U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declined to describe the 1915 mass killings of Armenians as genocide, breaking with his predecessor Joe Biden’s policy and drawing strong condemnation from a key Armenian-American group.
The European Union’s monitoring mission deployed along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan appeared to have removed on Thursday the word “genocide” from its statement on the 110th anniversary of the slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.
Another house in a village on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was hit late on Wednesday by what the Armenian Defense Ministry described as cross-border gunfire.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again did not explicitly condemn the masterminds and perpetrators of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey as Armenia marked its 110th anniversary on Thursday.
For the second time in just over a month, the Armenian government decided on Wednesday to send humanitarian aid to Syria.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party has made clear that it will block a parliamentary ethics inquiry into one of its senior lawmakers who insulted a journalist last month.
One week after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian ruled out the possibility of an Azerbaijani military attack on Armenia, a senior member of his party accused Baku on Wednesday of heightening tensions along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Catholicos Garegin will join world leaders in attending the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, the Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Tuesday.
Pro-government and opposition lawmakers brawled in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday after the main opposition Hayastan alliance announced that it has drafted legislation toughening punishment for anyone who denies or questions the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
Russia continued to warn Armenia on Tuesday of severe economic consequences of its efforts to join the European Union.
European Union monitors confirmed on Tuesday that an Armenian border village was targeted by gunshots which local residents and Armenia’s Defense Ministry say were fired from nearby Azerbaijani army positions.
The judge presiding over the new trial of former President Robert Kocharian expelled a journalist from the courtroom on Monday after criticizing her media outlet’s coverage of the high-profile case.
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