In recognition of his services, Lieutenant-General Asapov is to be presented with a state decoration posthumously.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday defined new travel restrictions on citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, expanding to eight the list of countries covered by his original travel bans that have been derided by critics and challenged in court, Reuters reports.
Alan Whitehorn tried multiple times to go to both Soviet Armenia and the Republic of Armenia – the piece of Armenia that remained after the 1915 Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire that wiped out Western Armenia’s indigenous Armenian population. He wanted to see his relatives and ancestral homeland, however, every time something would happen and interrupt his plans.
The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk was also present at the meeting.
Mayor of Istanbul Kadir Topbas, who is a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party, announced his resignation, Diken reports. He has been Mayor of Istanbul since 2004. His son-in-law has been arrested within the frames of investigation against Gulenists. Asked why he resigns, the Mayor told reporters: “A person can forgive everything except […]
The officer, identified as 34-year-old John Gasparyan of Canyon Country, was taken to a hospital, where he died of his injuries, said Officer Mike Lopez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Ashotyan also commented on the attempts of certain Azerbaijani speakers to turn the platform of conference on women health and social issues into an anti-Armenian propaganda, adding that the Armenian delegation arrived in Baku to discuss the main topics of the conference, rather than the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
The ‘Veliky Novgorod’ attack submarine of the Varshavyanka class (designated “Improved Kilo” by NATO) fired the missiles on Friday from the Mediterranean Sea, the ministry said in a statement. The barrage targeted command points, training camps and military hardware of a terrorist group based in the Idlib governorate, which had earlier attacked Russian troops stationed in the neighboring Hama governorate, it said.
Deputy minister of energy of Iran Ali Reza Daemi recently told the press that the Armenian PM is planning to visit Iran, emphasizing that the Armenian-Iranian relations are “ example of friendship among followers of divine religions”.
