  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.   Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says.   Partner news |  Latest news Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates  Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan.Armenia not going to war over Karabakh, says Pashinyan Armenia is not preparing to fight a war for Nagorno Karabakh, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview. |
