U.S. law enforcement authorities have announced charges against 44 members of an Armenian-American criminal syndicate in connection with the operation of more than 100 medical clinics that filed some $100 million in fake claims to a government health insurance program.
In a last-minute U-turn, Azerbaijan withdrew late on Thursday a draft resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, strongly opposed by Armenia, from the United Nations General Assembly. (UPDATED)
