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Headlines for November 30, 2011NO ONE SHOULD BE FOOLED BY ERDOGAN'S EMPTY APOLOGY FOR KURDISH MASSACRES
Turkish society was thrown into turmoil last week when Prime Minister Erdogan issued an unexpected apology for the hitherto taboo topic of the Kurdish massacres in southeastern Turkey in the 1930's. ...IVORY COAST'S EX HEAD TAKEN TO HAGUE COURT
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has arrived at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, BBC News reported. He left the northern town of Korhogo, after an arrest warrant was issued, ...S&P CUTS RATINGS ON MANY BANKS WORLDWIDE
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its credit ratings for many of the world's largest financial institutions, including the biggest banks in the US, The Washington Post reported. Bank ...OPPOSITION CANDIDATE CLAIMS VICTORY IN SOUTH OSSETIA
A court in South Ossetia on Tuesday annulled the results of a presidential election, hours after the opposition candidate danced before supporters to claim victory over her Kremlin-anointed rival, The ...CULTURE MINISTER CONCERNED OVER BOOKSTORES' CLOSURE
While Yerevan is preparing to become the World Book Capital in 2012, bookstores are being massively shut down in the capital city. Speaking to the Armenian Public TV channel yesterday, Minister of Culture ...RONALDO TO TAKE LEADING ROLE IN 2014 WORLD CUP
Former Brazil striker Ronaldo has been invited to take a leading 2014 World Cup role and a formal announcement is expected in the coming days, TV NZ reported, citing Reuters. According to the Brazilian ...GEORGIA TO BAN USING ABUSIVE WORDS FOR PERSONAL NAMES
The Georgian lawmakers have pushed forward a legal proposal to ban the use of abusive words to refer to person. According to the Georgian news agency GHN, amendments proposed to the Code on Civil Acts ...GADDAFI'S DAUGHTER CALLS FOR REVOLT
Muammar Gaddafi's daughter has urged Libyans to overthrow their new rulers, possibly violating the terms of her exile in Algeria, The Associated Press reported. In an audio message broadcast on Syria's ...TOYOTA UNVEILS 'SMARTPHONE ON WHEELS' (VIDEO)
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda on Monday unveiled a "smartphone on wheels" concept car that he said portends a future of interconnected vehicles that are as customizable as cellphone. Autoweek.com ...NEW EARTHQUAKE INTURKEY'S VAN PROVINCE
An earthquake measuring five on the Richter scale hit the province of Van in eastern Turkey overnight, The Sofia Echo reported. No casualties or damage was reported from the quake, which according to ...PRESIDENT VISITS ARMENIAN CHURCH IN TBILISI
On the second day of his official visit to Tbilisi, Georgia, President Serzh Sargsyan attended a holy mass at the Armenian church of St Echmiadzin together with his wife, Rita Sargsyan. The prelate of ...ARMENIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER ON CC RULING
Nov. 30, Human Rights Defender of Armenia Karen Andreasyan spoke of the ruling the RA Constitutional Court (CC) issued on Nov. 15. The ruling confirms the constitutionality of Article 1087.1 of the RA ...NAGORNO-KARABAKH PRESIDENT VISITS HEADQUARTERS OF CORPORACION AMERICA COMPANY
Below is a press release by the information department of the Nagorno-Karabakh presidential staff. On 29 November President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan visited headquarters of the Corporacion ...FOOD SECURITY SERVICE CONDUCTS INSPECTIONS IN DAIRY COMPANIES
The State Food Security Service has launched inspections in several dairy companies in Armenia. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Babken Pipoyan, a spokesperson for the Service, said some of the companies ...AZERI PRESIDENT MEETS WITH OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (United States), as well as the former co-chair Bernard Fassier, newly appointed co-chair Jacques ...GEORGIA BLAMES RUSSIA FOR SOUTH OSSETIAN PRESIDENTIAL VOTE RETURNS
The Georgian parliament speaker has blamed Russia for the recent electoral developments in South Ossetia. David Bakradze has said that the situation in the breakaway republic (which Georgia considers ...ARMENIA, GEORGIA FOLLOW SAME COURSE - SERZH SARGSYAN
Nov. 30, Armenian and Georgian Presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Mikhail Saakashvili participated in the opening of an Armenian-Georgian business forum. Speaking of business development in Georgia, President ...JAILED GEORGIAN-ARMENIAN ACTIVIST MAN OF MONTH
The Armenian youth initiative No Silence has given the Man of Month title to the jailed Georgian-Armenian public and political figure, Vahagn Chakhalyan. The young activists have praised Chakhalyan's ...US OFFICIAL HOPES FOR PROGRESS IN KARABAKH PEACE TALKS
US Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Eric Rubin expect the year 2012 to mark a considerable progress in the Nagorn-Karabakh peace talks. Speaking at the Washington hosted conference ...GENOCIDE 100TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION BEGINS
Cultural events set to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide are getting under way. The Aram Khachatryan Concert Hall will host the opening of a large-scale program aimed at organizing ...ARMENIAN ARMY'S INSPECTION GROUP LEAVES FOR TURKEY
An inspection group of Armenia's Armed Forces departed on Tuesday to Turkey to conduct a mandatory on-site inspection in the frameworks of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). According ...KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN PREGNANT WITH SECOND BABY
US-Armenian real time star Kourtney Kardashian has announced that she is pregnant with her second child. The reality star already has a son, Mason, with her partner Scott Disick. "Scott and I ...TURKEY SLAPS SANCTIONS ON RESTIVE SYRIA
Turkey slapped tough economic sanctions on Syria on Wednesday, freezing assets of officials involved in the government's crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising, suspending ties with the nation's central ...MINSK SUBWAY BOMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two Belarusians convicted of carrying out a bomb attack in the Minsk subway, killing 15 people, were sentenced to death on Wednesday.
Accordingn to RIA Novosti, Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST MEETS WITH UK EMBASSY HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIAL
Coordinator of opposition alliance Armenian National Congress (or HAK) Levon Zurabyan met Wednesday with Gareth Wynn Owen, acting Charge d'Affaires of UK Embassy in Yerevan.
According to a press release ...MICROSOFT OFFICER KARL DEVIS-BARERTT TO DELIVER SEMINAR IN YEREVAN
Karl Devis-Barertt, technical director of Microsoft Corporation in Central and Eastern Europe, will upon the invitation of the Microsoft Innovation Centre arrive in Armenia and deliver three seminars.
According ...S. OSSETIAN PRESIDENT VOWS NO CONCESSIONS AS SHOTS RING OUT
The outgoing South Ossetian president said on Wednesday the country's authorities will make no electoral concessions as security services fired warning shots at supporters of self-declared president Alla ...UK EXPELS ALL IRANIAN DIPLOMATS AFTER TEHRAN EMBASSY ATTACK
The United Kingdom has expelled all Iranian diplomats from its territory after the British Embassy in Tehran was stormed by a crowd, British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced on Wednesday.
According ...ARMENIANS ARE HOSPITABLE, SAYS RUSSIA'S JUNIOR EUROVISION CONTESTER
Armenians are hospitable and very warn, Katya Riabova, Russia's contestant in Junior Eurovision 2011 has said in Yerevan.
Speaking at a meeting held at the Moscow House, Riabova said she had only heard ...TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PASSES $500M MARK
The latest Twilight film has now made more than $500 million at the worldwide box office, its distributor Summit Entertainment has said.
According to BBC News, by Tuesday, its takings had exceeded $508m ...ARMENIAN GRANDMASTER ARONIAN SAYS HE IS CONTENT WITH HIS GAME
Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian has said he is not sad because of failing to win the first place at the Mikheil Tal Memorial World Chess Championship held in Moscow.
In an interview with ChessPro, ...NO ONE SHOULD BE FOOLED BY ERDOGAN'S EMPTY APOLOGY FOR KURDISH MASSACRES
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher of California Courier
Turkish society was thrown into turmoil last week when Prime Minister Erdogan issued an unexpected apology for the hitherto taboo topic of the Kurdish ...TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE TO JUNIOR EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
Head of the Armenian delegation to Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011, Gohar Gasparyan, has dismissed allegations that the tickets to the concert have all been sold.
According to her, the tickets are ...GERMAN INTELLIGENCE FILES ON EX-NAZIS SHREDDED
Investigators have found that in 2007 the German Intelligence Service (BND) destroyed files of 250 BND employees who had been in the Nazi SS or Gestapo, BBC News reported.
The BND confirmed the loss, ...FLESHMOB HELD IN CENTRAL YEREVAN ON AIDS DAY (VIDEO)
Armenian Fleshmob Division and World Vision Armenia held a joint fleshmob on Nord Avenue in central Yerevan on Wednesday dedicated on the fight against HIV/AIDS.
The event, attended by 70 students and ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1808 The seige of Yerevan is lifted.
- 1815 Birth of public figure Serviche (Serovbe Vichenyan) in Constantinople. He died in 1887.
- 1859 Death of Nikoghayos Zoranyan (economist). He was born in 1821.
- 1920 The Sovietized Government of Azerbaijan recognizes Artsakh as a part of Armenia. It reversed this decision several days later.
- 1933 The "Dzor" power station's brought on line to maximum output.
- 1960 The State Museum of the Revolution opens in Yerevan.
- 1965 Opening of the ten-day Armenian Culture Festival in Sofia (Bulgaria).
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