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The results of nationwide antibody tests conducted on nearly 65,000 Italians indicate that some 1.5 million individuals or 2.5% of the population have had the coronavirus, health officials said on Monday, according to AP. That figure is six times the number of confirmed cases in Italy’s official virus tally. The results - view...

August 4, 2020 - 17:48 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Former Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas has retired from football at the age of 39, the BBC reports. Casillas made 725 appearances for Real during a 16-year career at the Bernabeu, winning three Champions League titles and five La Liga crowns. He also helped Spain win t...

Leonardo DiCaprio is expanding his relationship with Apple, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actor-producer's Appian Way banner has inked a first-look film and TV deal with the tech giant. Under the pact, the production company he runs alongside Jennifer Davisson will develop new TV series and films for Apple. Appian ...

Spain's former King Juan Carlos, under investigation for corruption, has said he is quitting the country in a letter to his son, King Felipe VI, according to Euronews. Newspaper reports claimed Carlos, 82, received millions of euros from Saudi Arabia's late King Abdullah, some of which he then allegedly transferred to a bank ...

August 4, 2020 - 13:12 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, August 4 the coronavirus pandemic has led to the largest disruption of education in history, with schools closed in more than 160 countries in mid-July, affecting over 1 billion students, The Associated Press reports. In addition, th...

Germany is already contending with a second wave of the coronavirus and risks squandering its early success by flouting social distancing rules, the head of the German doctors’ union said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases has ticked up steadily ...

August 4, 2020 - 12:16 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday, August 4 the country may have a coronavirus vaccine available to the public ahead of the administration’s goal of the end of the year or early 2021, CNBC reports. “We’re balancing speed and safety and we’re on pace to have a vaccine available t...

August 4, 2020 - 11:58 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Scientists say they have, for the first time, found that dinosaurs suffered from osteosarcoma -- an aggressive malignant cancer that afflicts humans today, CNN reports. Earlier evidence showed that like humans, dinosaurs got sick. T. rex may have suffered from gout, duck-billed dinosa...

Netflix has acquired Armenian Genocide movie "The Promise" for streaming starting August 8, producer Eric Esrailian said on Twitter. “We are thrilled to announce The Promise was acquired by Netflix for streaming starting 8/8. Thank you ALL for your support & we know it will now raise even more awareness. Thanks to the unparall...

Brazil, India and a number of other countries are discussing with Russia production of the Russian vaccine against the new coronavirus infection on their territory, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel, according to TASS. "Our foreign partners exp...