LOS ANGELES — The family of 17-year-old leukemia patient, Nataline Sarkisyan, has sued health insurance giant Cigna Corp. for her death in 2007 after the company initially refused to pay for a liver transplant.
The lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court by the family’s attorney, Mark Geragos, alleges breach of contract, unfair [...]

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LOS ANGELES–Over the course of the past year, the Armenian National Committee-Western Region ushered in new heights of progress and development in community efforts. A few highlights of the year included record-breaking attendance for the annual banquet, town hall meetings across the western United States, the controversy surrounding Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and the further advancement [...]

On the eve of the Glorious Birth and Theophany of our Lord Jesus Christ, our hearts are overcome with joy and wonder at the “Great and Marvelous Mystery” of the Birth of our Savior as we exchange well wishes and pray for the good tidings and praise of the angels proclaiming “Glory to God in [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian has indicated that the Armenian authorities are unlikely to release dozens of jailed opposition members and supporters in order to avert sanctions by the Council of Europe.
The Strasbourg-based organization’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will decide in late January whether to suspend the voting rights of its Armenian members because of [...]

ROJIN is a feisty, beautiful Kurdish bard who belts out nationalist ballads. As a result, private Kurdish television channels that showed her were long penalised or even taken off the air. But now she will be a regular on Turkey’s stultified TRT state television, which this week launched a 24-hour Kurdish channel in the main [...]

NEW YORK–The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) announced this week that it is now accepting applications for the 2009 Leo Sarkisian Summer Internship program (LSI) in Washington, DC. The program, now in its 25th year, is a great opportunity for student activists and community leaders to learn the inner workings of our nation’s capital [...]

ANKARA (Hurriyet)–The head of Turkey’s Democratic Society Party (DTP) Tuesday apologized to Armenia’s and Assyrians for the genocide of 1915, requesting forgiveness on behalf of the Kurds for their role in the execution of the crimes.
"Maybe Kurds have contributed to the loss of this (cultural) richness. We are ashamed when we look at our Armenian [...]

LOWELL, MA–Armenian National Committee of Merrimack Valley (ANCMV) activists earlier this month met with Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D-MA-5) to discuss issues of concern to the Armenian American community, including Armenian Genocide recognition and Nagorno Karabagh self-determination.
During the meeting, past ANC MV chairmen Joe Dagdigian and Stepan Dulgarian explained the history of Nagorno Karabagh and the [...]

ISTANBUL (Combined Sources)–Turkish state-run “TRT” television is preparing an Armenian TV channel that will begin broadcasting by the end of 2009, the Turkish Hurriyet Daily Reported Tuesday.
Categorized as a family channel, TRT’s Armenian TV will provide top headlines of developmen’s in Turkey and Armenia in their newsreels. The new satellite channel, which will employ Armenian [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–The Dzidzernagapert Genocide Museum Memorial Institute announced this week that it has published the first in a two volume work titled “Documents in the Historical-Diplomatic Archives of Italy’s Foreign Ministry Regarding the 1913-1923 Armenian Question.”
The first volume of the archives, published for the first time, contains 225 diplomatic documen’s chronicling the years 1913-1917 [...]