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The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact over 150 times in the past week, the country’s defense ministry reported on Saturday. In the period from October 27 – November 2, the adversary fired around 1,600 shots towards the Armenian defense positions from firearms of differe...

Oil prices rose on Thursday as investors banked on more economic stimulus by China after weak PMI data, partly recovering from losses in the previous session on a surprise build in U.S. crude stocks, Reuters reported. Brent crude futures were up 24 cents, or 0.4%, at $60.85 a barrel by 0221 GMT, having fallen earlier in the s...

The defense spending is set to grow by 25.3% in 2020 under the draft state budget, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during parliamentary debates hosted by the Standing Committee on Financial and Budgetary Affairs on Monday. “Compared to 2018, we plan a 25.3% increase in budgetary allocations for the defense sector in 2020,”...

Armenia ranks 47th among 190 countries in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 report. New Zealand was named the easiest place to do business in for the fourth year in a row, followed by Singapore, Hong Kong and Denmark. “On the ease of doing business score which assesses a country’s absolute level of regulatory performance - ...

Heavy fighting continues as Turkey presses ahead with its military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, now in its seventh day, Al Jazeera reported. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the offensive aims to remove the Kurdish-led forces from the border area and create a "safe zone" to which millions of Syria...

An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, UNICEF warned today in a new report on children, food and nutrition. The State of the World’s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition finds that at least 1 in 3 children under five – or over 200 millio...

Some 5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity were generated in Armenia in the first eight months of 2019, down 5% from the same months of 2018, the National Statistical Committee revealed. According to the latest figures, electricity generation at thermal power plants dropped by 10% to 1 billion 994.2 million kilowatt-hours in...

Turkey has launched a military operation against Kurdish positions in northeast Syria, just days after US troops pulled out of the area. Ankara says the offensive - which began with air raids on Tuesday - is aimed at removing Kurdish-led forces from the border area and creating a "safe zone" where millions of Syrian refugees c...

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact over 100 times in the past week, the country’s defense ministry reported on Saturday. In the period from September 29 – October 5, the adversary fired around 800 shots towards the Armenian defense positions from firearms of differe...

When Russia announces that Crimea is Russia, what punctuation mark does it put in the end – a period, exclamation point or suspension point? Naturally, the conflicts of Crimea and Nagorno-Karabakh have different origins, history and dynamics, but it’s not possible to avoid the temptation of drawing parallels between them when ...