A Cuban court last week sentenced Canadian businessman Cy Tokmakjian to 15 years imprisonment for bribing top Cuban officials in return for lucrative contracts for his transportation company.
The former chief minister of the Indian southern state of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha Jayaram, was denied bail on Oct. 7 after a high court in the neighboring state of Karnataka said there was no reason to suspend her conviction, according to the BBC.
About a year ago, I found myself sitting in the least desirable seat on the plane - the middle of the middle on a massive airliner directly in front of the restroom.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been ordered to pay more than a million dollars in damages for failing to protect an informant who was kidnapped during an undercover operation in Colombia.
In what appears to be a new legal approach to Azerbaijani cross border fire targeting Armenians, the Tavoush Provincial Office of Armenia’s Investigative Committee (recently formed as a national “super” investigative body), says it will charge Baku for the attempted murder - based on religious, racist and national motives - of a Chorotan villager whose car was hit by Azerbaijani military fire on October 2.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will participate in the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers meeting to take place in Minsk tomorrow.
On October 9, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the south-east direction of the Kuropatkino settlement of the NKR Martouni region.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General has again refused to reopen the case of Soghomon Kocharyan, now serving his 20th year in prison for the murder of an Iranian citizen.
On October 7 Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian, in the framework of his working visit to Paris, had a meeting with the Foreign Minister of France Laurent Fabius.
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