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According to the Interior Ministry's police, traffic on a number of Yerevan streets will be restricted from time to time due to visits by delegations and high-ranking guests of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17).
Ani Avetisyan, 39, who was wounded when Azerbaijani serviceman Nasimi Musayev opened fire, said that on October 1 she saw a man in her home holding a weapon on her children.
A consultation chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan discussed a concept for the effective management of confiscated assets.
According to the Anti-Corruption Committee, a person who served as head of a department at the community institution Yerevan Waste Collection and Sanitary Cleaning approved payment orders under which a company was paid AMD 22 million, but goods worth about AMD 14.5 million were never delivered.
By decision of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Gevorg Torosyan has been appointed chairman of the Civil Aviation Committee.
Strong Armenia faction leader Narek Karapetyan, secretary Tigran Abrahamyan and MP Vaghinak Vardanov met with Iranian Ambassador Khalil Shirgholami on October 12. They discussed expanding cooperation, the TRIPP and Crossroads of Peace projects, and the normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Radio France International that EU membership is one of Armenia's options, since the EU has yet to decide on enlargement.
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli thanked Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan in a video message for giving him a jersey.
According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the missiles were launched at around 09:20 local time from the Pyongyang area and flew about 900 km. Reports on the number of missiles differ: Seoul cited several missiles, while the Japan Coast Guard said two.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on October 12 that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with ABC that the country could hold a presidential election if Russia agrees to a full 60-day ceasefire.
EU foreign ministers approved the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia in Luxembourg on October 12, EU High Representative Kaja Kallas announced.
The Weightlifting Federation of Armenia has announced the men's and women's teams for the 2026 World Championships.
Pope Leo XIV, 71, announced in St. Peter's Square on October 11 that doctors had found an early-stage localized nodule in his lung.
According to the National Security Service, Armenian citizens N.H. and V.T., acting in a group with an unidentified Iranian citizen, on September 29 retrieved from a hiding place near the village of Nrnadzor a batch of drugs smuggled from Iran and headed towards Yerevan.
A United Airlines Boeing 767 flying from Washington to Amsterdam issued a "Squawk 7700" emergency signal over the Atlantic Ocean and turned toward Canada, according to Flightradar24.
Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan signed a decree on October 7 dismissing Artsvik Grigoryan from the post of deputy commander of the Special Army Corps.
Yerem Sargsyan, lawyer for Prosperous Armenia leader Gagik Tsarukyan, posted a video excerpt on his Facebook page.
The naval forces of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported that a tanker carrying 750,000 barrels of oil hit a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz, and a fire broke out on board.
On October 12, the National Assembly held an extraordinary sitting of the second session of its ninth convocation.
At the European Under-17 Boxing Championships that concluded in Budva, Montenegro, Armenia's team won one gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
Armenia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ararat Mirzoyan will be on a working visit to Poland on October 12-13 to attend the Warsaw Security Forum.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote on social media that history should be understood not as what happened in the past but as what is yet to happen.
