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28 April 2012 • 10:24 AMT
Intense Azeri ceasefire violation reported April 23-24

Azerbaijan fired over 2600 shots from various caliber weapons towards the Armenian positions, over the past week.

28 April 2012 • 10:14 AMT
Voters throw soil at Armenian President – paper

Residents of Spitak town threw soil towards Serzh Sargsyan yelling their housing problems are never settled, Zhoghovurd says.

28 April 2012 • 09:47 AMT
Serviceman dies from gunshot wound in Karabakh

Private Hovhannes Nikoghosyan serving in a military unit in Artsakh dies from a gunshot wound on April 27.

28 April 2012 • 09:30 AMT
Paper: RPA distributes gadget pens to rural residents

Pens offered in remote villages are allegedly equipped with a special device to follow the voting procedure, Zhoghovurd says.

28 April 2012 • 09:17 AMT
Kotayk governor’s position shattered, paper says

According to Yerkir, Kovalenko Shahgeldyan fails to secure the required number of votes for RPA for May elections.

28 April 2012 • 08:59 AMT
Paper claims Orinats Yerkir abandoned by ruling patron

Orinats Yerkir leader Artur Baghdasaryan told Heghine Bisharyan that RPA no longer backs them for elections.

28 April 2012 • 08:36 AMT
Paper:Prosperous Armenia instructs its candidate to prevent members’ leak

Vartan Oskanian and Harutyun Kushkyan visited Yerevan’s Kanaker Zeytun district on April 27, Hraparak paper says.

28 April 2012 • 08:20 AMT
UEFA: EURO 2012 will be smooth despite blasts in Ukraine

UEFA voiced confidence in the security measures undertaken by the authorities ahead of UEFA EURO 2012.

28 April 2012 • 08:11 AMT
Aronian says his game vs. Kramnik went smoothly

Final round of the six-game match between Aronian and Kramnik is due on April 28 at 15:00 Yerevan time.

28 April 2012 • 07:44 AMT
Champions League final to be see public screening

Tickets are priced at €5 apiece, which will help cover organisational, security and administrative expenses for the event.

28 April 2012 • 07:33 AMT
5 Armenian wrestlers to compete at China tournament on April 28

Armenia’s freestyle wrestler Ruslan Basiyev will rival Greek Ioannis Arzoumanidis in 1/16 final of China qualifier.

28 April 2012 • 06:50 AMT
Aronian ties game vs. Kramnik in friendly’s round 5

Final round of the six-game match between Aronian and Kramnik is due on April 28, with current 2,5 – 2,5 result.

27 April 2012 • 18:08 AMT
Baku asking for trouble amid mediators’ diplomacies as Armenia’s patience runs out

Azerbaijan, having gained full confidence of its impunity is openly ignoring the urges of international mediators.

27 April 2012 • 17:35 AMT
New iPad reaching nine additional countries April 27

Apple still has not revealed when its coveted new tablet will hit store shelves in China, despite the high demand for its products there.

27 April 2012 • 17:12 AMT
Russian spacemen, NASA astronaut safely brought back to earth

It was the last touchdown performed by older analogue version of Soyuz capsule before it is replaced by a digital version.

27 April 2012 • 16:54 AMT
Rolling Stones museum opens in German town

The museum, in the small eastern German town of Luechow, will show “thousands of pieces” of memorabilia.

27 April 2012 • 16:48 AMT
Kodak posts $366 million loss for Q1

The once iconic brand has been struggling with restructuring since and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this past January.

27 April 2012 • 16:41 AMT
Hollande voices tough immigration stance before French vote

“In crisis we are going through, limiting economic immigration is necessary and essential,” presidential hopeful said.

27 April 2012 • 16:35 AMT
3 arrested over terror attack plot in Denmark

Steen Hansen, in the communications department of Copenhagen police, confirmed that a number of arrests had been made.

27 April 2012 • 16:26 AMT
Michael Sheen joins Tina Fey’s “Admission” comedy

The film follows unmarried college admissions counselor who strikes up a romance with a man she knew when she was in school.

27 April 2012 • 16:22 AMT
Downloads from Apple’s App Store dive 30% in March

The decline occurred in the same month that Apple celebrated jumping the 25 billion mark in downloads at the store.

27 April 2012 • 16:14 AMT
Procter & Gamble Q3 income down 16%

While the company gained $3.3 billion in revenue through price increases, the rollbacks are worth about $200 million.

27 April 2012 • 16:01 AMT
Amazon’s Kindle Fire takes over 50% of Android tablet market

Although Amazon’s Kindle Fire runs on the Android operating system, it uses a ‘forked’ version of the OS.

27 April 2012 • 15:56 AMT
Romanian govt unseated in no-confidence vote

President Traian Basescu will nominate a new prime minister who must then win parliament’s approval.

27 April 2012 • 15:46 AMT
Suicide bomber kills 9 in Damascus

State media said 28 people were also wounded in the blast, one of several in the country of 23 million.

27 April 2012 • 15:34 AMT
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator” opening scene released

The comedy tells a heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to this country.

27 April 2012 • 15:28 AMT
OSCE chair rep informed of Azeri trace in deaths of 3 Armenian soldiers

Armenian Defense Ministry informed Andrzej Kasprzyk on the deaths of 3 servicemen in Armenia’s border region.

27 April 2012 • 15:16 AMT
Foreign Ministry spokesman: EU supports OSCE MG policies on Karabakh

Tigran Balayan commented on EP resolutions adopted in the context of Association Agreement talks with Armenia and Azerbaijan.

27 April 2012 • 15:12 AMT
OSCE MG slams ceasefire violations at Armenian-Azeri border

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs reiterated that there is no alternative to a peacefully negotiated settlement of Karabakh conflict.

27 April 2012 • 14:53 AMT
No Armenians injured in Ukraine blasts

Twenty seven people were injured in four successive bomb attacks that took place on April 27 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk.