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THREE DIE IN GERMAN PLANE CRASH
- At least people were killed in a plane crash in western Germany Thursday, police said, according to News.asiaone.com. The Cessna, which was believed to have six people on board, plunged to the ground not far from the small airport of Offenbach. Rescuers found three bodies but were continuing their search, police said. Contact with the aircraft was lost shortly before 7:00 pm (2am Singapore time) and it caught fire before crashing for unknown reasons.
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Headlines for March 02, 2012SUSPECT IN OHIO SCHOOL SHOOTING CHARGED WITH MURDER
Prosecutors on Thursday formally charged a 17-year-old with murder in a school shooting rampage that claimed three students' lives. T.J. Lane will have a hearing next week before a juvenile court judge ...EU GRANTS SERBIA CANDIDATE STATUS
European Union leaders have granted Serbia "candidate status", at a summit in Brussels, BBC News reported. Belgrade has made a series of democratic reforms and captured war crimes suspects ...RED CROSS TO ENTER HOMS
The Red Cross is due to enter the Baba Amr district of the Syrian city of Homs on Friday to deliver food and medical supplies after a month-long siege.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ...IRAN HOLDS PARLIAMENT POLLS
Voters in Iran are taking part in elections to choose the 290 members of the legislative chambers, the Majlis, BBC News reported. It is the first poll since the 2009 presidential elections, which the ...AUSTRALIA NAMES NEW FOREIGN MINISTER
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has named former New South Wales premier Bob Carr to replace Kevin Rudd as foreign minister, according to BBC News. Ms Gillard defeated Mr Rudd, who resigned ...SARKOZY HIDES IN CAFÉ TO HIDE FROM FLYING EGGS
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been forced to take refuge from a crowd of several hundred angry protesters in a cafe, as riot police swarmed to protect him while he campaigned in the country's southwest ...THREE DIE IN GERMAN PLANE CRASH
At least people were killed in a plane crash in western Germany Thursday, police said, according to News.asiaone.com. The Cessna, which was believed to have six people on board, plunged to the ground ...BOOK PRICES JUMP IN YEREVAN STORES
Despite the statements that the the book-publishing policies remain unchanged, with the government not raising the tax rates, the prices yesterday remained high in the bookstores of the capital city, ...ADIDAS PRESENTS OFFICIAL MATCH BALL FOR 2012 OLYMPICS
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By Raffi Hovhannisyan Re-printed from the Foreign Policy Journal On February 28, the Constitutional Council of the French Republic struck down a bill, previously enacted by its legislature, that would ...ARMENIAN COALITION PARTY REP ON DAILY DEVELOPMENTS
Vardan Bostanjyan, a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), shares the opinion that more political figures will appear on the PAP list. In this context, Vartan Oskanian and Gurgen Arsenyan are ...OPPOSITION MP CONCERNED OVER DOUBLE-VOTING
What is going on at the National Assembly today is really troublesome, a representatives of the parliamentary opposition has said. At a news conference on Friday, Larisa Alaverdyan of the opposition ...RULE OF LAW MP HAVE RIGHT TO ABSENCE - ARMENIAN MP
Like members of the other parliamentary groups, members of the Rule of Law parliamentary group can sometimes be absent from the parliament's meetings, Heghine Bisharyan, the leadr of the Rule of Law parliamentary ...ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK, 75, TO REPRESENT UK AT EUROVISION *(VIDEO)
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At her meeting with journalists on Friday, Naira Zohrabyan, an MP of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), commented on a statement by Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan. At a rally by the opposition ...AVERAGE CONSUMER CANNOT AFFORD TO BUY BOOKS - EXPERT
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The opposition Heritage party has opened its seventh congress at the Government's session hall. The meeting has brought together representatives from different political forces, including the coalition ...ARMENIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION
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Prepared by Columbia University's ...ARMENIAN FM MEETS MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS
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In fact, ...ARMENIA-BASED HERITAGE PARTY LEADER ON ARMENIA'S CHALLENGES
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Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received on Friday the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Ambassadors Robert Bradtke (USA), Igor Popov (Russia) and Jacques Faure (France), as well as Personal Representative ...RULE OF LAW PARTY BOARD MEMBERS ATTEND HERITAGE PARTY'S CONGRESS IN ARMENIA
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Vardanants Day of the Armenian Apostolic Church Calendar.
- 1902 Stepan Shahoomyan organizes a student strike at the Polytechnic Institute in Riga (Estonia). As a consequence, he is exiled to the Caucasus.
- 1916 "The Armenians and the War" magazine was publishing in Odessa from March to the following February .
- 1917 Creation of the Provisional Russian Government.
- 1931 Birth of the German orientalist and armenologist Alfred Gutschmidt. His studies focussed on the sources of Khorenatsi and Agathangeghos.
- 1931 Birth of Mikhail Gorbachov, the first and last President of the Soviet Union.
- 1981 Start of operations for Yerevan's subway. In 2001 it extends over 12 kilometers and has 10 stations.
- 1992 Armenia becomes a member of the United Nations.
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