US President Joe Biden has announced that from now on, Washington recognizes the actions of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century against the Armenians as a genocide, despite earlier objections from Turkey. “Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople ...
A fire sparked by an oxygen tank explosion killed at least 82 people and injured 110 at a hospital in Baghdad that had been equipped to house COVID-19 patients, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. “We urgently need to review safety measures at all hospitals to prevent such a ...