NINE DEAD, 50 WOUNDED IN TWO JAKARTA BLASTS
Explosions ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta Friday, killing eight and wounding at least 50 more, ending a four-year lull in terror attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation. At least 18 foreigners were among the dead and wounded, AP reports.
The blasts at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, located side-by-side in an upscale business district in the capital, blew out windows and scattered debris and glass across the street, kicking up a thick plume of smoke. Facades of both hotels were reduced to twisted metal. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw bodies being shuttled away in police trucks.
Police said they were investigating whether the blasts, detonated inside cafes in each hotel, were caused by suicide bombers, planted explosives or a combination of both. Several of the bombing suspects were believed to have been staying at the Marriott.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the attack was carried out by a "terrorist group" and vowed to arrest the perpetrators. He said it was too early to say if the Southeast Asian Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed for past attacks in Indonesia, including a 2003 bombing at the Marriott, was responsible.
"Those who carried out this attack and those who planned it will be arrested and tried according to the law," Yudhoyono told a news conference.
ARMENIA FM: NO DECISION POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF NAGORNO KARABAKH
On 16 July the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Edward Nalbandyan, had a meeting with the President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Bako Sahakyan, in Stepanakert. Issues related to the ...REQUIEM SERVICE IN THE MOTHER SEE OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN
On Saturday, July 18, at 11:00 a.m., His Holiness Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, will preside during a special Repose of Souls service in the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin. ...U.S. EMBASSY DONATES COMPUTER EQUIPMENT TO HELP RA POLICE TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
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Prosecutor Koryun Piloyan, supervising the preliminary investigation legality of the criminal case on the mass disorders on 1-2 March, 2008 in Yerevan being investigated by the RA Special Investigation ...OSCE SENIOR POLICE ADVISER ENCOURAGES FURTHER POLICE REFORM IN ARMENIA
The Senior Police Adviser to the OSCE Secretary General, Kevin Carty, discussed Armenia's police reform with authorities during a visit to Yerevan today. "The police are the most visible manifestation ...US-ARMENIA DEFENSE COOPERATION PLANNING CONFERENCE TOOK PLACE IN YEREVAN
On the 16th and 17th of July, 2009 the Armenian-American Defence Cooperation Planning Conference took place in Yerevan. In the delegation were the representatives of the Office of the US Secretary of ...OSCE OFFICE HELPS DEVELOP RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES IN ARMENIA
A presentation on the OSCE Office in Yerevan's work to help introduce and develop Clean Development Mechanisms in Armenia's Syunik region was held today in Yerevan. The presentation focused on the OSCE's ...NINE DEAD, 50 WOUNDED IN TWO JAKARTA BLASTS
Explosions ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta Friday, killing eight and wounding at least 50 more, ending a four-year lull in terror attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation. At least ...
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- 1914 The Central Committees of Taron and Sassoon present the reform program to three embassies in Constantinople.
- 1938 Birth of Perch Zeytuntsyan (playwright) in Cairo (Egypt).
- 1988 The USSR Supreme Soviet, relies on Article 78 of the Soviet Constitution (prohibition of any territorial changes to a Union Republic without its consent) to deny the 1988 02 20 petition by the Autonomous Region of Nagorno Gharabagh to rejoin Armenia.
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