Organized crime groups are increasingly interconnected and cooperate on more sophisticated levels than ever before, according to a report by the European Union.
Federal authorities charged 19 people with conspiring to launder tens of millions of dollars of drug money, according to a US Department of Justice (DOJ) statement on March 14. Sixteen individuals were arrested in the US and Colombia in a joint operation between US authorities and the Colombian national police; three other defendants were already in custody for previous offenses. All will be tried in New York.
Sefilyan said that had he been asked, he would have advised Raffi Hovannisian not to begin a hunger strike, or as Hovannisian himself calls it, a “boycott against lies and deception.”
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Two Armenian civilians interned in Azerbaijan returned to Armenia today under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The man and the woman were placed in the care of Armenian officials on the road between the Azerbaijani town of Gazakh and the Armenian town of Ijevan, at the international border.
The Forum of Armenian Associations in Europe reports that the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a campaign to build a Turkish monument next to an Armenian Genocide memorial in the heart of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan hosted the delegation headed by the Chief Negotiator on Armenia-EU Association Agreement, Director of Eastern Europe of the European External Action Service Gunnar Wiegand, who arrived in Armenia for the 12th round of the talks.
The Turkish press reports that a bomb exploded in front of the Turkish Justice Ministry in Ankara late last night and that the headquarters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Turkish capital was also attacked.
Levon Aronian (Armenia) and Magnus Carlsen (Norway) now share the lead with 3 points, after the fourth round of the Candidates Tournament currently underway in London.
These patients, all of whom suffer from blood-related and life-threatening illnesses, have been identified by ABMDR and currently await donor matches for bone marrow stem cell transplants.
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