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Headlines for December 26, 2011

MICHELLE OBAMA TELLS CHILDREN SANTA'S TRACKS
Michelle Obama has taken part in the NORAD Tracks Santa Program run by the North Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), France 24 said. She spoke with children on Saturday on an air defense hotline set up ...
ISRAELI KNESSET TO DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION ISSUE
Armenian Genocide bill will be discussed today in Knesset's Education Committee, Israel. Israeli lawmakers will launch panel discussions at 12:00 Yerevan time and are supposed to hold one and a half hour ...
HITLER'S FAVORITE ACTOR DIES AGED 108
The man once dubbed Hitler's favorite actor has died aged 108. Dutch-born Johannes Heesters passed away at a clinic in Starnberg, southern Germany after a short illness, Euronews reported. He entered ...
GAS FLOW TO ARMENIA RESUMED
Today, at 09:26 Yerevan time natural gas supply to Armenia has been resumed, which was ceased yet on December 22, "ArmRusgasprom" press service reported. Georgian gas transport company said earlier natural ...
SELIM MOUNT PASS BARELY PASSABLE
All roads are passable in Armenia today, at 08:30, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. Strong wind and poor visibility have made .
SNOW EXPECTED IN YEREVAN TODAY
On December 26 snow is possible in daytime, expected in the evening and at night, heavy in spots in the second part of the day and at night. Wind up to 20mps, snow-storm, ice-cover are possible in spots, ...
UN CUTS BUDGET AMID GLOBAL DOWNTURN
The 193 UN member countries agreed on Saturday to cut the global body's budget for only the second time in the past 50 years following a long night of negotiations, AFP reported. An accord struck ...
FATAL BOMB BLASTS HIT NIGERIA CHURCHES
A series of bomb attacks in Nigeria, including two on Christmas Day church services, have left almost 40 people dead and many injured, BBC reported. The Islamist group Boko Haram said it carried out the ...
MOVSES KHORENATSI MEDAL, HONORARY TITLE OF DISTINGUISHED ART WORKER FOR CONTRIBUTION TO RADIO, TV DEVELOPMENT
President Serzh Sargsyan attended on Saturday a festive event dedicated to the 85th anniversary of Armenia's Public Radio and 55th anniversary of Public TV, at the A. Spendiarian National Academic Opera ...
ADOLF HITLER'S MEIN KAMPF TAGGED AS 'PERFECT PRESENT' BY WATERSTONE'S
The UK's biggest book chain, Waterstone's, has apologized after one of its branches pushed Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf as the "perfect" Christmas present, The Guardian reported. ...
D. MEDVEDEV: NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT CAN BE RESOLVED NOW
The conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh is the only conflict in post-Soviet area that can be resolved now, Dmitry Medvedev of Russia said in an interview with Azerbaijani "AZTV." "There is one way - to agree, ...
IRANIAN GEN. SAYS TURKEY-HOSTED NATO RADAR SYSTEM TARGET OF IRAN
NATO radar systems installed in Turkey will be operated next week, Iranian "FARS" news agency reported. According to the source, although Turkey hasn't yet approved the news, Iran has submitted an official ...
ARMENIAN WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM SEVENTH AFTER 7 ROUNDS
Armenia's team beat RSA's team 4-0 in the 6th round of the World Women Chess Team Championship in Turkey and lost to Ukraine's team 1.5-2.5 in the 7th round. Our team is currently 7th, with 6 points. ...
MISHA ALOYAN, DAVIT HAYRAPETYAN AMONG RUSSIAN TOP FIVE BOXERS
World and European champions are worth to form top five boxers 2011, Nikolay Khromov, Russian team coach said. Russian boxers took 1 golden (Misha Aloyan) and 2 bronze (Davit Hayrapetyan, Egor Mekhontzev) ...
THACI SENDS EASTER GREETINGS TO VATICAN
The Prime Minister of Kosovo Hashim Thaci has congratulated the official Vatican and all Catholics on the occasion of Easter instead of Christmas, Lenta.ru reported. According to the Prime Minister's ...
YEVGENY SHEVCHUK WINS TRANSDNESTR PRESIDENCY
The ex-speaker of the Transdnestr parliament, Yevgeny Shevchuk, will become the breakaway republic's second president after garnering 73.88 percent of the vote in Sunday's runoff election, a source in ...
MANCINI TO SIGN NEW CITY CONTRACT
Mancini's representatives have opened talks with City officials over extending the Italian's current contract, Mirror Football reported. And the 47-year-old will become the Premier League's highest-paid ...
TURKISH HACKERS BREAK VALERIE BOYER'S WEBSITE
Hackers have attacked French MP Valerie Boyer's website, who authored the bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide, Turkish "Hurriyet" reported. According to the source, the hackers posted ...
VLADIMIR MOVSISYAN AWARDED MEDAL FOR CONSIDERABLE CONTRIBUTIONS IN NATURE PROTECTION FIELD
The Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection held a board meeting today to sum up the activities of the Ministry in 2011, Ministry's press office reported. Chairman of Lake Sevan Issues Committee under ...
STEPAN SAFARYAN ASSESSES 2011 AS YEAR OF STORMS
"This year was a year of storms," Stepan Safaryan, head of "Heritage" party faction, told reporters delivering final remarks for the passing year. According to the MP the passing year "won't leave good ...
KAREN SARIBEKYAN: ALIYEV HAD BETTER AGITATE PEACE
"War will bring nothing good. It will not solve any problem. Azerbaijan should finally come to realize that they have lost the war they had launched themselves," member of the NA Standing Committee on ...
KIM JONG UN NAMED HEAD OF NORTH KOREAN TOP RULING PARTY
North Korea identified Kim Jong Il's son as head of a top ruling party body Monday, a post that gives him authority over political matters in addition to the military control attributed to him in recent ...
R. MELKONYAN: TURKISH THREATS AGAINST FRANCE CHEAP, FAILED CAMPAIGN
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced sanctions against France after its Parliament passed a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide. Ruben Melkonyan, Vice Chairman in the Faculty of Oriental ...
SERGEY LAVROV: RUSSIA TO CONTINUE ITS EFFORTS TOWARDS RESOLUTION OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov summed up Ministry's activities in 2011 and outlined the priorities of Russian diplomacy in 2012 in his interview to Interfax. Regarding the relations between ...
EXPERT ADVISES TO BE A LITTLE RESTRAINED WITH FRANCE
"A new phase of protests against Turkey's membership to the European Union will launch by the adoption of a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide in France," Prof. Levon Shirinyan said in ...
BAKO SAHAKYAN ATTENDS HOSPITAL OPENING IN MARTAKERT
On 25 December President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan visited the town of Martakert and partook at a solemn ceremony of opening the newly-built regional hospital, Artsakh President's press service ...
KNESSET MEMBERS CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Israel's Knesset members from all sides of the political spectrum called for the government to officially recognize the Armenian genocide, "The Jerusalem Post" reported. According to the source it has ...
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY: TURKEY SHOULD RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE OF 1915, RETURN ETHNIC LANDS TO ARMENIA
Head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky praised the decision of the French Parliament to criminalize the denial of the Armenian Genocide, according to party's official website. ...
ARTSAKH PRESIDENT VISITS BASE METALS MINING PLANT
On December 26 President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan visited the mining plant of Base Metals company and inspected the newly built gold extraction enterprise. The President underlined that the ...