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Headlines for April 10, 2012US CONDEMNS CONTINUING VIOLENCE IN SYRIA
The US ambassador to Syria has said its military has pulled back forces from some areas ahead of a U.N.-brokered cease fire next week but in other places has kept or simply shifted around troops and armored ...COSTA RICAN AMBASSADOR KIDNAPPED IN VENEZUELA
Venezuelan police are searching for a Costa Rican diplomat who has been kidnapped in Caracas, BBC News reported. The Costa Rican embassy's trade attache, Guillermo Cholele, was abducted in his diplomatic ...US SPECIAL FORCES TRAIN TERRORISTS TO FIGHT IRAN
US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (M.E.K.) at a secretive site in Nevada from 2005 to at least 2007, Business Insider reported, ...AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION STAGES PROTEST IN BAKU
Opposition supporters in Azerbaijan have staged an antigovernment rally in Baku, calling for reforms, and also demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian President Ilham Aliyev.
According ...FACEBOOK TO PURCHASE INSTAGRAM PHOTO-SHARING APP FOR $1B
Facebook, the biggest social-networking service, is buying the Instagram mobile photo-sharing application for about $1 billion in cash and stock, using its biggest acquisition yet to attract users of ...DENTAL X-RAYS CAN CAUSE BRAIN TUMORS
People who have had dental X-rays are more likely to develop a type of brain tumor called meningioma than those who have not, CNN reported citing a recent study published in the journal Cancer
The theory ...TURKISH PUBLICIST CALLS FOR APOLOGIZING TO ARMENIANS
Turkey should apologize to the Armenians for the Genocide and seek legislative measures towards providing financial redress, Orhan Kemal Cengiz, a renowned Turkish journalist and publicist, has said. ...POLAND COMMEMORATES SMOLENSK CRASH VICTIMS
Poland today remembers the victims of the air disaster of the government Tu-154 near Smolensk two years ago which killed 96 people including the president of Poland Lech Kaczynski and First Lady Mary ...NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETS IN GOVERNMENT
The governing council of the North South Corridor, and Sustainable Urban Development investment programs met at the Government earlier today for their regular session chaired by Prime Minister Tigran ...PUBLIC DEBATE OVER STATE OF EMERGENCY LAW
The Armenian activists' group Army in Fact held today a public hearing to discuss the draft law on the Legal Regime of State of Emergency. The event was attended by representatives from the Ministry ...NEW BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE PRESENTED IN YEREVAN
A new book exploring the modern perceptions of the Armenian Genocide and its role in literature was presented in Yerevan on Tuesday.
The author of the book is Rubina Peroomian, a researcher at the University ...REPUBLICAN PARTY TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TODAY
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is launching its official campaign today, planning its first meeting in capital Yerevan. In 2007 the party began its election race with meetings in Syunik ...HERITAGE LEADER TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IF NO BETTER CANDIDATE FOUND
The leader of the opposition Heritage party, Raffi Hovhannisyan, has commented on his last year's statement promising not to run for election in 2013. Speaking the Civilitas Foundation's Q&A discussion ...GYUMRI AS SYMBOL OF THIRD REPUBLIC'S REVIVAL
Arman Sahakyan, who is running for parliament in election district #34, recently presented his "Gyumri on the rise" program. In his program, the parliamentary candidate offers ways of resolving the problems ...PAP LEADER NOT TO HAVE CONTESTANTS IN SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT
The leader of the coalition Prosperous Armenia party (PAP), Gagik Tsarukyan does not have contenders in the majority constituency where he has filed his candidacy for parliament. Speaking to Tert.am, ...ARMENIA-BASED HERITAGE PARTY SEEKS COALITION MEMBERSHIP
If the Heritage party gets into parliament it will join the coalition provided free, fair and democratic elections are held in Armenia. Otherwise, the party will go "from square to square," Heritage ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST PREFERS VISITING PEOPLE
Aram Manukyan, the leader of the opposition Armenian Pan-national Movement's political board, says he prefers visiting people to all kinds of electoral bribes distributed in the course of campaigns. ...GALLUP INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO CONDUCT FIRST-EVER EXIT POLL IN ARMENIA
Kancho Stoychev, Vice-President, Gallup International Association, believes that an exit poll can be conducted in Armenia. At a meeting with journalists on Tuesday, he noted that the association has ...ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY HAS NO ‘NO DEBATE' AGREEMENTS
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has not an agreement on refraining from televised debate with any political party, RPA Spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov told Tert. am. "How can we have such an ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS FOR REVENGE
At his public meeting in the village of Ohanavan, Aragatsotn region, Armenia, Chairman of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Ter Petrosyan stressed the need for putting an end ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SURE OF VICTORY
The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) has launched its election campaign. The ANC leaders held their first public meeting in the village of Ohanavan, Aragatsotn region, Armenia. Editor of ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ON UPS AND DOWNS, FURTHER PLANS
Chairman of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan held a public meeting in Yerevan's Erebuni community on Tuesday as start of the party's election campaign. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1725 Turkish forces approach the highlands of Sissian and Ghapan.
- 1764 First publication of "Yeghisheh" by the Astvatsatoor publishing House (in Constantinople) with the financial support of the Etshmiadsin monk and former leader of Smyrna, Abraham.
- 1840 The Armenian Province is reorganized as the Provinces of Georgia-Imerethia and Caspia.
- 1902 The Armenian Drama Company of Tbilissi (Georgia) is created.
- 1938 Catholicos Khoren the First was strangled by the Bolshevik secret police (cheka).
- 1965 Inauguration of Yerevan State University's new main building.
- 1992 The tragedy of Maragha (Martakert region, Artsakh).
- 1998 Signature of the Good Friday Agreement between Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Some aspects of this Agreement may be significant in the process of finding a resolution to the Artsakh crisis.
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