Bloomberg Three months after sweeping to power in Armenia’s peaceful “velvet revolution,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is waging an unprecedented campaign against corruption that’s unnerved Russia and got political opponents crying foul. Arrests have reached people previously considered untouchable in Armenia including ex-President Robert Kocharyan, who’s accused of subverting constitutional order during deadly clashes a decade ago, and relatives of ...

Bloomberg Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian paramedic who was tending to casualties at an anti-Israel protest in the Gaza Strip, a Gaza Health Ministry official said. Abdullah al-Qutati was the second medic killed in the field by Israeli forces since a campaign of protests began in Gaza on March 30. In all, nearly 160 Palestinians have been shot dead ...

Bloomberg China may be holding as many as one million members of its Muslim Uighur minority in “re-education” camps in its western region of Xinjiang, according to United Nations human rights experts. Speaking in Geneva on August 10 during the opening session of a two-day review into China’s policies, Gay McDougall, a member of the United Nations Committee on the ...