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Armenian shooter Lilit Mkrtchyan won a silver medal in 10 meter running target event of the European Championships.
The tournament is currently underway in the Slovenian town of Maribor.
The Armenian had earlier taken the 4th spot in the qualifying round to become a finalist.
In her final performance, Mkrtchyan was defeated by Halyna Avramenko of Ukraine, Armenia’s Olympic Committee says.
Junior & U23 European Weightlifting Championships ended in Eilat, Israel with the Armenian athletes winning two gold, one silver and bronze medals.
Rio Olympics vice champion Simon Martirosyan (105kg weight class, coach Ashot Pilosyan) and Davit Hovhannisyan (77kg weight class, coach Rostom Khudanyan) became European champions among juniors.
Armenia’s women’s team member Sona Poghosyan conquered silver in the 75kg weight class (coach Hripsime Khurshudyan), while Samvel Gasparyan (coach Harutyun Yeghoyan), competing in the 94kg weight class, won another silver for Armenia
To note, the Armenia’s Weightlifting team participated in the U20 championship headed by head coach Melik Ghukasyan.
The NY police twitted that a possible second explosive device was found in the Chelsea neigborhood in Manhattan, which was hit by a major blast hours ago, injuring some 29 people.
The suspected explosive device was found on Saturday in New York City near the site of a blast in the Chelsea neighborhood, Harry J. Wedin, chief of the New York Police Department’s Special Operations Division, said in a message on Twitter. The police warned people to avoid the area of explosion.
The police has reportedly cordoned off the territory around the area where the second suspected bomb has been discovered.
Fox News reported that the second explosive device is made of a pressure cooker. A source told CNN that the device had wires attached and appeared to be connected to a cell phone.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said to reporters that the blast was intentional. However, he noted that it’s early to talk about the connection between the New York blast and that that occurred earlier on Saturday in New Jersey.
“There is no specific and credible threat against New York city at this point in time from any terror organization,” he underscored.
The explosion occurred at 8:30 PM at 135 23rd St. in downtown Manhattan between 6th and 7th avenue.
The blast caused 29 injuries with none of them life threatening, the city’s Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said at a press conference. The Russian consulate general in the US reported that no Russian citizens were injured in the explosion.
Armenia with the Genealogy group that will perform the song “Face The Shadow” is in second position in the list of passages in the first semi-final of Eurovision 2015 on May 19 in Vienna (Austria). The list of the final first-years are:
– 1. Moldova
– 2. Armenia
– 3. Belgium
– 4. Netherlands
– 5. Finland
– 6. Greece
– 7. Estonia
– 8. Macedonia
– 9. Serbia
– 10. Hungary
– 11. Belarus
– 12. Russia
– 13. Denmark
– 14. Albania
– 15. Romania
– 16. Georgia
Krikor Amirzayan
A new video has been posted on the internet purported to show Islamic State militants beheading American journalist Steven Sotloff.
The Associated Press and the SITE Intel Group, an organization that tracks the online activity of terrorist groups, both reported on Tuesday that the Islamic State has posted a video of the execution barely two weeks after the group formerly known as ISIS published a similar clip of American photojournalist James Foley suffering the same fate.
“I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State,” a masked militant believed to be the same who executed Foley addresses the president in the latest video.
Kneeling in an orange jump suit, Sotloff is seen in the clip reading a statement to the president as Foley did before him.
“Obama, your foreign policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for preservation of American lives and interests, so why is it that I am paying the price of your interference with my life?” Sotloff asks.
“As your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike necks of your people,” the masked man says before killing Sotloff. Another captured civilian — David Cawthorne Haines of the UK — will be the next murdered unless “this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State” ends, militants warn in the video.
The White House could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the latest video, “A Second Message to America,” but press secretary Joshua Earnest said during a briefing on Tuesday that the administration’s “thoughts and prayers” are with Sotloff’s family. Jen Psaki, a spokesperson for the US Department of State, said she was “sickened” by the news, and British Prime Minister David Cameron called it an “absolutely disgusting, despicable act.”
A 31-year-old freelance journalist who has written for Time magazine and the Christian Science Monitor, among others, Sotloff was kidnapped near Aleppo, Syria in August 2013. According to a profile published in the New York Times last month, Sotloff’s family tried desperately during the last year to keep his abduction quiet due to fears that the publicity would endanger him further, but changed course recently after the Islamic State warned that he’d be among the next executed lest the United State end its campaign against the militants.
Upon release of the Foley video last month, the Islamic State demanded that US President Barack Obama cease attacks on the group or else risk Sotloff becoming the next casualty of the group’s violent campaign in Iraq and Syria.
Sotloff’s fate, a militant warned Pres. Obama last month, “depends on your next decision.” In response, Sotloff’s mother posted a minute-and-a-half-long video plea asking Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to release her son.
“You, the caliph, can grant amnesty. I ask you please to release my child. I ask you to use your authority to spare his life,” Shirley Sotloff pleaded.