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Headlines for June 16, 2012EGYPT TO ELECT NEW PRESIDENT
Egyptians are voting in a two-day run-off election to choose their first freely elected president, BBC News reported. Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, is up against Ahmed Shafiq, ...JAPANESE PM ORDERS REACTOR START
Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors - the first to go back online since all the country's plants were closed following last year's Fukushima crisis. BBC News has quoted officials ...HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: 69,000 AIR PASSENGERS LEFT ARMENIA PERMANENTLY THIS YEAR
Citing recent statistics by the General Department of Civil Aviation, the paper says that around 69,000 passengers left Armenia permanently in the past months of 2012.
Comparing this year's emigration ...HRAPARAK: ARMENIAN MORMONS TO MEET ON JUNE 17
The Armenian Mormons are meeting on June 17 for their annual congressional-conference which is expected to bring together several high-ranking guests from the United States, the paper has learned.
The ...CHINA TO SEND FIRST WOMAN ASTRONAUT TO SPACE
China is about to launch its fourth manned space mission.
It is sending a crew of three, including the nation's first female astronaut, to the orbiting Tiangong space lab, BBC News reported.
Their Shenzhou-9 ...US HOUSE REP. ACCEPTS MONEY GIFTS FROM TURKISH COALITION IN 2011
Rep. Jean Schmidt received $582,768 over three years from the Turkish Coalition of America, and she still owed at least $515,000 in legal fees at the end of 2011, according to her most recent financial ...BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE PUBLISHED IN KRASNODAR
The Armenian translation of Sword in War, a historical novel by the French-Armenian writer Vahe Kacha, has been published in the Russian city of Krasnodar.
According to the Russian-Armenian newspaper ...IRISH MODEL OFFERS NO SOLUTION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT - POLITICIAN
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The Irish precedent cannot offer any solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, says Armen Melikyan, a former foreign minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic.
The ...FORBES UNVEILS LIST OF WORLD'S HIGHEST PAID MODELS
Forbes magazine has published the top 10 list of the world's highest paid model.
Just like last year, the Brazilian bombshell Bündchen leads the pack with a stunning $45 million in earnings (all ...BIG FLOW OF OBSERVERS DUE IN KARABAKH AHEAD OF POLLS - SPOKESPERSON
The presidential election in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic will see big flow of foreign observers this year, according to David Babayan, a spokesperson for the country's president.
Speaking ...WB APPOINTS NEW REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR SOUTH CAUCASUS
World Bank has appointed Henry Kerali the head of its regional office in the South Caucasus.
Kerali will replace Asad Alami, Trend.az reported, citing the Georgian media.
Kerali has told journalists ...ARMENIAN FM TO MEET AZERI COUNTERPART IN PARIS
The top diplomats of Armenia and Azerbaijan are meeting in Paris on Monday, June 18.
According to a press release by the Foreign Ministry, FM Nalbandyan is travelling to the French capital later today. ...GEORGIAN COURT REDUCES IVANISHVILI'S FINE
The appeals court in Tbilisi has reduced to half a fine issued to the opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, Democracy & Freedom Watch reported. Lawyers working for Ivanishvili say the businessman ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT APPOINTS CABINET MEMBERS
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has signed a decree to approve the executive's staff.
According to the Government's press service, the president appointed the ministers in accordance with Section ...DAMASCUS SUBURBS SHELLED
Syrian government troops shelled suburbs of the capital Damascus, killing at least 12 people in a stepped-up regime offensive on rebel areas around the country, the Associated Press reported. Most of ...ARMENIAN CABINET TO MEET ON JUNE 18
The Armenian cabinet is holding an ad hoc meeting on Monday afternoon.
Tert.am had earlier reported that the Government's program will be a key issue at discussion.
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan ...FIVE ARMENIANS CHARGED WITH ID THEFT IN LOS ANGELES
Five ethnic Armenians were charged Friday with multiple counts of identity theft after they allegedly used re-encoded credit cards to buy and resell gas for profit, police said.
The men — Norik ...US TIGHTROPE WALKER COMPLETES WALK ACROSS NIAGARA FALLS (VIDEO)
A man from a celebrated family of professional daredevils has completed a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls in a televised stunt, BBC News reported. Nik Wallenda braved wind and heavy spray to make ...GYUMRI TO HOST APARTMENT LOTTERY FOR 528 FAMILIES
Some 528 families in the second largest city of Gyumri are going to win apartments at a lottery event on Sunday afternoon.
The ceremony is being held as part of the city's urban development program ...UN SUSPENDS MISSION IN SYRIA
The chief of the United Nations observers in Syria said on Saturday that the mission was suspending its activities and patrols because of escalating violence in the country, the Associated Press reported. ...US MILITARY ATTACHÉ COMPLETES MISSION IN ARMENIA
The acting US military attaché to Armenia, Major Justin Budd, has completed his mission in the country.
In this connection, a deputy minister of defense, David Tonoyan, received the US official ...ARMENIA 53RD IN HAPPY PLANET INDEX 2012
Armenia ranks as the 53rd country in the British New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index (HPI) 2012 report.
With this result, the country is well ahead of its regional neighbors, Georgia and Azerbaijan, ...RULE OF LAW REP. SAYS THINGS GO SMOOTHLY INSIDE PARTY
A lawmaker of the coalition Rule of Law party, Heghine Bisharyan, has denied the media reports that they are now facing major tensions.
As she told Tert.am on Saturday, everything inside the party is ...PAP LEADER MEETS OSKANYAN AMID TENSIONS OVER CIVILITAS
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The leader of the Prosperous Armenia party (PAP), Gagik Tsarukyan, has met ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan to discuss the National Security Service's money laundering charges ...KARDASHIAN LOVES ‘OLDER MAN'
With two failed marriages (almost) behind her, Kim Kardashian reportedly knows what she wants in a man. In an interview with Kardashian airing Sunday on Oprah's Next Chapter, the US-Armenian reality ...ARMENIAN FM EXTENDS GREETINGS TO QUEEN ELIZABETH (PHOTOS)
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan congratulated yesterday Queen Elizabeth II on her birthday anniversary at a special ceremony in Yerevan's Cafesjian Museum Foundation.
The event was attended ...UEFA CHARGES CROATIA WITH RACISM
UEFA is opening disciplinary proceedings after alleged monkey-chanting aimed at Italian Mario Balotelli at Euro 2012.
According to AlJazeera News, UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body is to announce ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1795 Birth of Alexander Griboedov (Russian ambassador to Persia). He worked for the return of Armenians from Persia to Armenia. He died in 1829.
- 1870 The Tsar publishes the statutes on towns.
- 1895 Start of the first defence of Van (until June 20).
- 1915 Ambassador Morgenthau explicitly described to the United States Department of State the policy of the Young Turk government as a campaign of "race extermination", and was instructed, by United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing, that the "Department approves your procedure ... to stop Armenian persecution".
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