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JAPAN RESTARTS 1ST NUKE REACTOR AFTER FUKUSHIMA DISASTER
Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant as it restarted Sunday, July 1, the first to go back online since Japan shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following ...ATTACKS IN IRAQ KILL AT LEAST 282 PEOPLE IN JUNE
Attacks in Iraq killed at least 282 people in June, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources, though official figures put the death toll at less than half that number.
At least ...HAMAS MILITANT SENTENCED TO LIFE IN ISRAEL
A Hamas militant was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli military court on Sunday, July 1 for killing 46 people in a string of bombings during a Palestinian uprising, Reuters reported.
Ibrahim ...SYRIAN OPPOSITION GROUPS REJECT ANNAN TRANSITION PLAN
Syrian opposition groups have rejected a UN-brokered peace plan for a political transition in Syria as ambiguous and a waste of time, according to AP.
An international conference in Geneva on Saturday, ...JAPANESE RESEARCHES MAKE THINNEST SCREEN FROM SOAP BUBBLE
The latest innovation in screen design comes from Tokyo, where University of Tokyo researchers Yoichi Ochiai, Alexis Oyama and Keisuke Toyoshima have developed what is arguably the world's thinnest screen, ...ARMENIAN OFFICER DETAINED OVER ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP HARSNAKAR RESTAURANT
On the night of July 1, Armenian army colonel lieutenant Vardan Samvelyan made an attempt to blow up Harsnakar restaurant where 35-year-old military doctor Vahe Avetyan and two of his colleagues were ...MEEBO TO SHUT DOWN ALL SERVICES BY JULY 11
After being acquired by Google for what's believed to be around $100 million, Meebo has announced on its homepage that the chat client would be shutting down its services by July 11, 2012.
On that ...ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER ON 3-DAY VISIT TO ITALY
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman left on Sunday for a three-day visit to Italy, where he will meet his Italian counterpart and Prime Minister Mario Monti, the foreign ministry said, according ...16 KILLED, DOZENS WOUNDED IN KENYA CHURCH ATTACKS
Gunmen killed 16 people and wounded dozens when they opened fire and hurled grenades into two churches in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa on Sunday, July 1, officials said, in the latest in a string ...IRAN VOWS TO CONFRONT OIL SANCTIONS
Iran has stored up imports and hard currency for a "battle" against "dastardly" EU sanctions, officials said Sunday, July 1, the day that the measures aimed at pressuring the Islamic ...GREECE MUST FULFILL REFORMS"100 PERCENT", ECB OFFICIAL SAYS
Greece must fulfill the targets of its austerity and reform program "100 percent" to stay in the euro, a top European Central Bank official said Sunday, July 1 - offering little hope of substantial ...EGYPT SIGNS $1B DEAL WITH ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK
Egypt on Sunday, July 1 signed an accord with the Saudi-based Islamic Development Bank for $1 billion in funding for the purchase of energy and food products.
According to AFP, state news agency MENA ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1833 Creation of the "Special Reform Committee of the Transcaucasus" under the presidency of the Ministry of the Military, Chernishev.
- 1841 The London Convention deals with policies of the Black Sea channels. The Dardanelles and the Bosporus were proclaimed closed to all states, including Russian ships.
- 1847 Birth of the German armenologist Heinrich Helzer in Berlin (Germany). He died in 1906.
- 1861 Chilinkirian and Haykuni edit the "Flower" review in Smyrna. It is transferred, in 1865, to Constantinople.
- 1882 The "Byoorakn" periodical is published in Constantinople.
- 1918 The First Armenian Assembly of Artsakh declares the region self-governing and creates a National Council and Government.
- 1936 Hovhannes Abelyan (painter) dies in Yerevan. He was born in 1865.
- 1959 Creation of the Armenian Documentary and Color Film Studio in Yerevan.
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