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YEREVAN: Armenian President Armen Sarkisian said on Saturday he had refused to sign a prime ministerial order to dismiss the army’s chief of staff, deepening an entrenched national political crisis. The move came as several thousand opposition protesters took to the streets of Armenia’s capital Yerevan for the third day running to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol …

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