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27 October 2012 • 07:14 AMT
Sony Readers Book Club announced

The selected 25 VIPs will get a free Sony Reader with cover and the first four book-of-the-month ebooks.

27 October 2012 • 07:05 AMT
Hepatitis E vaccine hits Chinese market

The vaccine hit the market after a two-year clinical trial involving 113,000 volunteers in east China’s Jiangsu Province.

27 October 2012 • 07:00 AMT
Women giving up smoking before 30 ‘evade dying risks’

Those who stopped by 40 died a year younger and those who stopped by 30 lost, on average, a month of life.

27 October 2012 • 06:51 AMT
Al Qaeda leader calls on Muslims to kidnap Westerners in Egypt

Zawahri accused the international community of giving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “a license to kill.”

27 October 2012 • 06:46 AMT
U.S. economy speeds up in Q3, growth rate rises to 2%

With the presidential election 11 days away, Republicans argue President Barack Obama’s policies have restrained the recovery.

27 October 2012 • 06:36 AMT
Argentine National Library cancels anti-Israel event

The Oct 30 program was being organized by the Argentine-Palestinian Solidarity Committee. Adolfo Perez Esquivel.

27 October 2012 • 06:31 AMT
Sandy kills 43 across Caribbean, heads towards U.S. East Coast

Authorities said it was Cuba’s deadliest storm since July 2005, when category 5 Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people.

27 October 2012 • 06:21 AMT
U.S. Senator Harry Reid hospitalized after car crash

The 72-year-old Nevada Democrat is the Democratic Senate majority leader, and has served in Congress since 1987.

27 October 2012 • 06:14 AMT
Clinton plans to step down U.S. Secretary of State in Jan

“It’s really still my same time-frame,” Clinton said, repeating her plan to step even if voters give Obama another four years in office.

26 October 2012 • 18:29 AMT
Train collision in Slovakia leaves 19 injured

Police spokeswoman Petra Hraskova says it is not immediately clear what caused the crash in the Slovak capital of Bratislava.

26 October 2012 • 18:25 AMT
UK businessman to strike plea deal with U.S. over Iran missile charges

Christopher Tappin has always denied that he tried to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles, saying he believed they were for vehicles.

26 October 2012 • 18:10 AMT
Armenia’s Ararat Valley Club to host golf tournament

Envoys, embassy employees, heads and representatives of international organizations and NGOs will participate in the event.

26 October 2012 • 18:04 AMT
New chief of staff for NKR Defense Army to be named

Artsakh Defense Minister noted that the candidate for the new chief of the defense army staff had been determined.

26 October 2012 • 18:00 AMT
7 Azeri infiltration attempts thwarted at frontline – NKR Defense Minister

Nagorno Karabakh Defense Minister believes recent drills to be a proof of Artsakh army’s military capacity and combat readiness.

26 October 2012 • 17:45 AMT
Baku can’t believe Australia’s New South Wales recognized Karabakh

Azerbaijan will send official inquiry to Australian govt. over the resolution on recognition of Karabakh people’s right to self-determination.

26 October 2012 • 17:44 AMT
Cuban dissident Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo dies

Gutierrez-Menoyo, who had opposed Batista’s government from the early 1950s, participated in the same attack.

26 October 2012 • 17:41 AMT
Avetik Grigoryan leads Mikhail Chigorin Chess Memorial

Chigorin beat Konstantin Zalkind (Israel), Shamil Arslanov (Russia), Miroslav Vlasenko and Poland’s Bartosz Soćko.

26 October 2012 • 17:27 AMT
Expert says science more effective than economy in Armenia

Harutyun Karapetyan: state budgetary funds, allocated to the field of education, may be used for implementation of more projects.

26 October 2012 • 17:25 AMT
UK ‘opposed’ to military strike on Iran ‘at this moment’

“We want to see the sanctions, which are starting to have some impact, working, and also engaging with Iran,” the spokeswoman said.

26 October 2012 • 17:17 AMT
UCI won’t award Armstrong’s titles to any runners-up

Armstrong, who has denied doping for more than a decade, declined to contest doping allegations presented by the USADA.

26 October 2012 • 17:10 AMT
Car bomb kills 5 in Damascus residential area

The truce, to mark the Eid al-Adha holiday, was proposed by UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who hoped it would lead to a peace process.

26 October 2012 • 17:07 AMT
Armenia’s “One Nation” organizations’ alliance dissolves

“One Nation” (Mek Azg) was notable for different notices calling for preservation of Armenian national values.

26 October 2012 • 17:00 AMT
Merkel, Erdogan to hold talks next week

“They will discuss bilateral relations, international issues and of course the situation in Syria,” Steffen Seibert said.

26 October 2012 • 16:54 AMT
Berlusconi sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion

The court in Milan said the reduction was a result of a 2006 amnesty law, passed by a rival Left-wing government.

26 October 2012 • 16:43 AMT
Slain officer Gurgen Margaryan to be commemorated Oct 27

A requiem mass for the slain Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan will be served at Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.

26 October 2012 • 16:25 AMT
Armenian Diaspora Minister meets YSU students

Hranush Hakobyan briefed the students on the evolution, development stages and peculiarities of the Armenian Diaspora.

26 October 2012 • 16:09 AMT
EU program’s 2nd phase promoting Karabakh settlement launched

EPNK supports a wider participation of conflict-affected people in the peace process, including women, youth, etc.

26 October 2012 • 15:59 AMT
Expert: opposition must take speedy decision on presidency

Levon Shirinyan stressed the need for the opposition to cooperate and take a speedy decision on presidency.

26 October 2012 • 15:32 AMT
SCR puts Lori province railway bridge into operation

South Caucasus Railways opened traffic on the railway bridge on the 2,636th km of Shahali-Tumanyan span (Lori).

26 October 2012 • 15:30 AMT
Paper: Prosperous Armenia slams PM’s remarks as unfounded

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan didn’t rule out signing of a new coalition memorandum, considering current developments.