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Headlines for December 17, 2011

RUSSIAN CUSTOMS SEIZES IRAN-BOUND RADIOACTIVE METAL
Russia's customs agency announced Friday it has seized pieces of radioactive metal from the luggage of an Iranian passenger bound for Tehran from one of Moscow's main airports, USA Today reported. It ...
CAIRO CLASHES LEAVE 6 PEOPLE DED AND 300 INJURED
Six people were killed and at least 300 were injured when pro-democracy activists clashed Friday with Egyptian security forces in central Cairo, CNN reported. Two of the dead were teenagers and one was ...
HRAPARAK: POLICE FIND WEAPONS AT THE PLACE OF MP'S NEPHEW
The paper claims that Special Investigative Service has sent the case of Stepan Hakobyan, the nephew of Armenian MP Hakob Hakobyan (aka Lady Hakob) arrested earlier this week, to police. Initially it ...
ANCA: GROWING NUMBER OF US REPS DEMAND RETURN OF ARMENIAN CHURCHES
A growing number of Members of the House of Representatives have praised the passage this week of a landmark resolution calling upon Turkey to return the Christian church properties it stole through genocide, ...
HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: HOPE TO CONTINUE LIFE IN KAJARAN
The paper claims that the officers of Armenia's Ministry of Territorial Administration were making research in Kajaran village in Armenia's south all through Friday and assured the villagers that the ...
UNITED STATES LIFTS SANCTIONS AGAINST LIBYA
The United States has lifted most of its sanctions against Libya, imposed earlier in order to pressure the Muammar Gaddafi regime, RIA Novosti reported. "Today, after careful consultation with the new ...
STREET CAMERAS TO FIX TRAFFIC RULE VIOLATIONS BEGINNING MID-JANUARY
Video cameras are being installed in the streets in of capital Yerevan to regulate the traffic, according to the Traffic Police Department of the Armenian Police. Speaking to Tert.am, a Department representative ...
SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL HOLDS CONGRESS IN TUNISIA
The Syrian National Council, a coalition of groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, is holding its first congress in Tunisia, BBC News reported. About 200 members of the SNC are meeting near the ...
ARMENIAN MP SAYS NO TURNAROUND EXPECTED IN INTERNAL POLITICAL LIFE
MP and senior member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, Galust Sahakyan, has said "it is unnecessary to speak about any turnabout" in the country's internal political life. In an interview with ...
DEPARTMENT OF STATE SUPPORTS BRYZA'S NOMINATION AS AMBASSAFOR TO AZERBAIJAN
The US Department of State has expressed support for Ambassador Matthew Bryza's nomination to Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani new agency APA has quoted Victoria Nuland, a spokesperson for the Department, ...
KHODORKOVSKY FIRST TRIAL ‘NOT POLITICAL,' EUROPEAN COURT UPHOLDS
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has not backed a claim by jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky that his arrest and trial were politically motivated, RIA Novosti reported. ...
ARMENIAN MOTHER ASKS HELP TO BRING BACK HER SONS FROM RUSSIA (VIDEO)
Shirak Centre, a Gyumri-based non-governmental organization, has released a video footage which portrays a mother, who claims together with her sons, has been abused by employers in Russia. In the video, ...
JUSTICE MINISTER FINDS ONE YEAR IN OFFICE 'SPECIFIC TEST'
Armenia's Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan says his one year in office was a kind of specific test. "I have to admit that being a minister and holding all the keys in your hands does always allow ...
OUTGOING UK AMBASSADOR ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON FACEBOOK
UK Embassy in Yerevan has organized a question-and-answer session in the social networking website Facebook ahead of the Ambassador Charles Lonsdale's completion of his diplomatic mission in Armenia by ...
FOOTBALL FEDERATION PRESIDENT NOT WILLING TO RUN FOR PARLIAMENT
President of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan says he is not willing to run for the 2012 parliamentary election. "You will not see me in the next parliament," he told reporters ...
TALKING TO GROWN-UPS IN THE CAUCASUS
By Thomas de Waal Re-published from The National Interest When does a country become a grown-up? This question faces all the states marking independence twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet ...
AZERBAIJAN TO LODGE 'GENOCIDE CLAIM' WITH ICC
Azerbaijan's National Academy of Sciences is going to submit to the International Criminal Court (ICC) a four-volume document on the "Armenian perpetrated Azerbaijani genocide". The Azerbaijani ...
BERNARD FASSIER TO PAY LAST VISIT TO BAKU AS MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIR
The French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Bernard Fassier, is travelling to Baku on Sunday to bid farewell to the Azerbaijani officials, SalamNews.az reported. Fassier is completing his ...
NORTH KOREA TO SUSPEND URANIUM ENRICHMENT'
North Korea has agreed to suspend its enriched-uranium nuclear weapons programme, a key United States demand for the resumption of disarmament talks, AFP reported. Yonhap news agency and the Chosun Ilbo ...
ARAB SPRING WAS INEVITABLE, SAYS TURKISH FOREIGN MINSITER
The Arab Spring was inevitable and the only way to keep power in this region from now on would be to share it, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has, according to Huriyet Daily News. Speaking at the opening ...
FAILURE TO RECALL ARMENIA-TURKEY PROTOCOLS MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY DRAWBACK
Armenia's failure to withdraw its signatures from the Protocols with Turkey was a major in the foreign policy drawback, according to Vahan Hovhannisyan, the head of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun ...
COMMUNIST LEADER ZYUGANOV PROMISES NEW DUMA POLLS IF ELECTED PRESIDENT
Russia's communist leader Gennady Zyuganov has promised to re-run this month's disputed parliamentary elections if elected president, RIA Novosti reported. "If KPRF [Communist party] wins the presidential ...
SOYUZ LAUNCHES SHARP-EYED PLEIADES SATELLITE
A Russian Soyuz rocket has launched from French Guiana - only the second such vehicle to fly out of the territory's new Sinnamary spaceport, BBC News reported. The Soyuz put six satellites in orbit, ...