The 2015 nuclear deal, which the U.S. withdrew from in 2018, limited Tehrans uranium enrichment to 3.67 percent -- enough to fuel a nuclear power plant. Every donation will be highly appreciated. Armenia's Emergency Situation's Ministry's Seismic Protection Service recorded magnitude-4.7 earthquake in Armenia, on Saturday, February 13 at 15:29 p.m. local time, 8 km southwest from capital Yerevan, and 10 km beneath the surface. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2023 RFE/RL, Inc. All Rights Reserved. at 16:16 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: Russia has falsely claimed that Ukraine is planning to invade Transdniester, raising suspicions that Moscow is looking for a pretext to annex the separatist region, as it did with Ukraine's Crimea in 2014. A court in Pakistan has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case involving state gifts and concealing his assets from the sale of the gifts. Epicenter at 40.718, 42.889 Members of the Ryodan youth group in St. Petersburg on February 26. 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. The land border between Turkey and Armenia has been closed since 1993 when deadly clashes intensified between Armenia and Turkish ally Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. But Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, has signaled that the debate may take some time. On the day of the quake, two men arrive in their home town only to be caught up in the terrible events and must work together to rescue as many people as they can before the aftershocks hit. 18.2 km from Khan, whose seat in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, remains vacant, was ousted in April 2022 through a no-confidence vote. Epicenter at 38.822, 43.522 The only road linking Azerbaijans Nagorno-Karabakh region to Armenia has been blocked by government-backed Azerbaijani protesters since December 12. Today, Armenia has even more reasons than Greece to try and improve its relations with Turkey. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A border gate between long-feuding Turkey and Armenia has been opened for the first time in 35 years to allow aid for victims of the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey . A court in Russia's northwestern city of Novgorod on February 28 ordered the Interior Ministry to pay 20,000 rubles ($265) to Viktor Shalyakin, the chairman of the opposition Yabloko party's local branch, for wrongfully fining him in May 2022 for "discrediting Russia's armed forces" during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Judge Zafar Iqbal said that this was why the warrant being issued for his arrest on February 28 did not include the possibility of bail. earthquake diplomacy", which consists of helping a neighboring country hit by a natural disaster, despite the tensions. 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). Epicenter at 38.411, 44.935 Despite Schmidts decision to repeal the decree, the law on immovable properties was published in the official journal of Republika Srpska and was passed by the Republika Srpska Assembly on February 10. Nonproliferation experts have said Tehran has no civilian use for uranium purified to the level of 60 percent. Speaking at a cabinet meeting on March 1, Raisi assigned Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli to head the probe after hundreds of girls have reported falling ill at school since November. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 was registered on Monday in Aleppo province. . 8 earthquakes in the past 30 days. at 10:08 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 38.493, 45.064 Noravank monastery, a 16th centry marvel which sustained a terrible earthquake in the 20's, stands April 25, 2004 in Armenia. Media reports said the measure was carried out after an unknown flying object was discovered above St. Petersburg. 12.2 km from Khan told supporters at a rally on November 26 that he wanted to avoid havoc in the country and dropped his demands for an early election. at 22:00 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: A day earlier, Ukrainian police said 18 online channels and social-network groups created "to destabilize the situation in Ukraine via a new youth movement from the Russian Federation" had been blocked. Armenia sent humanitarian aid to Trkiye during the Glck earthquake in 1999 and Trkiye helped Armenia during the 1988 earthquake, avuolu recalled, informing that the Alican border crossing between the two countries was opened for the first time last week for the transportation of Armenia's aid to the earthquake-hit region. The agreement is set to expire on March 18. Grossi warned in January that Iran now has enough uranium to produce "several" nuclear bombs if it chooses. To read the original story by AP, click here. The abbreviation ChVK usually stands for private military company, such as Russias notorious Wagner mercenary group, but apparently does not signify anything in the groups name. Ivanov served 25 days in jail on another case but was not released when his sentence was due to end in June. Khvoy 46 Armenian schools reconstructed with ADB's support to . It is unclear how and under what conditions Boromangnaev was allowed to travel to the United States. 21.2 km from The URL has been copied to your clipboard, China And The Fight Between Democracies And Autocracies. Tyvans are another mostly Buddhist indigenous people in Siberia, whose language is Turkic. This is an incomplete list of earthquakes in Armenia. The opening was a one-time occurrence, Armenian officials said, and the overall impact on the Armenia-Turkey normalization process remains unclear. Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu said the border crossing was last used in 1988 when the Turkish Red Crescent sent aid to Armenia, which itself had been hit by a devastating earthquake. Security forces have also launched a series of raids on schools across the country, violently arresting students, especially female students, who have defiantly taken off their hijabs in protest. NATO requires unanimity among its members to accept other countries into its ranks, and while most of them, including the United States, have immediately and unconditionally backed Finland and Sweden's accession, Turkey and Hungary have yet to give them the green light. 14.2 km from The talks were held at the headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in Karabakh. Some angry parents have refused to send their children to school. Mevlt Cavusoglu also thanked the Armenian rescuers who "rescued a little girl and a woman" in Adiyaman, one of the towns hit by the earthquake. "Russia does not count people at all, sending them to constantly assault our positions. Khvoy 9.2 km from Khvoy Iqbal dismissed the request and questioned how it was possible for the leader of the Tehrik-e Insaf party (PTI) to be present at two other hearings, but not in his courtroom. About 25,000 people . Epicenter at 38.543, 44.878 At least one death has been linked to the outbreak of illnesses, the news release said, but the girl's father refused to confirm there was a connection between her death and the alleged poisonings. He told RFE/RL on February 28 that his passport expired while he was temporarily detained in Kazakhstan, which he passed through en route to Mongolia. The strongest earthquake in Armenia today occurred 16 hours ago: Light mag. Karabakh representatives told RFE/RLs Armenian Service they are ready to discuss the installation of X-ray machines in the corridor, but they must be controlled by Russian peacekeepers. Khvoy Geological Survey) When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit his hometown, Gyumri, on December 7, 1988, 14-year-old Ara Tadevossian's apartment building collapsed on top of him and his mother. Some analysts said the spate of recent drone flights into Russian territory could be practice runs for a potential future strike by Ukraine deep inside Russia. at 10:42 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: at 14:41 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: Schmidt said on February 27 that the matter of state property "cannot be solved by unilateral actions and reminded all decision makers that the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the right place to resolve that issue. 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. Our heart goes out to the nearly 50,000 dead . 13.2 km from $ 18.75. Ankara has long made the opening of the border and establishment of diplomatic relations with Yerevan conditional on a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that is acceptable to Azerbaijan. Khvoy The strongest earthquake in Armenia today occurred 5 hours ago: Minor mag. But among those visiting the tanks are also members of the countries' sizable ethnic Russian minorities, some of whom placed flowers and lit candles to commemorate fallen Russian soldiers and express support for Moscow. For 44 days, Armenian forces clashed with those of neighboring Azerbaijan, in . A teacher from Qom -- which is about 135 kilometers south of the capital Tehran -- told Radio Farda that out of 250 students, about 200 missed classes, presumably from concerns over the illnesses. Ukrainian forces repelled more than 85 enemy attacks in a day, the military said, a stark increase compared to 60 attacks in the previous 24 hours. Epicenter at 41.876, 42.131 Between 25,000 and 100,000 people are estimated to have died, upwards of 130,000 were injured, and half a million people were rendered homeless. These and other cities, along with hundreds of villages, were completely leveled. at 04:13 January 31, 2023 UTC, Location: at 14:08 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: (8.2 miles), 2023-01-28 20:09:58 UTC Some rights activists have accused Iranian authorities of trying to suppress information about the death of the girl, while others have accused the authorities of not doing enough to find the cause of the outbreak of illness and prevent new cases. In talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that continuing theagreement is possible only if the interests of Russian agricultural and fertilizer producersare taken into account, the statement said. Approval of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's treaties and Finland's accession passed with 184 members of the 200-seat parliament voting in favor, seven against, and one abstaining. RFE/RL's Radio Farda reported that at least 26 schools were affected by the crisis on March 1. Her death, which officials blamed on a heart attack, touched off a wave of anti-government protests in cities across the country. Metsavan The phrase "to hang noodles on someone's ears" in colloquial Russian means "to lie to someone." 28 earthquakes in the past 365 days. The article on Qom News was later deleted from its website. Amid the February 28 reports about the drones, authorities in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, closed the airspace over the city and stopped all flights to and from the city's Pulkovo airport. Epicenter at 38.565, 44.784 25.2 km from Take Greece. According to news reports, the death toll from the quake approaches 50,000 individuals, with untold numbers of people injured, missing, and homeless. Nurda Devastating effects of the earthquake in Armenia. Russian regional lawmaker Mikhail Abdalkin listens to Vladimir Putin's speech on February 21 with noodles on his ears. Khvoy Armenia's Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan visited a number of neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo to find out the extent of damage to buildings as a result of the earthquake disaster, and was briefed on the measures taken by the governorate to remove rubble, open roads and shelter the affected people. (12.2 miles), 2022-06-12 18:35:21 UTC Ninety to niety-five percent of all earthquakes occur . In response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Finland last May applied to join NATO, having until now relied solely on its own armed forces to defend the 1,300-kilometer border it shares with Russia. Epicenter at 41.34, 44.059 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. (7.2 miles), 2023-01-28 18:14:45 UTC 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. Massive earthquake took place in Armenia on 7th of December 1988; the tremor had a magnitude of 7.1. Today RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. (10.2 miles), 2023-01-18 10:42:40 UTC Khvoy /ARKA/. 10.2 km from A leading Kalmyk activist whom Mongolian officials did not allow to enter their country because his Russian passport had expired has left Ulan Bator international airport for the United States. Thus, Ankara had helped Yerevan after an earthquake that had hit it in 1988. A day earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said its antiaircraft units knocked down two drones in the Krasnodar Krai region and one in the Republic of Adygea. The committee's spokesman, Syarhey Kabakovich, said in a statement that the detained individuals were members of a group called ChVK Ryodan. Fawad Chaudhry, a senior leader of the PTI, said Khan had gone from one court to another in fake cases as he attended the hearings amid tight security and thousands of supporters. According to MES, at the epicenter the quake measured magnitude 6-7. A woman buried alive in the Armenian earthquake . U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has discussed bilateral ties with acting Uzbek Foreign Minister Baxtiyor Saidov. Iran has expelled two German diplomats, saying they interfered with the country's internal affairs. Epicenter at 38.51, 44.798 at 15:13 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: Ozurgeti Khvoy According to the theory of plate tectonics, these lithosphere plates are constantly in motion, slowly realigning themselves with the passage of time. Tosha Khana refers to the place where leaders of the country, members of parliament, bureaucrats, and other high-ranking officials leave gifts received during foreign trips. Iran has been roiled by unrest that was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16. In a statement to RFE/RL, Defense Ministry spokesman Constantin Spinu rejected those claims, saying that "there have been no changes whatsoever in the deployment of Romanian forces and antiaircraft systems.". (10.2 miles), 2022-09-27 14:43:39 UTC December 7, 1988 the earthquake with intensity of 9,8 points shook the northern regions of Armenia. 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