The Group of Seven major global powers were joined by Middle East allies on Tuesday in a push to isolate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, hours before the U.S. secretary of state flies to Moscow, Assad’s top backer.
The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday honored The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and The New York Times for revealing Vladimir Putin’s covert power grab, praising their probing of powerful people despite a hostile climate for the news media.
A Southern California man fatally shot his estranged wife inside an elementary school classroom attended by special needs children, before killing himself on Monday, US San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said, CNN reported.
“The City adopted a law on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Unfortunately, Brazil has not so far recognized the Armenian Genocide on a federal level. We actively work in that direction, but the success is still on the municipal level. New recognitions are expected in the near future by other Brazilian cities,” Sargis Karamekian said.
“What should I apologize for? I’m not going to apologize, I’ve repeatedly stated on it. I’m not going to change this position. It’s well known. There is no military settlement.
The European Union is launching a grant program worth 1.5 million euros designed to strengthen the capacity of Armenian civil society, the head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, Piotr Switalski, told journalists on Monday.
Former US president Bill Clinton has been spending some time with predecessor George H W Bush and wife Barbara in Houston, reports the Telegraph.
At the invitation of Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Mikheil Janelidze will pay an official visit to Armenia on April 11-12, press service of the Armenian MFA informed.
The new National Assembly with its staff will hold its first session on April 27. However, as Hrayr Tovmasyan, Chief of Staff of the Parliament, said it depends on whether Congress-PPA bloc will appeal election results in the Constitutional Court or no.
Russia was “in an inch from the confrontation” with the United States following the US missile strike on the Syrian Ash Sha’irat airfield, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday.
