Daily news digest

1. CEC annulled withdrawal applications of “Tsarukyan” bloc’s 12 candidates
2. 19 criminal proceedings launched over electoral fraud in Parliamentary elections
3. Back part of “Closed market” became place full of rats. Pashinyan recalls Samvel Aleksanyan’s words.
4. National Statistical Service: 1995-2016 Armenia-Azerbaijan trade turnover amounted to 68.3 million dollars
5. About 100 employees of public services of 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri on strike demanding wage arrears for 3 months
6. At least 8 killed, about 25 injured in Kabul bomb attack
7. World Press Freedom Day: UN High Representative Federica Mogherini alarms about “increase of threats and violations against journalists”
8. Julian Assange, Dean Cain, John Evans and others demand recognition of Armenian Genocide with new documentary ‘Architects of Denial’
9. Woman gives birth to quintuplets in Yerevan