Day: April 19, 2024

The China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) officially became a participant in the Polyethylene project worth about $7.7 billion

The State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations, under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, is launching a new project with the UN on the application of the ASAN Service model in other countries, the State Agency told, Report.

Snow that melted at one of Astana’s landfills flooded one of the major avenues on the left bank of Kazakhstan’s capital

Another country Russia invaded is worried a new naval base is going to drag it into the Ukraine war  Yahoo Singapore News

The State Agency for Service to Citizens and Social Innovations under the President of Azerbaijan (“ASAN service”) is starting a new project with the UN, Azernews reports, citing the agency.

Between December 28, 2023 and April 4, 2024, St. John the Baptist church (S. Hovhannes Mkrtich), a 177 year old landmark in Shushi was destroyed, Azerbaijan’s most egregious violation yet of a December 2021 ICJ order, the Caucasus Heritage Watch reports.

Built by Armenians in 1847, the church, also known as Kanach Zham (Green Chapel), was damaged amidst the 2020 war. In the aftermath of the war, the Baku diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church laid claim to the building and pledged restoration. Nevertheless, the church is now gone.

At the entrance to the belfy, building inscriptions in Armenian read: “St. Hovhannes Mkrtich Church was built by Shusha townsman baron Hovhannes and Baba Stepanyan Hovnanents in memory of their deceased brother Mkrtich in the year of 1847.”

An Israeli missile has struck Iran, two US officials have told CBS News.

Iranian state media are citing unconfirmed reports of explosions in central province of Isfahan.

Flights have been suspended over several cities, state media say.

Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB has downplayed reports of an attack, saying Isfahan is “safe and sound.”

There’s been direct denial of a missile attack on Iran from the spokesperson for the country’s National Centre of Cyberspace.

Hossein Dalirian wrote on X: “There has been no air attack from outside borders to Isfahan or other parts of the country.”

He said Israel had “only made a failed and humiliating attempt to fly quadcopters [drones] and the quadcopters have also been shot down.”

Iran says that all facilities, including nuclear facilities, are safe.

Iran has been on high alert after Israel said it would respond to Iranian missiles and drones fired at Israel on Saturday night.

More than 300 drones and missiles were fired at Israel by Iran during its unprecedented attack.

Tehran has maintained it was retaliation for a presumed Israeli air strike on its consulate in Syria on 1 April, in which 13 people were killed.

Senator Menendez regrets lack of determination from USA against Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh  ARMENPRESS

Armenia News  NEWS.am