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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.

11 August 2020 • 07:49 AMT
Dangerous chemicals discovered in Beirut port

Some of the containers were punctured when the deadly blast ripped through the port on August 4.

11 August 2020 • 07:45 AMT
Karabakh says ready to host Lebanese Armenians

The Karabakh President said they are ready to host Lebanese-Armenians in their homes.

11 August 2020 • 07:01 AMT
Armenia reports 160 new coronavirus cases, 541 recoveries

177,322 tests have been performed since the beginning of the outbreak in the country.

11 August 2020 • 06:39 AMT
Global coronavirus infections surpass 20 million

There are now more than 20m cases of the novel coronavirus worldwide, including over 12,2m recoveries.

10 August 2020 • 13:34 AMT
WHO chief sees “green shoots of hope” in global fight against Covid-19

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus started his briefing by noting the scale of the coronavirus pandemic.

10 August 2020 • 13:18 AMT
MIT researcher estimates 1 in 4300 air travelers will contract Covid-19

The only way to move forward through the pandemic is to start thinking in terms of risk-benefit ratios.

10 August 2020 • 12:04 AMT
Covid-19: Greece sees highest daily case count ever

The country reported 203 new cases, most of which are in its two largest cities — Athens and Thessaloniki.

10 August 2020 • 11:31 AMT
World powers pledge €253m in Lebanon aid

The leaders said the “assistance should be timely, sufficient and consistent with the needs of the Lebanese people.

10 August 2020 • 10:30 AMT
Prince Harry calls for rebuilding social media

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, started calling business leaders, heads of major corporations.

10 August 2020 • 09:14 AMT
Karabakh reports one new coronavirus infection

227 people have so far recovered from the disease in Karabakh, while 44 others are quarantined.