By Thomas C. Nash Mirror-Spectator Staff BOSTON — US Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch made several appearances in the Boston area last week, answering pointed questions from journalists and the community on Armenian Genocide recognition and aid reduction to Armenia.

By Thomas C . Nash Mirror-Spectator Staff BOSTON — A federal judge ruled June 10 that a lawsuit over how the Armenian Genocide is taught in schools could not go forward. The suit, filed in October 2005 by the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) alongside two high school teachers and a student against the [...]

By Thomas C . Nash Mirror-Spectator Staff WASHINGTON — The US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced it was continuing its one third reduction of a $235.6 million Armenian aid program this week, citing renewed doubt in country’s democracy following the widely-criticized May elections in Yerevan. In a statement released following an MCC board meeting in [...]

WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Corporate America typically hires lobbyists to pressure Congress on taxes and trade rules. But in an unusual — some say risky — move, five military contractors and an energy company have stepped into a fight over whether the US should label Turkey’s slaughter of a million Armenians nearly a century ago [...]

By Emine Ozcan ISTANBUL (BIA News Center) — Nedim Sener, a reporter for the daily Milliyet newspaper who published a book about journalist Hrant Dink’s murder, faces up to 28 years in jail after police officers filed complaints against him. The book, titled The Dink Murder and Intelligence Lies, deals with the police and national [...]