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YEREVAN (Mediamax) —The Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity is looking for 100 donors to donate $70,000 each for a total of $7,000,000 to help children in need. “The Aurora Prize[...]

ISTANBUL (Agos, Armepress) — While clashes and curfews continue in Diyarbakir, the Turkish cabinet took an urgent decision to expropriate Surp Giragos Church, the largest Armenian church in Middle East.[...]

ISTANBUL (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The Great House of Cilicia which had in April 2015 filed a lawsuit in Turkey’s Constitutional Court over regaining ownership of its historic headquarters in Sis, has submitted another application[...]

HOMS, Syria (PanARMENIAN.Net) — St. Mersrob Church and Sahakyan National College in Syria’s Homs will be renovated this summer, Primate of the Diocese of Damascus, Bishop Armash Nalbandian said at[...]

MOSCOW (Armenpress) — Armenian President Serge Sargisian defeated the International Chess Federation (FIDE) President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in an impromptu blitz chess game on March 15, Narek Nikoghosyan, assistant to the[...]

MOSCOW — President Serge Sargisian on March 11 visited Moscow for official talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The leaders of the two strategic partner-states discussed a wide range of issues[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Turkish-Armenian Garo Paylan, a member of the Turkish Parliament as a representative of the People’s Democratic Party, defended the right to freedom of worship for religious minorities[...]

RIGA, Latvia (Armenpress) — GrecoRoman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan won the silver medal att the European Wrestling Championship. In the final round, he competed against and lost to Nikita Melnikov from[...]

NEW YORK and YEREVAN — On Tuesday, March 15, the Aurora Prize Selection Committee announced the names of the four Aurora Prize finalists: Marguerite Barankitse, from Maison Shalom and REMA[...]

BAKU (Armenpress) — Amnesty International this week launched a campaign demanding the release of Azerbaijani spouses Arif and Leyla Yunus for treatment. Azerbaijani authorities interfere with the departure abroad for[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Procedural instruments of Hrant Dink’s case reveal striking details on the participation of the state, particularly the police and intelligence services, in the murder of the Istanbul-Armenian[...]