Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia on Wednesday talked with Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev over the phone, his office said. The prime ministers discussed details of the upcoming regular meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council due in Yerevan on April 30. Issues of bilateral cooperation were touched upon dur...

The parliament of Kazakhstan approved on Wedesday the bill on renaming the capital city of Astana to Nursultan, in honour of ex-leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, Tengrinews.kz reports. Kasym-Jomart Tokayev has sworn in today as President of Kazakhstan and his first sugestion was to rename Astana after Nazarbayev and to name all cen...

March 20, 2019 - 15:40 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The European Union has hit Google with another big antitrust fine, the third in a series of billion-dollar penalties the US tech giant has faced for hindering competition, CNN reports. The European Commission on Wednesday, March 20 ordered Google to pay €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) for...

March 20, 2019 - 15:31 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Medical research has confirmed time and time again the health risks associated with drinking, but what about the people who are harmed as the result of someone else consuming alcohol? Researchers at the Munich-based Institute for Therapy Research (IFT) revealed the dangerous and somet...

March 20, 2019 - 15:11 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The Parliament of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 20 approved law on changing the name of the capital Astana to Nursultan, Tengrinews.kz reports. Kasym-Jomart Tokayev was sworn in as the President of Kazakhstan and his first sugestion was to rename Astana after Nazarbayev - Nursultan -...

The Armenian Genocide is an undeniable fact, and its recognition and condemnation are first of all a moral responsibility, a tribute to the memory of the innocent victims, Armenian foreign ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan told reporters today, in response to the question regarding the manipulation of the issue of the Genocid...

March 20, 2019 - 14:24 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian President Armen Sarkissian sent letters of condolences to the Presidents of Mozambique and Zimbabwe Filipe Nyusi and Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday, March 20 over Cyclone Idai that has triggered a disaster in southern Africa. The cyclone has affected hundreds of thousands if...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again brought up the issue of restoring the death penalty, vowing to approve such legislation if parliament passes it, Hurriyet Daily News reports. “We have done wrong by removing the death penalty. It offends me to feed those in prison, those who martyred 251 of our citizens, po...

March 20, 2019 - 14:06 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - US President Donald Trump and Brazil's new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro forged a bond over their shared brand of conservative and populist politics on Tuesday, March 19, with Trump pledging to give more US support to Brazil's global ambitions, Al Jazeera reports. Speaking at a join...

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Liliane Maury Pasquier will visit Armenia on 26-28 March, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan told a news conference on Wednesday. She said the PACE leader is expected to hold meetings with Armenia’s senior officials, including at the National As...