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Headlines for January 11, 2012EX MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR CLAIMS REPUBLICAN'S VICTORY
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken another stride towards his party's nomination after a solid victory in New Hampshire's primary, BBC news reported. The former Massachusetts governor ...BIRDS HOLD GENETIC KEY PREDICTING HUMAN LONGEVITY (VIDEO)
Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have found a key genetic indicator of how long an individual will live.
According to BBC News, they say the lengths of telomeres, pieces of DNA, could ...KURDISH, GREEK AND ARMENIAN AMERICANS CALL FOR US INQUIRY INTO TURKISH AIRSTRIKE
Photo from Asbarez Kurdish American, Hellenic American, and Armenian American leaders joined together on Tuesday in calling upon key Congressional leaders to demand that the Obama Administration investigate ...ABC NEWS REMOVES KARABAKH FROM TRAVEL FEATURE
ABC News has removed a segment of a feature that recommended traveling to Nagorno-Karabakh as one the "Great Offbeat Places to Go in 2012," Asbarez.com reported.
In a travel segment posted on Sunday on ...UN SAYS SYRIA KILLINGS RISE AFTER MONITORS' ARRIVAL
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad derided the efforts of Arab League monitors to halt violence against anti-government activists, and a senior UN official said Syria had stepped up its killing of protesters ...NY TAXI DRIVERS OFFERED NEW HANDICAP-ACCESSIBLE OPTION
A few months after the Taxi of Tomorrow and its handicap-inaccessible design sparked a "roll-in" protest in the Flatiron District, disability-rights advocates returned to the pedestrian plaza at 23rd ...NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL SEC LEAVES FOR BELARUS
Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC) Artur Baghdasaryan is in Belarus on an official visit. According to a press release by the NSC, he is scheduled to meet with the country's president, ...TURKEY'S GUL TO REMAIN IN OFFICE UNTIL 2014
Turkish parliament's Constitution Committee is set to adopt new amendments on the expiry of President Abudllah Gul's term of office. "We have made clarification about the issue. Abdullah Gul's term of ...SERGEI PARAJANOV MUSEUM MUST BE OPENED IN KIEV - UKRAINIAN WRITER
In an interview with the Ukraine-based Den' (Day) newspaper, the renowned Ukrainian writer and public figure Ivan Drach spoke in favor of opening the Sergei Parajanov museum in Kiev. "I have repeatedly ...TEHRAN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DIES IN CAR BOMB PLOT
An Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, citing the Iranian media. According Fars ...TWITTER CRITICIZES GOOGLE'S SEARCH CHANGES
Google has angered Twitter and faces accusations of "warping" its search results and breaking antitrust rules by boosting posts from itsGoogle+ social network in its standard search results, ...ORANGE JUICE PRICES HIT RECORD AFTER RECENT SURGE
The price of orange juice on the global markets has hit a record high, after surging over the past few days, BBC News reported. According to traders, the main reasons are safety concerns about juice ...FOOD PRICES UP IN ARMENIA
A 4.8% increase in food prices was registered last December as compared with last November. It was mainly due to an increase of 5.6% to 36.6% in the price for fruits, vegetables, and potatoes, Gurgen ...FINNISH POLITICIAN CALLS FOR MORE ATTENTION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT
The head of Finland's delegation to OSCE, lkka Kanerva, has called upon the world community to grasp the seriousness of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Speaking to the Azerbaijani news agency APA, the ...'DECENT' HOLIDAY RATHER COSTLY IN ARMENIA
A decent four- or five-day holiday in Armenia cost US $2,000 to 3,000 during the New Year holidays. At his Jan 11 meeting with journalists, Hakob Hakobyan, Chairman of the Armenian Hotels Association ...KAZAKHSTAN AMBASSADOR INTERESTED IN COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA
Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Armenia Ayimdos Bozzhagitov has called for boosting cooperation with his country. At a news conference on Monday, the diplomat expressed concerns that the Armenia and Kazakhstan ...SOCHI-BASED ARMENIANS CALL ON RUSSIAN DUMA FOLLOW FRANCE'S EXAMPLE
The Union of Sochi Armenians NGO intends to appeal to the Russian State Duma for following France's example and adopt a bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide. The NGO has launched a signature-gathering ...FRENCH SENATE RESCHEDULES DEBATE OVER GENOCIDE DENIAL BILL
The upper house of the French parliament has rescheduled its hearing over the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide. Speaking to the Armenian service of RFE/RL, the director of the Armenian ...ARMENIAN MPS ON MERITS AND DEMERITS OF ELECTION SYSTEMS
Rafik Petrosyan, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary faction, has for a long time been for a switch-over to the proportional representation system. However, at a Jan 11 press ...ARMENIA'S PREMIER LEAGUE 95TH IN IFFH'S RANKING
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) has published its 2011 classification of national cups, ranking Armenia's premier league the 95th in its classification table. ...JAILED TURKISH PUBLISHER CALLS FOR PARLIAMENT'S RECOGNITION OF GENOCIDE
Turkish publisher and human rights activist Ragip Zarakolu has called upon his country's parliament to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Jailed in October amid the anti-Kurdish operations in Turkey, the ...KARABAKH ENTERED 2012 WITH STRONG MILITARY-POLITICAL POTENTIAL - EXPERT
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) should not lose an inch of its territory, a political analyst has said. "The NKR entered 2012 with a strong potential. It is mighty, powerful and will not tolerate ...LA LAWMAKERS FORCE PORN ACTORS TO WEAR CONDOMS
Los Angeles city lawmakers voted to require porn actors to wear condoms on set, the latest move in a battle between AIDS activists and the California-based US adult film industry, AFP reported.
In a vote ...RUSSIAN INVESTIGATORS FIND VOTES BY 6,000 ‘DEAD SOULS'
A criminal case has been opened into ballot rigging in the Central Russian city of Vladimir where about 6,000 "dead souls" voted in the December 4 parliamentary elections, a regional investigations committee ...ARMENIA SENDS NEXT GROUP OF PEACEKEEPERS TO AFGHANISTAN
A 40-strong detachment of Armenian peacekeepers is set to leave the country for Germany on Wednesday and then to Afghanistan, a Defense Ministry spokesperson told Tert.am. "Usually, for 20 days the ...CYPRUS RELEASES RUSSIAN SYRIA-BOUND 'AMMUNITION' SHIP
A Russian-owned ship reportedly carrying ammunition to Syria was allowed to leave Cyprus after giving assurances it would switch course, the island nation's officials said on Wednesday.
According to RIA ...MOTHER SEE CALLS ON GEORGIA TO SAVE ARMENIAN CHURCH FROM DESTRUCTION
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has called on Georgia to take immediate steps to prevent the final destruction of the Tbilisi-based church Saint Nshan that was pulled down partly due to a fire.
In a statement ...FRENCH JOURNALIST GILLES JACQUIER KILLED IN SYRIA UNREST
French TV reporter Gilles Jacquier has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs, the first Western journalist to die in the country's current unrest, BBC News reported. He was on a government-authorised ...BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT REJECTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
The Bulgarian parliament rejected Wednesday a bill to recognize the Armenian Genocide, according to the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
The agency notes that the bill was brought at the parliamentary vote ...GERMAN PROSECUTOR SHOT DEAD IN BAVARIAN COURT
A state prosecutor has been fatally shot in a courtroom in the southern German state of Bavaria, BBC News reported. The gunman, a 54-year-old defendant in a case at Dachau administrative court, opened ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1921 Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), Supreme Commander of the Armenian Army, together with a group of Armenian officers, is exiled from Armenia. He died in 1956, in the USA.
- 1924 Creation of the "Girk" (book) publishing house in Yerevan, under the direction of Martiros Saryan.
- 1936 The Komitas String Quartet earns the First Place at the USSR Chamber Ensemble Competition.
- 1942 The 390th Armenian division is formed in the Kerch peninsula under Colonel S. Zakyan. The 409th division, reinforced by Armenian soldiers and officers in Armenia, is renamed the Armenian Division under the command of A. Vassilyan.
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