The magnitude 4,2 earthquake that hit 12km south-east from the Turkish city of Igdir at 03:29 August 12 was also felt in Armenia, the Armenian seismic protection agency said.
In November 1944, Raphael Lemkin – Polish lawyer of Jewish origin – published a book in which the word “genocide” appeared for the very first time. A neologism composed of the Greek prefix genos (race or tribe) and the Latin suffix cidium (to kill). Finally, the “crime without a name”, as Winston Churchill had referred to the Nazi extermination policy, had been named.
160 new COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in Armenia in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 40593.
On the centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Sevres (10 August 2020), the Armenian Cause Foundation published No. 3 of its Reprints series. It is a scietific article “On the Validity of the Treaty of Sevres and the Arbitral Award of Woodrow Wilson”, by Aida Avanessian, PhD in Law.
23 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded over the last 24 hours in Armenia, bringing the total cumulative number of confirmed cases to 40433.
Armenian pop star Arman Hovhannisyan will be honored with a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars on September 21st, 2020.
166 new COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in Armenia over the past 24 hours, the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported. 1394 tests were conducted.
The following open letter was signed by 103 foreign-policy experts, whose names and affiliations appear below.
The massive explosion in the port of Beirut on Tuesday was so powerful that it even damaged the Armenian Catholicosate several kilometers away in Antelias near the Lebanese capital, Cilicia TV reports.
Three Lebanese-Armenians have been killed in the devastating Beirut explosion Tuesday, according to local media reports.
