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Published on April 20, 2012
IRANIAN DIPLOMAT ACCUSED OF BRAZIL CHILD MOLESTATION
- Brazil says it will seek an explanation from Iran after an Iranian diplomat was accused of molesting underage girls at a swimming pool in Brasilia, BBC reported. he Iranian official was questioned by police following complaints from parents but released after invoking diplomatic immunity. Iran's embassy denied the allegations, and said they were the result of a "cultural misunderstanding". Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota called them "very worrying." The un-named Iranian diplomat was accused of inappropriately touching girls between 9 and 15 years old at a pool in a private club last weekend, Brazilian media reported. The father of one of the girls told the G1 website that the diplomat was almost lynched by angry parents before security staff intervened. "People wanted to kill him," the unnamed father said. The Iranian embassy said the allegations were the result of "a misunderstanding resulting from differences in cultural behaviour". It also accused the Brazilian media of deliberately sensationalizing the incident.
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According to the survey results carried out by All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center 41% of the respondents positively assessed President Serzh Sargsyan's work, Valery Fyodorov, director of the center ...MILITARY EXPERT SAYS AZERBAIJAN PROVOKING INSTABILITY ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS
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Today in Armenian history- 1861 Meekael Nalbandian's "Two lines" (tract) published in Paris.
- 1884 Birth of Daniel Varujan (poet). He was killed during the Armenian Genocide implemented by the Turks in 1915.
- 1915 Start of the one-month defense of Van.
- 1919 Creation of the Communist Youth "Spartak" organization in Yerevan.
- 1926 The All-Armenian Congress of the Yezidi people opens in Yerevan.
- 1948 Death of Avetees Aharonian, one of the leaders of Armenian liberation movement. He was born in 1866.
- 1965 The Law on the Armenian Victims' Commemoration Day is adopted at a joint session of Uruguay's Senate and House of Representatives.
- 1994 The Russian Duma (the lower house of the bicameral Russian legislature) votes to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
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