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Zambia: Where the T-Shirts for Losing Super Bowl Teams Go

You'd think that there's nothing a poverty-stricken person living in Zambia, Romania or Nicaragua would have that Ben Roethlisberger might covet, right? Guess again: How about a T-shirt declaring the Pittsburgh Steelers the winners of Super Bowl XLV? Before the Feb. 6 Super Bowl, nearly 100,000 shirts declaring the...

Was 4100 BC a Good Year? World's Oldest Winery Found

Wine lovers' quest for the perfect, full-bodied red is apparently older than anyone realized. In a cave complex in Armenia, archaeologists from the University of California have unearthed what they believe is the world's oldest winery, from 6,100 years ago. Inside the cave, Copper Age vintners are believed to have...

Armenians Decry Kobe Bryant's Deal With Turkish Airlines

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Kobe Bryant probably wishes he'd kept to the basketball court. Armenians in the U.S. and abroad are crying foul against the NBA superstar and want him to drop his deal with Turkey's premier airline to serve as its new "global brand ambassador." Bryant's two-year contract with Turkish Airlines "is wrong...

Turkey Allows Mass at Ancient Armenian Church But Sows Anger

VAN, Turkey (Sept. 17) -- For the first time in nearly a century, Turkey will allow a Mass at a 10th-century Armenian Orthodox cathedral in eastern Turkey, but the state's failure to restore a cross atop the building has soured the occasion for many Armenians. Some 5,000 members of the Armenian diaspora are expected to...

Clinton Criticizes Russia for 'Occupying' Georgia

TBILISI, Georgia (July 5) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Russia on Monday for failing to live up to the cease-fire agreement it signed nearly two years ago to end the fighting in this small former Soviet state. She asserted that Russia is occupying parts of Georgia and building permanent...

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05/31/12 ANKARA: Zarakolu Given Top Prize Of Armenia Source: Armenian News Network / Groong ZARAKOLU GIVEN TOP PRIZE OF ARMENIA Hurriyet Daily News May 30 2012 Prominent publisher Ragp Zarakolu yesterday received the Presidency Prize of Armenia in Yerevan, becoming the second person from Turkey to have received this prize.
05/31/12 Calendar of Events - 05/31/2012 Source: Armenian News Network / Groong "From Ararat to Europe" - a historical documentary in English by producer Arsen Hakobyan, Yerevan Armenia When: Jun 3 2012 4pm Where: Ararat-Eskijian Museum 15105 Mission Hills Rd, Mission Hills CA, 91345 Misc: This film documents the influence of the Armenians on Christianity in Europe from the earliest times through the modern ages.
05/31/12 Baku: Caucasus Muslims' Head: Interconfessional... Source: Armenian News Network / Groong INTERCONFESSIONAL DIALOGUE WILL HELP TO RESOLVE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT Trend May 30 2012 Azerbaijan Head of the Caucasus Muslims Office (CMO) Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade sees the solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in interconfessional dialogue.
05/31/12 Global Finance names Prometey Bank Armenia's Best... Source: PanArmenian.net On May 15, 2012, Global Finance magazine named Prometey Bank as one of the World's Best Sub-Custodian Banks and the Best Sub-Custodian Bank of Armenia for the second consecutive year.
05/31/12 OSCE monitoring on contact line proceeds without... Source: Today.Az No incident occurred during monitoring held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces near the Alibeyli village in the Azerbaijani Tovuz region on May 31, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend.

Background on armenia

Armenia ( Hayastan ), officially the Republic of Armenia (, Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun, ), is a landlocked, mountainous country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia.

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