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Headlines for August 02, 2012
U.S. CONGRESS PASSES NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
The Congress overwhelmingly passed a new package of sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, August 1 that aims to punish banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Tehran sell its oil, Reuters reported.
...PAPER: ARMAVIA'S CZECH PILOTS REFUSE TO OPERATE FLIGHTS TO SYRIA
According to Hayots Ashkhar paper, Czech pilots employed by Armavia air company on contract basis refuse to operate flights to Syria, given Czech foreign ministry's instruction to refrain from visiting ...PAPER SAYS EX-MINISTER SIRADEGHYAN DEAD
Armenia's former interior minister Vano Siradeghyan passed away a few months ago, Hraparak paper reports, citing ex-minister's friend.
A famous intellectual, who was once friends with Siradeghyan, ...BIG STAFF REDUCTIONS RECORDED IN ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY, PAPER SAYS
According to Zhamanak paper, big staff reductions have been recorded in Armenian Defense Ministry.
By Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan's decree general Sergei Chalyan, general staff deputy head, lieutenant ...SYRIAN REBELS BOMBARD AIR BASE NEAR ALEPPO
Syrian rebels on Thursday, August 2 bombarded an air base being used by regime forces to pound the northern city of Aleppo, as a rights watchdog reported 43 people killed in a raid near the capital Damascus, ...2012 FIRST HALF MACROECONOMIC OUTCOMES SUMMARIZED IN ARMENIA
In the first half of 2012, Armenia's economic activity index increased by 7,8%, as compared with the same peroid of 2011, Finance Minister said.
According to Vache Gabrielyan, 13% growth was recorded ...U.S. TIGHTENS PRESSURE FOR EURO ZONE DEBT CRISIS ACTION
The United States raised the pressure on euro zone leaders to take decisive action on solving the region's debt crisis, notably by lowering troubled members' borrowing costs, on the eve of a crucial ...ARMENIAN FINANCE MINISTER HAILS ECONOMIC GROWTH CONSISTENCY
Armenia's state budget was replenished with taxes and social payments at the amount of AMD 80,5 bln. in July, instead of the planned AMD 70,5 bln, Finance Minister said.
According to Vache Gabrielyan, ...ARGENTINA'S SAN ISIDRO URBAN COUNCIL PASSES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
On August 1, Buenos Aires agglomeration's San Isidro municipality council unanimously passed the resolution on the Armenian Genocide recognition and condemnation, thus joining "The Action Day for ...BOHJALIAN'S "THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS" PRESENTED ON CAPITOL HILL
New York Times Best-Selling author Chris Bohjalian capped a full day on Capitol Hill with a compelling presentation of "The Sandcastle Girls," his newly published novel about the Armenian Genocide, ...AZNAVOUR TO HEADLINE AKHALTSIKHE FORTRESS OPENING CONCERT IN GEORGIA
Legendary French chansonnier of Armenian origin Charles Aznavour will headline a concert dedicated to the opening of the rehabilitated Rabat fortress in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia.
According to Georgia Online, ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA TO NOMINATE ONLY VICTORIOUS CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS
Candidate nomination in all communities for September 9 local government elections is no priority for the Prosperous Armenia, the party's spokesman said.
"We have a simple task - to nominate candidates ...EUROPEAN CHAMPION: ALL ARMENIAN ATHLETES HAVE CHANCE FOR OLYMPIC WIN
Armenian athletes have chances to win Olympic medals, European champion and Freestyle Wrestling World Cup bronze medal winner Martin Berberyan said.
"Unfortunately, up until now our team has shown unsuccessful ...TYPHOON SAOLA KILLS 5 IN TAIWAN, CHINA ON ALERT
Torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding across Taiwan on Thursday, August 2 killing five people and injuring 15, as Typhoon Saola skirted the island's east and north coasts and headed towards ...SPANISH POLICE ARREST 3 AL-QAEDA SUSPECTS
Police in southern Spain have arrested three suspected al-Qaeda members in possession of explosives and poison, BBC News said citing Spanish.
They say the suspects are a Turk and two men possibly of ...INDIA TO LAUNCH MARS MISSION IN 2012
India plans to launch a mission to Mars next year, putting an orbital probe around the red planet to study its climate and geology, top space department officials said on Thursday, August 2, according ...SONY POSTS $316 MILLION QUARTERLY LOSS
Sony's red ink worsened in the April-June quarter and it lowered its full-year earnings forecast as it battles a strong yen and declining sales of liquid crystal display TVs and video game machines, ...RA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE READY TO HELP SYRIAN ARMENIANS RUN BUSINESS
Escalating tensions in Syria may be characterized as a "civil war", Arabist Araks Pashanyan said.
"Situation in Syria is of importance to Armenia, considering 100 000 fellow citizens residing in the ...AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES THWART MASS INSURGENT RAID ON KABUL
Afghan security forces killed five insurgents and wounded one during a pre-dawn raid in Kabul on Thursday, August 2 with authorities saying they had thwarted a mass attack and captured intelligence pointing ...ED SHEERAN, PINK FLOYD CONFIRMED FOR OLYMPICS CLOSING CEREMONY
Singer-songwriter to play Wish You Were Here - though which Floyd members will be appearing is still unknown.
Ed Sheeran is to perform with some combination of the surviving members of Pink Floyd at ...BELGIUM CYCLOTRON TO BE INSTALLED IN YEREVAN'S ONCOLOGICAL CENTER
On August 2, Armenian government passed a decision to provide AMD 1,1 bln.budget loan to Radioisotope Production Center to create favorable conditions for cyclotron installation with maturity of 10 years.
...ADIDAS NET PROFIT SOARS OVER EURO 2012, OLYMPICS EARNINGS
German sportswear giant Adidas posted a better-than-expected second-quarter net profit Thursday, August 2 and stepped up its full-year forecast thanks to earnings from Euro 2012 and the Olympic Games, ...USD MARKET AVERAGE RATE TOTALS AMD 409,03 AUGUST 2
Deals amounting to AMD 100 thous. at an average rate of AMD 409,50/USD1 were concluded at NASDAQ OMX Armenia on August 2. The closing price totaled AMD 409,50.
The market average rate of USD totaled ...SWEDEN DISMISSES ECUADOR'S OFFER TO QUESTION ASSANGE
Ecuador's foreign minister said Swedish officials have refused to accept his country's offer to let them question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Belfast Telegraph said.
Ricardo Patino said ...3 MILLION SYRIANS IN URGENT NEED OF FOOD, FARMING AID, UN SURVEY SAYS
Three million Syrians need food, crops and livestock assistance, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said Thursday August 2, citing a survey by the United Nations and the Syrian government, ...47 SYRIAN ARMENIANS TO ARRIVE IN YEREVAN BY ARMAVIA'S ADDITIONAL FLIGHT
Armavia air company operated an additional Yerevan-Aleppo-Yerevan flight at 2:1 pm, local time, despite its unprofitability.
According to the company's press service, Yerevan- Aleppo flight operated ...RUSSIA'S PUTIN IN LONDON FOR SYRIA TALKS, JUDO
Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in London on Thursday for informal talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron and to visit some of the Olympic judo events, RIA Novosti said.
The one-day ...RECONSTRUCTED CHILDREN'S RAILWAY OPENED IN YEREVAN
On August 2, Yerevan hosted the official opening ceremony of Children's Railway, reconstructed at the initiative of South Caucasus Railway (SCR) CJSC.
As SCR CEO Victor Rebets noted, the Company had ...JAPAN'S SHARP PLANS TO SLASH 5,000 JOBS BY MAY
Japan's Sharp said Thursday, August 2 it will cut 5,000 jobs by March as it reported a quarterly loss and said it would remain in the red for the rest of the year amid losses at its struggling TV ...L'OREAL HEIRESS SELLS SEYCHELLES ISLAND IN TAX EVASION CASE
L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt has sold a Seychelles island at the centre of a tax evasion case, says the government of the island chain, BBC News said.
Mrs Bettencourt sold D'Arros island ...SYRIAN REBELS USE CAPTURED TANK AGAINST ASSAD FORCES
Syrian rebels turned the gun of a captured tank against government forces on Thursday, August 2 shelling a military airbase expected to be used as a staging post for army reinforcements in the battle ...ROSNEFT RUSSIAN OIL GIANT POSTS 247.4 MLN LOSS IN Q2
Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, reported a net loss of eight billion rubles ($247.4 million) in the second quarter of 2012 after a 112 billion ruble ($3.812 billion) net profit to IFRS in the ...CANNES-SCREENED "PAPERBOY" TRAILER FEATURES ZAC EFRON, NICOLE KIDMAN
"The Paperboy" was the focus of intense critical attention, positive and negative, at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, The Wrap said.
Now, with the trailer out, viewers can get an inkling of ...WINDOWS 8 IN FINAL STAGE BEFORE RELEASE
Microsoft announced Wednesday, August 1 it was releasing Windows 8 to its manufacturer partners. That means it's all done tweaking and finalizing the operating system, which is now ready to be incorporated ...BRAD PITT'S "KILLING THEM SOFTLY" TRAILER HITS THE WEB
Here's a new trailer for Killing Them Softly, written and directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt as a hitman, Deadline said.
Based on the George V. Higgins novel Cogan's Trade. The Weinstein ...NOKIA ADDS GROUPON OFFERS TO LUMIA MAPS
Nokia has added Groupon offers to maps on its Lumia smartphones, BBC News said.
By clicking on a green "G" icon, US users can now buy Groupon's discounted deal-of-the-day vouchers from ..."ANGRY BIRDS" APP IPO PLANNED IN LATE 2013
Rovio, the Finnish makers of the world's most-downloaded mobile app "Angry Birds", will seek a stock market listing by the end of 2013, chief financial officer Mikko Setala said in an interview ...RUSSIA MAY DEPLOY "6TH-GENERATION" UNMANNED BOMBER AFTER 2040
Russia could deploy a "sixth-generation" pilotless strategic bomber aircraft after 2040, Long-Range Aviation Commander Lt. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev said on Thursday, August 2, according to RIA ...KOFI ANNAN STEPS DOWN AS UN PEACE ENVOY TO SYRIA
The UN's special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, is leaving the post, the UN has announced, according to BBC News.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Mr Annan had decided not to renew his mandate ..."SEX AND LUCIA" STAR PAZ VEGA CAST AS MARIA CALLAS IN "GRACE OF MONACO"
Paz Vega has been cast as the tempestuous opera singer Maria Callas in Grace of Monaco, in which Nicole Kidman stars as Grace Kelly, the Hollywood actress who became Princess Grace of Monaco, The Hollywood ...SUZUKI NET PROFIT JUMPS 30.6% IN APRIL-JUNE QUARTER
Japan's Suzuki Motor said Thursday, August 2 its net profit rose 30.6 percent to 24.5 billion yen ($312 million) for the three months to June as brisk domestic sales offset the impact of a strong ...OVER 83 MILLION FACEBOOK USERS "FAKE"
Facebook has revealed that it believes there are now more than 83 million fake users on the social network, BBC News said.
In company filings published this week, it said 8.7% of its 955 million active ...NICOLE KIDMAN TO REUNITE WITH LARS VON TRIER FOR "THE NYMPHOMANIAC"
Nicole Kidman will have a role in The Nymphomaniac, Digital Spy said, citing AlloCine.
The actress will reunite with her Dogville director Lars von Trier on his two-part pornography movie.
Kidman reportedly ...COPTIC CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS CLASH IN EGYPT
At least 16 people have been wounded after Muslims attacked a church and Christian homes in a village near the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials say, according to BBC News.
The unrest in Dahshur, about ...RIDLEY SCOTT'S "PROMETHEUS" SEQUEL ANNOUNCED, 2014 RELEASE PLANNED
Fans of Ridley Scott's ground-breaking mythology "Prometheus" should be happy now because 20th Century Fox has announced that the space thriller film will get a sequel. Via The Hollywood ...OSCAR-WINNING HELMER'S "MEA MAXIMA CULPA" DOC TRAILER RELEASED
"Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" takes the Catholic Church head-on, TheWrap said.
Directed by Academy Award-winning Alex Gibney, the documentary investigates Catholic priest ...SYRIA ACCUSES TURKEY OF BACKING TERRORISM, OPENING BORDERS TO AL-QAEDA
Syria accused Turkey on Thursday, August 2 of playing a "fundamental role" in supporting terrorism by opening its airport and border to al Qaeda and other jihadists to carry out attacks inside ...UK'S O2 ROLLS OUT POCKET WIFI HOTSPOT DEVICE
UK's O2 has today (August 2) launched its Pay & Go Pocket Hotspot, a new device that enables users to create their own WiFi hotspot to access the internet on the go, Digital Spy said.
The firm's ...MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY JOINS MARTIN SCORSESE'S "THE WOLF OF WALL STREET"
Hot off Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey has signed on to play the role of Mark Hanna in The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese, Deadline said.
Red Granite is financing the adaptation of ...HITCHCOCK'S "VERTIGO" NAMED "GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME" - POLL
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has replaced Orson Welles's Citizen Kane at the top of a poll that sets out to name one film "the greatest of all time," BBC News said.
The British Film Institute's ...BRITAIN BREAKS MEN'S TEAM SPRINT WORLD RECORD AT OLYMPICS
Britain took a step towards defending their men's Olympic team pursuit title after dominating qualifying in a new world record time at the London velodrome on Thursday, August 2, AFP said.
Ed Clancy, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1809 Death of Hovsep Emin (public figure in the Armenian political emancipation movement) in Calcutta (India). He was born in 1726 in Hamadan (Iran).
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