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Headlines for January 07, 2012SYRIA PLEDGES 'IRON FIST' RESPONSE TO DAMASCUS BOMBING
Syria's interior ministry has vowed to "strike back with an iron fist" at what it say is a recent "escalation" of anti-government terror attacks, BBC News reported. It comes after ...MORE CASUALTIES REPORTED IN ONGOING ATTACKS ON NIGERIAN CHURCHES
At least eight people were shot dead by unknown assailants on Friday night in a Christian church in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa, RIA Novosti reported. A group of militants burst into ...RIHANNA IS BEST-SELLING DIGITAL ARTIST OF ALL TIME
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The Barbados singer, who claimed her worldwide fame through her 2007 smash hit single "Umbrella", has pulled ...RUSSIA'S KASPAROV PLOTS HIS NEXT MOVE AGAINST PUTIN
By Bloomber Businessweek Former chess champion Garry Kasparov is too busy on the phone to answer the door of his mother's apartment just off Moscow's historic Old Arbat street. Instead, his elegantly ...12TH GEORGIAN SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN IN 2012
The latest death of a Georgian soldier in Afghanistan tolls up the number of Georgian troops casualties to 12 since the beginning of the year 2012, Khaama.com reported. According to officials in the ...CHINA WARNS US NOT TO FLEX MUSCLES
The United States should use the "utmost caution" as it makes the Asia-Pacific region a key focus of its newly announced military strategy, CNN reported, referring to China's state-run Xinhua ...ARMENIANS TO COMMEMORATE OHAN DURIAN ANNIVERSARY
A commemoration ceremony is set to take place at the Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan at 3pmm dedicated to the first anniversary of the death of the famous Armenian conductor Ohan Durian.
Durian passed away ...SENIOR MEMBER OF ISRAELI CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STABBED TO DEATH
Gabriel Cadis, a senior figure in Jaffa's Christian community was stabbed to death on Friday evening, during festivities at the St. George Church in Jaffa, according to Haaretz. Cadis, who served as ...US COUPLE WIN ABOUT $129M IN LOTTERY
Lottery officials say a Pennsylvania couple has claimed a $128.8 million Powerball prize in Maryland, according to Sacramentor Bee. The couple chose to stay anonymous. The husband and wife and their ...PACE CHAIRPERSON MEVLUT DAVUTOGLU COMPLETES OFFICE
Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Mevlut Davutoglu is completing his term in office on January 23. In an interview with a Turkish news agency, Mevlut Chavushoglu ...RUSSIA CALLS FOR RESTRAINT IN SENTENCING EGYPT'S EX-PRESIDENT
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it was concerned about the calls of the prosecutor at the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to sentence him to death by hanging, RIA Novosti ...UN SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS DEADLY BLAST IN SYRIA'S DAMASCUS
The UN Security Council has strongly condemned Friday's terrorist attack in the Syrian capital of Damascus that left dozens dead and scores wounded, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
At least 26 ...ARMENIAN BOXER VIC DARCHINYAN CELEBRATES 36TH BIRTHDAY
Australian-Armenian professional super flight boxer Vakhtang Darchinyan, who is mostly known as Vic turns 36 today. Born 7 January 1976 in Armenia third largest city of Vanadzor he is a three-division ...TURKEY'S FM SAYS ANKARA HAS NO HIDDEN WAR WITH TEHRAN
Turkey's foreign minister has said that Turkey does not have a hidden war with Iran, Turkish Weekly reported.
Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey-Iran relations were not a relationship that was a reflection of ...ARMENIAN COURT TO HEAR FORMER TRAFFIC POLICE CHIEF'S CASE
The trial of the former chief of traffic police, Margaryan Ohanyan, is scheduled to start at 11:30 on January 9, 2012. The case will be heard by Judge Mkhitar Papoyan of the Nork-Marash Court of First ...ISRAEL VOWS TO RETALIATE AFTER CREDIT CARDS ARE HACKED
Israel has said it will respond to cyber-attacks in the same way it responds to violent "terrorist" acts after the credit card details of thousands of its citizens were published online, BBC ...UK SENDING WARSHIP TO PERSIAN GULF AMID STRAIT CLOSURE FEARS
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The UK Ministry of ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1824 Birth, in Constantinople, of the author Archbishop Arsen Aytenian, of the Mkhitarist Congregation.
- 1825 Birth of Armenian linguist, philologist, and the future Head Abbot of the Mkhitarist Congregation of Vienna, Arsen Aytnyan.
- 1828 End of the two-month reconciliation negotiations of Dehkhrak.
- 1880 Birth of director Arshak Burdjalyan in Astrakhan (Russia). He was one of the founders of the Armenian school of theater directors.
- 1915 The Central Council of the Social Democrat (Hntshak) Party in Paris appeals to the world to save the Armenians of Western Armenia (living under Turkish misrule) from the danger of annihilation. The Armenian Genocide of about one million Armenians started some four months later.
- 1920 Death of writer Vahan Terian.
- 1925 Opening of the Martiros Saryan exhibition in Paris.
- 1984 President Francois Mitterand of France gives a speech condemning the Armenian Genocide.
- 1994 Horadiz is retaken by the Artsakh forces.
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