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16:33 20/11/2019Opposition MP says no Constitutional Court member can be forced into early retirementThe Prosperous Armenia opposition parliamentary faction has not yet held debates on the draft law on early retirement of the Constitutional Court members passed by the government, MP Iveta Tonoyan...
14:31 20/11/2019Lawyer: Yerevan appellate court finds violation of rights in Arsen Babayan’s arrestThe Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals, presided over by judge Arsen Nikoghosyan, ruled that there has been a violation of Arsen Babayan’s rights during his arrest, his lawyer Yervand Varosyan said.
13:55 20/11/2019Son of former German president stabbed to death in BerlinThe son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker was stabbed to death while he was giving a lecture at a hospital in Berlin where he worked as a head physician, police said Wednesday.
19:01 19/11/2019Sweden drops Assange rape investigation after nearly 10 yearsA Swedish prosecutor dropped an investigation into an allegation of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ending the near decade-old case that had sent the anti-secrecy campaigner into...
18:39 19/11/2019Kocharyan trial: Judge denies defense motion for prosecutor’s recusalJudge Anna Danibekyan of the Yerevan Court of Gerenal Jurisdiction presiding over the trial of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan and three other senior officials, on Tuesday denied a...
15:54 18/11/2019France following Kocharyan’s trial, lawyer saysSevak Torosyan, a French-Armenian lawyer of second Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, has addressed a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron.
12:13 18/11/2019Prisoner escapes from Yerevan hospitalArayik Sargsyan, a 31-year-old convict of the Nubarashen Penitentiary in Yerevan has escaped Erebouni Medical Center where he was receiving treatment.
11:33 18/11/2019Pennsylvania man who confessed to killing his girlfriend was leading ‘double life’A Pennsylvania man confessed to kidnapping then killing his girlfriend in Las Vegas as he carried on a “double life,” New York Post said, citing media reports.
13:42 16/11/2019Jewelry worth 1,9 million AMD stolen from a passenger’s luggage at Zvartnots airportOn November 15, at around 20:00 a Russian citizen reported to Yerevan Police department that a jewelry worth 1,9 million AMD (around $4,000) was stolen from his suitcase upon his arrival at Zvartnots...
10:56 16/11/2019Ukraine says it has detained deputy to slain Islamic State officialUkraine’s security service said on Friday it had detained the deputy of Abu Omar al-Shishani, the man the Pentagon described as Islamic State’s “minister of war”, after he crossed into Ukraine on a...
14:18 14/11/2019Arsen Babayan: Authorities stop at nothing to get rid of Hrayr TovmasyanA former senior staffer of the Armenian National Assembly facing coup charges reiterates his prosecution and arrest iare aimed at stepping up pressure on Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasyan...
12:41 14/11/2019Armenia’s NSS reveals cases of illegal child adoption by foreignersThe National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia says it has revealed numerous cases of illegal adoption of children by foreigners in a “flagrant violation” of the Armenian law.
19:38 13/11/2019Turkish court orders rearrest of journalist Ahmet AltanA Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of prominent journalist Ahmet Altan just a week after his release from prison over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup, AFP reported.
15:31 13/11/2019Paris protest disrupts Polanski film debut over rape accusationsProtesters disrupted the first screening in France of Roman Polanski’s new film on Tuesday, following the publication of a new rape accusation against the French-Polish director, Reuters reported.
14:37 13/11/2019Lecturers join students in protest against education minister in ArmeniaLectures from the Faculties of Armenian Philology and Armenian History of the Yerevan State University (YSU) have joined students protesting Armenia’s Minister of Education, Science, Culture and...
14:04 13/11/2019Former parliament staffer urges end to ‘lawlessness’ in ArmeniaA former senior staffer of the Armenian National Assembly, who was released on Tuesday pending investigation and trial, expressed gratitude to those who supported him and his family during what he...
11:20 13/11/2019Products from Israeli settlements must be labelled, EU court rulesThe European Union’s top court has ruled that EU countries must identify products made in Israeli settlements on their labels, in a decision welcomed by rights groups but likely to spark anger in...
19:14 12/11/2019Ex-president’s court hearing: Motion to recuse judge rejectedYerevan Court of General Jurisdiction rejected the petition on Tuesday to recuse the presiding judge Anna Danibekyan from the hearing of the case involving former President Robert Kocharyan and...
15:37 12/11/2019Arsen Babayan: I have been unlawfully arrested for 22 daysThe former deputy chief of the Armenian parliament staff, Arsen Babayan has already left the Vardashen Penitentiary.
14:18 12/11/2019Kocharyan’s lawyer asks presiding judge to recuse herselfThe Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction resumed on Tuesday hearings in the trial of President Robert Kocharyan and three other former senior officials Armen Gevorgyan, Seyran Ohanyan and Yuri...