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Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown
ReutersHAVANA (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials began on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption. The closed trial of 53-year-old Sarkis Yacoubian,...Tags: National Government, Bribery, Raul Castro, Havana (Cuba), Lawyers
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Young newlyweds killed in car crash half a world away
Beneath a starry sky, Sosé Thomassian and Allen Yekikian held each other on their wedding night, arms looped around hips, eyes locked, for more than 20 minutes so the photographer could capture what would become their favorite wedding photo. Back at the...
Tags: Social Organizations, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Youth Organizations, Arts
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Ron Kaye: Brains, talent, too much ambition
In the costliest and most vicious City Council race of the Los Angeles election season, the battle for Hollywood has shattered beliefs about Armenian solidarity, with Paul Krekorian's role seen as causing deep rifts in the community. Little Armenia in...
Tags: Local Elections, Eric Garcetti, Career and Workplace, Unions, Politics
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Alleged voter fraud in Little Armenia being investigated
Prosecutors are investigating allegations of voter fraud in Little Armenia, part of a Los Angeles City Council district where two candidates are waging a bitter battle for an open seat. According to a spokeswoman for L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie...
Tags: Local Elections, Eric Garcetti, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections
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Voter fraud alleged in L.A.'s Little Armenia
Los Angeles County prosecutors have launched an investigation into allegations of voter fraud in Little Armenia, part of a Los Angeles City Council district where two candidates are waging a bitter battle for an open seat. According to a spokeswoman for...
Tags: Primaries, Local Elections, Eric Garcetti, Elections, Politics
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Ron Kaye: Zareh Sinanyan admits racist remarks, expresses regret
It was a week Zareh Sinanyan will never forget. The man who left the Soviet Republic of Armenia as a 14-year-old a quarter century ago took his seat as a Glendale City Councilman on Monday, faced harsh criticism from residents during public comment on...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Local Elections, Racism, Politics, Elections
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Turkey, Tourism and Leisure, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918), Massacres
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Anne's adventures in compassion
—A lazy Sunday morning. Arising later than usual. A long week of work in the books, a promising week ahead. Now living in Armenia, I correspond regularly with colleagues, friends and family back home in the States. Birds chirp as I check some emails...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Christopher Stevens, Email, Human Interest, Afghanistan
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Travel films & events: Presentation on Tour du Mont Blanc trek
FRANCE, ITALY AND SWITZERLAND Presentation Tricia Holbrook will look at hut-to-hut trekking through France, Italy and Switzerland on the Tour du Mont Blanc, and from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn along Switzerland's Haute Route. When, where: 7:30 p....Tags: Photography and Video, Italy, Services and Shopping, Cambodia, Trips and Vacations
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Chris Bohjalian sets love amid horror
Chris Bohjalian's novel "The Sandcastle Girls" has many traditional elements of compelling fiction — people with secrets, shocking plot twists, compulsively likable characters and a rich love story. It also describes the 1915 mass killing of...
Tags: Turkey, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918)
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Congratulations to re-elected Armenian president spark Burbank hunger strike
Ara Manoogian hadn’t eaten for nine days as of Monday, and he was prepared to go without food for weeks, or even months, more. Camped in an RV parked outside Rep. Adam Schiff’s Burbank office, Manoogian said his hunger strike was in protest...
Tags: Serzh Sargsyan, Human Rights, Career and Workplace, Elections, Strikes
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Glendale City Council hopefuls feel the heat at forum
The final City Council candidate forum Wednesday was perhaps the most direct in calling candidates out on their perceived faults. From having Councilwoman Laura Friedman defend her voting record to asking longtime City Hall critic Herbert Molano how he...Tags: Government, Local Elections, Google Inc., Elections, Politics
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