A 4.1 magnitude earthquake was registered in Georgia, 36 kilometers away from Stepantsminda, the National Seismic Monitoring Center said, reports Sputnik News. The quake was reported at 01:00 Georgia time. The epicenter of the quake was near North Ossetia. There are no reports on the victims and demolition. Edited and translated...
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January 25, 2020 - 15:27 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Some 130 ceasefire violations - more than 700 shots in total - by Azerbaijani army were registered on the contact line with Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) in the period from January 18 to 25, the Karabakh Defense Army said in a statement. The Karabakh soldiers continue controlling the s...
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January 25, 2020 - 12:36 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The students of Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High School had the unique opportunity to deliberate in a Student Town Hall with Congressman Brad Sherman, who represents California’s San Fernando Valley, Asbarez reveals. Rep. Sherman paid a visit to the school three months after the historic...
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The death toll in the earthquake that hit eastern Turkey on January 24 has reached 21, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency. 1030 people have been injured, according to the report. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Elazig province at 8.55 p.m. local time (1755GMT) on January 24. The epicenter was in Sivrice dist...
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January 24, 2020 - 18:02 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Charles, Prince of Wales visited the Armenian Church of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem on Friday, January 24. Chancellor of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem Hovnan Baghdasaryan broke the news on Facebook and shared a video from the Prince’s visit and meeting with Archbishop ...
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January 24, 2020 - 10:51 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Garo Paylan, a Turkish-Armenian lawmaker from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The international women's union of Hamshen Armenians, Hamshenian, has applied to the Nobel Committee with the proposal to award the Peace Prize 2020 to the ...
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January 23, 2020 - 14:00 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - President Armen Sarkissian has raised the issue of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Knesset as he is visiting Israel to participate in the Fifth World Holocaust Forum. Sarkissian said at a meeting with Knesset President Yuli Edelstein and his wife Irina Nevzlin that c...
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January 22, 2020 - 16:07 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Iran has appointed Abbas Badakhshan Zohouri as its new ambassador to Armenia. Zohouri was among the 13 new ambassadors of the Islamic Republic who met President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, January 21. Rouhani wished the new ambassadors success in fulfilling their duties and asked th...
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January 22, 2020 - 14:17 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region has partnered with Census 2020 to ensure a complete count of the Armenian-American community, Asbarez reports. 2020 Census Questionnaires will be sent out in mid-March, and it is vital that the Armenian American community i...
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January 22, 2020 - 12:00 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Travel portal TourStat has unveiled a list of the most popular CIS destinations for tours with a travel expert, and Armenia is among the Russians’ top choices. An expert-led tour is just what the name suggests: a tour, usually in a small group of five to 15 people, accompanied by an...
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