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Headlines for December 13, 20115,000 KILLED IN SYRIAN UPRISINGS, ACCORDING TO UN
As explosions and gunfire continued to ripple in Syria, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights on Monday raised the death toll from the Damascus government's crackdown on anti-regime activists ...CANADA WITHDRAWS FROM KYOTO PROTOCOL
Canada has become the first country to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, saying the pact on cutting carbon emissions is preventing the world from effectively tackling climate change, The Associated ...HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO CALL ON TURKEY TO RETURN ARMENIAN CHURCHES
The US House of Representatives is set to vote on Tuesday, December 13th on H Res 306, a religious freedom measure that calls upon Turkey to return stolen Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, and Syriac church ...GOOGLE LAUNCHES ONLINE MAGAZINE APP
Google has launched Currents, an app for receiving magazine content on Android and Apple iOS devices, eWeek Europe reported. Google on 8 December launched Google Currents, its long-awaited magazine-reading ...GENERAL MANVEL GRIGORYAN'S ASSOCIATE ARRESTED
Dec. 12, Armenia's police confirmed the reports that the Criminal Investigation Department arrested Norik Mirzakhanyan, the head of the utilities at the Echmiadzin Municipality. The police found seven ...US SENATE STILL CONSIDERING BRYZA'S NOMINATION AS AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN
The US Senate is still considering Matthew Bryza's nomination as ambassador to Azerbaijan, according to a Department of State official. Mark Toner, a spokesperson for the Department, has said in his ...REPUBLICAN SPOKESMAN SAYS EXECUTIVE BOARD RESHUFFLINGS POSSIBLE IN FEBRUARY
The Republican Party of Armenia's (RPA) Executive Board may have personnel changes as it does every two years after its regular sessions, a spokesperson of the ruling party has said. "Each RPA member ...ARMENIAN PARANOIC MAN ARRESTED IN GLENDALE FOR PIPE BOMB POSSESSION
A 50-year-old man was arrested by Glendale police on Saturday after telling policemen that two men were trying to kill him and he built the device for protection, Glendale News-Press reported. Saro Akhverdyan ...NEWLYWEDS CAUGHT AT ROME AIRPORT WITH 19 KILOS OF COCAINE
A honeymooning Venezuelan couple was arrested at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport after 19 kilograms of liquid cocaine were found in their luggage, M&C reported, citing the Italian police. The drugs ...TURKISH SPEAKER LINKS ARMENIA-TURKEY DEAL WITH KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
The normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations is directly linked with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, the speaker of Turkey's Grand National Assembly has said. According to the Azerbaijani ...THIRD-GENERATION IPAD ARRIVING IN SPRING 2012
Sources within Apple's supply chain have suggested that the next generation of iPads will arrive on the market in the next 3-4 months, Apple Insider reported.
According to DigiTimes the Cupertino, Calif., ...POLICE DISMISS ASSAULT CASE AGAINST PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR
The Special Investigative Service of the Police has suspended the inquest into a recent incident between the governor of Syunik Province, Surik Khachatryan, and businesswoman Silva Hambardzumyan. Hambardzumyan ...GYUMRI MAYOR ON STIR OVER HOTEL
In an exclusive interview with Tert.am, Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan commented on the stir over the Alaksandropol hotel built in the city center. "I cannot understand the stir. Our family has built ...ZHIRINOVSKY TO JOIN RUSSIA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Liberal Democrats leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky has been nominated as the party's presidential candidate by the party convention, Rt.com reported. "We must win the March 4 presidential election," he stated, ...MICHAEL JACKSON'S DAUGHTER STARS IN HER FIRST ROLE
Michael Jackson's 13-year-old daughter Paris has been signed up to star in a new film, The Sun reported. The budding actress is to play the heroine in fantasy movie Lundon's Bridge And The Three Keys ...DISABLED SOLDIER DEPRIVED OF BENEFIT: OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
This November, Arayik Melkumyan, who was a detachment commander in Karabakh, was deprived of his disability pension. Tert.am told his story here: http://tert.am/en/news/2011/12/09/hra/ Responding to ...TURKISH OFFICIAL CALLS FOR RETURN OF 'OCCUPIED LANDS'
The speaker of Turkey's Grand National Assembly, Cemil Cicek, finds that his government's primary task is to assist in Azerbaijan's efforts towards returning the Armenian liberated regions surrounding ...ARMENIA'S UNION OF CONSUMERS FOR TIGHTER FOOD QUALITY CONTROL
Chairman of Armenia's Union of Consumers Armen Poghosyan believes that monopoly control and price control need to be exercised simultaneously. "Market risk is directly related to monopoly on the ...PARLIAMENT COMMITTEES DISCUSS CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN ARMENIA
The National Assembly held today a hearing devoted to the situation of children's rights in Armenia. The discussion organized by several standing committees (on Healthcare Maternity and Childhood; Science, ...PAUL MCCARTNEY TO GIVE CONCERT IN MOSCOW
World-famous musician and song-writer Paul Mccarthy is going to give a concert in Moscow on December 14, the Russian online newspaper Gazeta.ru reported. This is said to be the musician's third concert ...ARMENIAN, ITALIAN FMS MEET IN ROME
Dec. 13, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian, who is a member of a president-led Armenian delegation, which is on a working visit to Rome, had a meeting with his Italian counterpart Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata. ...EDUCATION MINISTER TO MEET UNIVERSITIES' SCIENTIFIC BOARD CHAIRMEN IN GYUMRI
Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan is starting a visit to Shirak region on Wednesday. After a meeting with Provincial Governor Ashot Giziryan in the second largest city of Gyumri, the minister ...ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES SEISMIC ISOLATION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan chaired a sitting of the Scientific and Technical Council, Dec. 13. The Council approved proposals for earthquake isolation systems for newly constructed, reinforced ...ARMENIAN DIASPORA MINISTER HANDS MEDALS TO BENEFACTOR, SCHOLAR
Armenian Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan handed the presidential medals to Egyptian-Armenian benefactor Vard Aleksanian and Syrian-Armenian pedagogue Hakob Cholakian on Tuesday. According to a press ...TURKEY FAR FROM HAVING EUROPEAN-TYPE LEADERS - ARMENIAN DEPUTY FM
Such a response by an official responsible for the country's European integration is evidence of painful reality: Turkey has no leadership typical of a European country so far. Some Turkish officials ...DEADLY ATTACK ROCKS CENTRAL LIEGE IN BELGIUM
A gun and grenade attack in the centre of the Belgian city of Liege has killed at least two people and wounded 47 including a toddler, BBC News reported. Witnesses say a man in his 40s threw grenades ...ARMENIAN BENEFACTORS SHOW INTEREST IN HELPING GYUMRI FAMILY (VIDEO)
A Moscow-based Armenian benefactor, after watching a video by the Shirak Centre about a socially insecure family in Gyumri, has vowed to help them. In a statement released on Tuesday, the center said ...IRAN ASKS INTERPOL TO PROSECUTE TWO US OFFICIALS
Iran has asked Interpol to prosecute two US officials for asking US congressmen to approve a plot to assassinate the leaders of Iran's Qods Force, Tehran Times reported.
In a letter to Interpol, Iranian ...ARMENIAN INTERNET USERS THIRD MOST-PRONE TO VIRUSES
Armenian internet users are the third most-prone to viruses worldwide, a research by the Russian computer security company Kaspersky Laboratory has found out. According to the Russian news website Aif.ru, ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH HIS ITALIAN COUNTERPART
Dec. 13, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan who is on a working visit to Italy, held a meeting with his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano. The Armenian leader noted he fondly recalled his visit to ...EU DELAYS GOOGLE MOTOROLA MERGER
Google's takeover of Motorola Mobility faces a delay after EU regulators suspended their review of the deal, according to BBC News. The European Commission has revealed that it halted the approval ...NO NEED TO BE TERRORIZED OVER EMIGRATION, SAYS PUBLIC COUNCIL REP
A representative of the Public Council has played down the urgency of emigration from Armenia, adding that research shows there is not need to panic. Koryun Arakelyan, the head of the commission on ...US FORMALLY REQUESTS DRONE RETURN, IRAN SCOFFS
US has delivered a formal request to Iran for the return of a US surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces, but said it is not hopeful that Iran will comply. Foxnews reported. US President ...INMATE DIES IN YEREVAN PRISONERS' HOSPITAL PENITENTIARY
An inmate at the Prisoners' Hospital in Yerevan died at midday on Tuesday, according to a press release by the Ministry of Justice. Albert Rshtuni, 75, suffered from an accute stage of diabeties, the ...AZERBAIJAN POSTPONES SHAH DENIZ ROUTE DECISION
A decision on an export route for Azeri gas which could reshape future energy flows to Europe has been delayed until March 2012, the president of Azeri state energy company SOCAR said on Monday, Reuters ...POLICE RELEASE PRESIDENT OF NAREKATSI ART UNION
President of Narekatsi Art Union Narek Hartunian has been released after his investigator changed the decision to use arrest as a measure of restraint. Ani Mnatsakanyan and Arthur Galstyan, the deputy ...TURKEY TOPS LIST OF RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN EU
Turkey leads all of Europe in terms of the number of cases at the European Court of Human Rights that were related to violations of rights between 1959 and 2010, according to recent numbers released by ...ARMENIA IMPORTS RADIATED CARS FROM JAPAN
Armenian nukes officers have registered several cases in 2011 when cars imported from Japan had higher-than-permitted levels of radiation. Speaking to the Armenian news agency Arminfo, Ashot Martirosyan, ...RUSSIA FM SAYS WESTERN STANCE ON SYRIA IS
Russia's foreign minister accused Tuesday the West of taking an "immoral" stance on Syria by pressuring President Bashar Assad, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Lavrov also said that the West ...ARMENIAN TV CHANNELS SHOW VIOLENCE - HAYK DEMOYAN
Armenian TV channels are advertising violence, Hayk Demoyan, Head of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has said. Speaking at a meeting of the Public Council on Tuesday, Demoyan said that the Armenian ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1795 Javad Khan surrenders Gandzak to the Russians.
- 1854 Birth of Mooratsan - Grigor Ter-Hovhannisyan -(writer) in Shooshee (Artsakh). He died in 1908.
- 1890 Death of Mkrtich Emin (armenologist) in Moscow (Russia). He was born in 1815.
- 1901 Opening of the Alexandropol-Yerevan railroad.
- 1911 Gevorg the Fifth (Soorenyants) elected Catholicos. He was murdered by the Soviet Police in 1930.
- 1920 Lenin appoints A. Mravyan and S. Ter-Gabrielyan to the Revolutionary Committee of the USSR.
- 1920 The old administrative institutions and positions are removed by order of the Armenian SSR's People's Committee for Internal Affairs.
- 1921 Start of the repatriation of Diasporan Armenians to Soviet Armenia.
- 1940 Death of painter Stepan Aghajanian.
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