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Headlines for June 07, 2012NAGORNO-KARABAKH PRESIDENT SIGNS DECREE
President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan signed a decree replacing "May to June" with "May to July" in Clauses 1 and 2 of his decree on Spring Draft and Demobilization.CLINTON OUTLINES PRINCIPLES FOR POST-ASSAD STRATEGY
The United States and its allies in Europe, Turkey and the Arab world have agreed to work on a political transition plan for Syria, hoping to persuade President Bashar Assad's powerful ally Russia to ...HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: EXECUTIVE TO SUBMIT ITS PROGRAM ON JUNE 20
The paper says it has learned from the "well-informed sources" of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) that the new cabinet is to submit its program to parliament approval at the legislative's ...ITALIAN POLICE ARREST AROUND 50 MAFIA MEN
Italian police Wednesday arrested 47 mafia suspects and seized millions of euros worth of assets in a major operation in the southern city of Naples, NYDalyNews reported. The suspects face charges of ...US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE VISITS AFGHANISTAN AMID SPIKING VIOLENCE
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday to take stock of progress in the war and discuss plans for the troop drawdown, even as violence spiked in the south, the Associated ...TURKISH COURT HEARS WITNESSES IN SEVAK BALIKCI MURDER CASE
A military court in the Turkish city of Diyarbekir has held a new hearing over the case of Sevak Shahin Balikci, the ethnic Armenian soldier who was gunned down in a gendarmerie unit last year, just days ...ZHOGHOVURD: DAVIT HARUTYUNYAN TRIES TO MAINTAIN PACE DELEGATION'S FORMER STAFF
Citing its "well-informed" sources, the paper writes that head of the Armenian delegation to PACE Davit Harutyunyan is trying to do everything not to change the staff of the delegation, and particularly ...ARAVOT: SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVES THREE IMPORTANT "MESSAGES"
The daily Aravot writes Armenia and Republican Party's leaderships have received positive "messages" from three important geo-political centers. The United States, Europe and Russia made it understood ...FACEBOOK INVESTORS OFFERED REBATE FOR TRADING GLITCH
Facebook shareholders have been offered $40m (£26m) by the Nasdaq stock exchange for a computer hitch that stopped them trading on debut day, BBC News reported. Some investors had hoped to sell ...PRO-ARMENIAN CONGRESSMEN CONTINUE CLASH TO FALL ELECTION
Reps. Brad Sherman and Howard Berman handily outdistanced their five little-known, underfinanced challengers in Tuesday's primary, ensuring that the high-spending, nationally watched showdown between ...PARIS BASED ARMENIAN ACTOR/DIRECTOR TO HOST GOLDEN APRICOT FILM FESTIVAL
Multilingual, international actor/director Gerald Papasian is among the guests of honor of the ninth Golden Apricot International Film Festival, invited to host, in three languages, the opening and closing ...MAN HEAVILY INJURED IN DAIRY COMPANY'S BOILER-HOUSE BLAST (PHOTOS)
A boiler-house blast at Yerevan's dairy products factory Marianna has left one man seriously injured.
As photo reporter Gagik Shamshyan told Tert.am from the scene, the explosion occurred at 8:30 am ...HRAPARAK: PROSPEROUS ARMENIA WANTED PRE-WESTERN FIGURES TO BE ENGAGED IN ITS LIST
Citing its well-informed sources, the paper writes while forming its list the Prosperous Armenia party has done everything to include pro-American sources in it, not to be considered a Russian force. ...GOOGLE DEPLOYS PLANES OVER CITIES TO CREATE 3D MAPS
Google Inc is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes above several cities, the Internet search company's latest step in its ambitious and sometimes controversial plan to create a digital ...TURKISH FM REPEATS PRE-CONDITION FOR ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATION SETTLEMENT
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The foreign ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia will meet June 8 in Turkish town of Trabzon to discuss establishment of peace in the region. Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the ...ISRAEL TO BUILD NEW APARTMENTS IN WEST BANK
Israel has said it will build 850 new homes in the West Bank — an effort to appease settlers furious over government plans to dismantle an illegally built settlement outpost. According to Ajc.com, ...OBAMA SINGS CALL ME MAYBE (VIDEO)
Carly Rae Jepson's mega-single Call Me Maybe has now made it all the way to the Oval Office - albeit via some clever video editing.
The latest YouTube video to go viral features United States President ...BURBANK OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING US-ARMENIAN WORKER'S DEATH
California workplace safety officials are investigating the death of an ethnic Armenian worker who was accidentally crushed in Burbank last week after becoming trapped in the bottom-dump doors of a gravel ...CRISIS GROUP SPEAKS AGAINST RESUMPTION OF MILITARY ACTIONS
Sabine Freizer, International Crisis Group's Europe Program Director, positively assessed the visit of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Yerevan and Baku, Azerbaijani Turan news agency reports. ...CIS LAWYERS MEET IN YEREVAN FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Lawyers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have opened their annual 7th conference in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, who attended the meeting, delivered an opening speech, welcoming ...JAPAN'S TSUNAMI DOCK WASHED UP IN US STATE OF OREGON
A huge dock torn from a Japanese port by the 2011 tsunami has washed up 8,050km (5,000 miles) away on the US West Coast after crossing the Pacific, BBC reports. The 165-tonne structure made of concrete, ...PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS TO BE PAINTED IN YELLOW COLOR
The pedestrian crossings will hence be dyed in yellow color, instead of white. The decision was made at the cabinet sitting today with the project presented by the deputy chief of the police Arthur Osikyan. ...US LOSING PATIENCE WITH PAKISTAN: PANETTA
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country offered to insurgents in neighboring Afghanistan. ...SHAKESPEARE'S CURTAIN THEATRE REMAINS FOUND
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theatre where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed, BBC reports. The remains of the Curtain Theatre, which opened in ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT PROMISES RETALIATION FOR CROSS-BORDER VIOLENCE
The borderline incidents amounting to acts of provocation are extremely dangerous, and they are sure to meet retaliation, President Serzh Sargsyan has said in an interview with Panorama.am.
"I have always ...RUSSIA BACKS IRAN'S PEACEFUL NUCLEAR PLAN
Russia supports Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy and is permanently in touch with Tehran as regards its nuclear program, President Vladimir Putin told reporters in Beijing after talks with his ...ACTING FINANCE MINISTER REPORTS ON ECONOMIC FIGURES
Today's cabinet sitting started with the report of the acting minister of finance Vache Gabrielyan on the economic figures for the first five months of the 2012. The acting minister said the inflation ...SIX-YEAR OLD CHILD FELLS FROM APARTMENT WINDOW IN YEREVAN
A six-year old child Hayk Karapetyan fell from the 4th-floor window of his apartment on June 6 as a result of negligence of his parents. Photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan told Tert.am the boy was rushed ...BAKU-TBILISI-KARS RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION TO BE COMPLETED IN 2012
The construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway will be accomplished by the end of 2012, Azerbaijani Deputy Transport Minister Musa Panakhov stated. According to Salamnews, the deputy minister noted ...ARMENIA'S YEZIDI COMMUNITY NEEDS MP
The 60,000 Yezidis residing in Armenia constitute 3% of the country's population. According to Aziz Tamoyan, Chairman of the World Union of Yezidis, the Yezidi community must be represented by four ...AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER DROWNS IN KUR RIVER
An Azerbaijani soldier is reported to drown while swimming in Kur River. According to Azerbaijani APA news agency, resident of Mugangancali village of Sabirabad region Cabrayilov Ramiz Dilavar, born ...DEMONSTRATORS DEMAND EQUIPOLLENT RESPONSE TO AZERI ATTACKS
Members of Hayazn union conducted today a demonstration marching to the presidential residence and foreign ministry to hand letter-demand to Serzh Sargsyan and Edward Nalbandian.
Freedom fighter from ...ARMENIAN NA VICE-SPEAKER RESPONDS TO TURKISH FM
In his Wednesday statement, Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu said that relations can be established with Armenia after it has left the "occupied territories." Armenian Parliament Vice-Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov ...RUSSIA CONDEMNS CROSS-BORDER TENSIONS
The Russian side is concerned with the strained situation over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich stated. "We consider the ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH JAPANESE EMPEROR AKIHITO
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met today in Tokyo with Japanese Emperor Akihito, President's press office reported. During the meeting the interlocutors discussed a number of issues on the Armenian-Japanese ...UN UNABLE TO REACH SYRIA MASSACRE SITE
Syrian troops and local residents are preventing UN observers from reaching a site where 55 people were reported killed by pro-regime militants, the head of the UN mission in Syria said Thursday, the ...HILLARY CLINTON URGES ASSAD TO STEP DOWN
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power and leave his country, condemning a massacre near Hama opponents have blamed on his supporters as "unconscionable". ...ARMENIAN YERKPARAH UNION LEADER MAKES STATEMENT
Chairman of the Yerkapah union of volunteers Manvel Grigoryan made a statement on the recent developments on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Azerbaijan's latest provocations on the Armenian-Azerbaijani ...ARMENIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SEC PARTICIPATES IN MEETING OF TOP SECURITY EXECUTIVES IN SAINT PETERSBURG
Secretary of Armenia's National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan delivered a speech on 'Guidelines and problems of ensuring global energy security' at the third meeting of top security executives in ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT COMPLETES VISIT TO JAPAN
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who is on an official visit to Japan, had a working breakfast with representatives of Japan's business community. The Armenian leader presented Armenia's economic ...ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IN TAVOUSH
Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanian is in the Tavoush region now. Tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border has been reported there over the last two days. "We cannot yet report any details. ...ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS OF IMPORTANCE FOR US
Armenian-Turkish relations are of importance for the Unites State, Styopa Safaryan, Board Vice-Chairman, Heritage party, told journalists on Thursday. Iran-related problems were the main reason for US ...BORDER TENSION UNLIKELY TO DEVELOP INTO WAR - ARMENIAN EX-MP
In an interview with Tert.am, Myasnik Malkhasyan, a member of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) and former MP, said he does not think the border tension may develop into large-scale hostilities. ...RENOWNED CELLIST TO PERFORM IN ARMENIA
Alexander Hülshoff, one of the world's best-known cellists, is to perform with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia on June 8. He has done one rehearsal with the orchestra and has been greatly ...
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- 0 International Day for the Protection of the Child.
- 1724 Turkish forces lay seige to Fort Yerevan and, three months later, capture it.
- 1846 Death of Nikoghos Tolbendjian, the co-worker of "Orageer" and the editor of "Lrageer". He was born in 1801.
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- 1955 Publication of the "Soviet Art" monthly resumed.
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