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Event 16:02 • 18.03.20 Late Russian publicist Eduard Limonov wished to be buried next to Artsakh heroes The political dissident, who founded the radical nationalist party The Other Russia, was blacklised by the Azerbaijani authorities' for trips to the second Armenian republic. His last travelled ...
Law 15:11 • 18.03.20 Late Uzbek leader's daughter handed 13-year jail sentence for extortion Gulnara Karimova, 47, was jailed in March 2019 for violating the terms of her house arrest after receiving a five-year sentence in 2015 on charges of embezzlement
Entertainment 14:51 • 18.03.20 Pine tree near flooded Czech village voted European tree of the year The Guardian of the Flooded Village has grown for 350 years on a rocky height near the village of Chudobin, said locally to play host to a devil that sat under it at night, playing the violin ...
Coronavirus Event 14:40 • 18.03.20 Global cases of coronavirus hit nearly 200,000 It comes as governments around the globe continue to grapple with how to implement border closures, travel restrictions and lockdowns amid the Covid-19 ...
Event 14:18 • 18.03.20 Patient with respiratory disease dies in Yerevan hospital; Health Ministry spokesperson says 'no coronavirus detected' According to Alina Nikoghosyan's public post, the patient was hospitalized on Tuesday, March 17. Though there were initial suspicions of COVID-19, the subsequent testing revealed no ...
Coronavirus Event 13:29 • 18.03.20 Coronavirus 'good reason' to disinfect schools, minister of education says "We will embark on a large-scale decontamination process in all the educational institutions to enable the schools to be prepared for educational processes ...
Coronavirus Economy 12:58 • 18.03.20 Armenia, Iran agree on exceptional terms to arrange shipment of economic goods As part of a humanitarian assistance program establishing procedures for the transportation of extra goods, amendments were introduced to the government's ...
Coronavirus Event 12:08 • 18.03.20 Armenia's prime minister reports rise in coronavirus cases In a Facebook live on Wednesday noon, Nikol Pashinyan said six more people tested positive for the disease, bringing the total number of the diagnosed ...
Politics 11:46 • 18.03.20 Erdogan in talks with European leaders over Turkey refugee cash After intense bombardment in Idlib province last month, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, encouraged thousands of refugees in the country to move on towards ....
Economy 11:25 • 18.03.20 Oil plunges 24% for worst day since 1991, hitting multi-year low after OPEC deal failure sparks price war The sell-off in crude began last week when OPEC failed to strike a deal with its allies, led by Russia, about oil production cuts. That, in turn, caused Saudi Arabia ...
Event 10:41 • 18.03.20 Serj Tankian calls out Genocide denial at ANC-NZ advocacy week event At the event, Tankian – who is a New Zealand resident and the Grammy Award-winning front man of System of a Down – spoke about ...
Press digest 10:02 • 18.03.20 Hraparak: Armenian parliament maintains regular work schedule despite emergency The standing committees on Tuesday conducted their hearings, with the upcoming regular session being scheduled for March 23. In comments to the paper ...
Event 09:32 • 18.03.20 7 shot in officer-involved shooting in Baltimore The Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police wrote on twitter, “There has been a Police involved shooting McMechen & Eutaw Sts Possibility of up to 7 people shot
Coronavirus Event 09:22 • 18.03.20 Coronavirus cases jump to 78 in Armenia In a Facebook live, Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan said a total of 600 people have been quarantined, adding that hundreds more may be isolated ...
Sports 17:48 • 17.03.20 Euro 2020 'postponed until next summer' The tournament was due to take place from 12 June-12 July this year at 12 venues across Europe. The postponement provides ...
Coronavirus Event 17:37 • 17.03.20 Airlines cancel flights to and from Armenia as global pandemic gains rapid speed The rapid spread of the new Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused airlines to cancel flights from and to Armenia. In a statement on Tuesday ...
Sports 16:31 • 17.03.20 Football: Manchester United trigger extension in midfielder's contract The 31-year-old, whose three-year contract was due to expire this summer, is also in talks with the club over lengthening the deal even further ...
Economy 15:28 • 17.03.20 World's 20 richest billionaires shed nearly $300bn in one month When the Dow Jones reached its all-time high on February 13, the top 20 fortunes combined for more than $1.4 trillion — a figure that has since crashed ...
Coronavirus Event 14:46 • 17.03.20 Armenia's Health Ministry confirms '12 more' coronavirus cases "All in all, we have 64 confirmed cases at the moment, of whom one has recovered," Nikoghosyan says, reiterating the ministry's call for respecting ...
Coronavirus Event 14:14 • 17.03.20 Prime minister calls for 'individual and social responsibility' to combat coronavirus "We have people in hospitals, who do not need treatment at all. Hence we need to measure the expediency of hospitalizing people not needing ...
Politics 13:27 • 17.03.20 Restrictions on media amid state of emergency 'serious test' for official news sources - expert To be media literate and ensure the necessary level of media safety, it is important to simply have that responsibility, the Aghasi Yenokyan said. "Also the authorities need ...
Entertainment 12:31 • 17.03.20 Brad Pitt is spotted ordering food at In-N-Out with pal Alia Shawkat a day after they attended a concert The Oscar-winning actor, 56, and his long-term pal, 30, were seen standing at the counter of a Los Angeles branch of the popular fast food chain one day after being pictured together ...
Science/tech 11:57 • 17.03.20 Microsoft hits its goal of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 This number includes PCs, laptops, Xbox One consoles, and HoloLens devices running Microsoft’s latest operating system. It means Microsoft has now hit its original ...
Coronavirus Event 11:41 • 17.03.20 Distance learning platform launched for Armenian schools "We have considerable Armenian language online resources and tools to organize distance learning. There are schools with ...
Culture 10:30 • 17.03.20 'Game of Thrones' actor tests positive for coronavirus In an Instagram post alongside his wife, Hivju said that his symptoms were mild but explained that he would remain at home with his family to avoid spreading ...
Science/tech 10:19 • 17.03.20 US researchers give first shot to coronavirus vaccine With careful jabs in the arms of four healthy volunteers, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle began an anxiously awaited first-stage study ...
Culture 10:12 • 17.03.20 Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson released from the hospital following coronavirus diagnosis Hanks and Wilson are in Australia for pre-production work on a film about singer Elvis Presley. Hanks is set to play Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the film directed ...
Press digest 10:04 • 17.03.20 Zhoghovurd: Armenian prime minister has two days' time to appoint police, national security chiefs It was exactly on September 19 that President Armen Sarkissian moved to appoint Arman Sargsyan as the acting chief of police, installing ...
Coronavirus Event 09:22 • 17.03.20 Armenia's confirmed coronavirus cases rise to 52 "All they need is time, nothing more. Three of the new patients are connected with earlier cases. Separately, there is a case recorded ...
Event 09:05 • 17.03.20 Russia closes borders until May The new measures, which come into force at midnight on Tuesday evening, will last at least six weeks until May 1. They mirror similar restrictions ...