Twenty-two residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are still missing one year after a powerful explosion at a fuel depot outside Stepanakert which occurred during the mass exodus of the region’s ethnic Armenian population triggered by an Azerbaijani military offensive.
Law-enforcement authorities have launched a corruption investigation into the municipal administration of Kapan more than two months after the southeastern Armenian town’s mayor gave a warm welcome to an outspoken archbishop seeking to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A group of lawmakers from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party have called for the dismissal of Justice Minister Grigor Minasian, who is related to a key member of Armenia’s former leadership.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to again link the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations with a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan during talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian held in New York late on Tuesday.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said that Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by last year’s Azerbaijani offensive has a legitimate right to “return safely” to its homeland.
Eight months after controversially joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Armenia has not filed any cases against Azerbaijan at The Hague tribunal despite promises given by the Armenian government.
It is still not clear when the Armenian government will start the repeatedly delayed introduction of a national system of health insurance, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to help make the world a better place when he addressed the UN General Assembly in New York late on Monday hours after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made fresh threats of military action against Armenia.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has cancelled a planned visit to Canada at the request of his Canadian counterpart Greg Fergus after a local Armenian Diaspora group condemned the exclusion of opposition lawmakers from his delegation.
A court in Yerevan opened a fresh trial of Robert Kocharian on Monday despite the former Armenian president’s absence from the country and the fact that prosecutors have still not brought new charges against him and three other defendants.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian vowed to resume next week street protests aimed at toppling Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as he gathered thousands of supporters at a concert hall in Yerevan on Sunday.
U.S. President Joe Biden praised deepening relations between the United States and Armenia when he congratulated Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on the South Caucasus country’s Independence Day on Saturday.
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