Maintaining our website and our free apps does require, however, considerable time and resources. at 14:08 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: Region: Turkey. The only road linking Azerbaijans Nagorno-Karabakh region to Armenia has been blocked by government-backed Azerbaijani protesters since December 12. Nurda On February 27, General Oleksandr Syrskiy, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said the situation in the Bakhmut area had become "extremely tense." (8.2 miles), 2023-01-18 10:08:12 UTC Turkey has mostly objected to the membership of Sweden, which it says has given safe haven to Kurdish groups that Ankara labels as terrorists, while Hungary says that the two Nordic countries' membership needs careful consideration without airing any specific complaints. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (file photo), Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (file photo), High Representative to Bosnia Christian Schmidt said on February 27 that the matter of state property "cannot be solved by unilateral actions." Epicenter at 38.84, 43.409 Many Iranians have accused the authorities of not doing enough to find the cause of the outbreak of illness and prevent new cases. Ozurgeti People get off a bus at the border crossing from Russia at the Vaalimaa border station in Finland. On December 7, 1988, a devastating earthquake, centered in northern Armenia between the cities of Spitak and Stepanavan, rocked the country. Khvoy The names and positions of diplomats were also not given. Pahlavi, currently in the United Kingdom on the third phase of a European trip after attending the Munich Security Conference alongside other political activists, said in a speech at the Oxford Union student society on February 28 that a regime change would end human rights violations, an aggressive foreign policy, and "behavior inconsistent with peace and stability" now occurring in Iran. Burned-out Russian tanks seized by Ukrainian forces last year have gone on display in the capitals of the Baltics states, where Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians are turning out to view them and snap photos in sympathy with the Ukrainians defending their homeland. at 10:52 March 01, 2023 UTC, Location: But in a grim way, he was lucky: A chunk of concrete was pressing on his leg in just the right place . (file photo), Ukraine Territorial Control (Updated Weekdays), Kyiv Says Situation In Bakhmut 'More And More Difficult'. 2023-02-12 02:43:51 (UTC-08:00) 44.1 . Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit 16 km northeast of the village of Bavra near the Armenian-Georgian border, the Ministry of Emergency Situations informs. The leaders pledged in that call to build on a recently established process aimed at normalizing travel, trade, and diplomatic relations between their two countries. Town of Spitak was entirely demolished as a result of the natural cataclysm, Gyumri (former Leninakan) lost 80%, Vanadzor (former Kirovakan) and Stepanavan towns . 18.2 km from Khvoy Epicenter at 41.946, 42.23 Novak, whose post is mainly ceremonial, said on Facebook, "My position is clear-cut: in the present situation, the accession of Sweden and Finland is justified. Yerevan, USSR: While miraculous stories of survival have already started coming in from earthquake-ravaged Turkey, these tales are a reminder of one such near-impossible rescue from the 1988 Armenian temblor, when a mother had kept her son alive, feeding him on her blood for days before the mother-son duo was pulled out of the rubble alive. 13.2 km from The talks were held at the headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in Karabakh. The first incident is believed to have occurred in November, when 18 schoolgirls in the city of Qom were taken to a hospital after complaining of symptoms that included nausea, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, heart palpitations, and numbness and pain in their hands or legs. ADB is helping Armenia reconstruct 46 schools according to international seismic safety standards to ensure they are safer in case of earthquakes. Grossi warned in January that Iran now has enough uranium to produce "several" nuclear bombs if it chooses. The first incident is believed to have occurred in November, when 18 schoolgirls in Qom were taken to a hospital after complaining of symptoms that included nausea, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, heart palpitations, and numbness and pain in their hands or legs. RFE/RL's Radio Farda reported that at least 26 schools were affected by the crisis on March 1. Interim bail was granted in each of the cases. 11.2 km from Susuz at 14:24 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: 20.2 km from Khan's lawyer asked the court to postpone the hearing for five days because Khan was appearing in court in two other cases. After Russia launched its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, most of the group's members fled the country. Meanwhile, other have speculated that religious extremists, in a bid to create fear and prevent girls from attending school, could be behind the incidents. While thousands of buildings were destroyed in Hatay, which was heavily affected by two large earthquakes that occurred on . Epicenter at 38.41, 44.805 Mag. The protests pose the biggest threat to the Islamic government since the 1979 revolution. In his reply, he said that he had not given any wrong information and had revealed all the details. The 2020 defeat it suffered against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh has revealed the perils of its . 11.2 km from Newest First. at 10:08 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: (12.2 miles), 2023-01-29 14:41:14 UTC Epicenter at 40.813, 43.01 Mag. (6.2 miles), 2022-09-27 14:24:40 UTC Washington has rejected the accusation, and Khan has never provided any evidence for his claim. at 05:55 January 19, 2023 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 41.157, 43.936 "I thought I was going to the cradle of the Mongol people, to a democratic country, where my situation would be fully understood," he added. at 22:00 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: earthquake diplomacy", which consists of helping a neighboring country hit by a natural disaster, despite the tensions. The Investigative Committee of Belarus said on March 1 that the probe was launched into "actions that blatantly disrupt social order," after 200 youths were detained near a mall in the southeastern city of Homel the previous day. The Iranian authorities explained to the IAEA that the extremely high enrichment level is the result of "unintended fluctuations.". Two circumstantial events focused unprecedented world attention on . $ 18.75. The strongest earthquake in Armenia today occurred 16 hours ago: Light mag. Some angry parents have refused to send their children to school. Magnitude. Epicenter at 40.718, 42.889 HATAY. The Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people has regularly coordinated Kalmyk activists' congresses in Russia's Republic of Kalmykia near the North Caucasus region since 2015. (6.2 miles), 2022-10-05 00:21:29 UTC Image caption, The 6.8 magnitude quake affected an . Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to Turkey. Today (8.2 miles), 2023-01-28 20:09:58 UTC VAKIFLI, Turkey In Turkey's only remaining ethnic Armenian village, Vakifli, the elderly population thank God that not one of them died during the devastating earthquakes that . He did not say what the deadline for the diplomats to leave was. (file photo), Aleksey Moskalyov has been charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces. EU officials estimate that Ukraine is firing about 7,000 shells per day, compared to up to 50,000 fired daily by Russian forces. At the time, the population was around 200,000, of which there were an estimated 15,000-17,000 fatalities. Serdar Kilic, a former Turkish ambassador to several countries -- including the United States and Japan -- and currently Ankara's special envoy to Armenia, thanked Yerevan and wrote that a 28-person search-and-rescue team and technical equipment had been sent by Armenia immediately after the earthquake. Epicenter at 38.41, 44.805 In the past 24 hours, Armenia had 5 quakes up to magnitude 4.3. Tehran has always stressed that it is only interested in peaceful nuclear technology. Epicenter at 38.473, 44.834 To read the original story by RFE/RL's North.Realities, click here. It is unclear what may be causing the illnesses, though some of those affected have said they smelled chlorine or cleaning agents, while others said they thought they smelled tangerines in the air. The European Union's special representative for the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar (file photo). Armenia says this constitutes genocide. But last week, Orban, who has a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, for the first time complained that the two NATO aspirants were spreading what he called lies about the state of democracy and rule of law in Hungary. The forced hairstyle resembles a rooster's head, while in the post-Soviet criminal world Roosters (Petukhi) are considered to be the lowest caste of inmates, who constantly face sexual abuse and other types of humiliation. "Russia is attempting to encircle [Bakhmut] right now, and they're using their best Wagner troops, apparently, the most well-trained and the most experienced to do that," economic adviser Oleksandr Rodnyanskiy told CNN. 5.9 on Saturday, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:44 pm (GMT +3:30). Pahlavi's father, the former Shah of Iran, was deposed during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. | Quakes in or near Armenia now or today. The mainly ethnic Armenian enclave is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994 with some 30,000 dead. Earlier this week, top Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdulhamid, who is regarded as a spiritual leader for Irans Sunni Muslim population, said schoolgirls were being poisoned as "revenge" for the role young women have played in recent protests against the government. To read the original story by Reuters, click here. Epicenter at 38.424, 44.909 The report also said Iran has almost 435 kilograms of uranium at 20 percent purity. Kalmyks in Russia's southwest and Buryats in Siberia are mostly Buddhist, Mongol-speaking ethnic groups. Metsavan The peace deal has no impact on the signing process, but it is negotiated separately," Bayramov further said concerning the arbitration case filed by Baku against Yerevan on Monday for exploiting energy resources in the Karabakh region, which was under . Epicenter at 38.508, 44.823 (10.2 miles), 2022-09-27 14:43:39 UTC at 04:13 January 31, 2023 UTC, Location: The last earthquake in Armenia occurred 1 hour and 32 minutes ago: Light mag. According to Boromangnaev, Mongol authorities tried to deport him to Kazakhstan, the last country he was in before arriving in Mongolia, but the move was postponed until March 2 after he filed a request addressed to the chief of the Mongolia's Border Guard Service not to deport him. 5.9 on Saturday, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:44 pm (GMT +3:30). The article on Qom News was later deleted from its website. A moderate magnitude 3.4 earthquake was registered at 12.31 pm today in the northwestern Armenian province of Shirak. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been sparring over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades. 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The implementation of the law is a direct challenge to previous decisions by Schmidt to repeal the original decree creating the law and his decision on February 27 to suspend it pending a final decision by Bosnia's Constitutional Court. Iran has been roiled by unrest that was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16. 14.2 km from REUTERS. "Ukraine is conducting a defensive war with the goal of restoring control over all of its occupied territories," Podolyak added. Susuz at 06:02 June 10, 2022 UTC, Location: Finland's parliament has overwhelmingly backed its bid to join NATO, the assembly's speaker said. Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to nearly 84 percent in Iran's underground Fordow uranium enrichment site, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi confirmed on February 28. at 15:13 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: Russia will only agree to extend a deal under which Ukraine is able to export grain from its Black Sea ports if doing so is in Moscows interests, Russias Foreign Ministry said in a March 1 statement. The Armenian National Survey for Seismic Protection was founded in 1991, in addition to the . 4.3 earthquake - Armenia, 76 km southwest of Tbilisi, K'alak'i T'bilisi, Georgia, on Wednesday, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:52 pm (GMT +4). at 12:37 October 10, 2022 UTC, Location: Abdulali Rahimi Mozafari announced the news at a meeting of the Iranian Parliament on February 28, asking the speaker to order an investigation into the matter. Since the Spitak earthquake, Armenia has made efforts to study and monitor the country's seismic activity and improve emergency preparedness. Theme: Society, Incidents. Romania and Moldova share a common history, culture, and language. A day earlier, the Samara regional parliament condemned Abdalkin's post, calling it "impermissible." Terrain work were set to begin on February 28 "with forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March," the Finnish Border Guard said. After the earthquake. (file photo). (19.2 miles), 2023-01-29 15:13:24 UTC Khvoy The eight figures, including Pahlavi, said they were working on a charter for a transition to a new pluralistic system that would be followed by free elections. (10.2 miles), 2022-09-27 14:43:39 UTC In the earthquake zone, the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople has been reaching out and delivering aid to the Armenian communities affected by the disaster. Abdalkin, who is a member of the Communist party, was ordered to come in for police questioning on March 1. They claim to have destroyed Russian forces, equipment, and fortifications in an effort to stymie the enemy advance. 0025 Yerevan, 5 Alex Manoogian str. Iran has been roiled by unrest since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody for allegedly wearing a hijab, or head scarf, improperly. at 18:35 June 12, 2022 UTC, Location: Under Orban, who has been in power since 2010, EU and NATO member Hungary has seen an accelerated slide toward authoritarianism and widespread corruption that prompted Brussels in November to propose freezing billions of euros of funds earmarked for Budapest. Russian officials have previously accused Ukraine of carrying out sabotage attacks with drones on infrastructure such as oil refineries and military installations near the border with Ukraine. The court's decision was later cancelled after linguists concluded that Shalyakin's post was not related to the ongoing war in Ukraine, after which Shalyakin sued the ministry. Finland's accession to NATO passed with 184 of the parliament's 200 deputies voting in favor of the motion. December 7, 1988 the earthquake with intensity of 9,8 points shook the northern regions of Armenia. Happy to have been able to assist, Ruben Rubinian, vice president of the Armenian National Assembly, wrote along with a photo showing an Armenian truck entering Turkey from the bridge. Epicenter at 40.802, 42.961 10.2 km from /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenia marks the 13-th anniversary of Spitak earthquake. According to the theory of plate tectonics, these lithosphere plates are constantly in motion, slowly realigning themselves with the passage of time. A Twitter account called Geoinsider that bears the site's "verified" blue check mark published on February 26 an image allegedly depicting Romanian troops moving toward the Moldovan border. (8.2 miles), 2023-01-29 03:48:10 UTC In the latest incident, two Iranian journalists reported on social media on February 28 that several schoolgirls in Tehran and in Pardis, just east of the Iranian capital, fell ill, with the cause unknown. Devastating effects of the earthquake in Armenia. With each passing day, the number of victims of the earthquake in Turkey is increasing. The executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on February 28 accused the government of "an act of terrorism" through its failure to take the wave of illnesses seriously for months, raising "serious questions regarding government complicity with groups that have the organizational capacity to carry out such major attacks.". A U.S. Defense Department official on February 28 described the front line in Ukraine as a "grinding slog" but said he did not expect Russia to be able to make significant territorial gains in the near term. (9.2 miles), 2022-12-08 06:42:15 UTC Khvoy See how many recent quakes occurred in or near Armenia, report a quake if you felt one! At least one death has been linked to the outbreak of illnesses, the CHRI said, but the girl's father refused to confirm there was a connection between her death and the alleged poisonings. In a post on Twitter, the European Union's special representative for the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar, called the talks encouraging news and said the discussions appear to have focused both on immediate concerns and broader issues., The Karabakh news agency Artsak Press reported that agreements were reached on further cooperation aimed at reducing tensions but did not elaborate further. 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