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11 February 2014 • 12:03 AMT
Polish expert rules out repetition of Ukraine’s scenario in Armenia

“Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s choice in September 2013 was a choice of safety,” Mateusz Piskorski said.

11 February 2014 • 11:49 AMT
Yemen reportedly hands 29 al Qaeda militants to Saudi Arabia

Saudi interior ministry spokesman said he had no information on the matter, but was seeking to verify the report.

11 February 2014 • 10:58 AMT
Hollywood star Shirley Temple dies at 85

The actress found fame as a child star in the 1930s in films like “Bright Eyes,” “Stand Up and Cheer” and “Curly Top.”

11 February 2014 • 10:54 AMT
Attack on army encampment leaves 15 Iraqi soldiers dead

Foreign leaders have urged the Shiite-led government to do more to reach out to the disaffected Sunni Arab minority.

11 February 2014 • 10:22 AMT
Berlusconi political corruption trial opens in Naples

Silvio Berlusconi remains an influential political force despite being stripped of his Senate seat for a tax fraud conviction last fall.

11 February 2014 • 09:39 AMT
Kazakh national currency devalued to prevent economy destabilization

The oil-rich Central Asian state will keep the tenge at a rate of 182-188 to the U.S. dollar, Kazakhstan’s National Bank said.

11 February 2014 • 09:21 AMT
IOC lifts India’s Olympic ban after new officials elected

Indian athletes have been competing at the Sochi Winter Games under the IOC flag but can now do so under their own.

11 February 2014 • 09:17 AMT
Johnny Depp, Tom Hardy to share screen in “Black Mass” crime drama

Mark Mallouk adapted the best-selling book “Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.”

11 February 2014 • 09:09 AMT
Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” to open Los Angeles-Italia Fest

The festival will include special tributes to Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo and noted actor Giuliano Gemma.

11 February 2014 • 09:03 AMT
Koreas to hold rare meeting of high-ranking officials: ministry

Park Geun-hye’s deputy adviser will lead a group of defense and security officials at the meeting at the truce village on the Korean border.

11 February 2014 • 08:59 AMT
Buyers line up for Bruce Willis, M. Night Shyamalan’s “Labor of Love”

“Labor of Love” stars Willis as a bookstore owner who honors his late wife by walking across the U.S.

11 February 2014 • 08:28 AMT
“Game of Thrones” star to replace Jason Statham in “Transporter” reboot

Ed Skrein is tapped to assume the role of non-nonsense driver Frank Martin who was portrayed by Jason Statham.

11 February 2014 • 08:04 AMT
Islamist militants claim kidnapping Red Cross workers in Mali

The crisis sparked by the conflict came on top of years of drought in the Sahel region that left 800,000 Malians relying on food aid.

11 February 2014 • 07:49 AMT
Israeli military strikes targets in Gaza after rocket attack

The military said its aircraft hit an underground rocket launcher and a “terror site” in separate parts of the coastal area.

11 February 2014 • 07:02 AMT
Armenian Kesaria and Cappadocia book released

This volume derives from one of the eighteen international conferences organized by Professor Hovannisian between 1997 and 2010.

11 February 2014 • 06:58 AMT
“Catfish” Sundance hit team to adapt “Nerve” sci-fi novel

The novel tells of a high school senior wallflower who, to broaden her horizons, joins a global online game of provocative truth or dare.

11 February 2014 • 06:48 AMT
HBO developing “A Teacher” indie into drama series

The possible series will similarly follow a 20-something high school teacher who’s having an affair with one of her students.

11 February 2014 • 06:28 AMT
“Don’t Mess With Texas” Reese Witherspoon comedy finds helmer

The script, by David Feeney and John Quaintance, follows a police officer and a prisoner who are on the run.

11 February 2014 • 06:24 AMT
Jennifer Aniston to topline “Cake” indie

Aniston will play an acerbic woman named Claire who becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group.

11 February 2014 • 06:23 AMT
ANCA issues open letter to state legislators about Azerbaijan

ANCA called to take a stand against foreign interference in American civic life by corrupt Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev.

11 February 2014 • 06:10 AMT
Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst in “The Two Faces of January” trailer

They play a couple, Chester and Colette, who flee their dark past and end up traveling as a trio after meeting a stranger while in Athens.

11 February 2014 • 06:02 AMT
Foreign Minister says Turkey close to normalization of ties with Israel

“We could say that most of the obstacles have been removed recently in these discussions,” Davutoğlu said in a televised interview.

11 February 2014 • 06:02 AMT
Jack Black, James Marsden teaming up for “The D-Train” comedy

The low-budget indie is the directorial debut of Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel, the writers of the 2008 Jim Carrey comedy “Yes Man.”

11 February 2014 • 05:30 AMT
France’s Hollande arrives in U.S. for state visit

Hollande will also travel to San Francisco and meet chiefs of Silicon Valley giants including Facebook, Twitter and Google.

10 February 2014 • 17:50 AMT
Egypt ratifies death sentences of 14 men convicted of attacks

The Monotheism and Jihad group was blamed for attacks on police, soldiers, and a bank near al-Arish, the provincial capital of North Sinai.

10 February 2014 • 17:39 AMT
Zuckerberg named top U.S. philanthropist in 2013

Funds have broadly been distributed to education and health, with $5m being distributed to a health clinic in East Palo Alto, for example.

10 February 2014 • 15:04 AMT
“Goya’s Ghosts” scribe Jean-Claude Carriere to pen “Aesop” feature

Pic, set in the fifth century B.C., will chronicle the rise and fall of Aesop, who lived among animals and became a slave.

10 February 2014 • 14:43 AMT
Envoy pledges active involvement of U.S. in Karabakh conflict settlement

A member of the Canadian House of Commons Jim Karygiannis issued a statement urging the Azeri government to respect the ceasefire.

10 February 2014 • 13:50 AMT
Iraq speaker escapes attack as 21 militants die in own bomb blast

One of Nujaifi’s bodyguards was wounded, a police captain and a medical source said, but the speaker himself escaped unharmed.

10 February 2014 • 13:45 AMT
Oscar winner Christoph Waltz to topline “Tulip Fever”

Waltz will star opposite Dane DeHaan and Alicia Vikander in the 17th century movie directed by Justin Chadwick.