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Doctors say an Armenian presidential candidate who has been on a hunger strike for 17 days needs hospitalization.
Armenian presidential candidate Paruyr Hairikian, who was shot and injured in the shoulder on January 31, says he suspects a secret service of a "former state" of being behind the attack.
A candidate in Armenia's upcoming presidential election has been wounded in a shooting in Yerevan.
The race to become Armenia's next president has officially started.
Armenia's first president, the leader of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) opposition union Levon Ter-Petrossian says he will not run for president in February 2013.
The leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), successful businessman Gagik Tsarukian, has announced his decision not to run as a candidate in the country's upcoming presidential election.
A building under construction in the Armenian capital of Yerevan has collapsed, injuring 11 workers.
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern says criminal charges filed against former Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian are "bad for justice and democracy in Armenia."
Armenian authorities have charged a prominent opposition lawmaker and former foreign minister with embezzlement and money laundering in a case widely seen as politically motivated.
Armenia's parliament has voted to strip a lawmaker of his immunity.
Armenia's national chess team has returned home to a hero's welcome after winning the 40th World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul during the weekend.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says he's "deeply concerned" about Azerbaijan's pardon of a soldier who who was sentenced to life in prison for the ax-murder of an Armenian officer during a NATO training course.
Armenian officials say they will send letters to states co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group to protest the pardoning by Azerbaijan of a convicted killer immediately after he was repatriated from Hungary.
A former opposition presidential candidate in Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region is launching a new opposition group.
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of an Armenian military doctor aimed at continuing public outrage against a government-linked businessman who allegedly employed the men accused of beating him to death.
Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry says Azerbaijani soldiers have not been involved in a shoot-out on Armenian territory, as reported by Armenian officials.
Twenty-five people remain in intensive care in Yerevan hospitals after gas-filled balloons exploded at a campaign rally in the Armenian capital on May 4.
More than 140 people were injured when gas-filled balloons exploded at a campaign rally in the Armenian capital ahead of parliamentary polls on May 6.
Armenian officials say three Armenian servicemen were killed when gunmen shot at a military vehicle along the border with Azerbaijan on April 27.
Officials in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, say 10 people -- including nine Iranian nationals and an Armenian -- were injured in a grenade explosion at a nightclub.
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