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31 July 2018 • 14:13 AMT
Syrian army displays weapons surrendered by militants in Quneitra

A huge arsenal of weapons was handed over by militants in north Quneitra countryside during the past two days as per surrender deal.

31 July 2018 • 13:59 AMT
Lebanese student granted Amal Clooney scholarship to Armenia

Amal Clooney founded her educational initiative the following year to help girls from her native Lebanon realise their potential.

31 July 2018 • 12:57 AMT
‘Cremation only’ – Coffins smashed, exhumed in China to save land

A campaign banning people in a southeast China province from burying their dead that has seen coffins smashed and exhumed.

31 July 2018 • 12:28 AMT
Archaeologists discover Roman skeleton with beauty tools

Archaeologists have discovered a stone sarcophagus, dating to the 3rd c. AD; inside, the remains of a woman and her beauty tools.

31 July 2018 • 10:38 AMT
Top Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham militant assassinated in Syria’s Idlib

The militant commander was reportedly found dead shortly after his vehicle was targeted by these unknown assailants in rural Idlib.

31 July 2018 • 10:16 AMT
Tourism flow to Armenia grew 10% year-on-year

685,971 travelers arrived in Armenia in January-June, up from 622,381 who spent some time in the country in the same period last year.

31 July 2018 • 09:56 AMT
ADB ‘keeps supporting’ Armenia in North-South road construction

ADB said it expects continuous cooperation with the Armenian government to complete the construction of this vital infrastructure.

31 July 2018 • 09:45 AMT
90 Turkish citizens barred from entering Israel over ‘falsified visas’

A report cited Turkish officials as saying that Israeli authorities had told them the group was denied entry for “security reasons.”

31 July 2018 • 09:39 AMT
Armenia urges OSCE monitoring of Azeri border near Nakhijevan

At a briefing with reporters, Tigran Balayan said the monitoring could help restrain Azerbaijan’s possible aggression.

31 July 2018 • 08:33 AMT
Mkhitaryan will be a big player for Arsenal this season: media

“We saw that in his performances from January onwards,” Arsenal correspondent Charles Watts says.

31 July 2018 • 08:08 AMT
Neo-Nazi bomb attack defendant acquitted by German court

In June 2014 a prison inmate told police that the suspect had boasted about carrying out the attack, using a racial slur against immigrants.

31 July 2018 • 07:46 AMT
New treatment against recurrent breast cancers under research

“Every healthy cell produces a normal amount of HER2, but HER2 is produced 10 to 20 times more in a cancer cell,” said Yehenew Agazie.

31 July 2018 • 07:30 AMT
Armenia working to secure Pashinyan-Trump meeting in NYC

Tigran Balayan confirmed that Pashinyan will participate in the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

31 July 2018 • 07:04 AMT
Italian President visits Armenian Genocide memorial

Mattarella and his daughter is currently in Armenia on a state visit. He has already met his Armenian counterpart Armen Sarkissian.

31 July 2018 • 06:41 AMT
What Alexis Ohanian learned from his wife about business

“I really thought I was like the hardest working person I knew. I thought tech was the hardest working industry,” Ohanian says.

31 July 2018 • 06:11 AMT
Syrian army ‘cracks’ Islamic State lines in country’s southwest

The Syrian army was able to crack the Islamic State’s lines in the southern corridor of the Yarmouk Basin region

30 July 2018 • 14:36 AMT
Smoking marijuana is now legal in Georgia

The Constitutional Court of Georgia has released a statement on the decision made on Monday, July 30 regarding the use of marijuana.

30 July 2018 • 14:16 AMT
The Met unveils preview of “Armenia!” opening September 22

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has published a preview of “Armenia!”, opening in New York on Sept. 22 and running through Jan. 13, 2019.

30 July 2018 • 13:16 AMT
Four Armenian officers joining Noble Partner-2018 drills in Georgia

Troops and military hardware from NATO member states and Georgia’s allies have already arrived in the country’s Black Sea port of Poti.

30 July 2018 • 12:41 AMT
Mkhitaryan was Arsenal’s biggest menace against PSG: media

Ozil faded quite sharply in the second half before the mass changes arrived and he was also outshone by team-mate Mkhitaryan.

30 July 2018 • 12:10 AMT
Armenian church to be restored in Turkey

The Armenian Germuş Church in the southeastern Turkish city of Şanlıurfa will soon be opened to tourists after some extensive renovation

30 July 2018 • 11:34 AMT
Army says breaks into last Islamic State stronghold in southwest Syria

The government troops are now fighting to storm al-Shajarah; the last main bastion for the group in the area.

30 July 2018 • 11:18 AMT
Italian President arrives in Yerevan for two-day state visit

At the invitation of President Armen Sarkissian, Italian President Sergio Mattarella has arrived in Yerevan to a two-day state visit.

30 July 2018 • 10:27 AMT
Armenian man tortured and killed in a Russian prison

Ani Simonyan noted that Hovakimyan’s family live in Moscow and could not afford to visit him in the colony frequently.

30 July 2018 • 09:45 AMT
Eating pomegranates could help manage high blood pressure

Eating fewer salty foods and more vegetables can help someone stop levels getting too high, which could cause premature death.

30 July 2018 • 09:10 AMT
Matteo Guendouzi says hopes to learn from Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Ramsey

French whizz Matteo Guendouzi said he hopes to learn from team-mates such as Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey.

30 July 2018 • 08:28 AMT
“Armenia Uncovered” film teases amazing people, beautiful scenery

In a feature-length documentary titled “Armenia Uncovered”, British-Armenian musician, comedian and actor Kev Orkian takes a tour of Armenia.

30 July 2018 • 07:53 AMT
Syrian army says has killed Egyptian Islamic state emir

The Syrian army killed the Islamic State emir of Shajarah, Abu Walid Al-Masri, after a fierce battle in the southwestern countryside of Daraa.

30 July 2018 • 07:41 AMT
Tank Biathlon: Armenian tankmen finish first in their group

The Armenian servicemen outperformed the teams of Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam and Myanmar in the first individual race.

30 July 2018 • 07:09 AMT
In CIS space, Armenians most often denied a Schengen visa by Germany

The Ministry explained that the decision to issue a visa is made by the German Embassy in a specific country on the basis of objective criteria.