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Headlines for February 03, 2012FIFA DEMANDS ANSWERS FOR EGYPT VIOLENCE
Fifa has demanded a "full report" into the violence in Egypt which has left more than 70 people dead.
According to BBC Sport, it has asked the Egyptian authorities to explain exactly what happened ...US REPS DISCUSS JAVAKHK WITH GEORGIA'S SAAKASHVILI
US House Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), lead sponsor of the Armenian Genocide resolution, and Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, met with Georgian president, ...MORE THAN 600 REPORTED DEAD IN CAIRO CLASHES
At least 74 people were killed and more than 600 people were injured in Egypt's worst-ever soccer violence that saw pitched battles between armed rival football fans in the city of Port Said, Samaylive.com ...FACEBOOK TO CREATE 1,000 MILLIONAIRES
After news broke that Facebook was filing for its IPO, rumors spread that the public offering would create "1,000 overnight millionaires."
According to International Business News, the planned ...UN SECURITY COUNCIL CLOSER TO DRAFT SYRIA RESOLUTION
The United Nations Security Council edged closer to agreement on a draft resolution on Syria as members debate the degree of support for an Arab League plan that calls on President Bashar al-Assad to ...MORE THAN 163 FROZEN TO DEATH IN EASTERN EUROPE
A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip Thursday, pushing the death toll to 163 as countries from Ukraine to Italy struggled with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places, AFP reported. ...ARMENIA'S INTERNET MARKET ATTRACTS NEW STAKEHOLDER
A leading Russian telecommunication company has decided to join Armenia's internet market, becoming a shareholder of a major Internet operator in the country. According to the Russian news website Gazeta.ru, ...ISRAEL MAY TARGET IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITE
Israeli leaders Thursday delivered one of the bluntest warnings to date of possible airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites. According to Arizona Republic, they said that the anxiety in Western capitals ...ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER LEAVES FOR BRUSSELS
An Armenian delegation led by Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan left for Belgium on Thursday. In the Brussels-based NATO headquarters, Minister Ohanyan is to take part in the meetings of defense ministers ...IRAN LAUNCHES NEW SATELLITE INTO SPACE
Iran said on Friday that it has successfully launched a new satellite into orbit, the latest in its ambitious space program, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. According to the state news agency ...BBC SERIES PROBES INTO PUTIN'S RELATIONS WITH WEST
BBC News has produced the latest episode of the documentary that delves into the West's fraught relationship with Russia since the turn of the millennium. The four-part series entitled Putin, Russia ...RPA IN THE MIDST OF SETTING UP HEADQUARTERS - SPOKESMAN
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has not yet finalized the list of its pre-election campaign headquarters' representatives, according to a spokesperson for the ruling political force. Speaking to ...ARMENIAN RULING PARTY REP ON COALITION MEMORANDUM
Hovhannes Sahakyan, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), does not rule out a new coalition memorandum. A new memorandum will, if necessary, be signed, he said. "As such, the memorandum ...ARMENIAN YOUNG MAN KIDNAPPED IN ALEPPO
Kidnappers in Aleppo are reportedly holding a young Armenian man to ransom, demanding €50,000 from his family. Speaking to Tert.am, representatives of the local Armenian community said the kidnappers ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER APPOINTS HEAD OF PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT
According to the information at Tert.am's disposal, Speaker of Armenia's Parliament Samvel Nikoyan has appointed Hrair Zoryan, ex-director of the Armenpress news agency, head of the Public Relations Department ...ARMENIA'S COALITION FORCES UNITED ROUND PRESIDENT
The recent press reports do not rule out the signing of a new coalition memorandum or a statement. Talking to Tert.am, Heghine Bisharyan, Chairperson of the Rule of Law parliamentary group, said she ...ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY SURE OF SUCCESS
Gagik Melikyan, Secretary of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary group, states that the party is running for parliament for the purpose of forming a majority. In the 2013 presidential ...EU ACHIEVED LITTLE PROGRESS TO RESOLVE KARABAKH CONFLICT - REPORT
Despite relative unity, the EU has achieved little progress towards resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, the European Council on Foreign Relations has said in a recent report.
In its European Foreign ...ARMENIAN JOURNALIST DETAINED
Haik Gevorgyan, a journalist of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper was detained this morning. Tert.am has found out that he is at the police department of Yerevan's Center community. Neither ...PRESIDENT HAD BETTER MEET OPPOSITION PARTIES - HERITAGE LEADER
The leader of the opposition Heritage party, Raffi Hovhannisyan, believes that the proposal to adopt a 100% proportional representations system should be discussed jointly with the president. Speaking ...ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WAS NOT JUST GENOCIDE - RAFFI HOVHANNISYAN
If there is ever any reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey, it should never be based on foreign countries' laws, the leader of the opposition Heritage party has said. Addressing the French Senate's ...JUVENILE DELINQUENCY UP IN ARMENIA
At her Friday meeting with journalists, Colonel Nelli Duryan reported a rise in juvenile delinquency in Armenia last year as compared with the previous year. Last year, 453 minors committed 527 crimes. ...BOOK PALACE FACES TERRIBLE PLIGHT IN WORLD BOOK CAPITAL (PHOTOS)
While Armenia is preparing to celebrate the 500th anniversary of printing art, with Yerevan being declared the 2012 World Book Capital, more than 1 million print materials in the National Book Palace ...SWEDISH MPS NOMINATE RAGIP ZARAKOLU TO NOBEL PRIZE
A group of Swedish MPs addressed a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating Ragip Zarakolu, a Turkish human rights activist and publisher, to the Nobel Prize, the Evrensel.net website reports. ...YEREVAN MAYOR MEETS WITH GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan held a meeting on Friday with Georgian Ambassador to Armenia Tengiz Sharmanashvili. Mr Margaryan made a high appraisal of Armenian-Georgian relations. He stressed that centuries-old ...FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL TO DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL BILL
The Turkey-based Haberturk news website reports that the Constitutional Council of France plans to hold a hearing on the bill criminalizing the denial of genocides on Feb. 29. The Constitutional Council ...NO ONE CAN CLAIM CREDIT FOR POVERTY REDUCTION - ARMENIAN MINISTER
No political force "can claim credit for" poverty reduction in the country, Armenia's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Artur Grigoryan (a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party - PAP) told Tert.am. ...ARMENIAN JOURNALIST DETAINED BY POLICE CHIEF'S ORDER - NEWSPAPER
The Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) daily has issued a statement on its journalist Haik Gevorgyan's detention. The statement reads: "On February 3, 2011, at about 11:00 am, police, using strong-arm ...
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Today in Armenian history- 571 Popular uprising against Persia and the constraints of Zoroastrianism. Under the command of General Vartan the Second, the Persian forces were expelled.
- 1878 Birth of philologist Zabel Yessayan.
- 1916 Russian forces occupy Karin (Erzroom, Western Armenia).
- 1922 Confirmation of the First Constitution of the Armenian SSR.
- 1926 Death of Johannes Lepsius, Christian leader who tried to inform the world about the Armenian Genocide committed by Turks. He was born in 1858.
- 1952 Death of Hakob Manandarian, historian and philologist. He was born in 1873.
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