The 6th annual Pomegranate Film Festival presented by Hamazkayin will be held on the first weekend of December 1-4, showcasing a wide selection of films, including thought-provoking documentaries, shorts and feature-length films. POM VI is also proud to announce its 2011 jury: Silva Basmajian, Norayr Kaspar, and Arsinee Khanjian. Basmajian is currently the Executive...

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YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenia’s foreign minister has rejected Turkish calls for concessions in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in exchange for the historic rapprochement between Yerevan and Ankara. peaking to Reuters late on Friday, Edward Nalbandian said negotiations between Turkey and Armenia were over and both sides were obliged to move quickly to...

MONTREAL — A Canadian judge has imposed the toughest sentence possible on a man convicted of committing atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, described as the worst possible crime a human being can commit. In a historic case, Desire Munyaneza was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 25 years. Quebec Superior Court...

A Lecture by Michael Bobelian Journalist and lawyer Friday, November 13, 2009 – 8:00 p.m. Alex Manoogian Cultural Center 930 Progress Avenue, Scarborough, Ont. A reception and book signing will follow the program. From 1915 to 1923, around 2 million Armenians were driven from their ancestral homeland and some 1.5 million of them were killed. While there was an...