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17 April 2012 • 10:36 AMT
Paper: Prosperous Armenia’s electoral bribes gain strength

From flour and antennas, Samvel Balasanyan moves to giving hail protection systems to rural residents, Hraparak says.

17 April 2012 • 10:28 AMT
Paper: ex-head of Yerevan’s Arabkir district quits RPA

Hovhannes Shahinyan said he is currently busy with organizing his wife Satik Seyranyan’s election campaign.

17 April 2012 • 10:23 AMT
Heritage member says black PR used against the party

Armen Martirosyan: Heritage never proclaimed any dogmas; it’s impossible to find any contradictions in our line of actions.

17 April 2012 • 10:21 AMT
Heritage to gain majority of votes by proportional lists – party rep.

“The recent meetings with voters prove Heritage enjoys positive attitude among population,” Armen Martirosyan said.

17 April 2012 • 10:05 AMT
U.S. spends millions to help activists bring down their governments – report

Issuing the technology in Iran, Syria and China will allow opposition groups the freedom to talk to one another.

17 April 2012 • 09:54 AMT
Academics to investigate Turkey’s minority schools problems

“It is an important step, but with no practical consequences. Children from Armenia and Greece still cannot go to school,” said Kaya.

17 April 2012 • 09:43 AMT
Paper presents authorities’ scheme for future parliament

Authorities plan to secure 24% of seats for RPA, 22% for Prosperous Armenia and 11% for ANC, Hraparak paper says.

17 April 2012 • 09:30 AMT
Paper: Armenian parliament speaker hopes to regain his post

Zhoghovurd says Samvel Nikoyan tries hard to convince the parliament and the public that he will again be the speaker after elections.

17 April 2012 • 09:19 AMT
Istanbul police searching for bombs in a graveyard

In March of this year, Istanbul counter-terrorism teams carried out excavations at two sites in the city in search of explosives.

17 April 2012 • 09:12 AMT
Lebanese governmental websites under hacker attack

The hacked sites include the National News Agency, the Presidency and the Energy, Water, Justice and Foreign Ministries.

17 April 2012 • 09:09 AMT
Norwegian gunman boasts spectacular political attack

Breivik said he acted in defense of his country by setting off a car bomb that killed 8 people at government headquarters last July.

17 April 2012 • 08:58 AMT
3 Armenian boxers to compete in Trabzon tournament April 17

Koryun Soghomonyan (49 kg), Hovhannes Danielyan (52 kg) and Vladimir Sarukhanyan (60kg) will perform on April 17.

17 April 2012 • 08:52 AMT
Australia can pull out troops from Afghanistan earlier than expected

“We continue to see steady gains in the fight against the Afghan insurgency,” Gillard said in a speech in Canberra.

17 April 2012 • 08:42 AMT
Armenian tennis team takes good start at Fed Cup

Anna Movsisyan, Ani Amiraghyan and Nune Khachatryan beat Kenya’s team in two singles and one double.

17 April 2012 • 08:18 AMT
Swiss Armenians seek legal proceedings against Turkish minister

Andreas Dreisiebner, Co-Chairman of the Switzerland – Armenia Association is indignant over stance of Swiss authorities.

17 April 2012 • 08:13 AMT
Russian volcano spewing ash to a height of 9500 meters

The official said the column of ashes could be clearly seen from a distance of 40 kilometers spreading to the east.

17 April 2012 • 07:59 AMT
IMF chief hopes for consensus on $400 billion rise in funds

“I am ready to leave the matter open for a few weeks: some countries need a little bit more time for approval,” Lagarde said.

17 April 2012 • 07:52 AMT
Prolonged earthquake hits central Chile

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake’s epicenter was 30 miles northeast of Valparaiso and it had a depth of 15.5 miles.

17 April 2012 • 07:47 AMT
Areximbank-Gazprombank Group to add ATMs, POS-terminals in 2012

Plastic cards market is rapidly developing in Armenia due to tough competition among banks, Ruben Khachatryan said.

17 April 2012 • 07:43 AMT
Sony to launch new networked video recorder

The device has a 500-gigabyte hard disk drive and will have both digital terrestrial and satellite broadcasting tuners.

17 April 2012 • 07:35 AMT
Sydney rocked by escalating gun war between gangs

There have been eight shootings across the city in four days and 19 so far this month, mostly in Sydney’s west and southwest.

17 April 2012 • 07:28 AMT
RPA collects citizens’ passports in Ashtarak town – paper

Yerkir says RPA boosted its electoral bribe offering AMD15000 now instead of previous AMD5000 per passport.

17 April 2012 • 07:14 AMT
Oil prices near $103 as Europe’s debt crisis flares

In other energy trading, heating oil was down 0.4 cent at $3.12 per gallon and gasoline futures slid 1.0 cent at $3.26 per gallon.

17 April 2012 • 07:07 AMT
Honda to extract rare earth metals from used car parts

China produces about 95% of global rare earth supplies and has ratcheted up export controls, sending prices soaring.

17 April 2012 • 07:03 AMT
Japan pledges $60 billion in loans to IMF

Japanese Finance Minister announced the emergency loan, which will use the nation’s foreign exchange reserves.

17 April 2012 • 06:50 AMT
Armenia’s Taperakan village faces forgery, paper says

Chorrord Ishkanutyun says 500 extra people are registered in Taperakan village which actually has 2500 residents.

17 April 2012 • 06:28 AMT
Paper: Heritage leader meets with Armenian President

Zhoghovurd says Serzh Sargsyan urged Raffi Hovannisian not to withdraw from the single anti-forgery headquarters.

16 April 2012 • 18:34 AMT
3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran

The Central Bank advised the customers to change the passwords of their bank cards to prevent possible credit card fraud.

16 April 2012 • 18:18 AMT
Icelandic MPs propose Genocide recognition initiative

The initiative was proposed by Margrйt Tryggvadуttir, a member of The Movement and supported by fellow party members.

16 April 2012 • 17:53 AMT
Nokia 808 PureView official price known

Announced at Mobile World Congress back in February, the 808 PureView represents a groundshift in cellphone photography.