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A German woman and former member of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group was given on Monday a 10-year prison sentence by a Munich court for letting a Yazidi girl enslaved in Iraq die of thirst, Euronews reported. The landmark case was one of the first trials in the world to prosecute a war crime against the Yazidis, a...

Australia’s former Defence Minister, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP has risen in the Parliament’s Federation Chamber calling on Australia to publicly condemn Azerbaijan’s belligerent actions and war crimes on the first anniversary of the 2020 Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) War, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia. T...

A pair of trainers worn by the US basketball star Michael Jordan have sold for a record $1.47m (£1.1m) at auction, BBC News reports. Jordan used the pair of red and white Nike Air Ships during his first season with the Chicago Bulls in 1984. That was the year he and Nike began their collaboration to create his signature brand...

NATO is consistently pulling its forces to Russian borders amid calls for military deterrence of Russia, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Saturday, TASS news agency reported. "Amid the calls for military deterrence of Russia, NATO is consistently pulling its forces to our borders," the Russian defense chief sai...

The Armenian Legal Center for Justice & Human Rights (ALC) has announced the filing of 16 new cases of “enforced disappearances” before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on behalf of 20 Armenian individuals who have disappeared while in Azerbaijani captivity. According to the report by The Armenian Weekly, the ALC, in ...

A roadside bombing targeting a Taliban vehicle in eastern Afghanistan killed at least two civilians Saturday, including a child, Taliban and health officials said. Four others were wounded, according to The Associated Press report. Two bombs detonated as a Taliban vehicle was passing by, killing one child, district police chie...

Pope Francis has thanked Leo Messi for sending him a signed Paris Saint-Germain jersey. The 84-year-old sent a special message for the Argentine. "Lionel Messi, dear brother, thank you for the jersey and the dedication. Thank you for staying grounded. Stay like this. God bless you, you can always count on me," the pontiff sai...

The US says more than 1.7 million migrants were detained along its border with Mexico in the past 12 months - the highest number ever recorded. More than one million of them were expelled to Mexico or their native countries, BBC News reported, citing data from US Customs and Border Protection. Agents apprehended people from m...

The Biden administration said it will release more records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in December, Bloomberg reported. Some of the information regarding Kennedy’s death on Nov. 22, 1963, remained off limits to “protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations,...

Among the works of great, exhaustively studied artists who have been dead for more than 70 years, true discoveries tend to be scarce. That is why a gallery exhibition opening next month in Manhattan provides a seismic surprise for fans and scholars of the Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (1904-48): An entirely new Gorky ...