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Headlines for February 06, 2012OBAMA WANTS DIPLOMATIC FIX ON IRAN
US President Barack Obama said on Sunday there were important risks to consider before any military strike against Iran and made clear he does not want to see more conflict in the oil-producing Gulf region, ...IF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE PROVEN, TURKEY WILL APOLOGIZE - MINISTER
Turkey's Minister for European Affairs and chief EU negotiator Egemen Bagish on Saturday said if claims that the 1915 deportation of Armenians from the Ottoman Turkey constituted genocide could be historically ...HOW DO AZERBAIJANI BLOGGERS PERCEIVE ARMENIANS?-STUDIES
International Alert, a London based NGO working on conflict resolution, has conducted a study on how people on opposite sides of the conflicts in the South Caucasus perceived each other. According to ...MUBARAK TO BE MOVED TO PRISON
Egypt's ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, will shortly be moved to a prison hospital as soon as the facility is upgraded to house the 83-year-old former leder. Citing Egyptian officials, the Associated ...CHINA DEFENDS SYRIA VETO AT UN
Chinese state-run media have defended Beijing's veto of a UN resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on anti-government protesters.
China's top newspapers said the Western push for a regime change in ...QUEEN ELIZABETH II CELEBRATES 60 YEARS ON THRONE
British Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years as monarch on Monday with a deliberately low-key programme of visits to eastern England, kicking off five months of diamond jubilee celebrations.
According to ...NA ACTING SPOKESPERSON WILLING TO WORK OPENLY
The acting spokesperson for Armenia's National Assembly, Hrayr Zoryan, has expressed willingness to work openly with the media. Speaking to Tert.am, the former chief of the state-run news agency Armenpress ...SUICIDE IN AZERI ARMY
A soldier has committed suicide in Azerbaijan's army. The incident occurred in a front-line military unit. Mehman Amirslanov shot himself from his government-issue tommy-gun.PAP HAS NO OPINION ON PROPORTIONAL VOTING SYSTEM
The Prosperous Armenia party (PAP) has not discussed the possibility of adopting a 100% proportional representation system and has no position on the issue, a member has said. Speaking to Tert.am, Aram ...NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ISSUES STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN JOURNALIST'S DETENTION
The National Press Club has issued a statement calling on law-enforcement agencies to mitigate the measure on restraint imposed on Haik Gevorgyan, Copy Editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) ...ARMENIAN JOURNALIST TO BE RELEASED ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE
The prosecutor has decided to change the restraint imposed on Haik Gevorgyan, Copy Editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) daily. He will be released on his own recognizance, Sona Truzyan, ...KOCHARYAN HAS TO RETURN - PUNDIT
Second President Robert Kocharyan is obliged to return to big politics, an Armenian political analyst has said. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Levon Shirinyan said the ex-president's return could ensure ...IRAN'S NAVY THWARTS ENEMY'S SCHEME
An Iranian naval commander has said the 18th fleet of the country's Navy warships has docked at the Saudi port of Jeddah, stressing that such missions are meant to thwart the enemies' Iranophobia schemes.
Iran's ...RULE OF LAW PARTY SURE OF WINNING ARMENIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Heghine Bisharyan, Chairperson of the Rule of Law parliamentary group, explained to journalists on Monday the reasons for party Chairman Artur Baghdasaryan being "sick and tired" of Armenia's parliament ...ARMENIAN JOURNALIST RELEASED AFTER SPENDING ‘THREE FINE DAYS' IN PRISON
Haik Gevorgyan, Sub-Editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) daily, has been released. On leaving the Nubarashen penitentiary, he expressed the confidence that his detention had to do with his ...DINK'S ASSASSIN HAD CONNECTIONS WITH ERGENEKON - PAPER
Turkish nationalist Erhan Tuncel, a suspect in Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murder case, has unveiled new details of the plot after being detained and subsequently released by a court ruling. ...ARMENIA'S FREE DEMOCRATS HAS ‘REAL CHANCE' - CHAIRMAN
The Free Democrats party was established because Armenia "lacked a real political arena," party Chairman Khachatur Kokobelyan told journalists on Monday. According to him, the party members are, first ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT BEGINS SPRING SESSION
Armenia's National Assembly opened its spring session with debates over the cabinet proposed bill on Restricting Financial Operations. The draft, which proposed that financial transactions worth more ...SOLDIER KILLED ON LINE OF CONTACT
On February 5, at 7:20pm, in the south-east section of the Line of Contact (Hadrut region), Marat A. Dimaksyan (born in 1992), a soldier of the Nagorno-Karabakh defense army, was fatally wounded. He ...ARMENIA 42ND IN FIFA RANKING?
Before the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) publishes its 2012 index of national football teams, Football-rankings.info has unveiled its preliminary forecasts. According to the ...SWISS INVESTIGATE TURKISH OFFICIAL FOR GENOCIDE DENIAL
A Swiss prosecutor has launched a probe into Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bagış for saying "the Armenian genocide doesn't exist," Hurriyet Daily News reported. "There is no Armenian genocide. ...US EXPERTS PROPOSE LEVYING SUGAR TAX
Sugar is as damaging and addictive as alcohol or tobacco and should be regulated, claim US health experts. Citing a University of California team, BBC News reported that new policies such as taxes are ...ARMENIA'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ON 1,000 MAJOR TAXPAYERS LIST
In 2011, Armenia's educational institutions, including 14 higher schools, were among the country's 1,000 major taxpayers. Yerevan State University (YSU) tops the list of higher schools among Armenia's ...GENDER EQUALITY BILL ON ARMENIAN NA AGENDA
On Monday, Armenia's parliament discussed the bill on equal rights and opportunities for men and women. Naira Zohrabyan, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on European Integration, stated that Aram ...ARMENIAN SOLIDER KILLED BY RANDOM SHOT
According to the preliminary information by Armenia's Ministry of Defense, Marat A. Dimaksyan (born in 1992), a soldier of the Nagorno-Karabakh defense army, was killed on the Line of Contact, on February ...HARD LINE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL MAY CAUSE NEW PROBLEMS FOR TURKEY - RUSSIAN EXPERT
In an interview with 1news.az, Alexander Krylov, Doctor of History and President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Caucasus, commented on the appeal against the bill criminalizing denial of the ...AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT HOPES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL FAILS
On Monday, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a delegation led by Deputy Chairman of the France-Caucasus Friendship Group, France-Azerbaijan working group, member of Centrist and Republican ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1300 Death at the age of 53 of the Cilician Armenian King Levon the Third. He was the eldest son of King Hetoom the First.
- 1905 Fighting breaks out between Armenians and Azeri Turks in Baku, Yerevan, Gandja, and Shooshee.
- 1919 Opening of the Second Conference of Western Armenians, which first accepted formula about "Political Program of United and Independent Armenia".
- 1919 Start of the Western Armenians' Second Conference. There were 55 participants.
- 1980 In Bern (Switzerland) Swiss police arrest Hrair Max Kelinjian, a member of the illegal political organization "Justice Fighters for Armenian Genocide". He killed the Turkish Ambassador in Bern. After a trial lasting two years, he was condemned to two years' imprisonment.
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