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Headlines for September 10, 2012IRAQ VICE-PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH
Iraq's fugitive vice-president Tariq al-Hashemi has been sentenced to death in absentia after a court found him guilty of running death squads, BBC reported.
The ruling came as at least 92 people ...ALPS SHOOTINGS: ZAINAB AL-HILLI BROUGHT OUT OF COMA
A seven-year-old girl shot and injured in an attack in the French Alps which left her parents dead has been brought out of a coma, BBC reported.
French prosecutor Eric Maillaud said Zainab al-Hilli, ...BOMB LANDS ON KINDERGARTEN IN ALEPPO
Fighting and shelling persisted all day Sunday and into Monday morning in Aleppo, with both the regime and the opposition blaming each other for dozens of fatalities, CNN reported.
A bomb landed on ...THOUSANDS EVACUATED AFTER VOLCANO IN NICARAGUA ERUPTS
More than 1,500 people have been evacuated after a volcano in western Nicaragua erupted Saturday, shooting gas and ash 2 1/2 miles into the sky, government officials said, according to CNN.
Explosions ...FORMER MMA FIGHTER PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING HIS SPARRING PARTNER
A northern California man accused of ripping out the heart and tongue of a friend after the two had taken hallucinogenic drugs has pleaded guilty to murder, four days before his case was set to go to ...AIR TEMPERATURE TO GO DOWN BY 3-5 DEGREES
The weather in Armenia will be conditioned by front penetration from Black Sea territory. On September 10, rains and thunderstorm are expected from time to time in the whole territory. Wind up to 23mps, ...ARMENIAN TEAM BECOMES OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN TURKEY
Armenian national chess team beat Hungarian team 2.5-1.5 in the last round of the 40th World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Levon Aronian, Gabriel Sargissian and Vladimir Akopian drew with Peter Leko, Ferenc ...ARMENIAN WOMEN'S TEAM FINISHES 5TH IN WORLD CHESS OLYMPIAD
Armenian women's national chess team beat Poland 2.5-1.5 in the last round of the 40th World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Armenian team finished 5th with 16 points. Romanian team took 6th place with 16 ...GARRY KASPAROV: MY VISIT TO BAKU NOT POSSIBLE
In an interview with an Azerbaijani news agency, ex-world chess champion Garry Kasparov stated that he will not visit Baku for the chess Olympiad unless Armenia and Azerbaijan settle the conflict until ...35 ISSUES ON AGENDA OF NA 2ND SESSION
35 issues and 16 international agreements are on the draft agenda of the 2nd session of the National Assembly (NA) of fifth convocation. The draft agenda of the coming four-day session of NA is comprised ...MFA: NO ARMENIANS REPORTED AMONG ALEPPO BLAST CASUALTIES
No Armenians have been reported among casualties in a blast that rocked Syria's Aleppo on Sunday, Tigran Balayan, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman, told Panorama.am. According to latest reports, 27 ...HUNGARY'S EX PRIME MINISTER FERENC GYURCSANY DECLARES HUNGER STRIKE
Hungary's former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany set up a tent near the parliamentary building and declared a hunger strike in a protest against the government's plans to reform election system, Voice ...PROTEST AGAINST RELEASE OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN SOLDIER SEVAG BALIKCI'S KILLER HELD IN ISTANBUL
Human rights activists spearheaded by the Nor Zartonk Initiative gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square to protest the release of Kivanc Agaoglu pending trial, prior to the deliverance of the final verdict, ...RAFFI HOVANNISIAN RESIGNS AS MP
Founder and leader of Heritage party, Raffi Hovannisian, has submitted his resignation from parliament to the Speaker of Armenia's National Assembly, Hovik Abrahamyan, said the NA Speaker, adding that ...INCUMBENT MAYOR REELECTED IN ETCHMIADZIN
Incumbent mayor of Armenia's Metsamor, Robert Grigoryan, was reelected on September 9, winning 3,128 votes, the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia said, citing early voting results. Robert Grigoryan ...SAMVEL BALASANYAN WINS GYUMRI MAYORAL ELECTION
Incumbent mayor of Artik, member of Republican Party of Armenia Khachatur Varagyan lost the Artik mayoral election on September 9. Varagyan, a self-nominated candidate, won 3, 249 votes. His rival candidate, ...HERITAGE: RAFFI HOVANNISIAN WILL NOT ASSUME NA MANDATE
Meeting in executive session on September 9, the governing board of the Heritage Party considered Chairman Raffi K. Hovannisian's report and in advance of the presidential elections decided to honor his ...CONTE LOOKS TO JUVENTUS YOUNGSTERS, MARRONE AND POGBA
Juventus boss Antonio Conte is keeping his fingers crossed that young midfielders Luca Marrone and Paul Pogba can impress this term, Football Italia reported.
Asked whether Sebastian Giovinco could ...U.S. UNSURE IF IT MAKES SENSE TO DO NAGORNO-KARABAKH EVENT NOW
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov also compared notes briefly on the Nagorno-Karabakh during the APEC Summit Meeting in Vladivostok, a senior State Department ...JAVIER ZANETTI TO BECOME INTER VICE-PRESIDENT
Javier Zanetti will reportedly become the Vice-President of Inter once he brings his glorious playing career to an end, Football Italia said.
This could be the 39-year-old's last season as a professional ...PELE WAS BETTER THAN MESSI AND RONALDO, DI STEFANO SAYS
Real Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stefano feels that Pele was a better player than Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, Goal.com reported. "The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are ...IRAN TO ATTEND QUADRILATERAL MEETING ON SYRIA IN CAIRO
Iran will attend a quadrilateral meeting on Syria in Cairo, Iran's Fars news agency said. It is reported that Cairo will host a meeting of Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Qatar on September 12 to discuss the ...VIKTOR DALLAKYAN TO BE DEPUTY HEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION
Former MP Viktor Dallakyan, who has lately been appointed Armenian President's Representative in the National Assembly, told a news briefing in Yerevan that he will also be Deputy Head of Presidential ...SERZH SARGSYAN TO MEET ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS AT ZVARTNOTS AIRPORT
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who is also the Chairman of Armenian Chess Federation, will meet Armenian chess players at Zvartnots Airport tonight, Presidential Administration told Panorama.am.
...HUNGARIAN EUROPE SOCIETY DECLARATION ABOUT SAFAROV EXTRADITION
The Hungarian government has caused an international scandal by sending home a nationalist Azerbaijani soldier who had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for brutally murdering an Armenian ...TWO STEPS BACKWARDS IN THE CAUCASUS
Below is an article by Peter Rutland published in The New York Times.
In recent days there have been two symbolic events that run the danger of igniting hostilities in an already tense neighborhood ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Hori was the second month in the old Armenian calendar (September 10 to October 9). One source identifies it with the Armenian word for "well" because villagers would store their harvest in wells. Academician Malkhasian thinks that the word is derived from "vine-branch" and alludes to the grape harvest that takes place during this month.
- 1826 End of the heroic defense of Fort Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1869 Birth of cleric and ethno-musicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan) in Kutina (Western Armenia). He died in Paris in 1935.
- 1890 Birth of Franz Werfel in Prague (Austrian novelist). He wrote "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933), a best-selling epic tale of Armenian resistance to the Turkish Genocide of 1915. He died in 1945.
- 1896 Armenian massacres begin in Akn.
- 1896 Start of the second defense of Van under the leadership of Vardgehss and Vardan.
- 1898 Andreas Artehruni (scientist) dies in Germany. He was born in 1847.
- 1920 The conference of Armenia's Communist organizations opens in Baku.
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