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23 March 2012 • 09:24 AMT
Turkish Minister: EU, Turkey can’t afford to shut doors on each other

Our relations have never been this interdependent before,” Egemen Bagis told a round table meeting with Gunilla Carlsson.

23 March 2012 • 08:54 AMT
Slavik Hayrapetyan to participate in World Figure Skating Championships

World Figure Skating Championships kick off in Nice on March 26, with Slavik Hayrapetyan representing Armenia.

23 March 2012 • 08:39 AMT
Samsung offers Premium Suite upgrade for GALAXY Note

By using the S Note’s integrated knowledge search engines, users can quickly search, and obtain information.

23 March 2012 • 08:33 AMT
Iran’s Bushehr nuke plant construction meets schedule

“There are no deviations from the schedule; everything is going in accordance with the dates set earlier,” Kiriyenko said.

23 March 2012 • 08:29 AMT
European Chess Championship 4th round due March 23

Sergei Movsesian will rival Zbyněk Hráček (Czech Republic), Robert Hovhannisyan will face Russia’s Mikhail Kobalia.

23 March 2012 • 08:14 AMT
Janko Tipsarevic DJ’d with Bob Sinclair at Miami party

Tipsarevic will face off against David Nalbandian in the second round of Sony Ericsson Open in Miami on March 23.

23 March 2012 • 08:08 AMT
Landslide in Yerevan’s Sari Tagh district

Yerevan’s Sari Tagh district faced risk of potential landslide and stone avalanche, with further damage of constructions.

23 March 2012 • 07:55 AMT
Europe’s heaviest vessel heads into space

Weighing 777 tons before launch, the mission is the heaviest in the history of the European Space Agency, the ESA said.

23 March 2012 • 07:47 AMT
Platini backs Turkey’s bid to host Euro 2020

IOC will elect winning bid for 2020 Games in September next year with Doha, Madrid, Tokyo and Baku also in the running.

23 March 2012 • 07:40 AMT
Mel Gibson’s Costa Rica retreat goes on sale

Over the years the actor has owned lavish properties in Malibu, Australia, Montana, Connecticut, and even a private island in Fiji.

23 March 2012 • 07:36 AMT
U.S. sergeant to be charged with 17 counts in Afghan killings

Earlier accounts of the incident, which has damaged U.S.-Afghan relations,tallied 16 victims, including children and women.

23 March 2012 • 07:19 AMT
Ethnic Armenian underworld leader’s mother-in-law shot dead in Russia

Large business owner in Sochi downtown, mother-in-law of the underworld boss Eduard Kakosyan was shot in the head.

23 March 2012 • 07:14 AMT
Air Canada baggage handlers stage strike at Toronto’s airport

Many passengers on connecting flights had decided to leave the airport, choosing to stay in local hotels for the night.

23 March 2012 • 06:52 AMT
Google doodles surrealist painter Juan Gris to mark his 125th birthday

Google’s doodle features stylized representations of musical instruments – familiar components of Gris’s surrealistic vocabulary.

23 March 2012 • 06:46 AMT
Elections 2012 feature three favorite runners

March 22 was the last day for the political forces to submit their proportional lists to the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia to participate in the parliamentary elections due on May 6.

23 March 2012 • 06:42 AMT
Facebook reportedly buys patents from IBM

IBM is one of the biggest patent holders in the U.S. For the 19th year running, in 2011 it won the most patents among IT companies.

23 March 2012 • 06:39 AMT
Paper: coalition parties agree on electoral bribes amount

Zhoghovurd paper claims that the coalition parties have decided to set AMD 10000 limit for electoral bribing.

23 March 2012 • 06:39 AMT
Comic magazine mocks Turkey’s EU Minister

The cartoon refers to a case from last year when a student threw an egg at Egemen Bağış and hit him in the eye.

23 March 2012 • 06:30 AMT
Japan readies defense systems against N. Korean rocket

The preparations by Japan come as world leaders including US President Barack Obama prepare to meet for a summit.

23 March 2012 • 06:25 AMT
Hrant Melkumian shares 1st-11th places at European Chess Championship

Hrant Melkumian scored a win over Nils Grandelius (Switzerland) in the third round of the European Chess Championship.

23 March 2012 • 06:15 AMT
Australian police arrest child porn ring

Police raided more than a dozen properties across the country over the past week after a tip-off by Interpol.

23 March 2012 • 06:04 AMT
Whitney Houston died of coke, heart disease, drowning

Coroner’s Chief of Operations Craig Harvey said cocaine and its byproducts were found in Houston’s system.

23 March 2012 • 06:01 AMT
RPA offers electoral bribes via sms – paper

In an attempt to garner votes, RPA sends sms messages offering a remuneration of AMD 10000, Hayatsk paper says.

23 March 2012 • 05:53 AMT
Paper says Yerkir’s editor resents ARFD

According to paper, Bagrat Yesayan quitted his position because he was missing from ARFD proportional list.

22 March 2012 • 18:01 AMT
Russia’s carrier rocket ready for U.S. telecoms satellite launch

The launch of Proton-M, which is to carry the Intelsat-22 satellite, has been scheduled for Mar 25 from Baikonur space center.

22 March 2012 • 17:49 AMT
France’s Sarkozy pledges terror crackdown

Sarkozy said that anyone who regularly visits “websites which support terrorism or call for hate or violence will be punished by the law”.

22 March 2012 • 17:35 AMT
Kurd militants warn Turkey against entering Syria

PKK field commander Murat Karayilan said Turkey was preparing the ground for an intervention in Syria.

22 March 2012 • 17:34 AMT
Jessica Brown Findlay to star in “Winter’s Tale” adaptation

The film follows a dying woman who falls in love with a thief who breaks into her home, a palatial West Side mansion.

22 March 2012 • 17:29 AMT
Gaza’s Palestinians hit by fuel crisis amid Egypt, Hamas dispute

Last month, Egypt began restricting the flow of fuel to Gaza through the network of smuggling tunnels running under their border.

22 March 2012 • 17:13 AMT
Yemen violence leaves 37 dead

29 Al-Qaeda militants were killed in (army) shelling on their hideouts north and northeast of the city of Zinjibar.