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Headlines for April 05, 2012TURKISH MOTHER SEEKING JUSTICE AT AGE 105
A 104-year-old woman arrived at the Ankara Courthouse yesterday, demanding justice for her son, who had disappeared while in custody during the 1980 coup era, while the suspects failed to appear in court ...CLINTON PLEDGES CONTINUED PRESSURE ON TURKEY FOR CHURCHES' RETURN
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has offered inordinate and undeserved praise for Turkey for taking "concrete steps" to return a tiny fraction of stolen religious properties.
In her written responses ...REPUBLICAN BIOLOGY COMPETITION KICKS OFF IN ARMENIA
The republican biology competition for school students has kicked off at Yerevan School #118. Armenian Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan, who attended the competition, said that he participated ...PENITENTIARY SUICIDE: ARMENIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER UNINFORMED
A suicide occurred at the Kosh penitentiary on Thursday. The photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan informed Tert.am that officers of the Aragatsotn police department and officials of Armenia's Ministry of ...NEW WEBSITE TO MONITOR ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA
A new online tool expected to monitor the elections in Armenia will be presented in Yerevan's Congress hotel on Friday evening. The project called iDitord (iObserver) is implemented jointly by Transparency ...ARMENIA'S PREMIER SATISFIED WITH BUDGET PERFORMANCE
The Armenian government carried through its budget program for January-March 2012. "Tax and customs revenues, as well as social payments, even exceeded the targets. The budget revenues totaled 177 billion, ...EURANEST GAVE ITS OPINION ON ALIYEV'S SPEECH - ARMENIAN MP
Many of the European Parliament members attending the EuroNest summit in Baku did not visit the city's Shahid Park (cemetery of Azeri fighters), thus expressing their opinion of President Ilham Aliyev's ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES LITHUANIAN FM
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received on Thursday Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis. The Armenian leader stressed the importance of developing bilateral cooperation, as well as Lithuania's ...THESE PARLIAMENT POLLS TO DIFFER FROM PREVIOUS ONES - OPPOSITIONIST
The upcoming parliamentary election will be different from previous ones as people will no longer sell their votes, according to Vahagn Khachatryan, a member of the opposition Armenian National Congress ...JAPAN TO RE-OPEN NUKE REACTORS TO AVOID TOTAL SHUTDOWN
Japan's government is racing to get two nuclear reactors, idled after the Fukushima crisis, running again by next month out of what experts say is fear that a total shutdown would make it hard to convince ...ARMENIA'S HERITAGE-FREE DEMOCRATS ALLIANCE READY FOR STRUGGLE
The Heritage-Free Democrats alliance has the necessary potential to defend each vote cast for it, Khachatur Kokobelyan, Head of the alliance's election campaign staff, told journalists on Thursday. The ...ARMENIAN OFFICIAL PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE IN MILITARY SERVICE PROCEDURES
Gegham Harutyunyan, the chief of a public council under the Defense Ministry, proposes alternative procedures in the military service, which would allow for replacing the 2-3 compulsory enlistment into ...ARMENIAN, LITHUANIAN FMS MEET IN YEREVAN
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian held a meeting on Thursday with his Lithuanian counterpart Audronius Ažubalis, who is in on an official visit to Yerevan. Minister Nalbandian stressed the specific ...ELECTION SUPERVISION AGREEMENT SIGNED: ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY ‘VANISHED'
An agreement on legality of elections and joint supervision was actually reached, and the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) "just vanished" from the room, Arman Musinyan, Spokesman to Chairman ...ARMY STILL FACES HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS - OMBUDSMAN
Lots of human rights issues in the military keep remaining unresolved due to the army's being a closed institution, the human rights defender believes. At the presentation of a report on the tools of ...ARMENIAN CHURCH EDUCATION CENTER FOR TURKISH WOMEN?
An Armenian church in Turkey's Diyarbekir province has turned into a women's education center after repairs. According to Dogan news agency, the institution situated in the town of Sur teaches young ...BABY BORN ON A PLANE HEADING TO AFRICA
A healthy baby boy has been delivered 36,000 feet in the air on a Delta flight bound for Africa, The Telegraph reported.
First-time mother Katherine Oyedoh was 37-weeks pregnant when her water broke on ...SILENCE, FILM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE SCREENED IN NEW YORK
Silence, a feature film about the Armenian Genocide, will begin previews in New York's Shell Theatre on May 4. According to Broadwayworld.com, the film is the story of a woman's courageous journey to ...ARMENIAN POLITICIAN ON JOINT CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
A member of the ruling Republican Party Armenia's (RPA), David Harutyunyan, who coordinates the RPA's pre-election campaign with international observers, has issued a statement on creating an interparty ...NEW MALWARE TRICKS FACEBOOK USERS
A new configuration of the Ice IX malware attempts to trick its victims into exposing their credit card details when they try to access their Facebook accounts, PCWorld reported, citing the security firm ...RADIOLOCATION STATION IN ARMENIA TO BE MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL - EXPERT
A radio location station on the territory of Armenia will be of a greater practical significance than that currently located in Azerbaijan, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, a military expert, has told Tert.am. ...US AMBASSADOR TO GEORGIA CALLS FOR GRANTING CITIZENSHIP TO BILLIONAIRE POLITICIAN
US Ambassador to Georgia, John Bass, urged the Georgian government to resolve the question of Bidzina Ivanishvili's citizenship "fairly and expeditiously", Civil.ge reported. "As a matter of principle, ...TURKISH-ARMENIANS TO REGAIN NATIONAL SCHOOLS, INSTITUTIONS AND CEMETERIES
Trukey's Foundations General Directorate has decided to return six cemeteries to ethnic minorities. The Foundations' board considered applications on returning cemeteries to five communities and made ...UN SECURITY COUNCIL BACKS SYRIA CEASEFIRE DEADLINE
The UN Security Council has given formal backing to a deadline that UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan agreed with the Syrian government to end its military offensive on protest cities, AFP reported.
Speaking ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST NOT ALLOWED TO OPEN SUB-HEADQUARTERS?
The leader of the Armenian Pan-National Movement (a central political force in the opposition Armenian National Congress), Aram Manukyan, complains that their party's plans to open campaign sub-headquarters ...EX PRESIDENT MEETS MEMBERS OF OPPOSITION ALLIANCE
Armenia's first president and leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), Levon Ter-Petrosyan conducted today a working discussion with the ANC members running for parliament and the heads ...ARMENIAN HALF-BACK HOPEFUL TO PLAY IN UPCOMING MATCH
Half-back of the Armenian national football team Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who now represents Dontetsk's Shakhtar, has said in a recent interview that he is training intensively with his team for an upcoming ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1840 Birth of Ghazaros Aghayan, (educator, public figure) in the village of Bolnis-Khachen. He died in 1911.
- 1882 Birth of Kamo (Bolshevik revolutionary figure) - Simon Ter-Petrosyan. He was murdered on 1922 07 13.
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- 1919 Death of satirist Harootyoon Alpiar. He was born in 1864.
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