PARIS — The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative has announced that Bernard Kouchner, the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), is joining the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity Selection Committee.[...]
NEW YORK — The Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) is a pan-Armenian organization whose structures have operated in many diaspora communities since 1947 and in the Republic of Armenia since its[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — On November 4, retired Gen. Eckhard Lisec delivered a lecture in Darmstadt, Germany entitled, “Marshall Liman von Sanders – An Honorable[...]
TEL AVIV (Daily Mail) – French Armenian singing legend Charles Aznavour was honored in Israel on Thursday for his family’s efforts to protect Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — The news on October 26 that a Turkish court decided to release German human rights activist Peter Steudtner from prison, and[...]
NEW YORK (Combined Sources) — Anthony Bourdain is a pro at getting under people’s skin, but now he’s upset an entire government — the one in Azerbaijan. For an upcoming episode of his CNN show, “Parts Unknown,” where[...]
ISTANBUL (DW) — Turkish media reported on Thursday, October 19, that prominent civil society figure and businessman Osman Kavala was detained Wednesday at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport upon returning from the[...]
YEREVAN (itel.am) — The Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) (https://www.idea.am/foundation-for-armenian-science-and-technology) announced recently the creation of an Angels Network. The official announcement took[...]
MOSCOW (Armenpress) — The Russia-based Armenian businessman and philanthropist Levon Hayrapetyan died on October 18 after battling a long disease, writer Zori Balayan announced. “He passed away in the early[...]
By Anne Barnard BEIRUT (New York Times) — Ask anyone here about canine excrement and the conversation moves quickly to concepts of citizenship, nationhood, belonging, Lebanon’s sectarian political system and[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Among the hundreds of commemorative events organized to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation over the past year —[...]
