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David Lemieux of Montreal knocked down Frenchman Hassan N’Dam four times and won the vacant International Boxing Federation middleweight title with a unanimous decision early Sunday morning, reports.

Lemieux (34-2) dominated the bout, flooring N’Dam (31-2) once in the second round, twice in the fifth and again with a left hook in the seventh to win the title.

Lemieux’s impressive performance in a fight broadcast in the U.S. on the Fox network may earn him some high profile bouts. There is already talk of a clash with WBA champion Gennady Golovkin, or a bout with the winner of a proposed match in November between WBC champ Miguel Cotto and Mexican star Saul (Canelo) Alvarez.

David Lemieux (born December 22, 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional boxer. Lemieux fights in the middleweight division. He is the current IBF Middleweight Champion and former WBC International Middleweight Champion.

According to , Lemieux is of French and Armenian descent. He began boxing at the age of nine.

Lemieux’s mother is Lebanese Armenian, her last name is Khavloudjian. He speaks fluent Armenian.

Woman who abandoned Down Syndrome baby in Armenia has reunited with the child, the reports.

The wife of a New Zealand father who abandoned him and their newborn baby in Armenia after discovering the baby had Down Syndrome has denied she is now back living with them both because of the huge amount of cash raised for their cause.

Samuel Forrest, from New Zealand, made international headlines in February when he started a fundraising campaign to help raise baby Leo after his Armenian wife Ruzan Badalyan abandoned them in Armenia where he ran his own business. 

More than $600,000 was raised. But since then Ms Badalyan has returned to her husband and child despite filing for divorce a week after Leo was born in her home country.

The fact Mr Forrest is now $600,000 richer thanks to the money that was raised for Leo, is not the reason why Ms Badalyan changed her mind, she told 3News. She is just delighted to be reunited wither her son.

‘It was the happiest day,’ she says. ‘He was so small, so cute. I remember I hugged him. He started making some noises. He was so cute. I was very happy.

‘I undressed him and skin to skin, he did that noise. He’d do it a bit for me, but in his sleep he did it for a whole hour like a little kitten. He knew he’d found his mummy.

‘I was afraid he wouldn’t remember me. It was very scary but hopefully he did. At that moment I realised I could never let him go.

‘I’m not an ideal mother; I’m simply a mother. But I’m doing my best.’

She has asked not to be judged by New Zealanders – it has not been revealed exactly where in the country they are living – but that they can just be left alone to get on happily as a family.

Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan attended today the opening of the 8th annual DigiTec Business Forum in Yerevan.

The forum has been organized by the Union of Information Technology Enterprises under the high auspices of the Prime Minister.

Greeting the participants of the forum, PM Hovik Abrahamyan said “the forum is an opportunity for the companies offering new technologies and services to present their achievements, approaches and solutions.”

“The field of Information Technologies is one of the most rapidly developing ones in Armenia, and is one of the key directions of the Government program. We greatly value the implementation of far-reaching programs through close cooperation between the public and private sectors targeted at the development of technologies, which help attract foreign investments, promote entrepreneurships and contribute to the creation of new companies and jobs,” the Prime Minister said.

Mr. Abrahamyan noted that the new ICT solutions and proposals are being successfully implemented in different spheres of Armenian economy, which contributes to the overall progress of the economy and boosts competitiveness.

The 8^th DigiTec Business Forum has brought together more than 70 companies representing the IT, business and other spheres. For the first time 10 companies will be honored with  DigiBusiness Awards.

Save the Children in partnership with the British Embassy in Armenia will organize a photo exhibition on the occasion of the World Refugee Day on June 20, 2015, at 11:00 AM, at Sargis Muradyan Gallery in Yerevan.

The event will be attended by the UK Ambassador in Armenia Katherine Leach, Representatives of the Ministry of Diaspora, Ministry of Emergency Situations and Local Self Government, Members of Armenian Parliament, Yerevan Municipality, other government agencies, Syrian refugees and civil society representatives.

The world we live in today has more people displaced by conflict than any time since the Second World War. According to UNHCR, there are more than 50 million refugees around the world, half of which are women and children. With this event, we aim to build empathy by reminding the public about who refugees are and why they need our help.

The exhibition will tell the story of inclusiveness, humanitarian aid, spirit of volunteerism and tolerance. The photos will share the memories and results of Save the Children’s assistance to refugees in Armenia. The cornerstone of the exhibition will be archive photos of Save the Children support provided to Armenian refugees in Syria (who fled Turkey) after World War I, and the assistance that is currently provided to their fourth generation who has taken refuge from Syria to Armenia.

This historical perspective has become possible with the support of the British Embassy in Armenia and the London-based Centre for Armenian Information & Advice Hayashen, who kindly provided the archive photos.

“In May 1919 Save the Children was set up by two extraordinary British sisters, who felt that they could not stand by while refugee children were left destitute and starving after WW1.  Their determination and fundraising efforts saved the lives of thousands of children, including many Armenian children in Syria and the Soviet Union.  I’m delighted we can tell this story today – and highlight the vital work Save the Children is still doing in Armenia and across the world as a global champion of children’s rights,” says Kathy Leach, the British Ambassador to Armenia.

“This event is not only about the forced journey of the Armenian nation, but also about the evolution of Save the Children to become a helping hand for children in 120 countries of the world,” says Arsen Stepanyan, Save the Children Armenia Country Director.

Dylann Roof, the suspected gunman in the South Carolina church shooting, had recently been given a weapon as a birthday present, according to a relative, the BBC reports.

The 21-year-old’s uncle told Reuters that Mr Roof’s father gave him a .45-calibre handgun.

Carson Cowles said he tried to mentor his nephew, who had no job or driver’s licence, but Roof was not receptive to this idea.

“I actually talked to him on the phone briefly for just a few moments and he was saying well I’m outside target practicing with my new gun,” Mr Cowles said, describing a phone call around the time of Mr Roof’s birthday in April.

 

Twitter Inc  will start curating tweets on live events, the microblogging service said, as it plans major changes to make its real-time news feed more user friendly, Reuters reports.

Dubbed Project Lightning, the changes will let users follow events instead of just people, and instantly upload photos and videos that can be shared across websites, social news and entertainment website Buzzfeed reported on Thursday.

A team of editors will curate the most visually appealing and relevant tweets about say, a red-carpet event or shooting, and present them in one place, so that users need not be flooded with every single tweet as it is posted, Buzzfeed said.

Twitter’s mobile app will show both pre-scheduled events and breaking news events, Buzzfeed said.

Twitter spokeswoman Rachel Millner confirmed the report but declined to comment further.

Twitter has struggled with user growth. About one billion people have visited the website, but only 302 million are users.

Massis Post – This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Martyrdom of the 20 Social Democrat Huchakian party leaders who were hanged by the Young Turk dictatorship on June, 15, 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary, on June 18, 2015, the Central Committee of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, has conveyed the following demand to the Mayor of Istanbul.

“Mr. Mayor,

On June 15, 1915, 20 Armenian revolutionaries, leaders and members of the Social Democrat Hunchakian party, were hung at the Sultan Bayazid Square in Istanbul.

They were; Matteos Sarkissian, Hagop Basmajian, Smpat Kelejian, Roupen Garabedian, Bedros Torosian, Armenag Hampartsoumian, Apraham Mouradian, Aram Achekbashian, Hrand Yegavian, Karekin Boghosian, Boghos Boghosian, Mourad Zakarian, Tovmas Tovmasian, Yeremia Manoukian, Mgrdich Yeretsian, Kegham Vanigian, Yervant Topuzian, Hovhannes Der-Ghazarian, Karnig Boyajian, and Kapriel Keshishian, and were buried collectively at the Edirne Gabui Armenian cemetery.

The Social Democratic Hunchaking Party Central Committee, desires to transport the remains of our comrades out of Turkey. Therefore, we demand that you facilitate the lawful ways of accomplishing this undertaking.”

During his speech marking the 100th anniversary in Los Angeles on June 14, 2015, the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party Central Committee Chairman Mr. Hagop Dikranian stated that the Party will formally demand from Turkey the return the remains of 20 Hunchakian Martyrs.

Mr. Dikranian stated, “Today on this stage, on behalf of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, I announce that we will soon be submitting an official demand to the relevant authorities in Turkey, to first identify and then surrender the Hunchakian twenty martyrs’ remains to us.”

Stressing that the party is committed and determined to accomplish this undertaking Mr. Dikranian further stated that, “The return of the Twenty Hunchakian Martyrs and their burial in Yerablur national cemetery in Armenia is a moral issue and a matter of principle for the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.”

President Serzh Sargsyan today attended the opening of the office of Wikimedia Armenia scientific-educational NGO on 2 Arshakunyats Street in Yerevan.

The Armenian president toured the office, familiarized himself with the activities of Wikimedia Armenia and its upcoming development projects. The president was presented that the goal of Wikimedia Armenia, an Armenian branch of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), is to encourage the distribution and development of wiki-based projects in Armenia and in the region and to popularize the idea of free knowledge.

At the conference hall of the office, Serzh Sargsyan took part in a discussion of issues pertaining to the development of wiki-based projects in Armenia which was also joined by RA Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan, RA Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosyan, the Director of the Intellectual Renaissance Foundation, Hakob Hakobyan, its founder Artur Janibekyan, the President of Wikimedia Hayastan NGO Susanna Mkrtchyan, the Chair of the WMF Board of Trustees, Jan-Bart de Vreede, the Head of WMF Grants and Global South Partnerships, Asaf Bartov, the Manager of Wikipedia Education Program, Anna Koval, GLAM-Wiki Coordinator for Europeana Liam Wyatt, the Director of the Intellectual Veratsnund Foundation Marina Sultanyan and project coordinator Armen Martirosyan.

As part of the opening ceremony of the Wikimedia Armenia Office, the participants watched a video on the results of cooperation between the Intellectual Renaissance Foundation and Wikimedia Armenia scientific-educational NGO.

Russia and Greece have signed a deal to create a joint enterprise for construction of the Turkish Stream pipeline across Greek territory, Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak said. The pipeline will have a capacity of 47 billion cubic meters a year, reports.

The construction costs are about €2 billion and the parties will sign a roadmap Friday, Novak told RIA at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

The Greek extension of the Turkish Stream project is called the South European pipeline in the memorandum signed on Friday, Novak said, adding that the construction will start in 2016 and be completed by 2019.

The two countries will have equal shares in the company, Novak said.Construction of the pipeline in Greece will be financed by Russia, and Athens will return the money afterward.

As part of the events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Committee for the Defense of the Armenian Cause (CDCA) has organized a roundtable discussion at the National Assembly of France, Nouvelles d’Armenie reports.

The discussion titled “Justice and Reparation for the Armenian people” features His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Geat House of Cilicia, Bruno Le Roux, President of the Socialist Group in the National Assembly, a number of prominent public and political figures.