Topic - Armenia

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Azerbaijan a threat to Nagorno-Karabakh

  Stephen Blank's concern about Iranian threats against Azerbaijan seem hollow in the face of Azerbaijan's ongoing efforts to deepen economic and political ties between the two countries ("America's drone in Iran's neighborhood," Commentary, Jan. 7).

• World Scene

  Azerbaijan on Wednesday launched free military intelligence courses for teenagers as young as 15 as the ex-Soviet state remains mired in an unresolved conflict with neighboring Armenia.

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  SANDS: Top chess players on tap as Eastern starts Dec. 27

  It's the most wonderful time of the year, time for that special event that lifts us out of the winter doldrums. Yes, the 38th annual Eastern Open kicks off Dec. 27, a four-section, seven-round Swiss event that regularly attracts one of the largest and strongest fields for a regional event.

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  SANDS: Clutch at crunch time, Hou Yifan retains chess title

  Young Chinese GM Hou Yifan has held on to her women's world championship crown, decisively defeating Indian challenger Humpy Koneru by a 5 1/2-2 1/2 score in their scheduled 10-game match in Tirana, Albania.

• World Briefs

  A buoyant Tunisia is to enter a new phase of democratic rule Tuesday with the inauguration of its elected constituent assembly, 10 months after a popular uprising ended years of dictatorship.

• Embassy Row

  The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the reported Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and called on Iran to cooperate with an investigation that already has linked the Islamist regime to the assassination attempt.

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  3 people pulled from Turkish quake rubble

  Two teachers and a university student were rescued from ruined buildings in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, three days after a devastating earthquake, but searchers said hopes of finding anyone else alive were fading rapidly.

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  Turks weep as survivors, bodies pulled from quake rubble

  Distraught Turkish families mourned outside a mosque or sought to identify loved ones among rows of bodies Monday as rescue workers scoured debris for survivors after a 7.2-magnitude quake that killed nearly 300 people.

• Embassy Row

  Armenian-Americans are cheering Sen. Robert Menendez for blocking the nomination of career diplomat John Heffern to serve as ambassador to Armenia.

• Embassy Row

  The leader of an anti-immigrant, ultranationalist party in Bulgaria is denouncing U.S. Ambassador James Warlick for meeting with a newly formed group of independent lawmakers, including some who bolted his political movement.

• Embassy Row

  Armenian-Americans are suspicious of President Obama's nominee to serve as ambassador to Armenia because he once worked for a man described as "consistently one of the most pro-Turkish and anti-Armenian representatives to serve in Congress."

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  Palestinians seek allies on statehood

  Warsaw and Prague might seem like unlikely battlegrounds in the Middle East conflict. Yet it suddenly matters - a lot - whether Poles, Czechs and others in the region align themselves with the Israelis or Palestinians.

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  SANDS: Dogged Gelfand wins shot at title in 2012

  He's is generally considered to be just outside the circle of the game's very elite, but Israeli GM Boris Gelfand has always been what they call in baseball a "tough out."

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  SANDS: Kamsky pulls surprise in world title hunt

  Just days after his grueling repeat triumph in the U.S. national championships, Brooklyn GM Gata Kamsky has upset former world champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to advance to the semifinal round at the FIDE candidates' matches under way in Kazan, Russia. The survivor of the eight-grandmaster scramble later this month qualifies for a date with reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand in a 12-game title match in the first half of 2012.

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  KAYDEN: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on the wrong side

  There is something weird and rather disturbing about Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - a U.S.-funded media outlet that is famous for broadcasting information during the Cold War to support our friends and undermine our enemies - attacking an ally over our mutual enemy, radical jihadism.

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