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Headlines for December 25, 2011
PUTIN HAS MAJORITY SUPPORT - SPOKESMAN
Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman said Sunday, December 25 after a mass protest challenged the premier's authority two months before he stands in presidential ...U.N. CUTS BUDGET AMID ECONOMIC TURMOIL
The U.N. General Assembly on Saturday, December 24, approved a 5 percent decrease in the United Nations' budget for 2012-2013 over the previous two-year period, only the second time in 50 years that ...IRAN REFUTES U.S. ALLEGATIONS ON 9/11 INVOLVEMENT
Iran rejected as "completely baseless" U.S. allegations that it was harboring an al Qaeda member who is accused of operating as a facilitator and financier for the group from the Islamic Republic.
...POPE CRITICIZES COMMERCIALIZATION OF CHRISTMAS
Pope Benedict XVI decried the increasing commercialization of Christmas as he celebrated Christmas Eve mass, urging the faithful to look beyond the holiday's "superficial glitter" to discover ...HIV DISCOVERY NAMED SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH OF 2011
An HIV discovery from researchers led by a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill scientist is the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2011, according to the journal Science.
The study found that early ...IRAN'S NAVY LAUNCHES DRILLS IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Iran's navy began a 10-day drill Saturday, December 24, in international waters near the strategic oil route that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The exercises, dubbed Velayat 90, could bring ...FIFA PRESIDENT HAS BEEN CALLED RACIST
Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has severely criticized the governing body's president Sepp Blatter.
Trinidadian Warner, who resigned from his position at FIFA in June,accused Blatter of "megalomania, ...
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- 1864 Birth of Nicoghayos Marr (orientalist, linguist, and archeologist). He died in 1934.
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- 1991 The Soviet Union is dissolved. Mikhail Gorbachev resigns.
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