  Armenian child wounded in Beirut bomb blast  October 19, 2012 - 20:25 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - A 9-year-oldArmenian child has been wounded in Beirut bomb blast on October 19, editor-in-chief of Aztag Beirut-based daily said. As Shahan Kandaharian told PanARMENIAN.Net the bomber himself was reported to have been killed in the blast. Armenian Foreign Ministry is currently clarifying if there were Armenians among Beirut blast victims, the ministry’s spokesman Tigran Balayan earlier told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. According to BBC News, a huge car bomb has killed at least eight people and injured 78 in central Beirut, Lebanese officials say. The explosion occurred in a busy street in the predominantly Christian district of Ashrafiya. Witnesses say it was heard several kilometers away. It is the deadliest attack in Beirut since 2008. No group has said it carried out the bombing. The intended target is unclear. Tensions in Lebanon have been rising over the conflict in Syria. Partner news  Top stories “There was a great deal of new and interesting research presented during the conference,” said ANC of Illinois activist Greg Bedian. The Turkish government aggressively pushed for Turkey's inclusion in Investment Partnership between the U.S. and EU. Possible ways to advance the peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict were in the focus of the discussion. A meeting between Edward Nalbandian and Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov will be held on the sidelines of the event.   Partner news |  Latest news YouTube users upload 100 hours of video to site every minute  Though the site's growth to one billion users was stunningly fast, Google expects further growth thanks to the rise of mobile devices.CoE Secretary General in Russia for talks with Putin, Lavrov The visit's program will start when the Council of Europe chief meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi.Court to announce verdict in Barev Yerevan’s lawsuit on polling results The bloc urges the court to annul the decision and calls on the CEC to discuss Barev Yerevan bloc’s May 10 application.Venezuela makes rare diplomatic overture to U.S. “We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States,” Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said. |
