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Published on June 18, 2012
ARMENIAN SOLDIER KILLED ON BORDER
- At 08:25 am, June 18, soldier Aram S. Gyulnazaryan (born in 1993), who was on duty on the battle position at one of the military units of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army, received a fatal bullet wound. The soldier died in being transported to hospital. Aram S. Gyulnazaryan was killed by an Azeri sniper.
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Headlines for June 18, 2012AT LEAST 2 KILLED IN ATTACK ON ISRAEL-EGYPT BORDER
An Israeli citizen and at least one militant were killed in an attack on the Egyptian border on Monday, Israeli media and the military said, according to Reuters. "A terrorist squad opened gunfire ...HOLLANDE PARTY WINS MAJORITY IN FRENCH PARLIAMENT
French President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party has won enough seats in parliamentary elections to form an absolute majority, BBC reports. With final results still to be declared, the Socialists ...GREEK PRO-BAILOUT PARTIES LOOK TO FORGE COALITION
Political parties supporting Greece's international bailout will begin forging a government on Monday after an election victory over radical leftists staved off the prospect of the debt-laden country ...ISLAMISTS SAY WIN EGYPT PRESIDENCY; RIVAL CONTESTS
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood declared on Monday that its candidate Mohamed Morsy won the country's first free presidential race, beating Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and ending six decades of rule ...IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS TO RESUME IN MOSCOW
A new round of talks on Iran's controversial nuclear programme is due to open in Russia's capital, Moscow, BBC reports. The two-day meeting between Iran and six world powers follows inconclusive sessions ...OBAMA TO URGE FOR EUROZONE PROGRESS
US President Barack Obama will press European leaders this week to resolve their debt crisis but the United States does not expect much progress before the end of the month, a White House adviser said ...PAUL MCCARTNEY CELEBRATES 70TH BIRTHDAY TODAY
Sir Paul McCartney celebrates his 70th birthday on Monday. He's looking forward to spending his birthday anniversary with his five children and wife Nancy, Liverpool Echo reported. One of the most ...YOUTUBE DELETES TERRORISM POSTS
Google has revealed it removed about 640 videos from YouTube that allegedly promoted terrorism over the second half of 2011 after complaints from the UK's Association of Police Officers. The news was ...MILLIONAIRE GALUST GYULBENKYAN'S MANSION SOLD IN TURKEY
The house of ethnic Armenian millionaire, philanthropist Galust Gyulbenkyan was sold in Turkey's Kayseri town. The new owner of the house, Negip Dincer, is going to turn it into a boutique-hotel. According ...ARMENIAN PREMIER INTRODUCES NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTERS TO THEIR STAFFS
Head of the Armenian government Tigran Sargsyan presented newly appointed Transport and Communication Minister, ex-mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan to the staff of the ministry. The prime minister thanked ...PARUYR SEVAK GAVE ARMENIAN LITERATURE NEW SPIRIT, SAYS CONTEMPORARY
Paruyr Sevak's genre brought an absolutely new spirit to the Armenian literature, one of his contemporaries, Hovhannes Grigoryan, remembers.
"His new figurative-expressive means and European schemes ...UN: 800,000 FORCED TO FLEE THEIR COUNTRIES IN 2011
Crises in Libya, Sudan, Somalia and elsewhere prompted 800,000 people to flee their countries last year, the highest number in 11 years, the United Nations' refugee agency says. A report issued Monday ...US ANALYST ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
Alex Jackson, an analyst at the London-based political consultancy and analyses center Menas Associate, considers that the chances for settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict very limited for this year. ...TESCO TO LEAVE JAPANESE MARKET
The UK supermarket group is to leave Japan in a two-stage process that will first see it sell 50% of its Tesco Japan subsidiary to the country's second-largest retail group, Aeon, BBC News reported. ...ERDOGAN TO DISCUSS SYRIA ISSUE WITH US, RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS
G20 summit is due to open today in Mexico. US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are going to meet on the sidelines of the event. According to Turkish Jihan news agency, Turkish ...RUSSIA IS A FAILED NUCLEAR POST-SOVIET STATE - EURASIA REVIEW
The state of Russia's civilian nuclear power should be cause the entire planet to shudder: Radioactive waste deposal sites are full to the bursting point, and many reactors are outdated and fail to meet ...ARMENIAN, AZERI FMS TO MEET IN PARIS TODAY
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, Edward Nalbandyan and Elmar Mammadyarov, are meeting in Paris later today.
Their discussion, expected to address the Nagorno-Karabakh peace settlement ...NEW HEALTHCARE MINISTER INTRODUCED TO THE STAFF
Hence, people must not be afraid of falling ill and the healthcare sphere should be available for all, the newly appointed Healthcare minister Derenik Dumanyan, member of the Republican party's executive ...MINISTERIAL MEETING IN PARIS NOT TO MARK ANY TURNING POINT - EXPERT
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers' upcoming meeting in Paris is aimed at preparing a breeding ground for a new presidential summit, according to Alexander Manasyan, a political analyst. ...NEWLY APPOINTED SOCIAL AFFAIRS MINISTER READY TO IMPLEMENT HIGH-QUALITY REFORMS
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan introduced to the staff of the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry the newly appointed minister Artem Asatryan. Addressing the present, the minister said he is ready ...ARMENIAN CABINET INTRODUCES PROGRAM TO PRESIDENT
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The newly appointed members of the Armenian cabinet introduced to the president their action plan for the coming five years at an ad hoc meeting earlier on Monday.
Congratulating ...NEWLY APPOINTED SPORT AND YOUTH AFFAIRS MINISTER INTRODUCED TO THE STAFF
Armenian Prime Minister introduced today newly appointed sport and youth affairs minister Hrachya Rostomyan to the ministry's staff. Presenting the minister, Tigran Sargsyan said despite his young age ...REPUBLICAN PARTY REP ON GAGIK BEGLARYAN'S APPOINTMENT
Newly appointed transport and communication minister Gagik Beglaryan has a big working experience, MP from the Republican Party's faction Gagik Minasyan told the reporters today, referring to Beglaryan's ...TAKEAWAY RESTAURANT OFFERS DIRTY DISHES ALONGSIDE THE FOOD FOR AUTHENTICITY
UK-based restaurant Housebites decided to help people who can't cook but want to impress their guests by offering them the dirty dishes alongside the food, so they can be more convincing, Oddity Central ...ARMENIAN MP CALLS FOR COMBATING OLIGARCHY
Armenia's new government will not be able to implement its program effectively unless it takes appropriate measures to fight oligarchy, a lawmaker of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has warned. ...BREAST MILK PROTECTS BABIES FROM HIV
An unknown component of breast milk kills HIV particles and virus-infected cells, as well as blocking HIV-transmission in mice with a human immune system, New Scientist reported. Even if babies born ...TURKS DISSATISFIED WITH FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY POLLS
Turkey is reportedly concerned over the recent polls to the French National Assembly.
According to Sondakika.com, the re-election of Valerie Boyer (Union for Popular Movement) has mounted a protest ...LAGARDE: EU NEEDS COMMON FINANCE MINISTER
The Euro zone needs a common finance minister and should consider issuing region-wide bonds to help pull it out of its economic crisis, said International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde. "What ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT CHAIRS GOVERNMENT'S SPECIAL MEETING
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan chaired the special meeting of Armenia's government on Monday. The Armenian president congratulated the government members and noted that the key ministers retained ...ARMENIAN LIFE-TERMER'S APPEAL REJECTED
Armenia's Court of Appeals rejected in a Monday hearing life-termer Mher Yenokyan's claim for replacing his penalty with prolonged imprisonment.
In an appeal lodged earlier this month, the convict and ...IRAN MAY AGREE TO STOP URANIUM ENRICHMENT?
Iran will stop enriching uranium if the West offers guarantees that it will supply similarly enriched nuclear fuel to Tehran, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday ahead of the talks on Iran's ...ANC KEEPS REMAINING EXTRA-PARLIAMENTARY FORCE, SAYS MEMBER
Despite being represented in the National Assembly, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) keeps remaining an extra-parliamentary force, says a member of the opposition alliance.
Aram Manukyan of the ...NO POLITICAL OVERTONES BEHIND CHARGES AGAINST ARMENIA'S EX-FM - RULING PARTY MP
Gagik Minasyan, an MP of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) does not see any political overtones behind the criminal charges brought against Armenia's ex-FM, an MP of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), ...7.2 MAGNITUDE QUAKE CAUSES CHANGES IN LAKE VAN
The 7.2 earthquake, which hit Turkey's Van province in October last year, has essentially changed the appearance of Lake Van, Habarler.com reported.
A 20-page report has come to reveal that the river ...OSCE ISSUES STATEMENT AFTER MINISTERIAL MEETING
Following the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers meeting in Paris, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has issued statement, providing details of the discussion.
According ...ARMENIAN NA SPEAKER MEETS OPPOSITION FACTIONS HALFWAY
On Armenian NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan's initiative the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) and Heritage parliamentary factions will be involved in the activities of 12 parliamentary ...ARMENIAN SOLDIER KILLED ON BORDER
At 08:25 am, June 18, soldier Aram S. Gyulnazaryan (born in 1993), who was on duty on the battle position at one of the military units of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army, received a fatal bullet wound. ...STATEMENT BY MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic states that Azerbaijan continues to actively violate the cease-fire along the entire line of contact between the armed forces of the NKR ...ARMENIAN PREMIER ISSUES CERTIFICATES TO GRADUATES
At a ceremony held at the Aram Khachatryan hall, Armenian Prime Minister, Chairman of the Council of Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) Tigran Sargsyan issued certificates to the best graduates. ...ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT TO DISCUSS GOVERNMENT PROGRAM
Armenia's parliament is to start discussing the issue of approving the government program at 10:00am, June 20. Armenian NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan signed a relevant resolution. Also, following its ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER MEETS US AMBASSADOR
Armenia's first president, Chairman of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Ter-Petrosyan held a meeting on Monday with US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern. The sides discussed the ...ARMENIAN POLITICIANS, EXPERTS ON NEW GOVERNMENT
On June 16, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on Armenia's new government. Most of the government members retained their posts, with only five new ministers appointed - minister of labor ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1807 Russian forces, under General Goodevich, defeat the Turkish army on the banks of the Akhooryan river.
- 1890 Fighting breaks out between government forces and the Armenians of Karin (Erzroom, Western Armenia).
- 1925 Arrival of Friedhof Nansen (heading the League of Nations' International Bureau) in Yerevan.
- 1941 Signature of the Treaty of Friendship between Germany and Turkey.
- 1953 Death of public figure Hakob Ter Hakobian.
- 1987 The European Parliament votes to recognize the Armenian Genocide and suggests ways for Turkey to overcome its crisis.
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