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The National Center for Crisis Management of Armenia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations recorded a total of 353 cases from 11 to 17 March, of which 206 were emergency cases. The number included 109 household calls, 139 fire calls, 49 road traffic accidents as a result of which 2 people died, 46 others suffered injuries, while ...

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact over 250 times in the past week, the country’s defense ministry reported on Saturday. In the period from March 9-16, the adversary fired around 3,000 shots towards the Armenian defense positions from firearms of different calibers...

The Unites States Department of State has released its annual report on human rights practices of Armenia for 2018, presenting the country’s system of government, as well as the outcomes of the December 9 snap parliamentary elections, that “were held with respect for fundamental freedoms and enjoyed broad public trust that shou...

Azerbaijan is holding large-scale military drills these days. The OSCE Minsk group issued a statement on Saturday followed by the news of the joint Security Council meeting of Armenia and Artsakh in Stepanakert. Panorama.am turned to Tigran Abrahamyan, advisor to Artsakh Republic President to discuss the recent developments aro...

Armenia’s two airports saw a strong increase in passenger numbers in February 2019 against the same month of 2018. Yerevan Zvartnots International Airport and Shirak Airport in the second largest city of Gyumri handled 166,451 passengers last month, up by 11.6% from February 2018, Armenia International Airports told Panorama.a...

While speaking at the 2019 Munich Security Conference, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi of Egypt mentioned Egypt’s role in welcoming refugees of the Armenian Genocide more than a century ago, to illustrate his country’s storied history in helping people displaced by conflict or war, Asbarez reports. “In Egypt, we have 5 million r...

Diamond and jewelry production grew strongly in Armenia in 2018, the latest official statistics show. The country produced a total of 229,396 carats of diamonds last year, up by 12.4% from the previous year, when the output stood at 204,102 carats, Panorama.am learned from the Statistical Committee. The raw materials for diam...

Germany needs at least 260,000 new migrant workers per year until 2060 in order to meet labor shortages caused by demographic decline, according to a study published on Tuesday, Deutsche Welle reports. Of that number, 146,000 people each year would need to immigrate from non-EU member states, the research published by the Bert...

NASA scientists announced Wednesday that the Earth’s average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth highest in nearly 140 years of record-keeping and a continuation of an unmistakable warming trend, The New York Times reports. The data means that the five warmest years in recorded history have been the last five, and that ...

By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier An unknown individual wearing black clothing from head to toe hung dozens of Turkish flags on the gates of two private Armenian schools in the Los Angeles area during the middle of the night last week. The news spread like wildfire in the Armenian community as this was an...