An Armenian church in Kessab will have new bells in three months thanks to the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate, reports.
According to the source, the ancient bells of St. Michael Church were taken to Lebanon for reconstruction on February 8.
Terrorists attacked Kessab in March 2014, destroying and robbing the town. The bells of the church were also damaged in the attack.
Liverpool’s owners have scrapped their controversial ÂŁ77 ticket and apologised for the “distress caused” by last week’s pricing announcement, the BBC reports.
Thousands of fans left 77 minutes into Saturday’s draw with Sunderland at Anfield in protest at the planned top-price ÂŁ77 ticket in the new main stand.
In reversing their decision, club owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) told disgruntled fans “Message received.”
Liverpool’s dearest matchday ticket will now stay at ÂŁ59.
The highest season-ticket price is also frozen.
Liverpool’s principal owner John W Henry, chairman Tom Werner and FSG president Mike Gordon issued an open letter detailing the changes, following what they described as a “tumultuous week”.
“The three of us have been particularly troubled by the perception that we don’t care about our supporters, that we are greedy, and that we are attempting to extract personal profits at the club’s expense,” it said.
“Quite the opposite is true.”
The club has also ended game categorisation – meaning fans will pay the same price for matchday tickets regardless of the opposition.
Pope Francis will hold a historic first meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russian Orthodox Church, in Cuba next week, the BBC reports.
The Russian Orthodox Church said the “persecution of Christians” would be the central theme of the meeting.
Pope Francis will stop over in Cuba on his way to Mexico.
It is the first meeting of its kind since a schism between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity emerged in the 11th Century.
The meeting is due to take place at Havana airport, where the two leaders will sign a joint declaration.
Patriarch Kirill is due in Cuba for an official visit at the same time as Pope Francis’ stopover in Havana.
In a joint statement, the two churches said the meeting would “mark an important stage in relations between the two churches”.
They invited ” all Christians to pray fervently for God to bless this meeting, that it may bear good fruits.”
Since becoming Pope in 2013, Pope Francis has called for better relations between the different branches of Christianity.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin held a meeting with the EU Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Herbert Salber.
The parties discussed the situation in the South Caucasus in the context of the complex international situation, fight against terrorism and threats to security and stability in the region.
Special attention was paid to the situation at the borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The interlocutors exchanged views on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister recently voiced his country’s willingness to assume a mediating role in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. “Iran wants to play a decisive role in the region, but it’s hard to say to what extent its actions will be pro-Armenian,” Amb. Navasardyan said.
“Tehran has its own interests. When it comes to Karabakh, Tehran opposes the deployment of a foreign contingent in its neighborhood,” he said, noting that official Yerevan should carefully analyze the situation before making statements.
Arman Navasardyan believes that aside from its own issues, Armenia should participate in Syria talks. “We are the only nation with statehood to have a community there,” he said. The Ambassador added, however, that “Armenia should be on alert and maintain balance, when it comes to tension between superpowers.”
As for Azerbaijan, Navasardyan said “its condition is worse than it could seem at first sight.” “The country has considerably cut its military budget, has problems with Talishs, etc.” “To put it short, Azerbaijan is in fever,” he said.
Ambassador Navasardyan commended the Armenian foreign policy for the simple reason that it manages to actively cooperate with NATO despite being a member of CSTO.
Sophisticated geometry – the branch of mathematics that deals with shapes – was being used at least 1,400 years earlier than previously thought, a study suggests.
Research shows that the Ancient Babylonians were using geometrical calculations to track Jupiter across thght se niky.
Previously, the origins of this technique had been traced to the 14th Century.
The new study is published the Science.
Its author, Prof Mathieu Ossendrijver, from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, said: “I wasn’t expecting this. It is completely fundamental to physics, and all branches of science use this method.”
It had been thought that complex geometry was first used by scholars in Oxford and Paris in Medieval times.
They used curves to trace the position and velocity of moving objects.
But now scientists believe the Babylonians developed this technique around 350 BC.
Prof Ossendrijver examined five Babylonian tablets that were excavated in the 19th Century, and which are now held in the British Museum’s archives.
The script reveals that they were using four-sided shapes, called trapezoids, to calculate when Jupiter would appear in the night sky, and also the speed and distance that it travelled.
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France will seek to keep its state of emergency until a “total and global war” against so-called Islamic State (IS) is over, Prime Minister Manuel Valls has told the .
The measures were introduced after the IS-led Paris attacks on 13 November and then extended for three months.
Such a move gives police more power to conduct raids and impose house arrests.
Mr Valls also warned that Europe’s migration crisis was now putting the European Union itself at grave risk.
Mr Valls said France was “at war”, which meant “using all means in our democracy under the rule of law to protect French people”.
When asked how long he envisaged the state of emergency remaining, Mr Valls said: “The time necessary. We cannot always live all the time in a state of emergency.”
“As long as the threat is there, we must use all the means,” he said, adding that it should stay in place “until we can get rid of Daesh”, using an acronym for IS.
“In Africa, in the Middle East, in Asia we must eradicate, eliminate Daesh,” he said. “It is a total and global war that we are facing with terrorism,” he added. “The war we are conducting must also be total, global and ruthless.”
People are really, really curious about Kim Kardashian and Lionel Messi. The  American Armenian reality TV star and the Argentine soccer player each earned the distinction of being the most-searched person in 26 different countries in 2015, tying for first place in Google ranking, reports.
Kardashian was the most-searched person everywhere from France to New Zealand to the U.S., while Messi topped the list in Cuba, Chad, the Congo and more.
Kardashian and Messi were followed close behind by another star soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, who took the top spot in 21 nations, while pop stars Nicki Minaj and Rihanna finished with 13 and 11 countries, respectively, allowing them to claim the next two highest spots on the list.
Check the interactive map below to see the results:
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At least 30 Iraqi soldeirs were killed and 20 others injured in US air strike, Hakim al-Zamili, the head of Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee said, Sputnik News reports.
“Thirty soldiers from the Iraqi Army’s 55 brigade were killed and 20 were injured in a US airstrike on the town of al-Naimiya in the al-Fallujah province,” al-Zamili’s statement obtained by Sputnik reads.
The politician stated that he demanded “the [Iraqi] prime minister to conduct an investigation into the airstrike against the 55 brigade, which had previously had huge success in the fight against IS terrorists.”
The National Assembly of France voted today to send the bill on criminalization of the Armenian Genocide denial proposed by MP Valérie Boyer back to the Justice Commission, Hilda Tchoboian, Member of the French Rhône-Alpe Regional Parliament told .
The decision was made on grounds that more time was needed to make the text more precise.
Explaining the reasons behind the decision, Hilda Tchoboian said: “Valérie Boyer is an opposition MP in the National Assembly. The Socialist majority of the Parliament objected that the proposal was brought on the floor at an inappropriate time, and had to be completed in order not to be rejected by the Constitutional Council.”
She added that regional elections are expected in France next Sunday, and the Left and the Right are trying hard to prevent each other from realizing the expectations of the Armenian community to secure their votes.
The bill was discussed by the parliamentary Justice Commission on Nov. 25.
Turkey had suspended military, economic and political ties with France when the lower house of the French Parliament passed a similar bill in December 2011.
The French Senate then also passed the bill in January 2012, ignoring warnings from Turkey that passage of the legislation would lead to additional sanctions.
A month later, France’s Constitutional Council overturned the bill.