BOSTON — Benefactors of Armenian Heritage Park gathered at the home of Charles Talanian in Boston on Monday, December 15, to celebrate a major milestone — the signing of the agreement authorizing the Armenian Heritage Foundation to develop Armenian Heritage Park on Parcel 13 of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. The park will commemorate [...]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A group of about 200 Turkish intellectuals on Monday issued an apology on the Internet for the Armenian Genocide earlier in the century in Turkey. The group of prominent academics, journalists, writers and artists avoided using the contentious term “genocide” in the apology, using the less explosive “Great Catastrophe” instead. But [...]

YEREVAN — The World Bank will likely allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in additional loans to Armenia to help its government mitigate negative effects of the global financial crisis on the domestic economy, a senior bank official said on Tuesday. Armenia’s banking sector has so far been barely affected by the credit crunch that [...]

YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow) — On December 7 at 11.41 a.m. sharp, Armenians in Gumri and throughout the country stopped for a moment to observe a minute’s silence and hear the church bells ringing in commemoration of their compatriots who lost their lives in a natural calamity exactly 20 years ago. On December 7, 1988, the northern [...]

By Thomas C . Nash and Taleen Babayan Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN and NEW YORK — The havoc caused by the December 7, 1988 earthquake in Armenia will be remembered this year as an event that brought the diaspora together. The earthquake leveled the city of Spitak, where the epicenter was, and destroyed much of Leninakan [...]