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January 27, 2020 - 15:31 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - A passenger plane has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, the BBC cited officials as saying on Monday, January 27. The aircraft came down in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, to the south-west of Kabul, a provincial spokesman told local media. The plane crashed and caught fire d...

January 27, 2020 - 14:05 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Sunday announced that it is immediately committing $5 million in emergency funds and corresponding technical support to help front-line responders in China accelerate their efforts to contain the spread of 2019-nCoV. The foundation is also immedia...

January 27, 2020 - 13:19 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Nine people, including the Armenian-American pilot Ara Zobayan, were on board the Sikorsky S76 helicopter that crashed and claimed the lives of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and all other passengers on Sunday, January 26. The helicopter crashed in foggy weather ...

January 27, 2020 - 12:23 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Footage has emerged on social media of a Caspian airline plane that appears to have made an emergency landing on an Iranian city street, a video published by The Guardian reveals. It is believed 135 people were on board when the plane landed in the city of Mahshahr. Footage shows p...

January 25, 2020 - 16:19 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Autism spectrum disorder is a complex neurodevelopmental condition that is likely caused by both genetic and environmental factors. As the name suggests, it also represents a range of symptoms and behaviors, all of which makes teasing apart the genes involved quite challenging. In a...

January 25, 2020 - 11:18 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The first cases of novel coronavirus have been confirmed in France and Australia, while the death toll in China has risen to 41. France confirmed on Friday, January 25 its first three cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, with two patients being hospitalized in Paris and the other in the ...

January 25, 2020 - 10:54 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - An asteroid flying towards Earth at nearly 64,700mph will make a "close approach" next week. NASA expects the speedy asteroid to close in on Earth in the morning hours of Monday, January 27. The asteroid belongs to a large group of bodies that are tracked by NASA and are known as ne...

January 25, 2020 - 10:41 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 has killed at least 20 people in eastern Turkey, The Guardian reports. Hundreds of people have been left injured and several are trapped in the wreckage of toppled buildings. Rescue teams from neighbouring provinces were dispatched to the affect...

January 24, 2020 - 19:05 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - India has unveiled a "female" humanoid robot that it plans to launch into space in 2020, Business Insider reports. The country's space agency – the Indian Space Research Organisation – showcased a prototype of 'Vyommitra,' a humanoid robot it describes as "a woman." Vyommitra will ...

January 24, 2020 - 18:40 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Living near major roads or highways is linked to higher incidence of dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS), suggests new research published this week in the journal Environmental Health, according to Science Daily. Researchers from the Univer...