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Headlines for April 16, 2012AFGHAN-LED FORCES BEAT BACK TALIBAN ATTACK IN KABUL
A brazen, 18-hour Taliban attack on the Afghan capital ended early Monday when insurgents who had holed up overnight in two buildings were overcome by heavy gunfire from Afghan-led forces and pre-dawn ...FIRST UN SYRIA MONITORS IN DAMASCUS
The first UN monitors have arrived in Syria, as part of a peace deal aimed at ending over a year of violence, BBC News reported. UN peacekeeping spokesman Kieran Dwyer said the six observers had landed ...SUSPECT IN GYUMRI MURDER CASE DETAINED (PHOTOS)
A resident of Shirak region, Harutyun Sargsyan, was taken to a Yerevan court on Sunday afternoon amid suspicions of killing the would be son-in-law of Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan. According to photo ...FORMER DINK CASE JUDGE TO BE TRIED FOR BRIBERY
The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has permitted an investigation of Erkan Canak - a former judge presiding over the case of the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink ...SARKOZY DECLARED MOST UNPOPULAR PRESIDENT
Nicolas Sarkozy was declared the most unpopular president in French history in a damning poll on Sunday ahead of the first round of the presidential elections next week, as the two leading candidates ...POPE CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY
The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, celebrates his 85th birthday amid questions about his health, World News Forecast reported.
They resurfaced when he was pulled down the aisle ...SERZH SARGSYAN MEETS BELARUSIAN FM
President Serzh Sargsyan received on Monday Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martinov, who is in Armenia on an official visit. According to a press by the presidential office, both officials agreed ...INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSFORMING SOCIETY OPENS IN YEREVAN
An international theoretical and practical conference on philosophical and psychological aspects of transforming society has opened in Yerevan. The 2-day conference has been organized on the initiative ...NEW WEBSITE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAUNCHED
Ahead of the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a new website has been launched to raise public awareness on the 1915 atrocities in the Ottoman Empire, which engulfed Armenians, Assyrians, Anatolians ...2,482,593 VOTERS OFFICIALLY REGISTERED IN ARMENIA
Armenia's Police released Armenia's electoral register as of April 16. A total of 2,482,593 people are on the electoral register. Also, 684 voters are on the lists in the election districts of their ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE ANGRY WITH ‘BITCHY GANG'
Petros Makeyan, Chairman of the Democratic Homeland party, part of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC), is angry with the "bitchy gang" that attacked Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief ...‘OPERATION NEMESIS' PERFORMANCE BY NAREK DURYAN DEDICATED TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Film director, actor Narek Duryan is going to present to the audience a new "Operation Nemesis" theatrical performance dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. The director rated high the staging of this ...ANC-PAP MAY HAVE AGREED OVER NEW COALITION - HERITAGE PARTY MEMBER SAYS
Vice chairman of the Armenia's opposition Heritage Party Ruben Hakobyan is convinced that a clear anti-propaganda is ongoing against their party as if this political force fails the works on formation ...TURKEY GETTING READY FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
As the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide approaches, official Ankara plans a large-scale anti-Armenian campaign, using the potential of the 1,000 world-famous Turks. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister ...TESTIMONIES OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SURVIVORS COMPILED IN THREE-VOLUME BOOK
Armenia's National Archive is going to publish a three volume book "Lamentations" ("Vshtapatum") in May 2012 comprising of 1916 testimonies of the Armenian Genocide survivors, Amatuni Virabyan, director ...THE FUTURE OF YOUR COUNTRY IS IN YOUR HANDS - GERMAN MINISTER OF STATE SAYS
Germany's Minister of State Cornelia Pieper met today with the students and professors of the Yerevan State University (YSU). Speaking to the present the German minister said the future of Armenia is ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS AGARAK COPPER AND MOLYBDENUM PLANT
During his working visit to the Syunik region, Armenia, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan visited the Agarak Copper and Molybdenum Combine. The Armenian president participated in the launching ceremony ...PAP HAS NO SHADOW ARRANGEMENT WITH ANY POLITICAL FORCE - NAIRA ZOHRABYAN
"Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) has not reached any shadow arrangement with neither of political force of Armenia. The only arrangement, existing in all the formats where the PAP exist,s is one - do everything ...STATE DEPARTMENT'S DISGRACEFUL CENSORSHIP OF A REPORT BLACKLISTING TURKEY
Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Each passing day brings new revelations of the Obama administration's shameful schemes to cover up Turkish misconduct. The latest scandal involves ...ARMENIAN PREMIER CHAIRS MEETING OF COUNCIL FOR NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR, STEADY URBAN DEVELOPMENT
The Council for the North-South corridor and steady urban development investment projects held a regular meeting on Monday. Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan chaired the meeting. The Council approved ...ARMENIAN WINE NOT PRESENTED IN RUSSIAN MARKET WELL ENOUGH - RUSSIAN EXPERT
Issues existing in Armenia's wine-making sphere, ways of its development, expansion of export opportunities have been discussed today at the seminar-discussion organized today by Armenia's Economy Ministry. ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT VISITS CONSTRUCTION SITE OF MEDICAL CENTER TO BE BUILT IN MEGHRI
Within the framework of the working visit to the Armenian region of Syunik, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan visited today the construction site of the medical center in Meghri and familiarized himself ...OSCE/ODIHR ELECTION OBSERVERS ATTEND ARMENIAN CANDIDATE'S PRESS CONFERENCE
On Monday, Ms. Falch Ashild (Norway) and Mr. Ben Mami Skander (France), Long-term election observers, OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission Armenia, attended a press conference by Gayane Arustamyan, ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL ARCHIVE TO PUBLISH 22-VOLUME WORK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
The National Archive of Armenia plans to publish documents drafted back in 1918. The documents contain a list of human losses and material damage caused by the Armenian Genocide. Director of the Armenian ...VARTAN OSKANIAN IN AGONY - ARMENIAN RULING PARTY REP
Hovhannes Sahakyan, an MP of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and parliamentary candidate, regards as untimely a statement by Vartan Oskanian, a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP). ...OPPOSITION CANDIDATE WARNS ARMENIAN OLIGARCH MP AGAINST ‘SHOWING OFF'
At 10:00 pm, on Monday, Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper and member of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC), will be waiting for President ...ARMENIA'S OMBUDSMAN VISITS CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
Armenian's Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Karen Andreasyan, accompanied by other staffers of the Armenian Ombudsman's Office, held a meeting with the heads of the campaign headquarters of the Heritage, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death in Moscow (Russia) of Stepanos Nazaryan, editor of the "Aurora Borealis". He was born in 1812.
- 1918 The "Messenger Book" daily is published in Tbilissi (Georgia): the first Soviet newspaper in Armenian.
- 1923 The Soviet of People's Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the State Cinema of Soviet Armenia (HayFilm).
- 1953 Academician Hrachia Atcharyan (linguist) dies in Yerevan. He was born in 1876.
- 1958 Death of composer Vagharshak Srvandztian.
- 1959 The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet confirms the new Education Policy of Armenia.
- 1984 The US House of Representatives accepts a resolution (number 247) requesting that the Government announce that 1985 04 24 be designated a "National Day of Commemoration of Man's Inhumanity to Man".
- 1984 The Permanent People's Tribunal recognized the Armenian Genocide.
- 1998 An international seminar took place in the Sorbonne (Paris) on the Armenian Genocide. It was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party and financed by the See of Cilicia.
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