Tours of the Houses of Parliament have been cancelled and nobody without a pass will be allowed onto the estate today following the decision to increase the terror threat level to critical last night, the Telegraph reports.
The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society New York Chapter Executive Committee recently announced that it will donate proceeds of its 50th anniversary festival – USD 15, 000 – to the Artsakh military, Armenian Weekly reported.
The President’s budget maintains military parity between Armenia and Azerbaijan, at $600,000 for International Military Education and Training (IMET), but does not recommend Foreign Military Financing (FMF) to either country.
A meeting planned for May 25, 2017, between European Union leaders and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey should signal that discussion of upgraded economic cooperation is dependent on Ankara’s willingness to tackle its human rights and rule of law crisis, Human Rights Watch informed.
In the scope of a regional tour to the South Caucasus, a Foreign Affairs Committee delegation, led by its Chair David McAllister (EPP, DE), will be in Armenia on 24-25 May, the EU Delegation to Armenia informed.
During Cannes 70th Film Festival (May 18-26), for the first time Armenia was represented in the sector Village International/Pantiero under the number 226.
The U.S. intelligence official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, said Abedi, whose family is of Libyan descent, was identified by a bank card found in his pocket at the scene of the explosion after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena, NBC reported.
“Officers from the MPS Counter Terrorism Command arrested a 37-year-old man at Stansted Airport last night (Tuesday, 23 May) prior to him boarding a flight to Turkey. He has been arrested on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.”
Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the new Director-General of WHO, the Organization reported on its website. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was nominated by the Government of Ethiopia, and will begin his five-year term on 1 July 2017.
FM Daw Aung San Suu Kyi shared her views with Very Rev. Fr. Zaven Yazichyan about the Myanmar Armenian community— who are a minority in Myanmar—their efforts to preserve and uphold their heritage and the Armenian legacy in Myanmar.
