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Headlines for December 09, 2011EUROZONE LEADERS SIGN NEW DEAL WITHOUT UK
The European Union failed to secure backing from all 27 members for a deal to resolve the continent's debt crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France said. According to CNN, 17 members of the euro zone ...APPLE TO BUILD TV INTO NEW IMAC COMPUTERS
Apple is planning to build television functionality right into its next-generation iMac computersm, Pcmag.com reported. The company will be turning its mainstream desktop Macs "into a bridge to ...RETIRED FBI AGENT CALLS FOR HELP FROM VIDEO
Long after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent Robert Levinson reappeared in a video and a series of photographs sent to his family over the past year, transforming a mysterious disappearance into a ...COALITION PARTIES NOT YET AGREED TO SPLIT VOTES, SAY SPOKESMEN
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has not discussed the possibility of splitting its votes with other political forces, says Edward Sharmazanov, the RPA spokesperson and the new deputy speaker ...IRAN CALLS ON UN TO CONDEMN US DRONE AGGRESSION
Iran has urged the United Nations to condemn the violation of its air space by a US drone and sought "clear and effective measures" to end such "dangerous and unlawful acts" against ...ROBERT SCHUMAN FOUNDATION BRANCH IN ARMENIA DISCUSSED
The opening of a Robert Schuman Foundation branch in Armenia is being discussed, Harutyun Amiryan, Spokesman for Secretary of Armenia's National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan, told Tert.am. In ...LEBANESE PRESIDENT DISCUSSES ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN ARMENIA
Dec. 8, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, accompanied by his spouse Wafaa Sleiman, arrived in Armenia for a three-day official visit. Armenian Vice-Premier, Minister of Territorial Administration Armen ...KARABAKH WAR VETERAN DEPRIVED OF DISABILITY PENSION (VIDEO)
The Armenia based NGO Civil Society Institute has issued a statement, expressing concerns over the Medical and Social Expert Committee's recent decision to deprive a disabled veteran of the Nagorno-Karabakh ...ARMENIAN PREMIER MEETS WITH OUTGOING BRITISH AMBASSADOR
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan held a meeting with the outgoing British Ambassador to Armenia, Mr. Charles Lonsdale. The Armenian premier expressed his appreciation of Ambassador Lonsdale's ...ARMENIAN ACTIVISTS' GROUP CALLS FOR CREATING ALTERNATIVE PARLIAMENT
The activists of Sardarapat Movement propose creating an alternative parliament in Armenia to help the country overcome the current crisis. At a news conference on Friday, Oleg Yenigmoshyan, a member ...LEBANESE PRESIDENT VISITS TSITSERNAKABERD
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, who is on an official visit to Armenia, has visited the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims, Tsisternakaberd. He laid a wreath at the memorial. Accompanied by Haik ...GAGIK TSARUKYAN NOT WITHOUT FORESIGHT - ARMENIAN EXPERT
At his Dec. 9 meeting with journalists, Hmayak Hovhannisyan, Chairman of the Union of Political Scientists, answered a question about the possibility of the Prosperous Armenian Party (PAP) accepting a ...WE SHOULD STRUGGLE FOR JAVAKHK AS WE DID FOR KARABAKH - ACTIVIST
Shirak Torosyan, the president of Javakhk expatriates' union, calls for all-Armenian efforts to protect the Armenian populated Georgian region. "We should struggle for Javakhk as we struggled and ...JERRY ROBINSON, COMIC BOOK PIONEER, DIES
Comic book industry pioneer Jerry Robinson, who helped create Batman sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder and their arch-nemesis The Joker, has died at age 89, The Associated Press reported. An editor and friend, ...COCA COLA MOVES SECRET FORMULA LOCATION
Coca Cola has moved its secret formula from its under-lock-and-key location to a vault placed at the entrance to the World of Coca-Cola, Digital Journal reported.
Coke Chief Executive Officer Muhtar Kent ...ARMENIA' AUTHORITIES TOO SELF-CONFIDENT - MP
At his Dec. 9 meeting with journalists, the Parliament member Vardan Khachatryan voiced the opinion that the election results in Russia are the results by a full-fledged middle class there. "Armenia's ...ARMENIA TO HOST RUSSIAN CINEMA WEEK
Dec. 10 to 14, Armenia will host a Russian cinema week. Armenia's Ministry of Culture reports that Russian actors and organizers will hold a press conference at the Moscow House in Yerevan, at 1:00pm, ...RUSSIAN TWITTER POLITICAL PROTESTS 'SWAMPED BY SPAM'
Hijacked PCs may have helped drown out online chat about Russian election protests, say security experts, BBC News reported.
The computers were used to disrupt Twitter as Russians chatted about ongoing ...DEMAND FOR GOVERNMENT'S RESIGNATION NOT TO WIN OVER VOTERS - ARMENIAN MP
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan voiced the opinion the other day that a motion of no confidence in the government submitted by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnakstutyun (ARF-D) was ...COALITION FORCES RUNNING FOR PARLIAMENT SEPARATELY - HEGHINE BISHARYAN
Head of the parliamentary faction of the coalition Rule of Party has dismissed allegations that the coalition parties are preparing to run for the parliament with a joint party list.
Speaking at a briefing ...FEAR, SPECULATION IN IRAN OVER MILITARY STRIKE
The threat of military strikes on Iran has upturned the quiet and comfortable lives once enjoyed by many Iranians, ushering in a new era of struggle and fear, Reuters reported.
Like many Iranians, Maryam ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA WON'T OFFICIALLY RESPOND TO LEVON TER-PETROSYAN
Prosperous Armenia party will not formally respond to the statements by the leader of the opposition alliance Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Ter-Petrosyan about possible cooperation. Speaking ...MAN STABS EIGHT PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST MOSCOW
Police detained a man who stabbed eight people in northeast Moscow on Friday afternoon, a police spokesman said.
"The number of victims has increased to eight. All of them have been taken to hospitals ...FIGHTING STUDENTS OPEN FIRE NEAR SLAVONIC UNIVERSITY IN YEREVAN
Students opened fire near the building of Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University in Yerevan after they started a fight. A police press service officer told Tert.am that the fire was opened from a gas ...ARMENIAN PEOPLE WILL NEVER FORGET LEBANON'S HELP - PRESIDENT
Following his meeting with President of Lebanon Michel Suleiman, who has been on a three-day official visit to Armenia, Armenian President Serzh Sagsyan made a statement at a press conference held jointly ...RUSSIAN INTERIOR MINISTER DEMANDS VOTE FRAUD REPORTS
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev instructed regional police heads on Friday to report on their investigation into alleged voting irregularities during Sunday's parliamentary election, RIA Novosti ...ARMENIAN JOURNALISTS RECEIVE AWARDS IN ANNUAL CONTEST
An annual reporting contest for advocating equal opportunities and called "Sunflower" has awarded journalistic pieces covering problems of people with limited abilities are facing.
A total of 60 pieces ...SYRIAN PROTESTS TRIGGER NEW DEADLY CLASHES
At least 14 people have been killed in renewed anti-government protests across Syria, BBC News reported. Nine of those killed were in the flashpoint city of Homs and two in Deraa, the UK-based Syrian ...UNITED RUSSIA RETAINS PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY - FINAL POLL TALLY
Russia's governing party, United Russia, will have 238 seats in the new State Duma following Sunday's parliamentary elections, Central Electoral Commission deputy head Leonid Ivlev said on Friday. The ...ISLAMIZED ARMENIANS REACH UP TO 1.5 MILLION WORLDWIDE
There are around 1.5 Armenians worldwide who have adopted Islam, participants of a conference on religious issues in Yerevan said. Other than Islamized Armenians, there are around 500 Armenians who ...MOTOROLA WINS APPLE WIRELESS PATENT FIGHT IN GERMANY
A German court has ruled in Motorola Mobility's favour in a patents dispute with Apple, according to BBC News. The Android smartphone maker had complained that Apple failed to license one of its wireless ...ARMENIAN FM MEETS LEBANESE COUNTERPART IN YEREVAN
Armenia's Foreign Minsiter Edward Nalbandian has met with his Lebanese counterpart Adnan Mansur how is in Yerevan in the sideline of the Lebanese president's official visit to Armenia. According to ...BOMB BLAST INJURES UN PEACEKEEPERS IN LEBANON
At least five French UN peacekeepers and a Lebanese civilian have been injured by a bomb blast southern Lebanon, security officials have said. The bomb went off in the Bourj al-Shamali area, on the outskirts ...ARMENIA TO HAVE ‘ACUTE DEFICIENCY IN LABOR, IF MIGRATION TREND CONTINUES'
Armenia will in sometime in the future have an acute deficiency of labor, if the existing migration trend continues, Gevorg Poghosyan, President of the Armenian Sociological Association has said.
Speaking ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Kaghots was the 5th month in the old Armenian calendar (from December 9 to January 7). People connected this name with the Armenian for "pick". Acharian thought that this word was connected with the month when animals bred.
- 1867 New legal system established in Transcaucasia.
- 1883 Birth of Hakob Oshakan. He died in 1883.
- 1918 Start of the Armenian-Georgian three-week war over the Armenian Province of Javakhk.
- 1948 The General Assembly of the UN adopts the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This crime is deemed to have no statute of limitations.
- 1958 Death of Academician Levon Orbeli (physiologist) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). He was born in 1882.
- 1970 Death of Artem Mikoyan, Armenian air-craft designer. He was born in 1905.
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