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Headlines for January 10, 2012N KOREA ANNOUNCES PRISONER AMNESTY
North Korea has said it will grant an amnesty for prisoners to mark the birthdays of two late leaders, BBC News reported. According to state news agency KCNA, the amnesty would begin from 1 February, ...IRAN STARTS ENRICHING URANIUM TO 20 PCT - IAEA
The International Atomic Energy Agency officially confirmed that Iran has started enriching uranium to the 20-percent level, which can easily be turned into fissile warhead material, RIA Novosti reported. ...NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT SQUEEZED BY SUBSIDY PROTESTS
Nigeria's government is facing rising religious violence in the north, a long-simmering separatist movement in the oil-rich south and now a nationwide strike fueled by widespread anger over the end of ...LIONEL MESSI CROWNED WORLD'S BEST FOOTBALLER
Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has won the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or to claim the title of world player of the year for the third time in succession, according to Soccernet. Messi beat Barcelona ...5 ARMENIANS SUFFER IN MOSCOW GAS EXPLOSION
Five Armenian nationals have reportedly suffered in the gas explosion and fire at a Moscow restaurant on Monday. According to Life News, those people are Felix Mkrtchyan, 14, Victoria and Svertlana Aghajanovas ...NO OFFICIAL REPORTS ARMENIAN SURVIVORS IN MOSCOW EXPLOSION - FOREIGN MINISTRY
Armenia has not received any official reports from Russia about the survivors in yesterday's gas explosion in Moscow, according to the Foreign Ministry. Speaking to Tert.am, Tigran Balayan a spokesperson ...IAEA CONFIRMS IRAN'S UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR PLAN
The UN nuclear agency on Monday confirmed that Iran has begun enriching uranium at an underground bunker to a level that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation's main ...73-YEAR-OLD MAN FOUND DEAD IN ARARAT PROVINCE
A septuagenarian man has been found dead in Urtsadzor village in Ararat province on January 9 with several stabs on his hands, neck and abdominal. The police received the emergency call from the grandchild ...OBAMA REPLACES CHIEF OF STAFF
US President Barrack Obama has replaced Irish American Bill Daley as his chief of Staff, Irish Central reported. The shock announcement came in a 3pm press conference in the White House press room. Daley ...'WORLD'S THINNEST' PHONE UNVEILED (VIDEO)
The world's slimmest ever device has just been unleashed by Huawei at CES.
According to Smarthouse.au, the slim yet potent 6.68mm device on a highly impressive 4.3" 960x540 Super AOLED qHD display, ...PICASSO, MONDRIAN CANVASSES STOLEN FROM ATHENS GALLERY
A Pablo Picasso painting given to the Greek people in recognition of their resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II has been stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens, CNN reported. "Head ...'EXTINCT' GIANT TORTOISES LIVE ON
It may be the ultimate paternity test for a reptile believed lost to history. US scientists say an iconic tortoise that has been presumed extinct in the Galapagos Islands for 150 years may still exist, ...ACTIVE POLITICAL YEAR TO LAST TILL ELECTIONS- ANALYST
The pre-election activeness in Armenia inspires certain positive hopes, according to Alexander Iskandaryan, a political analyst. At a news conference on Tuesday, the expert pointed out to several domestic ...GENERAL AGREEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL - PATRICK OLLIER
Speaking of the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide adopted by the French National Assembly, Patrick Ollier, French Minister for Relationships with Parliament, noted a general agreement ...GEORGE SOROS: WORLD ECONOMY FACES 'VICIOUS' DEFLATIONARY CYCLE
George Soros, the billionaire US investor, said Monday the global economy is facing a "vicious" deflationary cycle as members of the euro zone cut back sharply on spending to bring their budget ...ARMENIA'S EMERGENCY SERVICE NEEDS ENHANCE EFFICIENCY
Armenia's emergency service worked hard during the New Year - more calls were served than in the previous corresponding period, Taguhi Stepanyan, Head of the Emergency Service CJSC, told journalists. ...TERT.AM WESTERN ARMENIAN CELEBRATES FIRST YEAR ONLINE
On January 10, 2011, Tert.am launched a webpage in Western Armenian. Within a short period, the new section attracted a broad circle of readers from different corners of the world. The webpage is mostly ...NO ESSENTIAL CHANGES IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS - ARMENIAN EXPERT
In case Vladmir Putin is re-elected Russian president, no essential changes should be expected in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, the political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan told journalists Jan ...ARMENIA NOT READY TO SHIFT TO PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM - REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER
Armenia is not yet ready to adopt a 100-percent proportional representation system, according to Hovhannes Sahakyan, a lawmaker of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). Speaking to reporters ...ABOUT 700,000 ARMENIAN TOURISTS VISITED GEORGIA LAST YEAR
A total of 2,280,000 tourists visited Georgia last year - a 39% increase as compared with the previous year. Turkish tourists are leaders - 738,136, followed by Azerbaijanis (714,427) and Armenians (699,391). ...MERCEDES TO LAUNCH FACEBOOK APP
Mercedes-Benz US is bringing Facebook to its cars, with a special version of the service that's built into a new in-car telematics system that will be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las ...RUSSIA TRYING LIVEN UP OSCE MINSK GROUP BEFORE ELECTIONS
The Armenian-Azerbaijani presidential meeting through Russian mediation will enable official Moscow to rehabilitate the OSCE Minsk Group, Fikret Sadykhov, an Azerbaijan-based political scientist, told ...SYRIAN LEADER BLAMES FOREIGN CONSPIRACY
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has blamed a foreign conspiracy for trying to destabilise Syria, BBC News reported.
The "external conspiracy is clear to everybody", he said in his first public ...PSYCHOLOGIST EXPLAINS REASONS OF POST-HOLIDAY STRESS
Any human organism commonly experiences stress unless it is lifeless, a psychologist has said. At a news conference on Tuesday, Karine Nalchajyan, a PhD candidate of psychology, dwelled on the causes ...SUICIDE IN ARMAVIR REGION
A woman in a Armavir province has recently committed suicide. According to the official website of the Emergency Situations Ministry, Sliva Baghdasaryan (resident of Taronik village), 55, set her cloth ...SOCIETY CAN RULE ARMENIA - EXPERT
The Sardarapat movement's action group continues its attempts to finds the way out of the current crisis in Armenia. It proposes forming an alternative government that would be considered legitimate ...JERZY BUZEK WARNS AGAINST PAN-EUROPEANIZATION OF FRENCH-TURKISH RELATIONS
President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek has called upon France to settle its problems with Turkey in the bilateral format. According to the Turkish media, Buzek has warned the country against ...EMIGRANTS GET CULTURE SHOCK - PSYCHOLOGIST
Emigration is a most serious problem, and it is a most superficial approach to say it has social causes, the psychologist Karine Nalchajyan told journalists in Yerevan, Jan. 10. According to her, a section ...PARIS TO BE RENAMED ALGERIA
In response to adoption of a bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide by the French National Assembly, the Ankara Municipality decided to rename Paris Str Algeria Str. Moreover, the Ankara ...COMMISSION ON ETHICS OF HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIALS FORMED
President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree to form a Commission on Ethics of the High-level Officials, the Armenian presidential press service reports. Lilit Petrossian, who was nominated by the Speaker ...TURKISH EX-PRESIDENT KENAN EVREN FACES COUP CHARGE
A Turkish court has accepted indictments against the country's seventh president, Kenan Evren, for his role in the 1980 army coup, BBC News reported. Prosecutors are seeking life terms for Gen Evren, ...SURVEILANCE CAMERAS TO FUNCTION IN MID JANUARY IN YEREVAN STREETS
Street surveillance and speed measuring cameras installed in Armenia's capital Yerevan will be operational from January 16, 2012, in an attempt to regulate traffic rules in the city. According to a ...OIL RISES ABOVE $113 ON IRAN TENSION
Oil rose to above $113 a barrel on Tuesday as tension over Iran's nuclear program and unrest in Nigeria outweighed persistent concerns about the strength of Europe's economy, Reuters reported.
Iran has ...RUSSIA'S FINANCE MINISTER SILUANOV REPLACES KUDRIN IN IMF, WB
Russia's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has replaced his predecessor Alexei Kudrin as the Russia governor in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank following a presidential decree signed ...VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY CALLS GORBACHEV AND YELTSIN ‘IDIOTS' (VIDEO)
Leader of the Russian Liberal-Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky has called former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin idiots. In an interview with ...PLACIDO DOMINGO AND SIMON RATTLE WIN ISRAELI WOLF PRIZE
Spanish tenor Placido Domingo has become the first vocal artist to win Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize for the arts, organisers have announced, BBC News reported.
Domingo shares the award with conductor ...RUSSIAN BLOGGER NAVALNY UNMASKS 'KREMLIN' PHOTO SMEAR
The Russian blogger leading Russia's vote-rigging protests has accused supporters of Vladimir Putin of seeking to smear him with a fake photo, BBC News reported. Alexei Navalny proved that a picture ...TURKEY WILL OPEN BORDER WITH ARMENIA AFTER KARABAKH SOLUTION, SAYS ENVOY
Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic has said that Armenia should withdraw its troops from the territories around Nagorno Karabakh which will pave the way for the opening of the Armenia-Turkey ...SAMSUNG'S 'FUTURE-PROOF' VOICE-CONTROLLED TELEVISION
A "smart" internet-connected television that has the ability to have its hardware upgraded every year has been unveiled by Samsung, BBC News reported. It has an expansion slot allowing new ...FORMER ARMENIAN SPY GEVORG VARDANYAN DIES IN MOSCOW
A former Soviet Union spy of Armenian descent Gevorg Vardanyan has passed away at a Moscow hospital, according to the Armenian news agency Armenpress. Vardanyan, who is said to have died of cancer, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1846 Birth of Armenian philologist and specialist of Indo-European languages, Serovbe Derveeshyan. He founded and edited the first philological magazine, "Lezoo" (language) in 1887, in Constantinople.
- 1880 Hovhannes Lazaryan presents his proposal on the liberation of Armenia to A. Suvorov.
- 1923 Decision taken to create a united monetary structure and currency in Transcaucasia.
- 1928 Birth of theoretical physicist Andrey Amatoonee in St. Petersburg (Russia).
- 1967 Arooss -- the largest accelerator in the Soviet Union (6 billion electrovolts), is switched on in Yerevan.
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