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Headlines for April 08, 2012
ORINATS YERKIR ANNOUNCES PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PLAN
Orinats Yerkir coalition party announced its parliamentary election plan.
As the party leader, National Security Council Secretary Artur Baghdasaryan stated, "the program aims to improve poor economic ...ARMENIAN CONSUMERS PREFER BRAND-NAME STORES - ALDO OFFICIAL
Armenian consumers have been showing more preference for brand-name clothing, which, in turn, helps form popular taste, ALDO PR & Marketing Director for Armenia told PanARMENIAN.Net.
At an event ...SYRIA WANTS "WRITTEN GUARANTEES" FOR PULLING BACK TROOPS
Syria said on Sunday, April 8 it wants "written guarantees" that insurgents will stop fighting before it pulls back troops under a peace plan agreed by President Bashar al-Assad, casting fresh ...ISTANBUL TO HOST TEHRAN NUKE TALKS - IRANIAN STATE TV
Iran's state media says Istanbul has been confirmed as the venue for a new round of talks scheduled for this week between Tehran and the six major powers over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear ...U.S., WESTERN NATIONS TO SET DEMANDS AHEAD OR IRAN NUKE TALKS
The United States and other Western nations plan to demand that Iran immediately close and ultimately dismantle a recently completed nuclear facility deep under a mountain as part of new talks with Tehran ...NOBEL-WINNING WRITER GUENTER GRASS BANNED FROM VISITING ISRAEL
Israel has banned German intellectual Guenter Grass from visiting the country because of a critical poem published by the Nobel laureate last week, The Associated Press reported.
In his order, Interior ...JAPAN DEPLOYS MISSILE BATTERIES AS N. KOREA READIES ROCKET LAUNCH
Japan has deployed missile batteries in central Tokyo and dispatched destroyers as North Korea makes final preparations for a rocket launch that could take place this week despite global condemnation, ...PAKISTANI MILITARY RESUMES SEARCH FOR AVALANCHE SURVIVORS
The Pakistani military on Sunday, April 8 resumed desperate efforts to find survivors after an avalanche engulfed an army camp high in the mountains of Kashmir, leaving up to 135 people feared dead, AFP ...RUSSIAN MILITARY OBSERVERS LAUNCH SURVEILLANCE FLIGHT OVER U.S.
A group of Russian military observers begin on Sunday, April 8 a nine-day inspection mission in the skies of the United States under the Open Skies Treaty, RIA Novosti reported.
According to the Russian ...EGYPT'S EX-VP OMAR SULEIMAN TO JOIN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Egypt's former vice-president, Omar Suleiman, has said he intends to be a candidate in Egypt's presidential elections next month, BBC News reported.
He had previously ruled himself out of the ...7 KILLED, 21 INJURED IN LEBANON-SYRIA BORDER ATTACK
Seven people were killed and 21 wounded after unknown assailants opened fire on a bus with pilgrims at a checkpoint on the border between Lebanon and Syria, RIA Novosti reported citing Daily Star Lebanese ...PARLIAMENT HEAD BACK TO MALI, SIGNALS RETURN TO CIVILIAN RULE
Mali's parliamentary head, who was forced into exile after last month's coup, has returned to the crisis nation - marking the first step in Mali's path back to constitutional rule, Belfast ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA LAUNCHES PARLIAMENT RACE IN ABOVYAN
Prosperous Armenia coalition party launched its parliamentary race in Abovyan, the native city of party leader Gagik Tsarukyan.
As Tsarukyan said at the meeting with local residents, the party's ...LUC BESSON'S "LOCKOUT" 5-MINUTE CLIP RELEASED
Europa posted roughly the first five minutes of Lockout, which features star Guy Pearce being pummeled while he's interrogated about "what happened in that hotel room," Deadline reported.
What happened ...RILEAN PICTURES TO REMAKE ROHMER'S "LE BEAU MARIAGE"
Los Angeles-based Rilean Pictures has acquired the remake rights to Eric Rohmer's Le Beau Mariage (A Good Marriage), Deadline reported.
Rilean partners Jonathan Saba and Juan Iglesias will write and ...PARAMOUNT READIES LATINO-THEMED PARANORMAL ACTIVITY HORROR
Paramount and the producers of Paranormal Activity are prepping a spinoff of sorts. The new project will reunite producers Jason Blum and Oren Peli with Christopher Landon, the writer of the second and ...TURKEY SAYS WILL TAKE "STEPS" UNLESS SYRIA VIOLENCE ENDS
Turkey's prime minister has warned of as yet unspecified "steps" if the government of neighbouring Syria fails to abide by an April 10 deadline to cease violence, local media reported on ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Ahekan was the 9th month in the old Armenian calendar (April 8 to May 7). The name of this month is connected with fire and the awakening of spring.
- 1880 Death of Gabriel Aivazovski in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1810 in Feodosia (the Ukraine).
- 1907 Death of Reteos Berberian, public figure and teacher. He was born in 1848.
- 1958 Death of historian Garnik Kizalian. He was born in 1893.
- 1975 The House of Representatives (USA) accepts a resolution (number 148), designating 1975 04 24 to be a National Commemoration Day of Man's Inhumanity to Man.
- 1997 US Congressmen George Radanovich and David Banner present a legislative project to the Congress. They call to accept a special motion condemning the Armenian Genocide.
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