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09 October 2013 • 09:11 AMT
Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan to star in “V for Vendetta” helmer’s “Survivor”

Jovovich plays a State Department employee newly posted to the American embassy in London, where she is charged with stopping terrorists.

09 October 2013 • 08:41 AMT
Rome Fest to posthumously honor Russian helmer Aleksey German

The festival also grouped German with Andrei Tarkovsky and Alksandr Sokurov as part of a “Russian trinity” that revolutionized Russian cinema.

09 October 2013 • 07:09 AMT
U.S. leaning toward withholding most military aid to Egypt: report

The United States has long provided Egypt with about $1.55 billion in annual aid, including $1.3 billion in military assistance.

09 October 2013 • 07:01 AMT
MI5 chief warns of Islamist threat to British public

Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Pakistan and Yemen present “the most direct and immediate threats to the UK,” Parker said.

09 October 2013 • 06:31 AMT
Obama to nominate Janet Yellen as first woman to lead Fed

Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama said he has concerns about her “proclivity to print money” and her record as a bank regulator.

09 October 2013 • 06:28 AMT
Afghanistan not ready for NATO-led forces withdrawal: Lavrov

“The closer the date of withdrawal is, the more evidence we have that Afghan security forces are not going to be ready,” he said.

09 October 2013 • 06:19 AMT
Shia LaBeouf in “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman” trailer

The film was premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later screened in competition at the 63rd Berlin Int’l Film Festival.

09 October 2013 • 06:00 AMT
Oil prices fall after IMF lowers global growth forecast

Failure to lift the ceiling by the Oct 17 deadline will mean the government is unable to pay its bills or service its debts.

09 October 2013 • 05:51 AMT
Samsung launches world’s first smartphone with curved display

The phone initially would be available only in South Korea and no decision had been made about releasing it in other markets.

09 October 2013 • 05:44 AMT
Drafthouse Films nabs “Ms. 45” Abel Ferrara cult revenge thriller

The vision of Lund packing a pistol in a nun’s habit in the film’s bloody Halloween night scene became an iconic moment in exploitation cinema.

09 October 2013 • 05:28 AMT
Anthony Hopkins to topline “Kidnapping Freddy Heineken” thriller

Daniel Alfredson – who directed the original 2009 Swedish film version of “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and its sequel – will helm.

09 October 2013 • 05:22 AMT
Obama urges Republicans to ‘lift threats’ against economy

At the White House, Obama said he spoke to Boehner and was “happy to talk with him and other Republicans about anything”.

08 October 2013 • 20:09 AMT
Italy’s President calls for amnesty to ease overcrowding in prisons

Giorgio Napolitano said his critics were obsessed with one topic and did not care about the country’s true problems.

08 October 2013 • 18:34 AMT
Microsoft announces big update to Skype for Android

The new version brings “all the quality and performance advancements that the total rewrite of version 4.0 brought to phone users.”

08 October 2013 • 18:01 AMT
Some Samsung gadgets can be banned in U.S.

A U.S. official overseeing the patent row has now rejected Samsung’s appeal, meaning the ban will come into force.

08 October 2013 • 17:43 AMT
Alcatel-Lucent to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide

Other government officials acknowledged measures were needed to save the group in which France has a 3 percent stake.

08 October 2013 • 17:10 AMT
Britain, Iran move towards reopening embassies

William Hague, the UK foreign secretary, revealed to MPs that talks with the Iranian government took place last week.

08 October 2013 • 14:35 AMT
Exchange of civilities: Armenia, EU to expand ties in line with CU accession

Nalbandian: Armenia seeks to develop cooperation with the EU based on the progress in bilateral ties achieved over the last years.

08 October 2013 • 14:33 AMT
IMF trims forecast for global economic growth

Overall, it predicts growth will fall 0.4% this year, an improvement of 0.1% on its July prediction, and grow 1% next year.

08 October 2013 • 14:20 AMT
OPCW to send more chemical weapons inspectors to Syria

Ahmet Uzumcu, said in a statement Syria had made “a constructive beginning for what will nonetheless be a long and difficult process”.

08 October 2013 • 14:12 AMT
Christian Bale, Casey Affleck in “Out of the Furnace” drama trailer

The movie follows a man who gets involved with a crime ring and mysteriously disappears, leading his brother to try to find out what happened to him.

08 October 2013 • 13:52 AMT
Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig in “Secret Life of Walter Mitty” comedy trailer

Stiller plays the lead role as an office worker who lives a boring life in New York, where he has no courage to talk to his crush.

08 October 2013 • 13:28 AMT
Armenia posts 18,5% state budget income increase

Armenia’s state budget income for January-August 2013 totaled AMD 696,3 bn to provide 88,4 -percentile implementation of a govt. program.

08 October 2013 • 13:03 AMT
Higgs boson theory scientists win Nobel Prize in physics

The mechanism predicts a particle – the Higgs boson – which was finally discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

08 October 2013 • 12:41 AMT
Paper chief editor urges legal status for Istanbul’s Armenian Patriarchate

In late September, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled a long-anticipated package of reforms.

08 October 2013 • 12:14 AMT
Egypt may install security cameras at tourist sites

“We expected all these problems because we are in a war against terrorism,” Interior Ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif said.

08 October 2013 • 12:11 AMT
Turkey returning land to Syriac monastery

The conflict over Mor Gabriel began when land officials redrew the boundaries around the monastery and surrounding villages.

08 October 2013 • 11:50 AMT
Kerry meets briefly with Russian, Chinese Presidents

An American official traveling with Kerry said the Secretary of State spoke with Russian President Putin for about 15 minutes.

08 October 2013 • 11:45 AMT
Jennifer Lawrence to reunite with Gary Ross for “Burial Rites”

“Burial Rites” is the story of a woman sent to an isolated farm while she awaits execution for murdering her former employer in 1829.

08 October 2013 • 11:27 AMT
New Armenian church to be consecrated in Yekaterinburg

The church construction was sponsored by Masis Nazaryan, the head of Sverdlovsk-based Ani-Hayastan NGO.