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Headlines for December 10, 2011PARIS WON'T STOP PEACEKEEPING ACTIONS
A roadside bomb wounded five French peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, in the third attack this year on United Nations forces deployed near the frontier with Israel, the Reuters reports.
The ...SNOW EXPECTED
The weather in Armenia will be conditioned by Western cyclone influence. On the 10th of December snow is expecte in the whole territory. Wind up to 23mps, snowstorm is possible in mounts and ravines, ...B.SAHAKYAN CONGRATULATES ON NKR STATE INDEPENDENCE DAY
On 10 December President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan sent a congratulatory address in connection with the Day of NKR State Independence Referendum and Constitution, the address reads:
"Dear ...SERGEI MIRONOV RF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Just Russia party has approved the nomination of its leader Sergei Mironov as its presidential candidate. This came in a statement to reporters earlier this Saturday by the party chairman Nikolai Levichev. ...JODIE FOSTER'S FATHER JAILED FOR 5 YEARS
A judge has sentenced Jodie Foster's estranged father to five years in a Los Angeles jail for bilking more than $100,000 from poor and elderly people in a home-building scheme, cbsnews.com reports. City ...FAREWELL CEREMONY FOR LEBANESE PRESIDENT
Today at the Presidential Palace took place a farewell ceremony for President of Lebanon Michel Sleiman who had arrived in Armenia on an official visit. As the President's press office informs, the Armenian ...JAPAN'S KYUSHU NUCLEAR PLANT LEAKS
Water containing radioactive materials leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan, but was contained and did not escape into the environment, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said ...LUNAR ECLIPSE TO BE VIEWED TODAY
The last Lunar Eclipse of this year will take place today on December 10. The unusual display, caused by the moon moving into the shadow of the Earth, will be possible to view from different parts of ...WINTER MAKES THE WOMEN OLDER
A team of beauty scientists studied the eyes of 5,000 women throughout the seasons and found bags under the eyes were significantly darker during the colder months, the Telegraph reports. They concluded ...ELINA DANIELIAN RECEIVED 1 POINT OUT OF 2 POSSIBLE
Grand Master Elina Danielian and International Master Elmira Skripchenko-Aghababian (France) take part in the chess competition included in the World Mind Games. The Games are being held in Beijing, China. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1827 Russian officers premiere - in Yerevan's Sardar Palace - Griboedov's (Russian Ambassador in Persia) comedy "Grief of the Mind".
- 1864 The Senate exiles Meekael Nalbandyan (author and political activist) to Kamish.
- 1901 Start of the Armenian Students' Congress in Riga (Latvia). Stepan Shahoomyan heads the revolutionary social-democrat block at the ten-day meeting.
- 1903 Birth of Goorgen Janibekyan (actor). He died in 1956.
- 1917 The Caucasian Army's Second Assembly opens in Tbilissi. Decisions are taken on Soviet governance in the Caucasus.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Committee of the Armenian SSR nationalizes banks.
- 1922 Opening of the First Council of the Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Transcaucasus. The next congresses took place in 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1935.
- 1991 Artsakh holds a referendum on independence in the presence of foreign observers subject to the Soviet laws in legal effect at the time. 82% of the electorate (as determined by the latest available census of January 1989) voted 99.7% in favor of secession according to the 1990 04 03 Soviet law that was valid and internationally recognized at that time. Based on the results, independence is declared by the Supreme Council on 1992 01 06.
- 1998 Death of Manouk Atoyan (engineer) in Javakhk (Georgia). He was born in 1925.
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