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30 September 2014 • 07:12 AMT
Turkish-Azeri poster competition to portray Armenians as traitors

The winner(s) will be announced on Jan 19, the anniversary of the assassination of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist.

29 September 2014 • 19:58 AMT
46 go on trial in Belgium over links to Syria jihadists

Officials estimate that up to 400 Belgian nationals have gone to fight in Syria. Of these, about 10% are thought to have links to Sharia4Belgium.

29 September 2014 • 18:49 AMT
Syrian Foreign Minister blasts U.S. ‘dual policy’

The campaign expands upon the airstrikes the United States has been conducting against the militants in Iraq since early August.

29 September 2014 • 18:18 AMT
Netanyahu says nuclear-armed Iran would pose greater threat than IS

“But to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war,” Israel’s Prime Minister said.

29 September 2014 • 18:08 AMT
IOM: over 3,000 migrants died crossing Mediterranean this year

William Lacy Swing, the IOM’s chief said it was “time to engage the world to stop this violence against desperate migrants”.

29 September 2014 • 16:13 AMT
PACE chief wants to travel to Armenia after Azerbaijan visit

“The duty of the PACE President is to understand the context of the problems. I constantly need to listen to both sides,” Ms Brasseur said.

29 September 2014 • 15:44 AMT
15 Friends of Scotland

In a September 18 vote, Scotland stepped back from the brink of ending the 307-year-old union with England and Wales and rejected the prospectus for independence to remain part of the United Kingdom. However, dozens of European regions would like to alter the existing borders.

29 September 2014 • 14:06 AMT
Spanish govt. challenges Catalonia referendum call

PM Mariano Rajoy said the referendum called by Catalan regional leader represented “a grave attack on the rights of all Spaniards.”

29 September 2014 • 13:22 AMT
Prosecutors say ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic ‘drove war-crimes’

“The policy of ethnic cleansing has been fully exposed as has Dr Karadzic as its driving force,” said UN prosecutor Alan Tieger.

29 September 2014 • 13:22 AMT
Facebook partners with Stripe to run ‘Buy’ button within News Feed: report

Earlier this month, Facebook rival Twitter started public tests of its own ‘Buy’ button on a limited number of U.S. users.

29 September 2014 • 13:05 AMT
Apple “to refresh Mac Mini micro computer range at iPad launch event”

Apple last updated its Mac Mini in 2012, launching a model powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors.

29 September 2014 • 12:54 AMT
Rights group urges Turkey to protect free speech, rule of law

The group, however, welcomed the government’s efforts to forge peace with Kurdish rebels to end a 30 year-old conflict.

29 September 2014 • 12:47 AMT
France’s far-right National Front party win seats in Senate

Recent opinion polls suggest President Hollande has become the most unpopular French president in modern times.

29 September 2014 • 12:23 AMT
Russia’s Putin to attend EU-ASEM summit in Italy: report

The news came as a fragile three-week-old ceasefire in Ukraine was severely strained by the killing of seven Ukrainian soldiers.

29 September 2014 • 12:12 AMT
Expert: real independence is earned through years

The main achievement of Artsakh is sustainable development under hard geopolitical circumstances,” Dvornikov stressed.

29 September 2014 • 11:56 AMT
European Film Academy to honor “12 Years a Slave” helmer Steve McQueen

Oscar-winning McQueen started out as a video artist making short films, almost exclusively silent and black-and-white.

29 September 2014 • 11:53 AMT
“The Mentalist” hit series Season 7 confirmed to be last

A former “psychic” becomes a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation after the brutal murders of his wife and his daughter.

29 September 2014 • 11:10 AMT
Singapore selects “Sayang Disayang” as foreign Oscar contender

The film, about a migrant domestic helper, a nurse and the old man they look after, is the debut feature of Sanif Olek.

29 September 2014 • 11:04 AMT
Denzel Washington’s “Equalizer” tops box office with $35M

Last week’s champion “The Maze Runner” settles at number two, pushing newcomer “The Boxtrolls” to the third position.

29 September 2014 • 10:44 AMT
U.S.-led coalition warplanes bomb IS positions in 4 Syrian provinces

The campaign expands upon the airstrikes the United States has been conducting against the militants in Iraq since early August.

29 September 2014 • 10:08 AMT
7 Ukrainian soldiers killed as shell hits armored personnel carrier

Despite the ceasefire, fighting has flared frequently around Donetsk international airport, which is held by government forces.

29 September 2014 • 09:57 AMT
Europe flights passengers to be allowed use of electronic devices

“This is the latest regulatory step toward enabling the ability to offer ‘gate-to-gate’ telecommunication or Wifi services,” EASA said.

29 September 2014 • 09:40 AMT
HRW: repression in Azerbaijan reached crisis levels

Instead of cleaning up its record and addressing longstanding concerns, the government stepped up its crackdown, HRW says.

29 September 2014 • 09:25 AMT
Yahoo announces closure of Yahoo Directory, other services

Yahoo’s very first product, Directory served as a phone book for every website on the internet in the days before Google.

29 September 2014 • 09:09 AMT
Rome Film Festival to honor Russian auteur Aleksei Fedorchenko

In separate news, the Rome fest has also announced it will screen the full first season of Steven Soderbergh’s Cinemax skein “The Knick.”

29 September 2014 • 09:08 AMT
Where do Armenians spend their vacations?

Where do Armenians spend their vacation? As an anecdote says, ordinary Armenian citizens go to Georgia, people with average income travel to Turkey while the rich ones prefer Armenian resorts. To find out whether the joke is true, PanARMENIAN.Net contacted several Yerevan-based travel agencies.

29 September 2014 • 08:54 AMT
Julianne Moore drama “Still Alice” gets Oscar-qualifying release in Dec

Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the drama that features Moore as a college professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s.

29 September 2014 • 08:35 AMT
Daniel Radcliffe transformed into terrifying monster in “Horns” stills

Radcliffe’s character Ig Perrish becomes a suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple).

29 September 2014 • 08:22 AMT
Quentin Tarantino’s “Hateful Eight” to be filmed in Colorado

Budgeted at $44 million, the film would be the most significant production in Colorado since 1969’s “True Grit.”

29 September 2014 • 08:13 AMT
David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” opens New York Film Festival

The film follows Affleck’s Nick Dunne who is accused of murdering his wife, after she went missing on their fifth wedding anniversary.