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05 October 2016 • 12:59 AMT
Amazon brings free ebooks, comics to its Prime membership scheme

Amazon Prime Reading gives customers access to over a thousand books, including “The Hobbit,” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”

05 October 2016 • 12:51 AMT
Miles Teller’s “Bleed for This” nabs November release date

Paz is best known for making a triumphant return to the boxing ring after he broke his neck in three places in a traffic accident.

05 October 2016 • 12:39 AMT
Kerry urges Taliban to strike “honorable” peace deal with Kabul

Secretary of State John Kerry said that a peace deal signed last week by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was a “model for what might be possible.”

05 October 2016 • 12:25 AMT
Hurricane Matthew urges over 1 mln to flee South Carolina

State emergency officials made plans to reverse traffic on all four lanes of Interstate 26 from Charleston to Columbia.

05 October 2016 • 12:18 AMT
New “Transformers” video shows epic car chase in London

The video sees several cars, which include the vehicle form of Bumblebee, being chased by Barricade on the streets of the city.

05 October 2016 • 11:56 AMT
Report: Quality of primary education in Armenia best in the region

Overall, Armenia is ranked 79th out of 138 countries included in the World Economic Forum’s report for this year.

05 October 2016 • 11:31 AMT
Georgia moves closer to visa-free travel to EU

EU states delayed rolling out the program until they could agree on stronger safeguards against any sudden influx of migrants.

05 October 2016 • 10:47 AMT
Google unveils new Pixel phone, fresh hardware

The unveiling of Google’s in-house designed phone came as part of an expanded hardware move by the American company.

05 October 2016 • 10:33 AMT
Russia sends S-300 missile system to Syria port

Russia, which has denied its strikes have hit hospitals, said it was deploying an S-300 missile system to Tartus on the Mediterranean coast.

05 October 2016 • 10:25 AMT
World’s smallest machines win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

They could be used to deliver drugs within the human body – for instance, applying them directly to cancer cells.

05 October 2016 • 10:10 AMT
Berlin seeks “goal-oriented negotiations” in Karabakh conflict

He said that Germany, currently chairing the OSCE, is a member of the organization’s Minsk Group, which is assigned to tackle the issue.

05 October 2016 • 09:55 AMT
No ceasefire violation registered as OSCE monitors Karabakh frontline

From the Karabakh army positions, the monitoring was conducted by Ghenadie Petrica, Simon Tiller and Klaus Keller.

05 October 2016 • 09:47 AMT
Bundestag delegation lays wreath at Armenian Genocide memorial

A German clergy, also visiting the memorial, prayed for the 1.5 million victims of the Genocide near the eternal flame.

05 October 2016 • 09:33 AMT
Second plane takes humanitarian aid to Syria

President Sargsyan ordered that two planes with humanitarian aid be sent to Syria to support civilians affected from the Syrian conflict.

05 October 2016 • 09:20 AMT
IMF upgrades Armenia’s economic growth outlook to 3.2% in 2016

The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook for Armenia’s economic growth in 2016 to 3.2% and in 2017 to 3.4%

05 October 2016 • 09:10 AMT
Forbes 400 ranking of richest Americans has Bill Gates on top again

Donald Trump fell 35 spots from last year, and is now behind 14 immigrants on the list with his net worth of $3.7 billion.

05 October 2016 • 09:01 AMT
New stamp marks 100th anniv. of mezzo-soprano Tatevik Sazandaryan

Sazandaryan performed at Opera and Ballet National Academic Theater from, greatly contributing to the development of national opera.

05 October 2016 • 08:48 AMT
Speedtest names VivaCell-MTS Armenia’s fastest mobile network

The company said: “VivaCell-MTS has been methodologically increasing the speed of its network in major urban since its launch.”

05 October 2016 • 08:20 AMT
NATO rules out combat operations against Islamic State in Iraq

NATO will not be conducting combat operations against IS in Iraq but will rather focus on providing further training to the local troops.

05 October 2016 • 08:08 AMT
Hauser & Wirth plans Arshile Gorky shows in New York, Los Angeles

A Gorky exhibition will debut in New York in 2017, it will travel to Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles.

05 October 2016 • 07:43 AMT
NASA tests Mars 2020 rover’s landing camera

NASA placed it aboard the flight test of an experimental rocket built by Masten Space Systems, a California-based aerospace startup.

05 October 2016 • 07:35 AMT
Iraq warns of “regional war” if Turkey doesn’t withdraw troops

“The Turkish leadership’s behavior is not acceptable and we don’t want to get into a military confrontation with Turkey,” Abadi said.

05 October 2016 • 07:30 AMT
U.S. blocks Russia’s UN statement on embassy shelling in Syria

“It was actually blocked by the U.S. delegation, which tried to add extraneous elements in a standard text,” a statement said.

05 October 2016 • 07:14 AMT
IMF says protectionist trends threaten global growth

Global GDP is expected to grow this year by 3.1 percent before rising to 3.4 percent next year, estimates that are unchanged from July.

05 October 2016 • 06:57 AMT
385 million children in poverty

Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World Bank Group and UNICEF. Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children finds that in 19.5 per cent of children in developing countries were living in households that survived on an average of US$1.90 a day or less per person, compared to just 9.2 per cent of adults. Globally, almost 385 million children were living in extreme poverty.

05 October 2016 • 06:49 AMT
Over 4,650 migrants saved, 28 bodies found off Italy

The surge in new arrivals means at least 142,000 migrants have reached Italy since the start of the year and around 3,100 have died.

05 October 2016 • 06:40 AMT
Azerbaijan uses firearms, machinegun to violate truce

To suppress the rival’s attack, Karabakh troops took retaliatory measures to continue controlling the situation on the contact line.

05 October 2016 • 06:25 AMT
Colombia president meeting rival Uribe to save peace deal

Shortly after Santos announced he was extending the cease-fire, rebel leader Timochenko tweeted: “And after that the war continues?”

05 October 2016 • 06:17 AMT
Yahoo gave U.S. intel agencies access to email accounts: report

Yahoo complied with a U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI.

05 October 2016 • 06:05 AMT
North Korea embassy official defects in Beijing: media

The official was responsible for sourcing medical supplies for a clinic in Pyongyang that caters to the North Korean leader and his family.