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Headlines for January 14, 2012
LUXURY CRUISE SHIP RUNS AGROUND OFF THE COAST IN ITALY, AT LEAST 3 DEAD
A luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to a nearby island early Saturday, Jan 14. According ...ARMENIA FORWARD SIGNS CONTRACT WITH RUSSIAN FC
Armenia forward Marcos Pizzelli, who played for Ukraine's Metallurg in 2011, signed a 3-year contact with Russia's Kuban FC.
"Pizzelli is a qualified player with international experience and I'm confident ...CHINESE APPLE FANS THROW EGGS AT OFFICIAL OUTLET AFTER BEING REFUSED ENTRY
Apple said it was suspending sales of the new iPhone at its China stores after fans desperate to get their hands on it fought with security and threw eggs at an official outlet, AFP reported.
Police ...IAEA DELEGATION TO VISIT IRAN
Diplomatic sources announced on Friday, Jan 13, that a high-level International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation will visit Iran late this month to try to clear up West's concerns about Iran's ...FOUR PLAYERS SCORE 2 POINTS AT ARMENIAN MEN'S CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
The 72nd Armenian men's chess championship is ongoing at Tigran Petrosian Chess House, with 4 players having scored 2 points each after the first three rounds.
After beating Artashes Minasyan in ...HALO TRUST HEAD PRESENTS ORGANIZATION'S PLANS FOR 2012
On January 13, acting Foreign Minister of Nagorno Karabakh Republic Vasily Atajanyan met with the head of The HALO Trust Karabakh office Nick Smart. Mr. Smart briefed the FM on the organization's plans ...S&P DOWNGRADES FRANCE, AUSTRIA
The eurozone debt crisis returned with a vengeance on Friday, Jan 13, as Standard & Poor's, the credit rating agency, downgraded France and Austria - two of the currency zone's six triple A rated ...ARONIAN TO FACE KARJAKIN IN TATA STEEL ROUND 1
Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will play against Sergei Karjakin of Russia in round 1 of the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament held January 13-29, 2012 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.
The other pairings ...HÜRRIYET: NATO RADAR SYSTEM STARTS OPERATING IN TURKEY
An early warning radar system deployed in the eastern Anatolian province of Malatya began its surveillance activities Jan. 1, Hürriyet Daily News reported citing a source. A small number of U.S. ...ARMENIAN OFFICIALS RECEIVE DIPLOMATIC DEGREES
By the decree of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, a number of high-level officials have been granted the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. They are as follows: head ...ABRAHAM, FARIAS MAKE WEIGHT
Former middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26KOs) and his opponent, Argentine Pablo Farias (19-1, 11 KOs) made weight for the big Jan 14 show in Offenburg, Germany.
Abraham, who begins his comeback ...IMAGINE CUP ARMENIA 2012 COMPETITION KICKS OFF
Microsoft Innovation Center Armenia and Microsoft RA are announcing Imagine Cup 2012 student competition for Software Design Category.
The winner team of the Armenian Final will represent Armenia at ...UAV ROBOTICS CONTEST TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA
In the framework of Armenian Robots Open Championship (ArmRobotics), the Union of Information Technologies Enterprises (UITE) announces registration for the Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) contest.
According ...TURKEY NEGOTIATES F-35 FLIGHT CODES PURCHASE WITH U.S.
Turkey and the United States are negotiating over flight codes for the two F-35 warplanes that Turkey plans to buy from the U.S. in 2015 as well as any future purchases. "When it comes to the plane's ...TATA STEEL CHESS TOURNAMENT TO KICK OFF JAN 14
Winner of Tata Steel Super-GM tournaments, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov expressed readiness to place a bid for the victory of either Magnus Carlsen or Levon Aronianin the starting round, ...U.S. CONCERNED THAT ISRAEL PREPARES MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN
The U.S. government is concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran over U.S. objections, and has stepped up contingency planning to safeguard U.S. facilities in the region, ...MURRAY BEATS NALBANDIAN AT KOOYONG
Murray, who has been drawn against young American Ryan Harrison in the first round of the season's opening grand slam, eventually prevailed 6-3 7-6 (10/8).
Andy Murray continued his preparation for ...SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE IN IRAQ
A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 15 people in an attack that targeted Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims passing through a checkpoint in Iraq's southern city of Basra on Saturday, ...BAN KI-MOON CONDEMNS MURDER OF IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, January 13 any killing like that of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran earlier this week was to be condemned.
Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was killed ...LIBYA STARTS WITHDRAWING OLD CURRENCY
Libya's central bank has started withdrawing old currency in an apparent attempt to restore liquidity into the country's banking system after it found that the vast majority of funds are being ...ROGOZIN PLANTS POPLARS NEAR NATO HEADQUARTERS
Former Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin has planted two poplars near the alliance's headquarters in Brussels in a farewell gesture, RIA Novosti reported. Symbolically enough, a poplar, or "topol" ...ARMENIA, CHINA DEVELOPING MILITARY COOPERATION
Armenian Defense Ministry representatives met with a visiting delegation of China's Ministry of National Defense to discuss bilateral relations, cooperation in military education and rear security.
An ...PHOTO EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO PARAJANOV OPENS IN KYIV
Taras H. Shevchenko Museum saw the launch of a photo exhibition dedicated to prominent Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov, organized through support of Ministry of Culture, Taras Shevchenko Museum, ...ARMENIAN FORWARD MANUCHARYAN LEAVES URAL FC PRACTICE SESSION
Armenian forward Edgar Manucharyan had to leave Ural FC team practice session in Turkey due to an injury, according to the club's official website.
Manucharyan recently underwent treatment of the injury ...OBAMA, ERDOGAN SPEAK ON PHONE
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on phone on Friday, Jan 13, to discuss regional developments, Today's Zaman reported.
The PM's office said in a statement ...CLINTON TO PAY QUICK VISIT TO FOUR NATIONS IN WEST AFRICA
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will pay a quick, two-day visit to four nations in West Africa early next week, launching her travel schedule for the year with a trip aimed at highlighting good ...AZERBAIJAN CONTINUES CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS IN 2012
With the start of 2012, heavy ceasefire violations continued at the contact line between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces, with Azerbaijan firing around 90 shots from various caliber weapons ...EGYPT'S MILITARY RULER TO VISIT LIBYA
Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi is to visit Libya on Monday, Jan 16, to bolster ties between the two neighboring countries where popular protests have unseated veteran leaders, ...DEATH TOLL FROM SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK IN IRAN RAISES TO 50
The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on Shi'ite pilgrims in the southern Iraqi city of Basra has risen to 50 people with another 100 wounded in the blast, Riyadh Abdul-Ameer, director of the ...TURKISH FM: TURKEY HAS NO PLAN TO ATTACK ANY COUNTRY
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has stated during his visit to Iran that the U.S missile shield system to be deployed under the umbrella of NATO targets no neighboring country including Iran. Davutoglu ...IRAN SAYS IT HAS EVIDENCE OF U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN SCIENTIST'S KILLING
Iranian state television said on Saturday, Jan 14, Tehran had evidence Washington was behind the latest assassination of one of its nuclear scientists, Reuters reports. In the fifth attack of its kind ...1 KILLED, 10 INJURED AS DRIVER ON DRUGS RUNS INTO CROWD IN UKRAINE
One girl was killed and other 10 people were injured as a driver who used psychoactive substances crashed into a crowd enjoying public festivity in one of the squares of the Ukrainian city of Lugansk, ...AZNAVOUR MEETS WITH SWISS PRESIDENT AND FM
On January 11, Armenian Ambassador to Switzerland, world-known chansonnier Charles Aznavour partook in New Year greetings traditional presentation ceremony organized for diplomatic missions accredited ...KANEX UNVEILS IOS DEVICE CHARGER
A company called Kanex has unveiled an offering at CES that will be great for those with lots of Apple gadgets in the home, i4u.com reports.
The charge station is called the Sydnee.
The cool charging ...FRANCE TO PUSH AHEAD WITH COST-CUTTING MEASURES
France's Prime Minister said Saturday, Jan 14, his country will push ahead with cost-cutting measures after its top-tier debt rating was downgraded, a blow with repercussions across financially beleaguered ...IBM RESEARCHERS STORED SINGLE DATA BIT IN ONLY 12 ATOMS
Researchers have successfully stored a single data bit in only 12 atoms.
Currently it takes about a million atoms to store a bit on a modern hard-disk, the researchers from IBM say. They believe this ...U.S. REP.: MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST IRAN MAY WREAK HAVOC ON ISRAEL
Former U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell says the idea of launching a military strike against Iran is untenable, as the measure could wreak tremendous havoc on Israel. "I don't think anyone ...ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE FILES SUIT TO RETRIEVE HISTORICAL BUILDING IN ISTANBUL
The Turkish-Armenian Patriarchate has filed a lawsuit in an unprecedented move to retrieve a historical Armenian building in Istanbul, the Sansaryan Han, despite the fact the building had not been registered ...1 KILLED, 14 WOUNDED IN LIBYAN CLASHES
Clashes between rival Libyan militia have killed one person and wounded 14, the latest in a series of incidents involving armed groups refusing to hand in their weapons, Reuters reports. The clashes ...ELBARADEI WILL NOT RUN IN EGYPT'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - SOURCE
Mohamed ElBaradei will not run in Egypt's presidential election scheduled for later this year and will announce his withdrawal later on Saturday, Jan 14, a source on his campaign team told Reuters. ...OFFICIAL: IRAN HAS NOT STORED OIL ON TANKERS IN THE GULF
Iran has not stored oil on tankers in the Gulf, and its crude exports have not been disrupted due to mounting international pressure over its disputed nuclear program, an oil official told the semi-official ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1832 The opening of Yerevan's Provincial School.
- 1899 Death of the Egyptian diplomat and philanthopist Noobar Pasha. He was born in 1825.
- 1912 Yerevan's water-mains system is inaugurated.
- 1916 Carl Liebknecht said in the Reichstag: "The Turkish government organized horrific massacres of the Armenians. The whole world knows about this and for this crime the whole world blames Germany".
- 1921 Opening of the first meeting of Yerevan's and Echmiadsin's provincial teachers.
- 1922 Death of Anton Gosh, a participant in the assassination attempt of Yildiz.
- 1930 Birth of Edgar Hovhannissyan (composer).
- 1969 Creation of the Masseess region in Armenia.
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