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Headlines for May 21, 2012PAKISTAN RESTORES TWITTER AFTER BLOCK OVER "BLASPHEMOUS" POSTS
Pakistan restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over "blasphemous" posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.
The website was blocked Sunday ...SCHOOL BUS CRASH: 50 INJURED IN GEORGIA CRASH INVOLVING SIX SCHOOL BUSES
Six school buses taking some 200 middle school students to Six Flags crashed today in Newton County, Ga., leaving more than 50 people injured, state officials said.
There were a total of around 200 students ...FATAL EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY HITS FAMOUS CHEESEMAKING REGION
A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings and causing millions in losses to the ...BREAKING NEWS: MORE THAN $2.2 MILLION RAISED AT ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND TELETHON
At the conclusion of the six-hour ANCA Endowment Fund Telethon on Sunday, May 20, $2.2 million was raised from donations large and small from a wide cross-section of the community, demonstrating and bolstering ...CLASHES BETWEEN AL-QAIDA AND YEMENI TROOPS LEAVE 17 DEAD
Fresh clashes between al-Qaida fighters and government forces in Yemen left 17 dead, military officials have said, as the army pushed on with an offensive to regain a key town in the country's south that ...3 CLIMBERS DIE ON MOUNT EVEREST, 2 STILL MISSING
A Nepalese mountaineering official says three climbers returning from the summit of Mount Everest have died and two more are missing.
Mountaineering Department official Gyanendra Shrestha said Monday ...PLANE CARRYING SKYDIVERS CRASHES IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, KILLING 5
A small plane carrying a group of skydivers burst into flames and crashed in a field in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday afternoon, killing all five people on board, police said.
The accident ...ROBIN GIBB, PIONEER OF DISCO, DIES AT 62
Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees and a singer-songwriter who helped to turn disco into a global phenomenon by providing the core of the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, has died from cancer. In ...CHELSEA AND CITY TRIUMPHS COULD SIGNAL NEW ERA
Chelsea's late surge to glory, which saw them crowned European champions on Saturday, means that two of the richest clubs in England achieved breakthrough triumphs within a week of each other, suggesting ...SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS SCORES AT YEMEN ARMY PARADE
Officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa has risen to 38 troops.
The military officials say the Monday's bombing near Sanaa's presidential ...TURKEY SLAMS FLAG-BURNING DEMO IN IRAQ
Ankara on Sunday reprimanded an Iraqi rally against its consulate in Basra, where protesters burnt Turkish flags after Turkey refused to hand over their fugitive vice president, Anatolia reported.
Foreign ...ISRAEL TO DEPLOY 20,000 COMMANDOS TO GREEK CYPRUS, CREATE ‘LITTLE ISRAEL'
The Israeli president has requested permission to deploy at least 20,000 soldiers to Greek Cyprus in exchange for building a gas terminal on the island, the Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.
According ...85TH ANNIVERSARY OF LEBANESE-ARMENIAN DAILY "AZTAG" IS MARKED THIS YEAR
85th anniversary of Lebanese-Armenian daily "Aztag" is marked this year.
The paper was founded on March 5th, 1927 as a private paper, but was under the rule of ARF from the first day.
Head of ARF Armenian ...THE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT HASTING
We have already informed you that 69 applications of rejection have been presented to the Republican Party, which must be presented to the Central electoral commission. However, press secretary of the ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1805 The Khanate of Shakoo (Nookhee) is annexed to the Russian Empire.
- 1864 Founding of the "Armenian Humanitarian Association" in Baku.
- 1889 The Turkish political organization Union and Progress (formerly known as the "Ottoman Union Organization") was created. It's ethnocentric fanaticism led to the implementation the Armenian Genocide in the First World War.
- 1915 The Turkish government proclaims the law (consisting of three points) on the Armenians' penalties and deportations from military areas.
- 1917 Death of writer Mkrteetsh Atjemyan.
- 1920 The 11th Army enters Artsakh and moves towards Tartar-Martakert. Start of the tyranny over this Armenian land.
- 1920 The establishment of Soviet power in Dilijan.
- 1921 The Revolutionary Committee of the Armenian SSR is reorganized as the Council of People's Commissars, headed by Alexander Miasnikyan.
- 1967 Death of composer Barsegh Kanachyan. He was born in 1885.
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