A company controlled by the largest aluminum producer in the United States, Alcoa Inc., will pay US $384 million in fines for spending tens of millions of dollars to bribe Bahraini officals, reports Businessweek.
A gruesome video showing decapitated bodies of inmates highlights increased violence and crime in Brazil’s historically safer northeastern states, reports InSight Crime.
Several hundred people marched through the streets in Yerevan today in defense of Shant Haroutyunyan, the political activist who attempted to stage a "revolution" with several followers in November 2013.
The parliamentary Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs received 215 appeals in 2013, said committee chair, Prosperous Armenia faction MP Elinar Vardanyan, in a telephone conversation with Hetq.
The doors to the main entrance of the newly constructed Armenian Church of Holy Transconfiguration in Moscow were closed on Jan. 6
Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan plans to build a large casino named Onira Club on the highway between Yerevan and Abovyan.
This chain of “coincidences” continued to grow. The government decided to spur the diamond reprocessing sector in Armenia; Minister of the Economy Nerses Yeritsyan “accidentally” invites the representatives of 23 business organizations to his office and then introduces them to diamond businessman Ashot Sukiasyan who, “by chance”, is also there.
Based on the claim of a woman in Turkey that the recently deceased Vicar General of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople was her father, a Turkish court has permitted the exhumation of the clergyman.
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