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Headlines for July 02, 2012HERMAN VAN ROMPUY TO VISIT ARMENIA
President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy is to visit our region. On July 3 the President of the European Council will start his regional tour from Armenia. He will leave for Georgia on July ...OPPOSITION WINS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN MEXICO
Mexico's old rulers claimed victory in a presidential election on Sunday, ending 12 years in opposition after a campaign dominated by a sputtering economy and rampant drug violence, the Reuters reports.
After ...ARTSRUN HOVHANNISYAN APPOINTED DEFENSE MINISTRY SPOKESMAN
By the order of the Armenian Defense Minister Artsrun Hovhannisyan was appointed as Defense Ministry spokesman, ministerial press service said. Artsrun Hovhannisyan was born in 1980 in the village of ...US DRONE KILLED EIGHT IN PAKISTAN
Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed eight suspected militants in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. They say missiles fired from an unmanned drone ...ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER TO BE BURIED IN JERUSALEM
Yitzhak Shamir, who served as Israel's prime minister from 1986 to 1992, has died at the age of 96. Shamir had been living in a nursing home in Tel Aviv and had Alzheimer's disease for several years. ...ISLAMIST REBELS DESECRATE MALI'S RELIGIOUS SITES
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has warned Islamist rebels in northern Mali that their systematic destruction of revered Muslim tombs in Timbuktu is a war crime, which her ...THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT I WARN YOU, DO NOT TOUCH THE ARMY
", those who have bodyguards and armed people let them behave themselves," said the head of the headquarter of Armed Forces General- Colonel Yuri Khachaturov at the funeral ceremony of Vahe Avetyan and ...MORE THAN 16,500 KILLED IN SYRIA
More than 16,500 people have been killed in violence since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad broke out in March last year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The 16,507 ...RA PRESIDENT MEETS V. YANUKOVICH
Today the RA President Serzh Sargsyan who is in Ukraine on an official visit had a meeting with the President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovich. Issues concerning the Armenian - Ukrainian bilateral relations ...A ROCKET FIRED FROM LEBANON WOUNDED TWO PEOPLE
A rocket fired from Lebanon has wounded two Syrian border police and triggered retaliatory gunfire from Syrian forces, officials and Lebanon's General Security agency said. "ON Monday at dawn, gunmen ...THIRD ROUND OF COME HOME PROGRAM OPENED
The third round of Come Home (Ari Tun) program opened at the Ministry of Diaspora today. At the ceremony representatives of administrative regions of Yerevan, local self-governing bodies, Armenian communities ...KOFI ANNAN TO ARRIVE IN RUSSIA IN JULY
U.N. envoy Kofi Annan will arrive in Syria in mid July.
According to Utro.ru he is invited and will arrive in Russia in mid July.
It is also mentioned that Annan is going to hold meetings with the RF ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1804 The 5000-strong Russian force beseiges Yerevan.
- 1833 Birth of Grigor Chilinkiryan (public figure and translator) in Smyrna. He died in 1923.
- 1833 Death of Ghookas Inchichyan (armenologist and geographer) in Venice. He was born in 1758.
- 1840 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 7.0) occurs at Ararat and affects a 5000 sq. km. area. It kills 1000 people.
- 1915 Russian forces retreat, resulting in a massive flight of Armenians from Van and Vaspoorakan. There are huge losses when the Turkish army massacres the remnants of the Armenian population.
- 1921 The Red Army reaches Goris.
- 1946 The first group of Diasporan Armenians are repatriated to Armenia.
- 1985 The 38th Meeting of UN Sub-Committee discusses and approves the report submitted by Great Britain's Representative, Benjamin Whittaker. The 24th paragraph of this report qualifies the Armenian Massacres as an example of Genocide.
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