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05 October 2012 • 06:51 AMT
Greek PM: cash box will be empty till end of November

“The key is liquidity. That is why the next credit tranche is so important for us,” Samaras told the business daily Handelsblatt.

05 October 2012 • 06:45 AMT
Armenian Assembly accepts summer internship applications

Students will work in Armenian government agencies, non-governmental organizations, medical centers, media outlets and more.

05 October 2012 • 06:41 AMT
Russian base fate to be decided during Putin visit to Tajikistan

As part of the agenda, both presidents are expected to visit a garrison of Russia’s 201st military base near Dushanbe.

05 October 2012 • 06:31 AMT
Sony halts Xperia tablet sales due to water resistance defect

The company said it will fix any of the tablets sold and expects the cost of the recall to have no significant impact on earnings.

05 October 2012 • 06:24 AMT
Oil prices retreat ahead of U.S. jobs report release

Oil also got a boost from a falling dollar, which tends to influence investors to buy commodities like oil and gold.

05 October 2012 • 06:17 AMT
Air passengers suffering delays must be compensated, court says

“That situation is comparable to a denial of boarding due to initial overbooking by the carrier for economic reasons,” the court explained.

04 October 2012 • 18:22 AMT
Jordan’s king dissolves parliament, paves way for early elections

Jordanians have been pressing for a greater say in how their country is run and demanding corruption be tackled.

04 October 2012 • 18:17 AMT
Microsoft acquires two-factor authentication provider PhoneFactor

The first method calls users on their pre-registered mobile phone asking them to confirm their login attempt.

04 October 2012 • 18:12 AMT
Toyota shuts South African car factory for 4 days

Kumba Iron Ore, one of the world’s top 10 producers, said it had suspended production at its huge Sishen mine.

04 October 2012 • 18:06 AMT
Sarajevo to host UEFA forum on social responsibility

The objective of the workshop is to clearly understand the overall definition of corporate social responsibility.

04 October 2012 • 18:02 AMT
Prominent Russian human rights activist threatened

Lokshina said that while the messages had not been the first threats made against her, their “level of cynicism” was “unprecedented.”

04 October 2012 • 18:01 AMT
Lusine Avagyan wins Russian judo championships

Avagyan beat Rada Bikitimirova in the final to win gold. Alesya Kuznetsova and Kristina Rumyantseva came third.

04 October 2012 • 17:50 AMT
Diaspora Minister: there’s no country that doubts fact of Genocide

Hranush Hakobyan said that the third and the fourth generation of genocide survivors must hold a firmer stance.

04 October 2012 • 17:18 AMT
Turkey pledges to coordinate internationally on Syria

Turkish Deputy PM: Turkey’s priority is to act in line with international institutions in response to shelling from Syria.

04 October 2012 • 17:10 AMT
Expert: Georgia shouldn’t forget it borders on Russia, not U.S.

Regional Studies Center head Richard Giragosian said normalization of Georgian-Russian ties will benefit Armenia.

04 October 2012 • 17:09 AMT
Egyptian justice panel demands Mubarak retrial

The retrial would not cancel the previous ruling, but would add new sentences against the defendants if they are found guilty.

04 October 2012 • 17:02 AMT
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper workers go on strike to protest layoffs

The workers said that they would not update the Haaretz website until midnight and will not publish the next day’s paper.

04 October 2012 • 16:54 AMT
EU ‘regrets’ Serbia decision to ban a Gay Pride parade

Last year’s parade was banned after Serbian authorities said ultra-nationalists were planning violent riots.

04 October 2012 • 16:46 AMT
Russian Defense Ministry to buy 39 IL-476 transport planes

“This is the first, essentially new plane, that Russia’s aviation industry has produced over the past 21 years,” President Putin said.

04 October 2012 • 16:29 AMT
Heritage member: Oskanian case showed who’s who in Armenia

Stepan Safaryan said Oskanian’s case is linked to the rivalry between President Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharian.

04 October 2012 • 16:29 AMT
Google ups Motorola job cuts, bumps charges to $340 mln

The New York Times has previously reported that Google planned to shrink Motorola’s operations in Asia.

04 October 2012 • 16:16 AMT
Emma Stone, Nicolas Cage lend voices to “The Croods” animated film

Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage are transformed into animated cavemen in the first trailer for “The Croods.”

04 October 2012 • 16:10 AMT
EU hosting cybersecurity exercise

The event centres on a DDoS attack in which a mass of third-party computers attempt to overwhelm their targets’ servers.

04 October 2012 • 16:06 AMT
Heritage: Tsarukyan’s running for president best for Prosperous Armenia

Stepan Safaryan ruled out that Vartan Oskanian may become Prosperous Armenia’s presidential candidate in 2013.

04 October 2012 • 15:58 AMT
Son of Mexican opposition party ex-leader killed

The father, Humberto Moreira resigned as party president earlier this year under the cloud of a $2.6 billion state government debt.

04 October 2012 • 15:52 AMT
Ex-Islamist Numan Kurtulmus named Turkey’s ruling party’s deputy leader

Mehmet Ali Sahin, Mustafa Sentop and Menderes Turel were also appointed to deputy leader positions in the party.

04 October 2012 • 15:44 AMT
Youtube rolls out changes to Content ID tool

The firm introduced three new features most of which revolve around content legality claims and what to do with challenges to them.

04 October 2012 • 15:43 AMT
Kamikazes to be trained in Azerbaijani universities

Military expert Uzeir Jafarov characterized the closure of military departments as an incorrect decision.

04 October 2012 • 15:36 AMT
Russian investors welcome in Georgia, billionaire oppositionist says

Georgian billionaire tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili is the leader of the Georgian Dream coalition that won the October 1 parliamentary elections.

04 October 2012 • 15:33 AMT
USD market average rate totals AMD 408,38 Oct 4

Exchange rate of euro totaled AMD 528,65, increasing by 0.86 point while the rate of Russian ruble totaled AMD 13,13.