Armenian police have recently detained a suspect in connection with the disappearance of a man in February 2012.
Edik Hovsepyan, the former Syunik Deputy Prosecutor, was arrested by Armenian police on suspicion of evidence tampering.
Chinese organized crime is booming in Europe, due to a growing ability to meld with existing criminal groups, Asia Times Online reported.
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is shocked at the detention of Croatian journalist Jasna Babic, sued by a businessman for libel.
Three young Argentine women have been trekking across the globe for the past few years, bringing smiles, love and liberation to those they meet on their way.
TAV Airports is interested in running New York LaGuardia’s (LGA) planned new $3.6 billion Central Terminal Building (CTB). The Turkish airport operator plans to apply jointly with shareholder, Aéroports de Paris (ADP), TAV’s CEO, Sani Sener, said this week.
The adult female and male seem more like caged asylum patients than wild animals. They look out from behind their bars with a glazed look in their eyes as visitors walk past their cage.
I met Sona, Rosalia and Narot playing in the school yard. They are all from Aleppo. They had become friends in Yerevan since they attended different schools back home. The children said they didn't have many local Armenian friends.
An analyst with the Yerevan-based Armenian Center for National and International Studies told reporters that President Sargsyan’s re-election campaign is deftly seeking to paint the other presidential candidates as “light-weights” and unserious contenders.
The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is gearing up for one of the most momentous events in the 2,000 year-old history of the Armenian presence in the Holy Land. Preparations for the election of a new patriarch to succeed the late Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, are proceeding at a brisk rate, with the main event scheduled to take place tomorrow.
Residents of Yerevan’s Nor Nork 7th district will stage a protest tomorrow to halt the planned construction of a stone refinishing factory in their midst.
New York playwright Kelly Stuart won the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance (ADAA)’s 3rd Biennial William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting for her play, “Belonging to the Sky.” The $10,000 grand prize was announced and presented at ADAA’s memorable awards event on Saturday, December 8, 2012, 6pm at the Pasadena Playhouse.
The Turkish government has recently embarked on an aggressive campaign, pressuring a large number of European and American museums to return antiquities that were taken out of the country during Ottoman times.