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Azerbaijan and Armenia again crossed swords before the U.N.'s top court on Monday, with Baku accusing Yerevan of using the high profile hearings to wage a "public media campaign" against its bitter Caucasus rival.

Citigroup employees labeled a group of roughly 80,000 Armenian Americans living near Los Angeles - the largest Armenian community outside Yerevan, the Armenian capital - as "bad guys" and secretly denied them fair access to the bank's credit card products, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a statement on Wednesday.

Türkiye's largest metropolis Istanbul has emerged as one of the most afforable and preferred cities by Russians who left their country following the onset of the Ukraine war in February last year, a Russian daily has reported.

Parliament Speaker Mustafa Şentop has met with the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan on May 4 who has been visiting Türkiye for the 30th Anniversary of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Summit and the 61st PABSEC Plenary Meeting.

Turkey has closed its airspace to Armenian flights heading to a third destination in response to the unveiling of a controversial monument in Yerevan last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

Wizz Air, the fastest growing airline in Europe and the most environmentally sustainable in the world*, this weekend launched its flights from Sofia to the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Flights from Sofia to Yerevan will be operated twice a week - on Wednesdays and Sundays, allowing passengers to enjoy the destination for both leisure and business trips.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the opening of the "Nemesis Monument" in Armenia, stressing that it glorifies the "bloody terrorist attacks in which 31 Turkish diplomats were murdered."

Flights to the new destination will be operated all year round, and tickets are already on sale at wizzair.com or the WIZZ mobile app

The Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) have officially accused the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukraine of orchestrating the bombing of the Crimean bridge over the weekend.

As part of the normalization process between Türkiye and Armenia, the officials of the two countries will meet in September to exchange views on technical issues, the daily Hürriyet reported.