Region/Armenia

July 4, 2020 - 12:33 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - French-Armenian Anouch Toranian has been elected Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of community life, citizen participation and public debate. Toranian has thus become the first elected representative of Armenian descent to a post of this level of responsibility in the French capital. At...

July 3, 2020 - 18:46 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The American Community Survey (ACS) has revealed that 0.14% of the U.S. population – more than 462,000 people – identify as having Armenian ancestry. In its annual American Community Survey, the U.S. Census Bureau asks Americans to identify their ancestry. Ancestry refers to a person’s ...

Georgia has no plans yet to open its land borders because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia told reporters today. In early May the Georgian PM announced that Georgia will open for domestic tourism from June 15 and will also be ready to host foreign tourists from July 1. “We cannot make ...

A series of large explosions rocked a fireworks factory in northwest Turkey’s Sakarya province on Friday and 10 people were taken to hospital with injuries, Reuters reports. Local governor Cetin Oktay Kaldirim said around 150-200 people were inside the complex in the Hendek district of Sakarya province. It was not immediately cl...

July 3, 2020 - 13:52 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) on Friday, July 3 announced four new coronavirus infections, bringing the country's total to 129. Health authorities said people who have been exposed to the newly infected patients are being identified and isolated. 101 people have so far recovered from the ...

Turkey's president has vowed to tighten government control over social media following alleged insults directed at his daughter and son-in-law when they announced the birth of their fourth child on Twitter, Al Jazeera reported. Addressing his party's provincial leaders via a conference call on Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan t...

A fire has burned a building above Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, BBC reported. Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi did not give details of what happened at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. But he said the incident took place in a building that was under constructi...

A Turkish court has delayed a decision on whether the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul can be converted into a mosque, BBC News reports. The Council of State - Turkey's highest administrative body - said it would make a ruling within 15 days, after a hearing lasting just 17 minutes. The 1,500 year old Unesco World Heritage site was ...

July 2, 2020 - 14:29 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) on Thursday, July 2 announced six new coronavirus infections, bringing the country's total to 125. Health authorities said people who have been exposed to the newly infected patients are being identified and isolated. 101 people have so far recovered from the...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic would take a decisive action should the U.S. government attempt to deal a "political blow" to the landmark Iranian 2015 nuclear deal, internationally known as JCPOA, Xinhua reported, citing Tasnim news agency. The United States has so far dealt econom...