The bizarre circumstances and dubious names in the Boston Marathon bombings have raised many questions that have yet to be answered by government officials and journalists.
Five individuals were convicted in Pristina on Monday for their roles in an international organ-trafficking scheme that promised impoverished people large payouts in return for their organs, the New York Times reported. Many donors were never compensated, and proper medical care was not provided after the operations.
ARF MP Artzvik Minasyan has made two futile attempts to receive written clarifications from the government regarding the Nairit Rubber Plant.
Vardan Oskanian at Hetq Studio
Some 1,000 residents of the Oudjan village in Aragatzotn barricaded roadways today to protest the on- going construction of a number of mini-hydro electric plants in the area.
The Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan and the Prosecutor General of the Islamic Republic of Iran Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei today in Yerevan signed a Memorandum on Rapport. According to it the parties engaged to cooperate in the struggle against transnational crime, provide legal aid to each other in case of necessity.
Baghoumian, who was charged with tax evasion and possession of an illegal weapon, had been in pre- trial detention in Nubarashen since October 27, 2012.
In a message written by Jerusalem Armenian Patriarch Nourhan Manougian that was read on Sunday at the Hebrew University in Israel, the church leader said that he could not understand Israel's ongoing refusal to recognize the Turkish massacre of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.
RA Deputy Minister of Culture Artour Poghosyan is heading a 40 person delegation taking part in events marking “Armenian Days of Culture” in Belarus.
Engin Dinc, the former Trabzon intelligence chief who has been accused of obstructing justice in the Hrant Dink case, has been selected as the new National Police Chief of Turkey. In 2008, Dink family lawyers had filed an appeal with the Istanbul chief prosecutor regarding seven policemen, including Dinc.
A group called the "Saturday Mothers of Turkey", which has been gathering in Istanbul since 1995 to seek information regarding their sons disappeared under police protection, commemorated some 220 Armenian intellectuals detained by Ottoman officials in April 1915.