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Headlines for March 23, 2012US SERGEANT FACES 17 COUNTS FOR AFGHAN MASSACRE
US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage in Kandahar province last week, will be charged with 17 counts of murder, Reuters reported, citing a US official. ...WHITNEY HOUSTON'S DEATH CAUSED BY DROWNING
Whitney Houston's death was caused by accidental drowning, but drug abuse and heart disease were also factors, a coroner has ruled, according to BBC News. Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said drug tests ...FRENCH POLICE KILL ‘AL QAEDA' MILITANT
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Police used massive firepower Thursday to end the 32-hour siege of a killer whose murders of Jewish schoolchildren and soldiers traumatised France and briefly halted the presidential ...JAVAKHK COMMUNITY LEADER HOLDS TALKS AT E-PARLIAMENT
The coordinator of the Council of Armenian Organizations (NGOs) of Samtskhe-Javakheti (Javakhk) Artak Gabrielyan traveled to Brussels earlier this month and held meetings with key members of the European ...OVER 1,000 NOMINEES TO CONTEST FOR 131 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT
More than 1,000 candidates have nominated themselves for the 131 seats in the National Assembly. All in all, representatives of nine political forces - the Armenian National Congress (ANC), the Republican ...HILLARY CLINTON TO VISIT TURKEY IN APRIL
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to visit Turkey on April 1 to attend the Friends of Syria summit, Victoria Nuland, a spokesperson for the Department of State, has said. Speaking at a daily ...FACEBOOK REPORTEDLY PURCHASES IBM PATENTS
Facebook has acquired patents from IBM as it girds itself for litigation, including a lawsuit by Yahoo, The Australian reported. A company spokesman is said to have confirmed the purchase but did not ...7 DIE IN ARGENTINA BUILDING COLLAPSE
At least seven people were killed and three others injured when a building under construction collapsed on Thursday in the northern Argentine city of Corrientes, Xinhua news agency reported, citing police ...OPPOSITIONIST PROMISES TO HELP BUILD BETTER COUNTRY
After confirming his nomination as a majority constituency candidate, the editor-in-chief of the opposition daily Haykakan Zhamanak, Nikol Pashinyan, issued a statement, highlighting his goals and objectives ...LIVING ALONE 'ARE MORE DEPRESSED'
People of working age who live alone increase their risk of depression by up to 80% compared with people living in families, BBC report referring to a Finnish study. It says the main factors are poor ..."DON'T LET THEIR VOICES BE FORGOTTEN" - GALA EVENT TO PRESERVE GENOCIDE SURVIVORS' VOICES
The University of South Carolina's (USC) Institute of Armenian Studies will host on April 15 an annual event aimed at preserving the recollections of Armenian Genocide survivors. "Don't Let Their Voices ...PEOPLE'S FAITH ARMENIAN COALITION FORCES' ONLY HOPE - ARF-D REP
Artsvik Minasyan, an MP of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD), is not surprised at Armenia's coalition forces using the word "believe" in different contexts in their slogans. ...ZIMBABWE WOMEN HUNT MALE TRAVELERS FOR SPERM
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Gangs of women in Zimbabwe have been picking up male travellers to have sexual intercourse and harvest their sperm, The Telegraph reported.
Susan Dhliwayo claims she pulled her car over recently to pick ...HERITAGE LEADER CALLS ON OPPOSITION FORCES TO UNITE
Heritage party's leader, Raffi Hovhannisyan, has called upon the opposition forces to unite their efforts ahead of the May 6 parliamentary polls. "Time has now arrived for all those who consider themselves ...KIM KARDASHIAN ATTACKED WITH WHITE POWDER (PHOTOS)
Kim Kardashian has been attacked with flour on the red carpet at her own perfume launch.
The 30-year-old reality star was covered in the cooking ingredient after an unidentified Asian woman pelted her ...ARMENIA-BASED RULE OF LAW ENJOYS PUBLIC CONFIDENCE, HERITAGE SETS OPPOSITION EXAMPLE
Armenia's public goes on trusting the Rule of Law party, Heghine Bisharyan, Head of the Rule of Law parliamentary group, told journalists on Friday. "Our party has a 15-year history in a country that ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES ETHIOPIAN AMBASSADOR
The newly appointed Ethiopian ambassador to Armenia, Kassahun Dendier Melisi (residence in Moscow), submitted today his credentials to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. Congratulating the diplomat, ...ARMENIA-BASED HERITAGE PARTY LEADER SURE OF SUCCESS
Raffi Hovannisian, Chairman of the Heritage party, calls for viewing the Heritage party list as a single whole. The Heritage party list is the result of "unprecedented labor," but party members will ...ANC REP SURE OF VICTORY IN ARMENIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Gagik Jhangiryan, a member of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), is sure that the ANC will gain an overwhelming majority in Armenia's parliament provided free and fair elections are held ...ARF-D NOT TO JOIN COALITION, SAYS MEMBER
Artyusha Shahbazyan, a secretary of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) faction in parliament, has ruled out the possibility of joining the ruling coalition. As he told reporters ...ALL-ARMENIAN BRAINSTORMING COMPETITION IN GYUMRI
The all-Armenian intellectual competition "What, where, when?" Gyumri Cup was held in Armenia's second largest city on March 10 and 11, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of intellectual games in ...REPUBLICAN PARTY'S LIST DISAPPOINTING - EXPERT
The Republican Party's list of candidates looks disappointing to many people. according to Karen Kocharyan, a political analyst. Speaking to reporters on Friday, the expert said the major problem in ...ARMENIAN POWER MEMBERS CAUGHT IN IDENTITY THEFT RING IN LA
After a five week trial, four defendants have been convicted for their roles in one of the largest bank fraud and identity theft schemes in California history, with dozens of victims in four states and ...RULE OF LAW SPOKESPERSON RESIGNS
The spokesperson of the coalition Rule of Law party, Susanna Abrahamyan, has resigned from office. Speaking to Tert.am, Sahakyan said she withdraw her membership in the party today as she was not pleased ...ARMENIA'S EMERGENCY SITUATION LAW DANGEROUS - OPPOSITIONIST
Vahan Hovhannisyan, Head of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) parliamentary group, believes that the Law on Legal Regime of Emergency Situations may have dangerous consequences. ...HISTORICAL MOSQUE BURNS DOWN IN TURKEY
A historical mosque in Turkey's Bursa province is said to have burnt down completely. According to CNN Turk, the Ulu Mosque situated in Karacabey region burned to ashes as a result of fire that erupted ...ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO LEAVE FOR BAKU DESPITE LACK OF SECURITY GUARANTEES
The Armenian delegation decided to participate in the plenary session of the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly to be held in Baku, April 1 to 4, though Azerbaijan does not give any security guarantees. ...CHANGES CAN HARDLY BE EXPECTED FROM ARMENIA'S RULING COALITION - ARF-D
Artyusha Shahbazyan, Secretary of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) parliamentary group, does not expect any serious changes from Armenia's authorities. He arrived at the ...NAGORNO-KARABAKH SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS
President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan chaired a meeting of the NKR Security Council on Friday. The meeting discussed a draft of the NKR Civil Defense Strategy. Director of the ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA NEEDS ‘POLITICIZING' - EXPERT
Including more political figures in the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) list is an attempt to "politicize" a party that has not over recent years been a political one. At his Friday meeting with journalists, ...ANC LIST REFLECTS ITS STRUCTURE - ARMENIAN EXPERT
The list of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) is, in fact, a reflection of its structure, that is, its leaders, who are the first ten on the list. "The public is well aware of the list. ...ARMENIA'S AUTHORITIES DETERMINED TO HOLD FREE, FAIR ELECTIONS - PREMIER
Armenia's authorities are determined to hold the freest and fairest elections in independent Armenia's history, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated at the conference "Toward free and fair elections." ...ARMENIAN FM, FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA MEET WITH FRENCH-SPEAKING STUDENTS OF YEREVAN UNIVERSITIES
Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian visited on Friday the French Embassy in Armenia on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Armenian-French relations. The Armenian FM and French Ambassador ...ARMENIAN PREMIER RECEIVES DELEGATION OF GREEK ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan held a meeting on Friday with a delegation of the Economic and Social Council of Greece led by President Christos Polyzogopoulos. "We attach high importance to ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1886 Birth of Tsolak Khanzadian, linguist and translator. He died in Moscow, and is buried in Yerevan.
- 1887 Birth of Aristakes Vardanian, linguist and philologist. When he was 23, he become a monk of the Mkhitarist Congregation. He died in 1941.
- 1898 Death of Tigran Tshookhadjiyan - composer and creator of the first Armenian opera - in Smyrna. (He was born in 1836).
- 1904 Birth of composer and important artistic figure, Levon Khoja-Eynatian in Tbilissi.
- 1908 Tachat Terlemezian executes Davo, the traitor.
- 1923 Death of Hovhannes Toomanyan (writer) in Moscow (Russia). He was born in 1869.
- 1929 Birth of Rafael Chmshkian, famous weightlifter, world record-holder, international trainer, European and Helsinki Olympic Games champion.
- 1937 Abolition of the Transcausasian Federation.
- 1937 The 9th Extraordinary Congress of the Armenian SSR confirms the New Constitution for Armenia.
- 1954 The National Congress of Armenia's village doctors opens in Yerevan.
- 1956 Death of actor Goorgen Gabrielyan.
- 1966 Creation of the Armenian Radio and Television Symphonic Orchestra headed by Ohan Doorian.
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