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NPR News: 12-19-2023 8AM EST
Armenian football legend Nikolay Ghazaryan has died aged 76, the Football Federation of Armenia informs.
Ghazaryan was an international master of sports, Honorեդ Worker of Physical Education and Sport of the Republic of Armenia․
Օn October 10, 2013 he was awarded the 1st degree medal “For Services to the Motherland” for his significant contribution to the development of Armenian football and brilliant achievements․ In 1973, he became the champion and cup winner of the USSR as part of Yerevan “Ararat”, in 1971 and 1976 he became a silver medalist with the club.
He played 295 games for Ararat, scoring 67 goals. He was part of youth and Olympic teams of the USSR. From 1992, he was a founding member of the newly created Football Federation of the Republic of Armenia, the first president of the federation until 1994.
A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the BBC reports.
About 4,000 people were evacuated from the fishing town of Grindavik last month.
The eruption started north of the town at 22:17 local time (22:17 GMT) on Monday, the Icelandic Met Office said.
A resident living near Grindavik described “crazy” and “scary” scenes that night, and said she could still see the volcano exploding on Tuesday.
Iceland has been braced for volcanic activity for weeks. Since late October, the region around the capital Reykjavik has been experiencing an increase in earthquake activity.
The eruption can be seen from Reykjavik, which is about 42km north-east of Grindavik.
Experts say they don’t expect the eruption to bring the same level of disruption as one that took place elsewhere in Iceland in 2010, which halted European air travel.
Baku/19.12.23/Turan: On December 19, the Narimanov District Court of Baku rejected a request to transfer the arrested opposition economist Gubad Ibadoglu to a medical institution of the Ministry of Justice, his lawyer Zibeida Sadygova said.
According to her, a representative of the Medical Department of the Ministry of Justice stated…
Baku/19.12.23/Turan: Consideration of the complaint against the arrest of investigative journalist Hafiz Babaly will take place on December 20 at 15.00 at the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), chaired by Hasan Ahmedov, a lawyer Rasul Jafarov told Turan.
Tomorrow, the BCA will consider complaints about the operational search action against…