International

ISTANBUL (Public Radio of Armenia) — The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has pledged to recognize the Armenian Genocide if elected, Turkish Yeni Safak newspaper reports. The party presented its election[...]

NEW YORK — The eyes of much of the world were focused on America’s northeast corridor last week, as Pope Francis made his first pontifical visit to the United States. Among[...]

STRASBOURG (Panorama.am) — In her opening address at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) autumn session, its president, Anne Brasseur, said the human rights situation in Azerbaijan has[...]

YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) — The Armenian office of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, in cooperation with the Public Journalism Club and the Media Center, held a[...]

NEW YORK (Panorama.am) — Armenian President Serge Sargisian, who is in the United States of America to attend the 70th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, participated in the[...]

  LOS ANGELES (Politico) — A leading House Democrat is urging members of the committee charged with awarding Nobel Peace prizes to grant the honor to Pope Francis. California Rep. Adam[...]

PARIS (Armenpress) — Lessons about the Armenian Genocide have been included in the third-grade curriculum in France. The publication Nouvelles d’Arménie reported that the Armenian Genocide has been included in[...]

NEW YORK — On September 11, the UN General Assembly, at the 103rd plenary meeting of its 69th session, adopted by consensus a resolution, initiated by Armenia and titled “International Day[...]

PARIS (Combined Sources) — French President Francois Hollande, on September 14, awarded Mark Moogalian, who was the first to wrestle a weapon from the Paris-Brussels train gunman on August 21, with[...]

ROME (Public Radio of Armenia) – La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra performed a concert in Rome dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The orchestra was led by British conductor Daniel[...]

ANKARA (BBC) — A crowd attacked the headquarters of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP party, amid rising violence between Turkish forces and the militant Kurdish PKK group, on September 8. Pictures from the[...]