President Barack Obama’s Kenyan half brother has launched his own political career by announcing his intention to run for a Kenyan county gubernatorial seat in the upcoming March 4 elections.
Malik Obama, 54, who shares a father with the US president, told AFP in an...
Paris―Presidential candidate and former foreign minister Raffi K. Hovannisian met today with Paul Jean-Ortiz, the chief diplomatic counsellor of French President Francois Hollande.
The official encounter, which included a discussion of Armenia’s upcoming elections, its...
Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili arrived in Yerevan on official visit. The Georgian Prime Minister was greeted by Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan at “Zvartnots” airport, after which the two executive bodies of the neighboring countries had a meeting...
Cargo volume of CJSC “South Caucasian Railway” in January-December 2012 amounted to 3460.2 thousand tons, up 5.8% over the same period of 2011.
For 2012 the export by rail reached 491.9 thousand tons of cargo, which is higher than in 2011 by 9.4%.
Cargo transportation...
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
Most political observers predict a contentious hearing in the Armed Services Committee and later in the full Senate on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel, Pres. Obama’s nominee as the next Secretary of Defense.
During...
A buxom 14st woman faces manslaughter charges after allegedly smothering her lover with her breasts during a drunken row inside a mobile home.
Donna Lange, 51, fromEverett,Washington, is reported to have thrown herself down on top of her boyfriend at midday on Saturday.
Police...
A jigsaw addict spent 17 months completing one of the world’s biggest puzzles.
The 50-year-old Amanda Warrington had to painstakingly glue each of the 24,000 pieces to her living room wall as it was the only space in her home big enough to accommodate the 14ft by 5ft...
This is the photo taken seconds before a safari tourist was seriously injured by a rhino – after she was allegedly urged to stand closer to the animal by a wildlife expert.
Chantal Beyer, 24, was visiting the South African nature park with her boyfriend when they stopped...
Russia is set to send an unmanned probe to the moon in 2015.
The craft, called Luna-Glob, or Moon-Globe, will be carried by the first rocket to blast off from a new facility that Russia is building in its far eastern Amur region.
It will consist of an orbital module and...
West African troops could begin deploying in Mali within the next 48 hours, Malian army chief Ibrahim Dembele said on Wednesday, on the sidelines of a meeting of West African military chiefs in Bamako to discuss the operation.
“The difficulty we have is a logistical...