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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH ARMENIAN COMMUNITY REPS IN SINGAPORE
- A meeting with the local Armenian community was the last point on the agenda Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's state visit to Singapore. The Armenian leader held a meeting at St. Gregory the Illuminator church. The president-led Armenian delegation is to return to Yerevan on Thursday evening.
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Headlines for March 29, 2012TOULOUSE GUNMAN'S FATHER TO SUE FRANCE
The father of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah has hired an Algerian lawyer to sue French special police over his son's death, BBC News reported, citing the French media. Mohamed Merah, 23, killed seven ...ANC EUROPE LEADERS MEET WITH GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR
Leaders of the European Armenian Federation (ANC Europe) Wednesday met with Georgia's Ambassador to the European Union for a briefing about meeting held with European officials and a leader of the Armenian ...3 PRISONERS EXECUTED IN JAPAN SINCE 2012
Japan has hanged three death row inmates in its first executions since July 2010, BBC News reported. Reports said the unnamed prisoners, hanged in separate prisons, had all been convicted of multiple ...OFFLINE GALLERY EXPLORES HISTORY OF WEB
A new gallery exploring the history of the internet is to open at the National Media Museum in Bradford. Life Online - or LOL for short - will aim to charter the social, technological and cultural impact ...ANC CONDEMNS ELECTORAL COMMISSION'S DECISION TO REJECT MEMBER
The opposition alliance Armenian National Congress has criticized a recent decision to reject their nominee's bid for the upcoming parliament campaign. It comes after a commission in Electoral District ...ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SURVIVORS REMEMBER
By Jason D. Antos Reprinted from The Gazzete Thousands of Armenians, Jews and other supporters will gather in Times Square on April 22, to commemorate the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian ...15 CANDIDATES WITHDRAW FROM PARLIAMENT RACE
Fifteen out of the 180 candidates nominated in different constituencies across Armenia have quit the parliament race, it became known today. As of Thursday morning, the following contenders were reported ...GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES UNDERMINE MEETING IN JAVAKHK
Georgian authorities directly undermined a community gathering during which the coordinator of the Council of Armenian Organizations (NGOs) of Javakhk and director of the A-Info news agency Artak Gabrielyan ...ARMENIAN ANALYST ON MINSK GROUP'S MISSION
The current peace between over Nagorno-Karabakh is largely due to OSCE Minsk Group's efforts, according to Manvel Ghumshyan, a political analyst. The expert made the statement at a news conference on ...ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARGENTINA AWARDED ORDER OF SAN MARTIN
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President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has awarded Order of the Liberator General San Martin to Armenian Ambassador to Argentina Vladimir Karmirshalyan. At an award ceremony at ...BON APPÉTIT! - ARMENIAN MP
Bon appétit to all those that got jams from the Rule of Law Party, Heghine Bisharyan, Head of the party's parliamentary group, said at a press conference on Thursday. The party has chapters throughout ...INTEREST IN CANDIDATES' LISTS LEAVES MP AMAZED
A lawmaker of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Hamlet Hauutyunyan, has expressed astonishment over the public interest in the parliamentary candidates' lists. "We shouldn't have asked for ...ARMENIA-BASED RULE OF LAW TO LAUNCH ELECTION CAMPAIGN WITH RALLY
It is for the fourth time that the Rule of Law party is participating in the parliamentary elections in Armenia. "In 1999, we were a start-up party and had not wide experience. Now, however, we are efficient ...DRUGS WITH AZERBAIJANI USAGE INSTRUCTIONS IN ARMENIA'S DRUGSTORES
Drugs with Azerbaijani usage instruction notes have recently appeared in Armenia's drugstores, the president of the Armenian Union of Drug Manufacturers and Importers has warned. At a news conference ...EROGAN MEETS IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD
Tuurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met for 1.5 hours with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the second day of a visit to Tehran on Thursday, Today's Zaman reported. The meeting was closed ...GERMAN POLICE TO ALLOW ID CHECK BASED ON SKIN COLOR
A German court has ruled police can conduct random identity checks on train passengers based on skin color as part of efforts to track down illegal immigrants, Voice of America reported.
A court in the ...AZERBAIJAN GRANTED ACCESS TO ISRAELI BASES
Israel has been granted access to air bases in Azerbaijan on Iran's northern border, Haaretz reported, citing the Foreign Policy Journal. "The Israelis have bought an airfield," a senior U.S. ...ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN'S OFFICE ISSUES REPORT ON NATURE PROTECTION IN ARMENIA
The office of Armenia's Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) issued a report on the activities of Armenia's Ministry of Nature Protection. The revealed problems and registered achievements during 2011 in ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH ARMENIAN COMMUNITY REPS IN SINGAPORE
A meeting with the local Armenian community was the last point on the agenda Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's state visit to Singapore. The Armenian leader held a meeting at St. Gregory the Illuminator ...REJECTED CANDIDATES BROTHER EXPLAINS REASONS FOR JOINING PARLIAMENT RACE
Following a Yerevan electoral commission's decision to reject ANC member Khachatur Sukiasyan's bid for the parliamentary race, his brother, Saribek Sukiasyan has issued a statement, commenting on his ...KARABAKH'S ACTING FM MEETS OSCE OFFICIAL
Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Vassily Atajanian received on Thursday Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
According to ...USAID, ARMENIA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER OFFICE SIGN MOU
USAID/Armenia Mission Director Jatinder Cheema and the Human Rights Defender of Armenia Karen Andreasyan signed a Memorandum of Understanding at a ceremony held on March 29. U.S. Ambassador to Armenia ...ASUE, ARMENIA'S MINISTRY OF NATURE PROTECTION TO SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT
Armenian State University of Economics (ASUE) and Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia are to sign a cooperation agreement on Friday. The agreement envisages implementation of a program of MA course ...HERITAGE REP. QUESTIONS VOTER LISTS
Stepan Safaryan, the leader of the opposition Heritage party faction in parliament, is going to apply to the US Embassy in Yerevan and the General Prosecutors Office to argue Armenia's voting age population ...US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA ON FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS
US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern believes that free and fair elections require every effort before the election date. Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the USAID/Armenia ...PPC-ARMENIA MEETING AT NATO HEADQUARTERS
The Political and Partnerships Committee (PPC)-Armenia format held an annual meeting at the NATO Headquarters on Thursday. Armenia's Ministry of Defense reports that the Armenian delegation headed by ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS COORDINATOR HEAD OF ANC ELECTION CAMPAIGN STAFF
Levon Zurabyan, Coordinator of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC), will be appointed head of the ANC election campaign staff. "The ANC election campaign staff will be formed on the ...ARMENIAN EXPERTS DIVIDED OVER EUFOA-CONDUCTED POLL
In contrast to the sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, Gevorg Poghosyan, Chairman of the Scientific Council, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, agrees with the results of the poll entitled "Poll: ...NAGORNO-KARABAKH PRESIDENT RECEIVES ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN CULTURAL DELEGATION
President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan met a group of intellectuals from Russia and Armenia, who arrived in the NKR as part of Russian Language Days. The sides discussed issues ...PICTURE CAPTURES A BILLION STARS
Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars, BBC reports. It is built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed ...DINK CASE MAY GO BACK TO TRIAL
Prosecutor Hikmet Usta has appealed the ruling in the Hrant Dinkmurder trial, arguing that the crime was an organized hit, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Usta said the court's ruling acknowledged the existence ...
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Today in Armenian history- 554 The Ecclesiastic Assembly in Dvin condemns the Chalcedonian Creed and irrevocably breaks off its relations with the Byzantine "Universal" Church.
- 1001 The architect Trdat, finished the construction of the Main Church of Ani.
- 1592 Birth of Nahapet Koochak. He was Armenia's first troubadour.
- 1827 The first Armenian voluntary brigade was formed in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1899 Birth of benefactor Calouste Gulbenkian in Constantinople. He was a Petroleum Engineer. He founded the Petroleum Benevolent Union in Turkey. In 1930, he was voted President of the Armenian General Benevolent Union. Calouste Gulbenkian died in July 1955 in Lisbon.
- 1912 Death of Gabriel Soondookyan (playwright) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1825.
- 1914 The Armenian History and Archeology Association is created in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1918 Birth of Charles Hrach Papaz, Armenian-American radiophysicist, member of the American Physics and Mathematics Associations and the Electronic Engineers Institute. He is an overseas member of the Armenian National Academy of Science.
- 1921 The first Armenian Art House opened in Tbilissi. It was called after the great writer, Vahan Terian. The president was another great writer, Hovhannes Toomanian.
- 1971 Death of famous actor of the roles of Zimzimov, Iago and Nazar the Brave, Avet Avetisian (Voskanyan).
- 1992 Azeri Turk forces attack Stepanakert from Shooshee, Ghaybalu, Janhasan and Kiosalar. They are defeated and thrown back.
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