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Headlines for January 16, 2012EGYPTIAN SUEZ CANAL REVENUES CLIMB UP
Revenues from Egyptian Suez Canal climbed almost 4.8 percent year-on-year in December Agence France-Presse reported. Data from the Suez Canal Authority on Sunday showed revenues from the vital waterway ...SELIM MOUNT PASS BLOCKED, ARTIK-MANTASH ROAD BARELY PASSABLE
All roads and mountain passes of interstate and republican significance are passable in Armenia on January 16, at 08:30, the Ministry of Transport and Communication informed. According to the source heavy ...12 INMATES HANGED IN IRAN
12 convicts in Iranian southern city of Shiraz have been hanged Sunday, Iranian media outlets reported. Iran's revolutionary court sentenced 7 inmates to death convicted of drug smuggling. The other five ...ITALIAN CRUISE SHIP DEATH TOLL REACHED 6
Death toll from capsized Italian cruise ship reached 6, Italian ANSA news agency quotes rescue workers as saying. Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about ...LIBYA MILITIAS CLASH NEAR TRIPOLI
A weekend of clashes in Libya has left at least two people dead and more than 40 injured, according to BBC. Rival armed groups fired rockets and heavy machine guns around the town of Gharyan, about 80km ...PAKISTAN TALIBAN LEADER BELIEVED DEAD
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike, four Pakistan intelligence officials ...MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD'S AIDE JAILED FOR INSULTING IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's aide has been sentenced one-year in prison as he insulted Iran's Supreme Leader, "khabaronline.ir" news site reported. According to the source Ali Akbar Javanfekr, ...KAZAKHSTAN'S RULING PARTY WINS ELECTION
Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party received 81.3 percent of the vote in yesterday's parliamentary election, an exit poll showed, according to Bloomberg.
Two more parties, Akzhol ...CARS GET STUCK IN SNOW ON MARTUNI-YEGHEGNADZOR ROAD
Cars are reported to have got stuck in the snow on Martuni-Yeghegnadzor road due to the snowstorm. The Ministry of Emergency Situations is to send an emergency unit to the scene. The Ministry said it ...GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS FIND THEIR OWNERS
"The Descendants" and "The Artist" were named the best pictures of 2011 at the Golden Globe Awards, suggesting — perhaps — that they may be the front-runners for Oscar's best picture, international ...TWO NKR OFFICIALS RELIEVED OF DUTIES
By NKR Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan's decision, Vladimir Zakiyan was relieved of his duties as Deputy Minister of Agriculture, according to his own application. By another decision, Armo Tsatryan was ...NKR FOREIGN MINISTRY: AZERBAIJAN INTERESTED IN INVESTIGATION OF INCIDENTS ON CONTACT-LINE
On December 22, 2011, the OSCE Permanent Council approved the Unified Budget of the organization for 2012. Along with this, the Permanent Council discussed a request to increase the funding for the Office ...YEREVAN MAYOR ATTENDS ANDRANIK MARGARYAN MEMORIAL
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan, Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan and head of Shengavit administrative district Armen Sargsyan visited the Chess Academy of Armenia to attend the 8th round ...RUSSIAN REFUGEE FROM BAKU: WHEN ESCAPING A GIRL FELL IN FRONT OF MY FEET FROM HIGH BLOCK
More than 400 Armenians were massacred and thousands others were injured in the aftermath of Baku slaughter in 1990. Among the victims not only Armenians but foreigners could also be found. Particularly ...DINK'S MURDER TRIAL JUDGMENT MAY BE ISSUED JAN 17
Turkish "Radikal" newspaper says on January 17 a judgment may be issued to wrap up Hrant Dink's murder trial that lasts for almost 5 years. According to the source Ryustem Eryilmaz, chairman of judicial ...NALBANDIAN: KARABAKH SETTLEMENT STRATEGY PROVES EFFICIENT
The positions of Armenia and international community on Karabakh settlement coincide, which was proved last year, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian told a news conference in Yerevan. The Karabakh strategy ...ARMENIA NOT INTENDING NEW EMBASSIES IN 2012
State budget 2012 doesn't intend opening of new diplomatic representations, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in a news conference. Foreign Ministry will request Government to provide financial ...SEVEN PRESIDENTS VISITED ARMENIA LAST YEAR
Last year the Armenian President made 25 foreign trips; 7 presidents visited Armenia, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian told reporters in Yerevan. 8 mutual visits took place at NA Speaker's level, 12 ...NALBANDIAN CONFIRMS NEWS ON PRESIDENTS' MEETING
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian confirmed news on Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents' meeting, but has restrained from naming any place and date. Edward Nalbandian has remarked in a news conference ...ARMENIAN FM: AZERBAIJAN HINDERS INVESTIGATION OF INCIDENTS AT CONTACT LINE
At the Sochi meeting in 2011 March, the sides had agreed to investigate the incidents at the line of contact between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, with the international community supporting the initiative. ...ELEVEN DIE IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDING COLLAPSE IN BEIRUT
At least eleven people died and another eleven were injured after a five-story residential building collapsed on Monday in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, South Asian ANI news agency reported, according ...LEVON ARONIAN SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMS IN TAT STEEL
Armenian GM Levon Aronian performed two successful games in the 1st and 2nd rounds in Tata Steel festival, Wijk aan Zee. After defeating Karjakin in the 1st and Nakamura in the 2nd round, Aronian currently ...IRANIAN GEN. SAFAVI: IRAN TO USE LEVERS TO DEFEND ITS NATIONAL INTERESTS
In case of threat Iran will use all the levers to defend its national interests, Iranian "FARS" news agency quotes Gen. Rahim Yahya Safavi as declaring. "Hormoz Strait is an important strategic region ...ARMENIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS: ROUND 5
In the fifth round of the highest league tournament of 72nd Armenian Men's Chess Championship Hrant Melkumyan beat Karen H. Grigoryan and now dominates the tournament. Melkumyan has scored 3.5 points ...‘HERITAGE' HANDS LETTER TO PACE CO-RAPPORTEURS JOHN PRESCOTT
Today, in a meeting with PACE Co-rapporteurs John Prescott, "Heritage" party handed a letter highlighting requirements to adopt a proportional election system. The letter reads: "To Mr. Axel Fischer (Germany, ...VANES MARTISOSYAN TO FACE TROY LOWRY ON FEBRUARY 4
Uundefeated junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (31-0 19 KOs) will face Troy Lowry (28-11) in a stay busy fight on the undercard of the HBO televised fight between WBC middleweight champion ...NALBANDIAN: TURKEY'S THREATS BLACKMAIL, CORRUPTION
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian remarked Monday on Western countries applying sanctions against Iran and on Armenia's disposition in case of a potential armed conflict. Foreign Minister said Armenia ...GAGIK SARGSYAN APPOINTED DEPUTY HEAD OF NKR NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE
On 16 January NKR President Sahakyan signed a decree appointing Colonel Gagik Sargsyan deputy head of the National Security Service under the Cabinet of Ministers, head of the central department of state ...EXPERT: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S CUP MUST BE FILLED
"All those statements and discoveries aren't surprising, since the country we deal with is Azerbaijan," military expert Artsrun Hovhannisyan told Panorama.am asked to remark on Azerbaijan's disposition ...D. BABAYAN: AZERBAIJAN WILL BE INSTIGATING PROVOCATIONS ON CONTACT LINE
"Azerbaijan will likely remain faithful to its methods, I'm prone to impose that Azerbaijan will act more cruelly violating all the previous agreements, thus avoiding to sign any document," Davit Babayan, ...GAGIK MINASYAN: AZERBAIJAN INTERESTED IN MAINTAINING SITUATION AT CONTACT LINE
"Interesting developments are registered recently on mechanisms for investigating the incidents at the contact line. Several questions arise simultaneously, and I think the OSCE management and OSCE Minsk ...CONSULTATION ON WATER SUPPLY IMPROVEMENT IN STEPANAKERT
On 16 January President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan convened a consultation on water supply improvement in Stepanakert. Artsakh President stressed that water system and its improvement is among ...
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- 1894 Birth of writer Mateos Zarifian.
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