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Headlines for April 04, 2012X-RAYS SHED NEW LIGHT ON LUNG FUNCTION
A new technique for assessing lung function using x-rays has been developed by Australian researchers, ABC reports. This may enable earlier detection of lung diseases such as cancer, emphysema and asthma, ...TURKS AND AZERIS ALARMED THAT TUVALU MAY RECOGNIZE REPUBLIC OF ARTSAKH
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier March 16, 2012 was like any other day at the United Nations, when the representatives of Armenia and Tuvalu signed a joint declaration establishing ...ARMENIA'S SECOND PRESIDENT NO PART OF PROSPEROUS ARMENIA
Armenia's second president Robert Kocharyan has nothing in common with the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), Khachik Galstyan, Spokesman for PAP Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan, told Tert.am. According to media ...ARMENIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE DELEGATION LEAVES FOR ASTANA
An Armenian delegation led by Chief of the Joint Staff, RA Armed Forces, Yuri Khachaturov left for Astana, on April 3. The Armenian delegation is to take part in a regular meeting of the CIS Committee ...ARMENIAN, FINNISH FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan received on Wednesday his Finnish counterpart, Ekki Tuomioja, who is in Yerevan on an official visit, the Foreign Ministry's press service reported. Greeting ...SIX SUFFER IN BATUMI BLAST
Six people including a six-month-old baby were hospitalized after a blast in one of the houses of Georgia's Batumi resort.
There are no reports on whether the survivors belong to the same family. According ...ARMENIAN PM ON ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, REGIONAL PROBLEMS AND COOPERATION WITH EU
Following the talks with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan gave an interview to Kommersant (www.kommersant.ru). He said that the sides had thoroughly discussed the Russian-Armenian ...YEREVAN MAYOR, KUWAITI AMBASSADOR DISCUSS INVESTMENT PROJECTS
A meeting between Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan and Kuwaiti Ambassador Bassam Muhammad Alqabandi earlier today focused on possibilities of exchanging experience and broadening investment frameworks in ...ARMENIAN EXPERT CALLS FOR DEBATING LEGAL PACKAGE IN KARABAKH TALKS
Many issues in the ongoing negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh will find a solution in case a legal package of conflict settlement is put forward, Alexander Manasyan, a political analyst, has said. "The ...SYRIAN TROOPS 'START PULLING OUT OF CITIES
Syrian troops have begun pulling out from some calm cities and headed back to their bases a week ahead of a deadline to implement an international ceasefire plan, UKPA reported, citing a government official.
The ...COFFEE, EXERCISE MAY REDUCE SKIN CANCER RISK
A cup of coffee and a morning workout may significantly reduce the risk of skin cancer, Fox News reports, citing a new animal study presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Association ...EURONEST PLENARY SESSION SAW NO FURTHER EXCESS, SAYS ARMENIAN DELEGATE
The EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly, which has already closed its plenary session in Baku, saw no further tension after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's insulting remarks voiced yesterday , says Naira ...EURONEST TO ADDRESS KARABAKH CONFLICT
A new report by the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Political Affairs will cover regional security issues, according to Christian Vigenin, a co-chairman of the Assembly. Speaking at a ...ARMENIA'S MINISTER OF DIASPORA HOLDS MEETINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN
Armenian Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan, who is on an official visit to Great Britain and Northern Ireland, held meetings with Head of the diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Bishop ...ARMENIAN MPS' RESPOND TO ALIYEV NOT ADEQUATE - EXPERT
The Armenian parliamentarians attending the EuraNest Parliamentary Assembly's plenary session in Baku failed to give an adequate response to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's insults against the Armenian ...BREIVIK SAYS INCARCERATION IN HOSPITAL ‘WORSE THAN DEATH'
The Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting and car bomb attack last July, said Wednesday that being sentenced to time in a psychiatric hospital would be a "fate ...SOCIOLOGIST: 39% PERCENT OF ARMENIAN VOTERS UNDECIDED
A recent survey conducted by the independent sociological center Sociometer has found that 39.3% of Armenia's adult population has not yet decided who to elect in the upcoming parliament polls. The president ...OUR DELEGATION SAW ARMENIAN CHURCH IN BAKU, BUT DID NOT GO IN, SAYS MEMBER
Before departing from Baku, the Armenian participants of the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly's plenary session visited the Armenian church of the city, but didn't go in as the building was closed, said ...ARMENIA'S FIRST PRESIDENT MEETS FINNISH FM
Armenia's first president and leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), Levon Ter-Petrosyan, met on Wednesday Finnish Foreign Minister Ekki Tuomioja. The parties discussed possibilities ...VIVACELL-MTS DECLARES GOOD FRIDAY NON-WORKING DAY
Armenia's leading mobile communications operator, VivaCell-MTS, has issued a statement, informing the population that April 5, which marks with Good Friday this year, is not a working day for the company. ...WILLIAM AND KATE ADDED TO MADAME TUSSEAUD'S WAX COK
Madame Tussauds unveiled waxwork figures of British royal couple Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge on Wednesday, and expected the couple, now international celebrities in their own right, to ...‘DISMANTLING TEAM' IN MASHTOTS PARK BREAKS THROUGH POLICE BARS
The team of activists that planned to dismantle the kiosks in Yerevan's Mashtots Park managed to break through the police obstacles today but they did not to level the constructions after meeting violence ...ADMINISTRATIVE COURT TURNS DOWN REJECTED CANDIDATE'S APPEAL
The Administrative Court has rejected prominent oppositionist Khachatur Sukiasyan's appeal to declare a Yerevan constituency decision null and void. The ruling was made public in the absence of Sukiasyan ...TEA PRICE MAY RISE BY 12%
Global tea prices may climb 12 percent in 2012 due to weather changes, the Voice of Russia reported, citing the Bloomberg agency. Draughts and frosts that struck world's leading tea growers, including ...TRIAL AGAINST EX TURKISH PRESIDENT STARTS
Retired Turkish General Kenan Evren, symbol of an era when the military dominated Turkish politics, went on trial on Wednesday for leading a 1980 coup that shaped the country for three decades until reforms ...SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVES FINNISH FM
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received Finland's Foreign Minister Ekki Tuomiojaon on Wednesday. Greeting the guest, the president said that Armenia attaches importance to the cooperation and further ...THAILAND BANS SCREENING OF SHAKESPEARE'S MACBETH
Thailand's film censors have banned an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," saying it could inflame political passions in the country where it is taboo to criticize the monarchy, Qctimes.com, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1820 Birth of Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimyan "Hairik" in Van (Western Armenia). He died in 1907.
- 1915 Death of Arshak Vramian, a representative of the Central Committee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party.
- 1920 Genocide of the Armenians in Sooshee (Gharabagh).
- 1922 Death of Leopold Favri, benefactor and Swiss-Armenian armenologist. He supported orphanages in the Armenian provinces.
- 1945 Death of Vahan Tekeyan, writer, speaker, and public figure. He was born in 1878.
- 1957 Death of actor Ashot Shaghatoonee. He was born in 1882.
- 1995 Garegin I elected Catholicos of the Armenian Church. He became the 131st Spiritual Leader of Armenian Holy Apostolic Church.
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