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Turkey conference on Armenian genocide opens despite court order
A conference in Turkey on the alleged genocide of 1.5 Armenians in the then-Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1917 went ahead on Saturday despite a court ban that prompted protests from EU representatives who saw it as casting a continuing shadow ov (More) |
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EU condemns Turkish court ruling canceling Armenian genocide conference
The European Commission Friday strongly condemned a Turkish court's decision to cancel an academic conference to discuss and question the accuracy of Turkey's version of events between 1915 and 1917 leading to 1.5 million deaths in what has (More) |
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International brief ~ Zimbabwe to seize all private productive farmland
Leading Friday's international brief, a high-level source in the cabinet of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has told news agencies in Zimbabwe that the administration has decided to push forward legislation that would nationalize all private (More) |
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Armenians commemorate 90th anniversary of mass killings
Armenians around the world have been remembering the massacre of their people ninety years ago by the Ottoman Empire . Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in the Armenian city of Yerevan Sunday to pay their respects. In the US, hundreds of Arm (More) |
Supreme Court heard New York Times v. Sullivan
On January 6, 1964, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the free speech/free press case of New York Times v. Sullivan.
Columbia Law School professor Herbert Wechsler argued for the petitioner. Listen to the oral arguments on Oyez, the Supreme Court multimedia database at Northwestern University.
