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29 April 2017 • 06:40 AMT
EU leaders to endorse stiff set of divorce terms for Britain

The 27 other EU leaders are poised to approve an 8-page set of negotiating guidelines hammered out by their diplomats over the past month.

29 April 2017 • 06:28 AMT
North Korea test-fires ballistic missile in defiance of world pressure

The North has been conducting missile and nuclear weapons related activities at an unprecedented rate since the beginning of the year.

28 April 2017 • 14:33 AMT
Spanish city of Villena recognizes Armenian Genocide

The statement, adopted by the Villena City Council, describes the 1915 events as a crime against humanity.

28 April 2017 • 14:12 AMT
Brazil cities crippled by nationwide strike against austerity

Protesters used barricades of burning tires and other materials to block highways and access to major airports.

28 April 2017 • 13:56 AMT
Israel planning to build 15,000 more settlement homes in Jerusalem

Israel views all of Jerusalem as its “eternal and indivisible capital”, but the Palestinians also want a capital there.

28 April 2017 • 13:35 AMT
Neymar believes MU prepared to buy out his €200mln Barcelona contract

Neymar has made 40 appearances in all competitions this season, scoring 15 goals and assisting 24 in the process.

28 April 2017 • 13:24 AMT
Armenian, Russian, Azeri foreign ministers talk Karabakh in Moscow

The officials stressed the need to implement the agreements reached at the Vienna and St. Petersburg summits in April and June 2016.

28 April 2017 • 12:53 AMT
Eurozone inflation back up at targeted level as economy improves

Statistics agency Eurostat said Friday, April 28 that its headline rate rose to 1.9 percent over the year to April from 1.5 percent the previous month.

28 April 2017 • 12:41 AMT
Egypt issues law allowing president to appoint judges

Supporters of the amendments say they are necessary to strengthen Sisi’s authority on critical issues such as combating Islamist militants.

28 April 2017 • 12:32 AMT
Germany rejects demands to end Turkey’s EU membership bid

EU lawmakers called this week for a formal suspension of Turkey’s long-stalled EU bid, saying it does not meet democratic standards.

28 April 2017 • 12:26 AMT
Sergey Movsisyan wins bronze at 2017 Reykjavik Open

Movsisyan beat Turkey’s Mustafa Yilmaz in the last round of the Island-hosted tournament to gain 8 points.

28 April 2017 • 12:15 AMT
Constitutional Court rejects opposition appeal to annul election results

The decision, read out by the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan considered as accepted upon publication.

28 April 2017 • 11:43 AMT
Cassini probe survives 1st dive between Saturn and its rings

The spacecraft’s ground team had to spend 20 hours wondering whether the probe was doing well or whether it plunged to its death a few months too early.

28 April 2017 • 11:29 AMT
Amazon “doubling down” on the Echo ecosystem

Amazon debuted the Echo in 2014, bringing the voice-activated Alexa assistant into people’s homes.

28 April 2017 • 11:14 AMT
Roman Polanski’s “Based on a True Story” added to Cannes Film Fest

Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Vincent Perez star in Polanski’s French-language psychological thriller about a writer and her obsessive admirer.

28 April 2017 • 11:03 AMT
“Keep the Change,” “Bobbi Jene” win top awards at Tribeca Film Fest

Alessandro Nivola (“One Percent More Humid”) and Nadia Alexander (“Blame”) were among the performers to win acting honors.

28 April 2017 • 10:44 AMT
Armenia named “not free” in terms of press freedom

Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Island topped the list as “free” in terms of media freedom.

28 April 2017 • 10:30 AMT
Seoul brushes aside Trump’s demand it pays for missile system

The two countries have been in a security alliance since the 1950-53 Korean war, and more than 28,000 US troops are stationed in the South.

28 April 2017 • 10:18 AMT
Merkel, Putin to talk G20, Syria, Ukraine in Sochi

“The visit serves the preparation of this year’s G20 summit in Hamburg,” Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said during a regular news conference.

28 April 2017 • 10:00 AMT
PACE declares “no confidence” in Pedro Agramunt as President

It further resolved that Agramunt is not authorised to undertake any official visits, attend any meetings or make any public statements on behalf of the Assembly.

28 April 2017 • 09:52 AMT
Google iOS search now finds streaming movies, music and TV

The feature, which is already available on Android and the desktop, displays the icons of streaming services that currently offer the content you’re searching for.

28 April 2017 • 09:45 AMT
Google, Facebook named as victims in $100 million scam

When the incident was first exposed, feds revealed that they arrested a Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasauskas for perpetrating the phishing scheme.

28 April 2017 • 09:34 AMT
Russian Foreign Ministry slams Azeri media as “rude”

Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry urged to stop media propaganda over Azeri saboteur Dilgam Askerov.

28 April 2017 • 09:00 AMT
Pope Francis arrives in Cairo to mend ties with Islam

It comes at a painful time for Egypt’s Copts, three weeks after Islamic State suicide bombers killed 45 people in twin church bombings.

28 April 2017 • 08:45 AMT
Karabakh soldier dies in Azeri gunfire

The incident took place on April 28, 9:30pm Yerevan time in the southern direction of the Nargorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani line of contact.

28 April 2017 • 08:39 AMT
“La La Land” helmer to direct musical-themed TV drama

The musical-themed drama revolves around a club, with its owner and the house band trying to cope with “the volatile city that surrounds them.”

28 April 2017 • 08:27 AMT
Netflix’s monster movie “Okja” trailer features Tilda Swinton

The teaser has a vibe of weirdness as Swinton’s character tries to tell the audience about the vision of her company, which involves pigs’ dreams.

28 April 2017 • 08:09 AMT
Le Pen’s party facing new scandal over alleged Holocaust denial

National Front vice president said that interim party leader Jean-Francois Jalkh is leaving his post because of comments reported in a 2000 interview.

28 April 2017 • 07:53 AMT
EU foreign ministers assessing the bloc’s relations with Turkey

While some ministers are calling for sustained relations with a difficult partner who is also a pillar of the NATO alliance, others are calling for change.

28 April 2017 • 07:44 AMT
Protesters storm into Macedonia’s parliament, demand new elections

Politics in the former Yugoslav republic has been deadlocked since an inconclusive election in December.