Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian and Russia’s Igor Lysyj finished with 0,5 points each, with the second set due August 15.

At a sentencing hearing in Maryland, Pte Manning, 25, said he had mistakenly believed he could “change the world for the better”.

Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei resigned as the interim VP in protest – a blow to new leadership’s credibility with the pro-reform movement.

The visit “seriously harms the feelings of the people in China and other Asian victim countries”, the ministry said in a statement.

The novel is about four children abandoned by their mother, and kept in the attic for years by their fanatically religious grandmother.

Olga Kurylenko, Gabriel Byrne and Joely Richardson are among the adults starring in yet another attempt to cash in on a fading craze.

The U.S. Energy Department said crude oil supplies fell by 2.8 million barrels, about double what analysts expected.

Fitch also affirmed the country’s short-term rating at ‘F3’ and the country ceiling at ‘BBB+’, the agency said in a statement.

It is also expanding into other emerging economies and has said it will start selling phones in the United States, perhaps this year.

Israel appeared to dispute that, saying its soldiers were wounded while carrying out routine patrols along the border with Lebanon.

It is the latest round of job cuts at Cisco as the company restructures its business, moving away from consumer products.

The three-stage exercise, which involves over 500 personnel and some 100 combat vehicles, will continue until September 12.

Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Baku have not been granted access to Hakob Injighulyan.

Troops opened fire on Islamist demonstrators in clashes that brought chaos to the capital and other cities.

“People of Nagorno Karabakh established their state exercising their inalienable right to self-determination,” the statement said.

The bank management apologizes for the temporary inconvenience caused to customers and thanks for continuing to bank with HSBC.

UPS has “been notified of an incident involving one of our aircraft near Birmingham,” the company said on its official Twitter feed.

The absurd report about the second soldier was immediately refuted by Artsakh defense army spokesman Senor Hasratyan.

At the same time, it launched a TV commercial starring football star Lionel Messi, which was planned to be aired in 15 countries.

Pillay has serious concerns about alleged ill-treatment and torture during interrogations of people who were later sentenced to death.

President Serzh Sargsyan met with the Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Alexander Fomin.

Next year, American, German and Italian teams are also expected to compete, according to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

President Serzh Sargsyan met with Romanian ambassador Crina Rodica Prunariu, who is completing her diplomatic mission in Armenia.

But Spain, which had to seek outside support for its struggling banking sector, saw its economic output fall by 0.1% on the quarter.

The White House favors about 7,000 U.S. troops, but some in the U.S. military would prefer two or three times as many.

Six people in Hong Kong were reported injured. Strong winds blew down 21 trees, but otherwise the city emerged largely unscathed.

One witness said he saw 15 bodies at a field hospital beside the camp where bulldozers cleared the protesters’ tents.

Reporter Brasil, a labor rights group, said on its website that Brazil’s labor ministry found “serious” labor violations.

Karen Aslanyan (60kg) won the competition in his weight category, defeating Basar Enes of Turkey 7:0 in the final.

Tom Vartabedian’s column entitled, “Poor Tom’s Almanac,” is the oldest-running column in the Armenian Press.