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13 August 2020 • 15:13 AMT
France will require nationals traveling from Armenia to take a PCR test

The decision will come into effect from August 17 and won’t apply to foreign travelers because they can’t stay in France anyway.

13 August 2020 • 14:37 AMT
Ankara: Armenia cemetery desecrated, bodies removed from graves

The co-founder of the Democracy and Progress Party, Mustafa Yeneroğlu, has raised the issue with the mayor.

13 August 2020 • 13:46 AMT
Viva-MTS unveils better conditions for “Recharge+” service

Users will continue using the company’s services for up to AMD 2000 instead of the AMD 1500 before.

13 August 2020 • 13:09 AMT
Schools in German state could expel students for not wearing masks

Many students are hoping that by the next month at least they can take them off during lessons.

13 August 2020 • 12:32 AMT
U.S. govt personnel can’t fly with Armenian carriers for official travel

The move comes after the European Union (EU) added all Armenian air carriers to the EU Air Safety List.

13 August 2020 • 11:27 AMT
Report: Congress has secretly blocked U.S. arms sales to Turkey for two years

The disruption has already led to Turkey’s expulsion from the F-35 joint strike fighter program.

13 August 2020 • 11:05 AMT
Prevention of escalation on the border is key, Putin tells Aliyev

The two discussed “regional issues in the context of recent escalation on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border.”

13 August 2020 • 10:41 AMT
China says chicken imported from Brazil tests positive for coronavirus

Authorities said the public needed to take precautions to reduce infection risks from imported products.

13 August 2020 • 10:13 AMT
Raphael appears to have given himself a touch-up in self-portraits

Italian researchers have created a 3D reconstruction of the face of Renaissance master Raphael.

13 August 2020 • 10:02 AMT
Armenia ranks 67th for digital quality of life in 2020

E-government and internet affordability are the areas Armenia can improve on the most, the report showed.

13 August 2020 • 07:20 AMT
Armenian priest sues LAPD for “excessive use of force” at protest

Father Armen Bagramyan claims personal injuries arising from the use of excessive force by an officer.

13 August 2020 • 07:00 AMT
Armenia reports 229 new coronavirus cases, 405 recoveries

180,497 tests have been performed since the beginning of the outbreak in the country.

13 August 2020 • 06:46 AMT
EBRD terminates investment in $400m gold mine in Armenia

The London-based development bank has funded exploration, drilling and feasibility studies.

12 August 2020 • 15:09 AMT
Prosecutors demand jail terms, life sentence for Sasna Tsrer members

Smbat Barseghyan is facing life sentence while eight others could be handed 8.5-21 years imprisonment.

12 August 2020 • 12:28 AMT
Footage shows dogs lost during Beirut explosion reuniting with owners

The enormous explosion tore through the city of Beirut on August 4, leaving at least 171 people dead.

12 August 2020 • 11:57 AMT
China records 25 new Covid-19 cases in a day

All of the local cases were reported in the far western region of Xinjiang, according to the NHC.

12 August 2020 • 10:25 AMT
TikTok collected device identifiers for over a year

The addresses would make users valuable for both advertising and potentially more invasive forms of tracking.

12 August 2020 • 10:04 AMT
Armenia: Around 300 coronavirus patients in serious or critical condition

This number is slow to decrease as a lot of patients spend a long time in intensive care units.

12 August 2020 • 08:56 AMT
U.S. reaches deal with Moderna for 100m doses of Covid-19 vaccine

Moderna said the deal will give the federal government the option to purchase up to 400 million additional doses.

12 August 2020 • 08:06 AMT
Armenia opens borders to non-citizens; extends state of emergency

Other mitigations in restrictions imposed during the state of emergency can be expected too.

12 August 2020 • 07:42 AMT
Fauci “seriously doubts” Russia vaccine is ready for widespread use

Anthony Fauci made the comments as part of a keynote interview for Stopping Pandemics.

12 August 2020 • 07:03 AMT
Armenia: Covid-19 infections grow by 201 as three more die

179,032 tests have been performed since the beginning of the outbreak in the country.

12 August 2020 • 06:56 AMT
New Zealand considers freight as possible source of new Coid-19 cluster

Health officials were confident there was no local transmission of the virus in New Zealand for 102 days.

12 August 2020 • 06:52 AMT
Namibia rejects German genocide reparations offer

German troops killed tens of thousands of people in 1904-1908 in response to an anti-colonial uprising.

11 August 2020 • 13:57 AMT
Global coffee crisis is coming, study finds

But while there may be time to save the coffee plant, the crisis has already arrived for coffee farmers.

11 August 2020 • 12:52 AMT
Russia registers coronavirus vaccine; Putin’s daughter inoculated

Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, announced one of his daughters has already been inoculated.

11 August 2020 • 12:18 AMT
New Zealand records first locally-transmitted Covid-19 case in 102 days

All four of the cases were found within one household in South Auckland according to a health official.

11 August 2020 • 11:05 AMT
Reburial of Turkish-Armenian artist in Diyarbakir raised in Ankara

Also known as “Ape Aram,” Tigran was the son of a family who was expelled from Diyarbakır in 1915.

11 August 2020 • 08:50 AMT
Trump postpones G7 summit until after presidential election

Trump noted he planned on inviting countries that aren’t formal members of the group of seven.

11 August 2020 • 08:42 AMT
Aurora pledges $200,000 for Beirut disaster relief

$50,000 is expected to be contributed to the reconstruction projects that will be selected later.