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23 April 2015 • 06:19 AMT
St. Giragos should be known all around the world: church official

“This church should be known all around the world,” said the head of the St. Giragos Church Foundation, Ergün Ayik.

23 April 2015 • 05:44 AMT
U.S. Congressman reads Armenian Genocide victims names

“In a single hour, I was only able to read the names of a mere fraction of those who were killed in the Armenian Genocide,” said Schiff.

22 April 2015 • 15:24 AMT
French President says he will broach frozen Mistral deal with Putin

Paris suspended the Mistral sale after Europe decided to impose sanctions against Russia over the conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

22 April 2015 • 14:58 AMT
Serj Tankian on Turkish fans, politics, souls to be woken up

“The issue of genocide remains urgent in this day and age as well, with people getting killed in Iraq, Africa, Middle East,” SOAD members said.

22 April 2015 • 13:57 AMT
Boeing profit tops expectations, revenue below forecasts

Boeing’s commercial-planes business is soaring as airlines use some of their record profits to buy new, more fuel-efficient jets.

22 April 2015 • 13:55 AMT
Vatican not to attend Gallipoli events in Turkey

Bilateral relations between Turkey and the Vatican were strained when Pope Francis defined the 1915 mass killings of Armenians as genocide.

22 April 2015 • 13:43 AMT
Drone with radioactive material found on Japan PM’s office roof

The drone was equipped with a small camera and a plastic bottle containing small traces of a radioactive material, police said.

22 April 2015 • 13:31 AMT
Azerbaijan fires 5500 shots at contact line throughout April 21

Over 220 instances of ceasefire violation by Azerbaijani troops were reported at the line of contact.

22 April 2015 • 13:31 AMT
Pope Francis to visit Cuba before arriving in U.S.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico Lombardi, confirmed the Cuba leg. He didn’t provide details or dates.

22 April 2015 • 12:04 AMT
President: state building our response to attempted elimination of Armenians

Serzh Sargsyan delivered opening remarks at the global forum Against the Crime of Genocide that launched in Yerevan on April 22.

22 April 2015 • 11:35 AMT
EU regulators charge Gazprom with abusing market position

EU states bought 125 billion cubic meters from Gazprom last year, with half that amount going through pipelines across Ukraine.

22 April 2015 • 11:21 AMT
Reaction to Obama’s refusal to use term Genocide in Apr 24 address

“If not this President, who spoke so eloquently and passionately about recognition in the past, whom?” Adam Schiff said.

22 April 2015 • 10:59 AMT
Oil prices dip under $62 after build in U.S. crude inventories

“You have a considerable build in the U.S.,” said Olivier Jakob, chief analyst at Swiss-based consultancy Petromatrix.

22 April 2015 • 10:40 AMT
Iran nuke talks enter final phase ahead of deadline

The foreign ministers of Iran, the U.S. and five other countries at the table are expected to join in the talks at a later stage.

22 April 2015 • 10:24 AMT
Austria officially recognizes Armenian Genocide

All six groups of the Austrian parliament adopted a joint statement recognizing and condemning the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

22 April 2015 • 09:38 AMT
Taliban announce spring offensive in Afghanistan

In a statement emailed to media, the group said the offensive — dubbed “Azm” or perseverance in Dari and Arabic — will begin on April 24.

22 April 2015 • 09:10 AMT
YouTube app retired on older hardware

Apple mobile devices including iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, first-to-fourth generation iPod Touch, and the original iPad cannot be updated to the new app.

22 April 2015 • 08:27 AMT
France arrests Islamic extremist planning to attack churches

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the man is also accused of killing a young woman shortly before he was arrested.

22 April 2015 • 07:10 AMT
The Met to feature “China: Through the Looking Glass” exhibit

This exhibition will explore the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion, and how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries.

22 April 2015 • 07:03 AMT
Obama announces delegation for Genocide commemoration events

According to the U.S. embassy in Yerevan, Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Department of Treasury, will lead the delegation.

22 April 2015 • 06:57 AMT
World’s 1st auction of Iraqi Modernism sets world record prices at Bonhams

The sale was followed by a sale of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art and the two sales made a combined total of £2,473.050.

22 April 2015 • 06:50 AMT
Canadian minister: we all believe in memory

“This is why in 2002 the Senate of Canada recognized the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide,” Jason Kenney said.

22 April 2015 • 06:34 AMT
NASA, partners building most powerful space telescope ever

The space telescope will weigh 6.4 tons. JWST’s main mirror will be 6.5 meters in diameter, three times as large as Hubble’s.

22 April 2015 • 06:31 AMT
Twitter cracks down on cyberbullying

The site, which has previously faced criticism for its approach to trolling, has widened the type of abuse prohibited in its violent threats policy.

22 April 2015 • 06:24 AMT
Sony “working on new PS Vita”

Sony recently introduced a new PlayStation Vita firmware update to improve the PS4 Remote Play experience.

22 April 2015 • 05:41 AMT
Google doodle celebrates Earth Day 2015

Google has done its bit to celebrate Earth Day 2015, the largest civic event in the world, with one of its trademark doodles.

22 April 2015 • 05:38 AMT
British Museum to feature Australia’s Aboriginal masters

The exhibition will present 180 objects, all but 20 of which are from the British Museum’s collection.

22 April 2015 • 05:27 AMT
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Doha auction fetches $7.5 million

The top lot of sale was one of Christopher Wool’s earliest, most desirable and sought-after pattern paintings.

22 April 2015 • 05:20 AMT
S. Korea, U.S. agree to revise nuclear energy agreement

Reprocessing is a thorny issue diplomatically because of concerns about nuclear proliferation, especially on the Korean Peninsula.

22 April 2015 • 05:12 AMT
UN says wealthy countries should take in more Syrian refugees

Crépeau defended “economic migrants”, many who try to come to Europe and developed countries from sub-Saharan Africa.