The former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau was arrested April 2 by United States federal agents for his alleged role in trafficking tons of drugs, the US Attorney’s Office announced in a press release. Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto was arrested along with two alleged co- conspirators while on a US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) yacht in international waters.
Authorities have confirmed that rampant bribery surrounded the construction of an illegal building in Thane, India, about 12 miles northeast of Mumbai; 74 people were killed and 60 oinjured when the building collapsed on April 4, the International Business Times reported.
According to polls conducted between 2010 and 2012 by the Gallup World Institute in twelve countries of the former USSR, 40% of the population of Armenia want to leave permanently their country, while in the case of Kirghizstan, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan and Ouzbekistam, that percentage would be reduced respectively to 16%, 13%, 11% et 5%.
Prosperous Armenia Party spokesperson Iveta Tonoyan has informed Hetq that Gagik Tsarukyan has left the country and thus will not be able to attend tomorrow’s presidential inauguration of Serzh Sargsyan.
It would seem that Vanadzor Mayor Samvel Darbinyan doesn’t take kindly to local reporters when they write critical articles about him and his administration.
The ARF’s parliamentary faction has declared that it will not attend tomorrow’s special parliamentary session marking the inauguration of Serzh Sargsyan as president.
Abrahamyan was visibly perturbed when asked if Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan would attend Serzh Sargsyan’s inauguration.
Today’s National Assembly session got off to another “heated” start when Heritage Party MP Zarouhie Postanjyan quizzed Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan about tomorrow’s inauguration of Serzh Sargsyan.
Two children died when an anti-tank mine exploded on the Russian Federation’s “Kamkhrout” shooting-range near the village of Vahramaberd.
In response to a Hetq inquiry regarding a complaint filed against Hetq reporter Adrineh Torosyan by the sister of Samvel Sharbatyan, a lawyer murdered in November of last year, the Vanadzor police say that the letter has been forwarded to the Lori Regional Investigations Unit, to be attached to the murder case file.
In response to a Hetq inquiry as to whether the RA Ministry of Culture has inspected the 13th century Saint Marineh Church in Ashtarak and evaluated it architectural soundness, the ministry says that the edifice was returned to the Holy See of Etchmiadzin and that it is responsible to implement any necessary repairs.
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