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Published on January 07, 2008
FIRE
A fire broke out in the village of Nor Kharberd, Ararat Marz, at 01.53 January 1. Three fire brigades left for the scene. The fire was extinguished at 03.20 a.m.
An 80-square-meter house belonging to M. Gevorgian burnt down as a result of the fire.
6-year-old Angela Gevorgian died on the spot.
3-year-old Sahak Gevorgian was taken to hospital. Doctors say his state is grave.
To note, 29 fires have broken out in Armenia over the past week, the Armenian rescue service reports.
POISONING
On January 6, 56-year-old Geghetsik, 9-year-old Henrik and 5-year-old Armen Hakobians, residents of Tsakhkar village, were taken to hospital with gas poisoning.
Their state is of average seriousness.
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Headlines for January 07, 2008CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP IS DUE JANUARY 8
The 68th Armenian men’s chess championship kicks off at the Chess House after Tigran Petrossian on January 8, 2008. Armenian Grand Masters Smbat Lputian, Karen Asrian, Tigran Petrossian, Artashes Minassian, ...ARMENIA SLIPPED BACK
FIDE made public the best chess players of 2007. Armenian Grand Masters Levon Aronian and Vladimir Hakobian slipped back to the 10th and 23rd places respectively.
Last year Aronian took the 9th place ...GOLD PRICE GOES UP
Today gold is sold at $20-22 per a gramme at Armenian markets. Tradespeople explain the stiff prices with the recent increase of oil prices and dollar devaluation.
“It is two days gold prices have ...FALSE ALARM
Sunday morning, January 6, 2008, Armenian Christmas Day, a false bomb scare disturbed the religious service of the Armenian Church in Paris, Jean Echian from Paris reports. An anonymous call from a phone ...BMI INTRODUCES NEW CABIN BAGGAGE POLICY
bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, is to introduce new cabin baggage rules with effect from Monday 7th January 2008, easing the "one bag rule" for hand luggage taken on flights, following ...“OYP HAS NOTHING AGAINST TER-PETROSSIAN”
“The opposition will unite and go outside if the presidential elections of Armenia resemble those of Georgia, i.e. they are accompanied with water cannons and vote tampering,” secretary of the Orinats ...ARMENIAN CIVILIAN DIED DURING LANDING
27-year-old Revik Grigorian died during a Moscow-Yerevan flight on the night of January 6. He felt bad during the flight. After taking his blood pressure the stewardess gave an alarm of immediate landing. ...FIRE
A fire broke out in the village of Nor Kharberd, Ararat Marz, at 01.53 January 1. Three fire brigades left for the scene. The fire was extinguished at 03.20 a.m.
An 80-square-meter house belonging ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1824 Birth, in Constantinople, of the author Archbishop Arsen Aytenian, of the Mkhitarist Congregation.
- 1825 Birth of Armenian linguist, philologist, and the future Head Abbot of the Mkhitarist Congregation of Vienna, Arsen Aytnyan.
- 1828 End of the two-month reconciliation negotiations of Dehkhrak.
- 1880 Birth of director Arshak Burdjalyan in Astrakhan (Russia). He was one of the founders of the Armenian school of theater directors.
- 1915 The Central Council of the Social Democrat (Hntshak) Party in Paris appeals to the world to save the Armenians of Western Armenia (living under Turkish misrule) from the danger of annihilation. The Armenian Genocide of about one million Armenians started some four months later.
- 1920 Death of writer Vahan Terian.
- 1925 Opening of the Martiros Saryan exhibition in Paris.
- 1984 President Francois Mitterand of France gives a speech condemning the Armenian Genocide.
- 1994 Horadiz is retaken by the Artsakh forces.
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