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Headlines for February 11, 2012ANONYMOUS HACKERS ATTACK CIA WEBSITE
Hackers claiming affiliation with Anonymous are taking credit for taking down the CIA's public site, exposing personal data from Alabama court records and pilfering e-mails from the Mexican mining agency, ...EGYPTIANS STRIKE TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLUTION
Activists in Egypt are set to mark the anniversary of the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak with a strike and day of civil disobedience. According to BBC News, the action is intended to put pressure ...QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PHOTOS RELEASED AFTER 60 YEARS
A treasure trove of photographs believed to be the first official pictures of the Queen and her family after her father, King George VI, died have been made public, The West Australian reported. Daniel ...BRYZA SAYS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DID NOT FACE ARMENIAN LOBBY'S PRESSURE
The former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Matthew Bryza, has dismissed the reports the Senate faced pressures by the Armenian lobby in failing to endorse his nomination in 2011. Speaking to the Turkish ...YEREVAN AIRPORT FLIGHTS NOT HAMPERED BY WEATHER
After resuming its flights late on Friday, Zvartnots International Airport works without interruption, serving its regular arrivals and departures. The snowy weather and low visibility caused the airport ...PAP LEADER WAS NOT IN MOSCOW, SAYS SPOKESMAN
Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the Prosperous Armenia party (PAP), has not travelled to Moscow recently, according to his spokesperson. Speaking to Tert.am, Khachik Galstyan denied the recent media reports ...MADONNA'S ISRAELI FANS CALL FOR DELAYING WAR WITH IRAN
Israeli Madonna fans are asking their country to give peace a chance — at least until after the Material Girl's late-spring concert there, Nydailynews.com reported.
They're rallying around, a Facebook ...SWANSEA UNIVERSITY TO GIVE STUDENTS TOILET USE INSTRUCTIONS
Posters have gone up around a university campus instructing students on how to use the toilet properly, BBC News reported. Swansea University has produced them to help address cultural differences. ...BAGISH: IT'S ILLOGICAL TO CALL 1915 EVENTS GENOCIDE
The fact that some EU members have to pass a series of laws restricting freedom of speech is illogical, the Turkish minister for EU affairs has said.
Egemen Bagish made the statement in an interview ...1,600 CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS REPORTED THIS WEEK
The Ceasefire Accord on the Contact Line between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan was violated 1,600 times over the past week. According to a press release by the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army, the frontline ...GYUMRI HOSTS ARMENIAN WUSHU ATHLETES
A group of wushu athletes have left for the second largest city of Gyumri to attend the adult and junior teams' championship set to begin tomorrow. The president and co-president of Armenia's Wushu Federation, ...IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD PROMISES MAJOR NUCLEAR ACHIEVEMENTS
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that his country would soon. announce "very important" achievements in the nuclear field, Haaretz come reported, citing a state TV channel. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1818 Birth of Anton Garagashyan (historian) in Constantinople. He died in 1903.
- 1829 Alexander Griboyedov, Russian Ambassador in Iran, poet and a friend of the Armenians, falls victim to Fateh-Ali Shah's brutal attack.
- 1841 Birth of Patriarch Malachia Ormanyan in Constantinople. He died in 1918.
- 1882 Birth of Garsoev (Garsoyan). He was a military figure, and a Professor of Naval Science. His rank was Captain, Second Level.
- 1884 Birth of Ashkharabek Kalantar (Lorees Kalantar) in Ardvee (Loree Province). Thanks to this professor of armenology, archeology, and history, many scholarly materials, including Anee's archeological collections, have survived.
- 1936 Birth of Paulo Cuneo, Italian architect and art critic. He was one of the founders of the Medieval Armenian Architecture Department at Rome University.
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