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31 August 2012 • 14:26 AMT
Berezovsky loses multibillion-dollar legal battle against Abramovich

Judge Elizabeth Gloster scathingly dismissed Berezovsky’s case, calling him “an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable witness.”

31 August 2012 • 14:11 AMT
Powerful quake rocks Philippines, tsunami warning issued

The quake was centered off the east coast, 91 miles off the town of Guiuan in Samar province at a depth of about 20 miles.

31 August 2012 • 14:08 AMT
Hungarian MFA says it bears no responsibility for Safarov extradition

The MFA advised to address the Ministry of Justice, which, however, has not answered phone calls for the past several hours.

31 August 2012 • 13:59 AMT
Azerbaijani President had no legal right to pardon Safarov – expert

In compliance with the article 82.3 of Azerbaijan’s criminal code, life sentence can be replaced by a 25-year prison term only.

31 August 2012 • 13:38 AMT
Turkish PM to visit Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Baku and Kyiv, Erdoğan will co-chair meetings of the high-level strategic cooperation councils established with these countries.

31 August 2012 • 13:28 AMT
USD market average rate totals AMD 408,63 August 31

The market average rate of USD totaled AMD 408,63 on August 31, decreasing by 0.49 point compared to August 30.

31 August 2012 • 13:22 AMT
OSCE to help Armenia’s Syunik province diversify local economy

OSCE Programme Implementation Presence aims to assist in implementing economic and environmental projects.

31 August 2012 • 12:55 AMT
French blog posts fully assembled iPhone 5 pictures

The new iPhone is slightly slimmer than the iPhone 4S and significantly slimmer than the older 3GS model.

31 August 2012 • 12:46 AMT
Armenian President convokes National Security Council meeting

President Sargsyan also convoked meeting of heads of diplomatic representatives and international organizations.

31 August 2012 • 12:33 AMT
Vice-speaker: Safarov amnesty proves Azeri hostility to Armenians

Eduard Sharmazanov commented on reports about extradition of Armenian officer’s assassin Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan.

31 August 2012 • 12:15 AMT
Hungary provides no info on Safarov’s alleged extradition to Azerbaijan

According to Azeri media outlets, “Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to grant Ramil Safarov amnesty.”

31 August 2012 • 11:55 AMT
Armenian officer’s assassin Ramil Safarov extradited to Azerbaijan

Representative of Armenian embassy in Hungary Arthur Musheghyan neither confirmed, nor denied the information.

31 August 2012 • 10:36 AMT
Armenia wins 4 medals in European Ship Modeling Championship

Babken Shahazizyan’s win of two gold and one silver medal was announced best achievement of the championship.

31 August 2012 • 10:35 AMT
Areximbank-Gazprombank Group’s head office building opened in Yerevan

Yerevan hosted the official opening ceremony of the head office of Areximbank-Gazprombank Group.

31 August 2012 • 09:48 AMT
CCAF head: Turkish threats against France inadmissible

Mourad Papazian: we launch campaigns to unmask Turkey, which perpetrated arrest of journalists, lawyers, and students.

31 August 2012 • 09:43 AMT
Thousands of passengers stranded over Lufthansa cabin crew strike

“The call to strike action may lead to unscheduled flight delays and cancellations at Lufthansa,” the company said.

31 August 2012 • 09:39 AMT
Bundesbank head threatens to resign in fight with ECB

For the moment, Weidmann believes that is the way to fight for the stability of the euro and the independence of the ECB.

31 August 2012 • 09:33 AMT
Law violations by Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office revealed

A probe into criminal cases on human rights revealed violations by Prosecutor General’s Office in six of them.

31 August 2012 • 09:25 AMT
Baroness Caroline Cox to get ANCA highest award

Baroness Cox has visited Armenia and Karabakh 75 times – many of those times during the bitter war with Azerbaijan.

31 August 2012 • 09:21 AMT
Iranian lawmaker says IAEA report “political move”

“Publishing this report does not mean anything other than it was a political move,” lawmaker Kazem Jalali has said.

31 August 2012 • 09:08 AMT
Author Antonia Arslan to speak about new book in Glendale

Gohar Sahakyan will be translating the lecture and the following Q&A session for Armenian speakers in the audience.

31 August 2012 • 08:50 AMT
DNA of 80,000-year-old cave girl reveals links with modern humans

Picture of girl’s genome is as accurate as that of modern day human genomes, and shows she had brown eyes, hair and skin.

31 August 2012 • 08:44 AMT
VivaCell-MTS announces new roaming tariffs for Russia

Till December, VivaCell-MTS subscribers traveling to Russia can send SMS to all destinations for AMD 9 per message.

31 August 2012 • 08:33 AMT
Businessmen flee Armenia to evade involvement in local elections – paper

Entrepreneurs were instructed in early August to complete all their “minor” activates and focus on “main” ones.

31 August 2012 • 08:32 AMT
Roddick retires, Federer storms into US Open round 3

Roddick, whose ranking is now down at 22 in the world, lost to Federer in the Wimbledon finals of 2004, 2005 and 2009.

31 August 2012 • 08:28 AMT
August 31 marks William Saroyan’s 104th birth anniversary

Setting of many of Saroyan’s stories and plays is center of Armenian American life in California in his native Fresno.

31 August 2012 • 08:20 AMT
Google honors Maria Montessori’s 142nd birthday with doodle

Maria Montessori came to England in 1919, where her training method was met with both enthusiasm and controversy.

31 August 2012 • 07:57 AMT
Academy changes regulation for Original Song

The 85th Annual Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood & Highland Center on February 24, 2013.

31 August 2012 • 07:50 AMT
Foxconn, Sharp still negotiate $850mln deal for Apple display production

Foxconn representatives and executives have repeatedly said in recent weeks that they wanted to complete a deal by the end of August.

31 August 2012 • 07:43 AMT
Assange may stay in Ecuador embassy up to a year

“I think this will be solved in between six and 12 months; that’s what I estimate,” WikiLeaks founder said in an interview.