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PLAYSTATION NETWORK DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE
The PlayStation Network is down March 4 for Sony's intended maintenance. According to Slash Gear, the scheduled inaccessibility for PS3 and PS Vita gamers is set to last fourteen hours solid - from just ...RUSSIANS VOTING TO ELECT PRESIDENT
Russians are voting on Sunday, March 4, to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation's post-Soviet history, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin bidding to return to the Kremlin for the third time, ...TRAINS COLLIDE IN POLAND, 15 DEAD
Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland late Saturday, March 3, leaving 15 people dead and 56 injured - the country's worst train disaster in more than 20 years, AP ...EIB PRESIDENT: EUROPE MUST NOT LOSE GREECE
European Investment Bank (EIB) President Werner Hoyer says Europe must not lose Greece, in an interview with a Greek newspaper on Sunday, March 4. "If we lose Greece, we will take European integration ...NKR LEADER, OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS DISCUSS KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
Nagorno Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group Robert Bradtke (USA), Igor Popov (Russia) and Jacques Faure (France) March 3. Artsakh Republic acting foreign ...CHINA BOOSTS MILITARY BUDGET BY 11%
China announced an increase of 11.2 per cent in its annual Sunday, March 4 amid international concern over its growing defense spending in recent years, M&C reported citing DPA.
The draft defense ...TOP ECONOMIST JEFFREY SACHS SEEKS WORLD BANK PRESIDENCY
Economist Jeffrey Sachs threw his hat into the ring to become the next president of the World Bank, saying it needs a development expert like himself rather than a politician or Wall Street banker, AFP ...ISRAEL WILL DECIDE ON IRAN AS "INDEPENDENT STATE" - FM
Israel will decide on what to do about Iran's nuclear activities as an "independent state," Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday, March 4 on the eve of a U.S.-Israel summit ...N. KOREA RALLIES AGAINST SOUTH FOLLOWING U.S. NUKE DEAL
North Korea threatened "sacred war" against the South in a huge rally in the capital on Sunday, March 4 just days after the secretive state agreed with the United States to suspend its nuclear ...75TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PROMINENT ARTIST RUDOLF KHACHATRYAN
Prominent Armenian artist Rudolf Khachatryan would have celebrated his 75th birthday today.
People's artist of the USSR Rudolf Khachatryan was born in Yerevan on March 4, 1937. His childhood was ...20,000 GATHER FOR ANTI-GOVT PROTESTS IN ROME
Thousands of far-right activists, anti-rail protesters and construction workers rallied in the streets of Rome on Saturday, March 3 in three protests against Prime Minister Mario Monti's government.
...KHAMENEI GAINS GROUND IN IRAN'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared to gain ground in his power struggle with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as preliminary results came in from parliamentary elections, CNN reported.Candidates ...RED CROSS DELIVERS AID NEAR HOMS
Red Cross and Red Crescent teams on Sunday, March 4 began distributing aid in a village near Homs and plan to move to other neighborhoods sheltering families who have fled the battered district of Baba ...AL-QAEDA SPLINTER GROUP WANTS $39 MLN TO RELEASE WESTERN HOSTAGES
An Al-Qaeda splinter group wants 30 million euros ($39 million) to free three European aid workers kidnapped in Algeria in October, a Malian source close to the mediators said on Saturday, AFP reported.
...MICROSOFT TO BRING WINDOWS MOBILE DEVICES TO MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA
Microsoft has entered into an agreement with Kuwait-based telecommunications company, Zain which will see Windows Mobile devices distributed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, The Next ...ANDREW STANTON'S "JOHN CARTER" TO BECOME NEW "BOND"?
John Carter director Andrew Stanton has revealed he hopes the sci-fi epic could become like the Bond franchise, and continue for decades, UKPA reported.
The film, starring Taylor Kitsch as the Virginia ..."HOUSE" STAR JESSE SPENCER TO PLAY IN "CHICAGO FIRE" DRAMA
House co-star Jesse Spencer is looking to stay in primetime as the lead of another drama series, Deadline reported.
Spencer, who has played Dr. Robert Chase on the Fox medical drama House for the past ...JULIA STILES JOINS "MIDNIGHT SUN" CRIME DRAMA CAST
Former Dexter star Julia Stiles is set to continue her run in gritty crime dramas with a starring role in the NBC pilot Midnight Sun, TV Line said. The thriller - which is being adapted from the Israeli ...RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TURNOUT RISES TO 58.3% BY 6 PM
Voter turnout for the March 4 Russian presidential polls had risen to 58.3 percent by 6 pm Moscow time, election officials said.
According to RIA Novosti, voting was brisk, with 47.6 percent turnout ...RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OVER, PUTIN LEADS
A mixed crowd of politicians and media personalities welcomed an expected victory for Vladimir Putin Sunday, March 4 night in an upbeat event at his campaign headquarters in central Moscow, according ...ISRAEL, CYPRUS INK UNDERWATER ELECTRICITY CABLE DEAL
Israel and Cyprus signed an accord Sunday, March 4 to lay an underwater electricity cable between the Mediterranean nations, the first stage in a bid to transfer power between the Jewish state and mainland ...LADY GAGA THE FIRST PERSON TO ATTRACT 20 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS
Lady Gaga has become the first person to attract 20 million followers on Twitter, blasting through that landmark number on Saturday, March 3. According to Mashable, Gaga topped fellow pop icon Britney ...TURKEY MAY CONSIDER ANNEXING NORTHERN CYPRUS
Turkey would consider annexing Northern Cyprus if talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots failed to reach a deal on reunification of the island, Turkey's European Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis told ...BLASTS ROCK REPUBLIC OF CONGO CAPITAL, KILLING 206
Blasts rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo Sunday, March 4 after a weapons depot caught fire, officials said, killing at least 206 people and pinning countless others underneath collapsed buildings, ...OBAMA BESTOWS U.S. HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARD ON ISRAELI PRESIDENT
U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday, March 4, that he was bestowing America's highest civilian award, the presidential Medal of Freedom, upon Israeli President Shimon Peres, for his "moral ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1878 Birth of Academician Alexander Tamanyan in Ekaterinadar (Russia). He drew up the architectural plan for Yerevan. He died in 1936.
- 1893 Birth of armenologist, orientalist, translator, scholar, professor, and academician Karapet Melik - Ohanjanyan in Kaler (Meghri district).
- 1917 The Russian Provisional Government publishes the decision about "Conscience and the Elimination of National Restrictions". His Holiness Catholics of All Armenians Gevorg the Fifth, on behalf of the dejected Armenians, in his memorandum to the Russian National Assembly, identifies the Provisional Government as the only protector of small nations, including Armenia.
- 1922 The Armenian New Orthography is adopted by Armenia's Council of Ministers.
- 1922 The Armenian SSR People's Committee decrees reforms in orthography.
- 1937 Birth of artist Rudolf Khachatryan in Yerevan.
- 1965 The new building of Yerevan's Gabriel Soondookyan Academy Theatre is inaugurated. Previously, the actors used the Stanislavski Theatre.
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