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Microsoft Xbox 360 Fans in Asia Get Price Cut in September

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

The console wars continue as Microsoft follows a U.S. price cut on its Xbox 360 Elite console with cuts in the Asia-Pacific region. Sony recently reduced the price of its console, the PlayStation 3.
– Although consumers will be able to pick up Microsofts Xbox 360 gaming console for a lower price come this weekend, gamers in the Asia-Pacific region will have to wait a little while longer. Microsoft said consumers in that region can expect lower-priced Xbox 360 models starting Sept. 10, which the c…



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Ellen Pompeo’s baby shower at Katherine Heigl’s house

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Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo celebrated the joy’s of giving life and got some gifts at her baby shower yesterday.
The shower was hosted by her Grey’s Anatomy co-star and friend Katherine Heigl, and was attended by her close friends.
Guests included Ellen’s husband Chris Ivery, actresses Kate Walsh and Sandra Oh, and Eric Dane and Rebecca [...]

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Carrie Underwod remembers where she came from

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Carrie Underwood is arguably the best singer to come out of American idol, and has enjoyed huge success on the country charts.
The 26 year old singer decided to share some of that by donating musical instruments to her old high school in her hometown of Checotah, Oklahoma.
Underwood donated over $117,000 in music instruments to Checotah [...]

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Kim Kardashian’s crazy Hairdo

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Kim Kardashian is the next cover girl for YRBMagazine, and is sporting an intense old school bowl cut and makeup to match.
The reality star, who may or may not be rekindling her love with NFL player Reggie Bush, wrote on her blog saying “This has got to be one of the most unique shoots I’ve [...]

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Weekend Box office dominated by horror!

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This weekend’s box office was dominated by horror!
There was a head to head match up of two very successful horror movie franchises: The Final Destination franchise, and the Halloween franchise.
The winner this weekend, however, belonged to the Final Destination frranchises 3D film, The Final Destination, which is the weekends number one movie. Although the Halloween [...]

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K. Albanians “pressuring EULEX”

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Disputes between the west and Kosovo over the EU mission “indicate a growing security challenge” for both, Stratfor think-tank writes. The agency refers in its analysis to ethnic Albanian Self-Determination Movement and its leader Albin Kurti as “the leader of a Kosovo nationalist nongovernmental organization”, and quotes his statement that demonstrations against EULEX would continue.

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Railways chief announces “modernization”

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Serbia needs some EUR 4.6bn to modernize 770 kilometers of the Corridor 10 railroad, Serbian Railways General Director Milovan Marković says. “The reconstruction and modernization of that part means modern two-track railroads for mixed passenger and freight traffic, with projected speeds of 160 to 200 kmph,” he told Beta news agency.

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Four arrested in Kosovo had terror ties?

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Four persons arrested in Prizren on illegal possession of arms and causing general danger charges faced an investigative judge yesterday. Kosovo police, KPS, spokesman Arber Beka told Tanjug on Saturday that all four were Albanians, one of them a citizen of the United States.

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Murder investigation “will impact Ukraine election”

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Ukraine’s president says finding those who ordered the killing of prominent independent journalist Heorhiy Gongadze is a crucial issue for the whole society. Talking to journalists on August 28, Viktor Yushchenko said that finding and punishing all of those who organized the killing of Gongadze would show that “the law in this country is equal for everyone.”

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Serb KPS commander “under investigation”

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Kosovo police, KPS, opened an investigation of northern Kosovska Mitrovica station commander Milija MiloÅ¡ević, reports said. “The General Directorate of the KPS has started an evaluation of work of our members in the police station in the north of [Kosovska] Mitrovica, in relation to the actions in BrÄ‘ani in the past several days,” said spokesman Arber Beka, quoted by PriÅ¡tina’s Albanian language daily Koha Ditore.

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Tadić on Serbia’s “four pillars of diplomacy”

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President Boris Tadić says that Serbia has four pillars of foreign policy: EU, Russia, U.S. and China. In an interview for Belgrade daily Politika, Tadić said that the principal goal of that policy remains joining the EU, and that “strategic partnerships” with America, Russia and China “are not getting in the way of that goal”.

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7 found dead at U.S. trailer park

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The person responsible for a massacre at a Georgia trailer park may be one of the seven dead, the police chief said Saturday. Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said investigators had no suspect 12 hours after a relative found the bodies in a single-wide trailer at the New Hope Plantation mobile home park near Brunswick, The Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville reported.

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International Day of Disappeared marked

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

The International Committee of the Red Cross data shows that 15,655 people are still listed as missing from the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. The International Commission for the Missing Persons (ICMP), based in Bosnia, said on the occasion of International Day of Disappeared marked this Sunday, that 40,000 people are estimated to have disappeared in the wars in former Yugoslavia, 30,000 of those in Bosnia.

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Albanian NGOs on “territory exchange”

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Exchange of territory in the region would be to the detriment of Albanians, a gathering in Skopje, Macedonia, heard. The event brought together 20 ethnic Albanian NGOs from across the region.

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Four dead in traffic accidents

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Serbian police (MUP) said that four people died in 179 traffic accidents in Serbia on Saturday. 80 were also injured in the accidents.

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U.S. Senator Kennedy buried near brothers

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Brought to Arlington National Cemetery to be buried close to his slain brothers, Edward Kennedy has completed his final journey. For the late US Senator’s family, it was the end of a day of high emotions – a day when Barack Obama hailed what he called Kennedy’s “historic body of achievements” and “his giving heart.”

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Karzai increases lead in Afghan election

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Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai’s lead increase to 46 percent in the latest batch of results released by the country’s Independent Election Commission. That is still below the more than 50 percent he will need to avoid a runoff election with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.

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4,000 missing persons on commission’s list

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Of some 16,000 people missing in the Western Balkans, around 4,000 are on the Serbian government’s Commission for the Missing Persons list. This is according to Commission President Veljko Odalović, who on Friday in Belgrade also said that “even though there is a large number of people whose destiny was not revealed, the process of exhumation and identification has come to a serious halt in the past two years”.

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“Central priority Serbia closer to EU”

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The central strategic priority of this government is to bring Serbia closer to the EU membership, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić has stated. “There is no doubt that central strategic priority of this government is to bring Serbia closer to the EU membership. Our foreign policy efforts clearly show that,” Jeremić said in an interview published by Belgrade daily Blic on Saturday.

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Dinkić sees elections in 2012

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Ruling G17 Plus leader MlaÄ‘an Dinkić says he is convinced that changes to the Law on Information will be adopted and that Serbia is “very far from elections”. “It seems that we are very far from elections. I’m convinced that soon gradual recovery of the economy will start, we except big investments in the coming years, visa cancelling for travel to the EU. The worst is behind us. If the government manages the next couple of months, we will have elections in the regular slot in 2012,” he told daily Večenje Novosti.

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