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Headlines for December 28, 2011

GREECE TO HOST EARLY ELECTIONS IN APRIL
Early elections will be held in Greece in late April, the finance minister said on Tuesday, AFP reported. According to the minister the country's future will be decided in a debt rollover plan unfolding ...
ALL ROADS IN ARMENIA PASSABLE
All roads in Armenia are passable on December 28, at 08:30, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia reported.
KIM JONG-IL FUNERAL CEREMONY STARTS
The funeral ceremony for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il started Wednesday in Pyongyang, ITAR-TASS reported. The first phase of the ceremony began at 10:00 am (0100 GMT) in the Kumsusan Memorial ...
ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT HAS CANCER
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery in January, her spokesman says, according to Press TV. Government spokesman Alfredo ...
AIR TEMPERATURE TO GO UP IN ARMENIA
Today the weather in Armenia is conditioned by high pressure field, Meteo-TV reported. No precipitation is expected in the country. Wind up to 23mps, snowstorm and ice-cover are possible in spots. The ...
MILITARY PROSECUTOR: NUMBER OF CASUALTIES REDUCED IN 2011
Military prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan delivered concluding remarks on Tuesday in board meeting adherent to Minister of Defense. The military prosecutor referred to crimes and violations recorded in the ...
SEYRAN OHANYAN: ARMED FORCES PERFORMED THEIR MILITARY TASKS WITH HONOR
A board meeting adherent to Minister of Defense took place in the Defense Ministry Tuesday. According to public relations department of the ministry military and mobilization readiness, the outcome from ...
US URGES UKRAINE TO FREE TYMOSHENKO
The United States has urged Ukraine to free former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko after she lost an appeal against her seven-year jail sentence on charges of abuse of power, AFP reported. The ...
KHACHATUROV: CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS BY ENEMY BECAME MORE FREQUENT IN 2011
"Azerbaijan keeps making bellicose statements, accompanied by policy of militarization. In order to respond rightly to enemy's provocations, we should always be alert, keep our armed forcers prepared, ...
EARTHQUAKE HITS ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER
Magnitude 3.0 earthquake hit the Armenian-Turkish border, 6 km south of the town of Artashat today, 11:52 local time, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The hypocenter was at a depth of ...
MAMOUN HARIRI DENIES NEWS ON MASS LEAKAGE OF ARMENIANS FROM SYRIA
"Syria is being jolted by the same political movements, like any other country does, but in our case, we face Al Qaida and terrorist groups backed by the West," Minister Plenipotentiary, Charges d'Affaires ...
TURKISH HISTORIAN: TURKEY DISGRACES ITSELF
Turkish scholar, professor at Clark University in Massachusetts Taner Akcam in his interview to Ermenihaber.am news website commented upon Ankara's statements on imposing sanctions on France after the ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN NAMED BEST DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER OF SHAKHTAR IN 2011
Armenian footballer Henrikh Mkhitaryan, with 1 000 votes (62.89 percent), was named the best defensive midfielder of Shakhar in 2011, according to an online voting on Shakhtar's official site. Mkhitaryan ...
PRESSURE AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS GROWS IN AZERBAIJAN
After the parliamentary elections in 2010, Azerbaijani authorities put the human rights and opposition activists on the same scales exercising more pressure against them, "Turan" news agency quotes human ...
SURB VORDVOTS VOROTMAN CHURCH OF ISTANBUL RENOVATED
The renovation of Surb Vordvots Vorotman Armenian church of Istanbul is completed, Turkish Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazici said, according to Ermenihaber.am news website. The church, closed since ...
PANORAMA.AM AWARDED HONORARY DIPLOMA FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM
Board of directors of the Youth Union of CIS awarded five e-media publications from each Commonwealth states honorary diplomas "for development of independent journalism", the press service of Youth Union ...
'TARZAN'S CHIMPANZEE' CHEETAH DIES AGED 80
A chimpanzee who apparently starred in Tarzan films in the 1930s has died at the age of 80, according to the sanctuary where he lived, BBC reported. The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor said ...
PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CONGRATULATES JOURNALISTS' NEW YEAR
"There cannot be parliament without journalism, and vice versa. We are sources of information for you, which you use to organize your job," Parliament Speaker Samvel Nikoyan said in a traditional New ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS AZERBAIJANI POLITICAL PRISONERS MUST BE RELEASED
"Amnesty International" says campaign to free political prisoners in Azerbaijan will continue, "Turan" news agency reported. "It was an important step to free 20-year-old blogger Jabar Savalan. But Azerbaijan ...
CARLO ANCELOTTI TO RULE PSG
Italian Carlo Ancelotti is expected to assume Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) office, as French league leaders will confirm him as their new coach to replace Antoine Kombouare, sports daily L'Equipe and Le ...
SERZH SARGSYAN MEETS BUSINESS COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES
On the eve of New Year and Christmas holidays representatives of Armenian business community were invited at the President's Palace. The General Manager of VivaCell-MTS Ralph Yirikian has told reporters ...
PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN HAS FAREWELL MEETING WITH CHARLES LONSDALE
President Serzh Sargsyan had a farewell meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Armenia Charles Lonsdale. President's press ...
CNN REPEATEDLY AIRS REPORT ABOUT TIGRANAKERT DESPITE PROTESTS BY AZERBAIJAN
CNN TV channel has repeatedly aired its report about excavations in the ancient city of Tigranakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, despite numerous protests by Azerbaijan. We will remind that spokesperson for the ...
NKR DEFENSE ARMY: RIVAL'S GUN WOUNDS ARMENIAN SOLDIER
NKR Defense Army soldier Gevorg Edik Yeghiazaryan, born in 1992, has been wounded from a gun fired by rival against the north-eastern military stations (Martakert) located in Karabakhi-Azerbaijani contact ...
ATTENTION: BLACK ICE IN SELIM PASS
All roads and mountain passes of interstate and republican significance are passable in the country today, at 16:30. There is black ice on the roads in Selim Mountain Pass. The Ministry of Transport and ...