The US Justice Department appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow, Reuters reports.
The first session of the 6th convocation of Armenia’s Parliament kicked off. The session is chaired by Knyaz Hasanov, leader of the country’s Kurdish community and most senior Member of Parliament.
Designed in 1891 by renowned Beaux Arts architect Richard Morris Hunt, the Newport, Rhode Island, mansion known as Belcourt was inspired by Louis XIII’s hunting lodge at Versailles and built for banking heir Oliver Belmont.
The regulation on the EU visa liberalization for Ukrainian citizens has been signed in Strasbourg on May 17, reports TASS. The document was signed by President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta, the current chair of the European Union.
Germany’s decision to grant asylum to Turks accused of participating in last year’s coup has heightened tension between the two NATO allies, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday.
Arthur Hovhannisyan, first deputy minister of justice, has temporarily assumed the duties of justice minister of Armenia, the government’s press service told.
“If the US administration deems it possible, we are ready to provide the Senate and Congress with the transcript of the conversation between Lavrov and Trump,” Putin said at a press conference, following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday.
A US Army spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that she had left Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas. Most of what remained of her 35- year sentence was commuted by then-US President Barack Obama in January.
Last month, reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia revealed in her website that the three largest clients of Pilatus Bank in Malta are from Azerbaijan: Kamaladdin Heydarov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Emergency Situations, followed by the young son and daughter of Pres. Aliyev, whose names are Heydar Aliyev and Leyla Aliyeva.
Alik Sargsyan has been elected to the Parliament in the April 2 election. The first session of the newly elected Parliament of Armenia is due on May 18.
