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Shark kills boy off Australian coast

08.04.2008 19:49    independent.co.uk
A shark attacked and killed a 16-year-old boy today while he and a friend were bodyboarding off Australia's eastern coast, officials said.


Nato soldier killed in southern Afghanistan

08.04.2008 19:49    independent.co.uk
An explosion hit a Nato patrol in southern Afghanistan today, killing one soldier and wounding another, the alliance said.

Britons drown at Goan resort

08.04.2008 19:48    independent.co.uk
A British man and woman have drowned off the coast of Goa, the Foreign Office said today.

Drawing out of national road safety strategy started in Armenia

08.04.2008 18:05    arminfo.info
ArmInfo correspondent was informed from Ameria. Armenia is experiencing rapid growth in motor vehicle ownership and use. In the last five years the motor vehicle fleet increased by 30%, while the traffic carried by road increased by 38% (freight) and


Serzh Sargsyan: No single innocent person will be prosecuted, no single criminal will avoid punishment

08.04.2008 18:05    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. No single innocent person will be prosecuted but nor will any single criminal avoid punishment, the newly elected president, prime minister of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said during a forum of Peaceful Armenia civil initiative.Everybody must be equal before the

AmRating increased credit rating of ARARATBANK to 'BB-' level

08.04.2008 18:05    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. AmRating Agency increased the credit rating of ARARATBANK to 'BB-' level, the forecast is 'stable'. As the press service of the Group of rating agencies GlobalRating told ArmInfo, increase of the bank's rating has been stipulated for high development

ARFD member: Armenia should harden its position on relations with Azerbaijan

08.04.2008 18:05    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. Azerbaijan is constantly trying to torpedo the Karabakh peace process within the frames of the OSCE Minsk Group, therefore Armenia should harden its position on the relations with Azerbaijan, Head of Hay Dat's Office in Yerevan Kiro Manoyan said

Armenia is trying to reduce 'driver-policeman' relations as much as possible

08.04.2008 18:05    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. Today Armenian parliament adopted in the first reading the draft law "On peculiarities of administrative production application when traffic rules are broken and fixed by video cameras". As deputy chief of the Armenian Police Ararat Mahtesyan said, the draft

Lithuania's president: Armenia is a special country which the eyes of the whole Europe are directed at

08.04.2008 18:05    arminfo.info
Arminfo. Armenia is a special country which the eyes of the whole Europe are directed at, Lithuania's President Valdas Adamkus said at the ceremony of handing over letters of credence to Lithuania's Ambassador to Armenia Gedryus Apuokas, REGNUM news agency

Armenian president applied to citizens of the country in the status of head of state for the last time

08.04.2008 18:04    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has applied to citizens of the country in the status of head of state for the last time on Armenian Public TV.According to the speech received by ArmInfo from press-service of the president, he is

Exchange rate of dram against US dollar and EUR

08.04.2008 18:04    arminfo.info
ArmInfo Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 308 drams for 1 dollar, 484drams for 1 EUR and 12,9 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 309 drams for 1 dollar, 488

The fact that the White House nominated candidate for the post of US ambassador to Armenia is evidence of interest towards Armenia, member of the ARFD thinks

08.04.2008 18:04    arminfo.info
head of Hay Dut Yerevan office Kiro Manoyan said at today's press-conference. He also added it is not clear yet what is the position of the new candidate for ambassador on the Armenian genocide. There is no doubt that any

Speaker of Armenian parliament is surprised that Serbia voted 'for' the resolution on Nagornyy Karabakh in UN General Assembly

08.04.2008 18:04    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. Today speaker of the Armenian parliament Tigran Torosyan met an Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Serbia to Armenia Liliana Bachevich, having arrived in Armenia to take part in inauguration ceremony of the newly elected president of Armenia Serzh Sarkisyan.

WB chief: China to maintain strong growth despite global financial turbulence

08.04.2008 15:50    english.people.com.cn
China will continue its strong growth in the long term despite the global financial turbulence, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday. Some Chinese stock markets have been hit by the turbulence and "China's economy will b ...

China to consume 63% more oil in 2020 compared with 2006

08.04.2008 15:50    english.people.com.cn
China is expected to consume 62.5 percent more oil in 2020 compared with 2006 as fast economic growth will continue to fuel domestic oil demand, says a government think tank. China's oil consumption would rise from 346.6 million ton ...

East China province gives ultimatum to polluters before Olympics

08.04.2008 15:50    english.people.com.cn
The environment protection authority in east China's Shandong Province warned its major polluters on Monday of ceasing production if they could not meet the pollutant discharge standard before July 1. The Shandong Provincial Environ ...

Heavy fog hits northeast China's Liaoning, closing highways, airport

08.04.2008 15:50    english.people.com.cn
Heavy fog blanketed the northeastern province of Liaoning overnight, closing highways and delaying flights on Tuesday. In Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, more than 20 flights that had been delayed started to take off at arou ...

China publishes Dalai Lama's 1951 telegram to Mao, expressing support

08.04.2008 15:50    english.people.com.cn
China's State Archives Administration on Monday published a telegraph sent by the 14th Dalai Lama to Chairman Mao Zedong in October 1951, in which he expressed his support for the agreement on measures of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. ...

China gears up to battle wheat, rape diseases

08.04.2008 15:50    english.people.com.cn
China is enhancing its efforts to battle plant diseases spreading in the country's wheat and rape plantations. As of April 1, 9.52 million mu (634,666.7 hectares) of the country's wheat has developed stripe rust, a serious disease c ...

Hong Kong's Donald Tsang gives trademark bow tie to wax figure

08.04.2008 15:50    english.people.com.cn
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang has given a pin and one of his trademark bow ties to his wax figure unveiled Monday at the Peak, a popular tourist site on the Hong Kong Island known for the panoramic view

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