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Headlines for January 21, 2012OBAMA CALLS ERDOGAN TRUSTED FRIEND
US President Barack Obama named Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan among the five leaders that he has established relations based on confidence, in an interview with Time Magazine, Asbarez reported.
In ...DEADLY BLASTS ROCK NIGERIAN TOWN
At least six people were killed in a string of bomb blasts on Friday in Nigeria's second city Kano and the authorities imposed a curfew across the city, which has been plagued by an insurgency led by ...FRENCH SENATE PRESIDENT CHANGES STANCE ON GENOCIDE BILL
President of the French Senate Jean-Pierre Bel has changed his opinion on the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide. Bel, who represents the Socialist Party in the France's upper house, ...THE GUARDIAN: IN FRANCE, GENOCIDE HAS BECOME A POLITICAL BRICKBAT
Next Monday the French Senate is to vote on a bill that will criminalise denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915, along with any other events recognised as genocide in French law. The bill has already ...ARMENIAN BUSINESSMAN STABS WOMAN OFFICIAL IN RUSSIA
An ethnic Armenian businessman has been detained in the Russia after inflicting a bodily injury on a woman official. According to the Russian news agency Interfax, the man has stabbed the head of the ...PROKHOROV TO QUIT BUSINESS IF WINS PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Russian billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team and the ONEXIM Group investment fund, promised on Saturday to sell his business if he wins ...SCIENTIST HALT RESEARCH ON MUTANT BIRD FLU
Scientists who created a potentially more deadly bird flu strain have temporarily stopped their research amid fears it could be used by terrorists, BBC News reported. In a letter published in Science ...RULE OF LAW PARTY STILL CONSIDERING CANDIDATES' LISTS, SAYS DEPUTY LEADER
The coalition Rule of Law party has not yet finalized the list of its parliamentary candidates, according Heghine Bisharyan, the deputy head of the party. "Rule of Law is considering its majority and ...US PROPOSES UN REFORMS
The United States said on Friday it would spearhead a campaign to promote competitive elections for the UN Human Rights Council to keep rights violators like Cuba from winning seats as part of a new effort ...FRANCE TO BUILD NAPOLEONLAND
A French theme park is being planned in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, almost 200 years after his death, The Telegraph reported.
"Napoleonland", the brainchild of former French minister and history buff ...COE OFFICIAL SHOCKED BY DINK VERDICT
Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg stated in İstanbul on Friday that he was ''shocked'' by the court's decision to acquit all 19 suspects of membership in a terrorist ...ARMENIAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS CONCERNED OVER THREATS OF MINING
The environmental group which last year conducted a campaign for the protection of Trchkan waterfall (Lori region) has now raised alarm over the threats of mining activities in Armenia.
In a statement ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1878 Birth of writer and public figure Vahan Tekeyan in Constantinople. He was a classic Western Armenian poet and a famous Diasporan writer.
- 1921 Degrees and ranks among Armenian citizens are abolished in favor of only one title for the Armenian population: Armenian Citizen.
- 1921 Degrees and ranks among Armenian citizens are abolished in favor of only one title for the Armenian population: Armenian Citizen.
- 1924 V.I. Lenin dies.
- 1928 Publication of the first issue of the anti-religious, political, scholarly, popular, and literary illustrated publication called "Anastvatz" (atheist).
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