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A Yerevan appeals court has granted bail to the deputy chairman of the opposition Heritage party, who was charged in connection with a recent rally.
Armenia's opposition Heritage party has pulled out of local elections because of the recent arrests of its three leading members.
An Armenian prosecutor has demanded a life sentence for a Russian soldier charged with killing a family of seven.
The remaining opposition gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan have laid down their arms, ending a two-week standoff with the Armenian authorities, which has left two police officers dead.
Armenian security forces have shot and wounded three gunmen in a continuing standoff with an armed opposition group barricaded inside a police compound in Yerevan.
Armenian Health Minister Armen Muradyan on July 27 was blocked by police from trying to meet with a group of gunmen who are occupying a police building in Yerevan and have taken four medics hostage.
Thousands of demonstrators were marching in Yerevan late on July 25 in support of a group of gunmen who have occupied an Armenian police station for more than a week.
Armenia's National Security Service says that two out of four police officers held by gunmen in a police station in Armenia’s capital Yerevan were released on July 23.
Hundreds of Armenian protesters sympathetic to an armed opposition group holding hostages at a district police headquarters in Yerevan clashed with police on July 20 after their demand to provide food to the gunmen went unheeded by authorities.
Armenian police have deployed more personnel in front of a district police headquarters in the capital, Yerevan, where armed supporters of a jailed opposition leader have been holding several people hostage since July 17.
Gunmen affiliated with an Armenian opposition group have freed three of seven hostages at an occupied Yerevan police station as a standoff with security forces enters a second day.
Armenian lawmakers have approved the cabinet's decision to join Russia's air-defense system amid protests by the opposition.
Pope Francis has arrived in Armenia for a three-day visit meant to further strengthen the Vatican’s relations with the country and the state-backed Armenian Apostolic Church.
Uzbek authorities have released from prison the lawyer of an ethnic Armenian man convicted of Islamic extremism.
Armenia's Special Investigative Service has launched a probe into the activities of the former chief of the State Bailiffs Service in connection with alleged links to offshore companies.
The head of Armenia's State Bailiffs Service has resigned after local news reports documented his alleged links to offshore companies.
Hundreds of Armenians have demonstrated in Yerevan against Russian weapon sales to Azerbaijan, claiming the sales led to the outbreak of fighting on April 2 in and around Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Separatist forces in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh launched a counteroffensive and said they regained strategic high ground, as heavy fighting continued to rage between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces.
Intense fighting has been reported in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan, with both sides reporting heavy casualties. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which has been mediating the conflict, expressed "grave concern" about developments.
An Armenian soccer player who signed on with a leading Turkish team boasts of a "warm welcome" in Istanbul, allaying fears that ethnic tensions might spoil the fun.
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