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Headlines for July 12, 2012THE SCREAM'S BUYER NAMED
Billionaire New York financier Leon Black has been named as the $119.9m (£74m) buyer of Edvard Munch's masterpiece, The Scream, which last month set a record for a work of art sold at auction.
Several ...PRESIDENT OF NKR MET WITH THE HEAD OF THE ARMENIAN STATE REVENUE COMMITTEE GAGIK KHACHATRYAN
On 11 July President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan received head of the Armenian State Revenue Committee Gagik Khachatryan. Issues related to cooperation between the two Armenian states in the ...FIFTY REFUGEES DROWN IN MEDITERRANEAN
Asylum seekers from Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan die after boat capsizes en route to Italy. More than 50 asylum seekers trying to reach Italy died when their boat capsized, according to a man who has said ...SPAIN POLICE, MINERS CLASH IN MADRID PROTEST
Spanish miners and sympathizers incensed with the nation's seemingly endless austerity cutbacks clashed with riot police on one of Madrid's most famed avenues Wednesday, and six demonstrators were hospitalized ...THE MEETING BETWEEN THE ARMENIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE OSCE SECRETARY GENERAL
On July 12 Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Lamberto Zannier, the OSCE Secretary General and his delegation who arrived in Yerevan in the frames of a regional visit.
Welcoming the guest, Edward ...RECORD WET WEATHER THREATENS UK BUTTERFLIES
Butterflies could suffer population crashes as a result of the record-breaking wet weather this spring and summer, Sir David Attenborough is warning.
Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is launching ...AT LEAST SIX DEAD IN MONT BLANC REGION AVALANCHE
At least six people were killed and eight injured Thursday by an avalanche in the Alps' Mont Blanc massif, French mountain police said, with emergency services dispatched to the scene.
One of the injured ...YAHOO HACKED, 400,000 PASSWORDS LEAKED
Internet search company Yahoo has reportedly been hacked, exposing nearly half a million of its users' email addresses and passwords.
First to report on the incident was security firm Trusted Sec, who ...ALL-ARMENIAN CANDLE LIGHTNING ON VAHE AVETYAN'S 40TH DAY OF DEATH
Member of "Vahe Avetyan" social movement Garegin Chugazyan said today during the press conference that on the day of Vahe Avetyan's 40th day they are organizing all-Armenian candle lightning ceremony. ...ARF IS NOT CONSTRAINED
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"ARF announced that they signify principles the joint presidential candidate must have. It is obvious that one political power cannot make any big change, so ARF is suggesting a unity over one notion, ...MEXICO KILLS 2.5 MILLION POULTRY TO CONTAIN BIRD FLU
Officials have slain 2.5 million birds at poultry farms in western Mexico over the past three weeks in an attempt to contain a bird flu outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
The virus responsible ...ALIYEV'S NIGHTMARE, ARMENIAN LOBBY, ANTI-NATIONAL FACTORS
At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the head of state once again attacked the opposition, accusing it of anti-national activities and deliberate blackening of the country during the contest Eurovision ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMADEO MODIGLIANI!
Amedeo Modigliani was on born July 12, 1884 in Livorno, Italy. After studying in Italy, Modigliani settled in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Following the advice of Brancusi, he studied ...TOM CRUISE ATTORNEY THREATENS NATIONAL ENQUIRER WITH LAWSUIT
Tom Cruise's attorney has threatened the parent company of the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor's recent split with wife Katie ...TONGA'S CROWN PRINCE TUPOUTO'A ULUKALALA MARRIES COUSIN
The heir to the throne of Tonga in the South Pacific has married his cousin at a ceremony in the capital Nuku'alofa.
Crown Prince Tupouto'a Ulukalala and his bride, Sinaitakala Fakafanua, both in their ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1864 Birth of satirist Harootyoon Alpiar. He died in 1919.
- 1923 Creation of the Bureau of History of the Communist Party of Armenia as an adjunct to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.
- 1924 Under the initiative of the Norwegian scholar Friedthof Nansen, the League of Nations decides to grant Nansen Passports to the Armenians who had survived the Armenian Genocide.
- 1933 Death of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannissyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1867.
- 1934 First issue of the "Communist" newspaper (property of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Yerevan's City Committee, and the Central Executive Committee of the Armenian SSR).
- 1938 Opening of the first session of the Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet's first convention.
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