol Pashinyan noted that certain outcomes are being observed also in Armenia. "An estimated 300 people are thought ...
Coronavirus Event 17:48 • 23.03.20 We urged 22 media outlets to remove 'controversial reports,' says police official "We have corresponding specialists who study the information in detail, reacting promptly in case of observing panicking content ...
Event 17:02 • 23.03.20 Tigran Sargsyan appointed Vice President of Eurasian Development Bank board The Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution established to promote economic growth in its member states, extend trade and economic ties among them, and support integration ...
Entertainment 16:53 • 23.03.20 Rihanna donates $5m to coronavirus relief through Clara Lionel foundation The 32-year-old singer's foundation announced the contribution on its Twitter account on Saturday ...
Law 15:25 • 23.03.20 23 dead in prison riot in Colombia prompted by coronavirus fears, Ministry of Justice claims There was a "massive and criminal escape attempt" at the Bogota's La Modelo prison, one of the country's largest and most overpopulated prisons, Justice Minister Margarita Cabello said ...
Coronavirus Politics 15:12 • 23.03.20 Armenian parliament backs stricter measures for breach of quarantine rules The draft, which received 117 votes in favor, proposes amendments to the Criminal Code, and the Administrative Code of the Republic of Armenia.
Event 14:37 • 23.03.20 Aurora Humanitarian Initiative to support Armenian hospitals with lung ventilation devices At the core of Aurora’s mission is the drive to offer life and hope to those in urgent need of basic humanitarian aid anywhere in the world. It couldn’t be more relevant ...
Sports 14:18 • 23.03.20 Canada and Australia not to send Athletes to send athletes to 2020 Tokyo Olympics "While we recognize the inherent complexities around a postponement, nothing is more important than the health and safety of our athletes and the world community ...
Economy 13:55 • 23.03.20 Global economy 'hit by severest shock' since 1930s But the current business cycle downturn looks very different. In terms of its scale and sudden onset, there is no parallel since the end of the Second ...
Science/tech 13:27 • 23.03.20 Facebook and Instagram lower video quality in Europe According to a Facebook spokesperson, both Facebook itself and Instagram will "temporarily reduce" video bitrates in Europe. This will help partners ...