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“The Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence,” said a US senator named Barack Obama in 2008, before he sought to be elected to the highest office in the land. He was right then. He is so very wrong now. On 24 April 1915, near the end of the Ottoman empire, more than 200 Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul, most of whom were in government custody, were killed. More than a million of their kin were killed in the following...

The major United Nations powers last night agreed to offer Iran a stark choice of benefits or sanctions in the latest international gambit to persuade Teheran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.The initiative followed the failure of talks between the foreign ministers of Russia, China, France, Britain, America and Germany to resolve the deadlock on how to confront Iran. The "carrot or stick" plan came as US officials conceded that their hopes of pushing through this week a UN resolution mandating Iran's suspension of its nuclear enrichment programme were over. "I think the prospects for an agreement this week are not...