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Investigation Launched on Clerics Accused of Sex Abuse
The Vatican says it has ordered an inquiry into decades of sexual abuse by clerics at a Benedictine abbey and school in London.Read More »
317 Russian Soldiers Can’t Leave Armenia
The military prosecutor's office of Russia's South Federal District has demanded that the Russian defense ministry immediately send home...Read More »
Turkey Foreign Ministry Contradicts PM on Accepting Earthquake Aid
Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement today in which it said that Turkey has not rejected earthquake relief aid from...Read More »
Most Just Ruling in Artak Nazaryan Case Would be to Resume Investigation
The trial in the case of rifle platoon commander Artak Nazaryan, who died suddenly while serving during peacetime on Jul. 27, 2010, will now...Read More »
Gaddafi to be Buried in Secret Desert Grave
"He will be buried tomorrow in a simple burial with sheikhs attending the burial. It will be an unknown location in the open desert," the...Read More »
Russia’s Medvedev Signals Continued Karabakh Mediation
Medvedev has hosted as many as ten face-to-face meetings between Sargsyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev since 2008 in a... Read More »
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant Employees to Get a Pay Hike
Employees of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP or MNPP for Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant), who were demanding a 50%... Read More »
Police Ask Only that Demonstrators Not Shout: Opposition Activists Protest in Yerevan
"During the demonstration, deputy chief of Kentron ["Central"] police division Arayik Petrosyan approached me and, looking directly at the...Read More »
Earthquake Aftershocks Continue in Turkey. Also Felt in Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia
Aftershocks from Sunday's earthquake continue to be felt in the last 12 hours in Turkey's eastern regions, their number reaching nearly eight dozen. Read More »
‘In America, We are Americans, But We Have Hyphenated Experience’: His Holiness Aram I Tells Reporter
Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, His Holiness Aram I said his goal during his visit to the US was to...Read More »