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BELGRADE - Director of the Government Office for Reconstruction and Flood Relief Marko Blagojevic stated that only 300 reconstruction applications have been filed by 13 municipalities to the Office so far concerning the transfer of funds to citizens whose homes were damaged in the May floods.

BELGRADE - Director of the Government Office for Reconstruction and Flood Relief Marko Blagojevic stated that only 300 solutions have been filed by 13 municipalities to the Office so far concerning the transfer of funds to citizens whose homes were damaged in the May floods.

Universal Pictures said on Friday it has acquired worldwide rights to Angelina Jolie's next film project, "By the Sea," written and to be directed by the actress who will also co-star and co-produce the drama with partner Brad Pitt.
   

The union representing local authority workers, POE-OTA, is planning to protest outside the Administrative Reform Ministry in central Athens on Tuesday to mark one year since the first public servants were placed in a labor reserve scheme which led to some of them losing their jobs.

The rally will start at 12.30 p.m.

Questions from Senator John McCain apparently turned the June 15 testimony of John Bass, the ambassador-designate to Ankara, into a nightmare.

Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr. has announced on Wednesday that his wife, Susan, is pregnant with the couple’s second child. 

Robert Downey Jr., 49, is going to be a father for the third time. The actor and his second wife, Susan Downey, 40, are expecting their second child together — and it’s a baby girl. According to the tweet of Downey, the baby is due in November. 

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Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70.

Womack’s publicist Sonya Kolowrat said Friday that the singer had died, but she could provide no other details.

Michael Jackson fans will place flowers on his grave in Los Angeles this week to mark the fifth anniversary of his death, but half a decade on, the pop icon's financial fortunes are positively blooming.
      

Hollywood star Salma Hayek arrived on Sunday afternoon in Sofia, reports Nova TV. 

She is in Bulgaria for the shoot of the film Septembers of Shiraz, based on the award-winning eponymous novel by Dalia Sofer on the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.