"Nominee refuses to call killings genocide
By DESMOND BUTLER – 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. diplomat nominated to be ambassador to Armenia came under intense questioning Thursday at her confirmation hearing over the U.S. policy not to label as genocide the World War I-era killings of huge numbers of Armenians.
Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who blocked the Bush administration's previous nominee over the issue, told The Associated Press that he had not decided whether also to block career diplomat Marie Yovanovitch."
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