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At a hearing in Baku, prosecutors requested life imprisonment for five former high-ranking Nagorno-Karabakh officials, including former President Arayik Harutyunyan. The other detainees face prison terms of up to 20 years.

Dr. Jamal Eltaeb, chief physician of Al Nao Hospital in Sudan, has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, presented for the 10th time this year, for continuing to provide critical health services under civil war conditions and saving hundreds of lives.

Filming has begun on "Çatlı," a film about the life of Abdullah Çatlı directed by Onur Tan. It has emerged that Armenian actors from Türkiye were approached to play the role of an "ASALA militant" in the film, but the actors rejected the offer.

The official program has been announced for the first apostolic journey of Pope Leo XIV, spiritual leader of Catholics and Head of Vatican City State, scheduled to take place from November 27 to December 2, 2025.

Saint Joseph University of Beirut inaugurated the Ara Hrechdakian Chair of Armenian Studies on October 27, 2025, made possible through a generous donation from the Hrechdakian family. The Chair, operating within the university's Bibliothèque Orientale, will focus on research activities while organizing academic conferences, cultural workshops, and exhibitions, as well as offering courses in Armenian Studies. Actress Arsinée Khanjian has been appointed as Chairholder, and Dr. Vahe Tachjian will serve as Executive Director. The Chair plans to create a website devoted to Armenian communities in Lebanon and the Middle East, aiming to preserve family materials and reconstruct the memory of community life while engaging both Armenian and non-Armenian audiences.

The militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said on Sunday it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq and urged Ankara to take the necessary legal steps to protect the peace process.

At the latest meeting organised by the ‘Our Way's’ movement, founded by Russian oligarch Samvel Karapetyan and currently in the process of becoming a political party, a video message sent by Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoğlu was shared, stating that Acemoğlu would be advising the movement. Acemoğlu told Agos, ‘I sent a message for their conference, but I have no connection with the party.’

Since 7 October, six journalists had been working under harrowing conditions to expose the massacre in Gaza. On 10 August, they were killed inside a media tent in a deliberate Israeli airstrike, which Israel confirmed had been planned. While the world remains silent, Gaza’s journalists continue their mission—to be the voice of the voiceless and to bear witness to the truth, no matter the cost.

Şimuni Diril, a Chaldean couple believed to have disappeared in the village of Mehre in Şırnak on January 7, 2020, was found murdered by their children on March 17. Hurmüz Diril, who turns 76 today, has been missing for five years. His daughter, Gülcan Diril Üzümcü, said, "My father's age remains 71. This is murder, and my father is missing. I do not accept its normalization. As Assyrians and Chaldeans, meeting our demand for justice is not a favor, but an urgent necessity."

We are Silivri's mandatory visitors. For now, some of us, but potentially all of us. Although we cannot fully know or understand what our loved ones in prison are going through, there is one thing we have learned through experience: what it means to be an intimate of a prisoner. And I quickly learned the number one rule of being an intimate of a prisoner: to wait.