Aún faltan siete meses para su estreno y ”Crepúsculo La Saga: Eclipse” ha comenzado a batir récords, pues será la primera secuela con tan poco tiempo de diferencia entre su predecesora.
Prevista a estrenarse el 30 de junio de 2010, la tercera entrega de la exitosa saga basada en los libros de Stephanie Meyer, continua con los acontecimientos de “Luna Nueva”, la cual fue estrenada mundialmente el 20 de noviembre de este año.
ITALY-KNOX FALLOUT. Italy: No issues with US over Knox verdict.
¶ ROME _ The murder conviction of U.S. student Amanda Knox in an Italian court has angered many Americans, amid suggestions that the verdict was tainted by anti-American sentiments and negligence by investigators. It has even stirred fears of possible diplomatic repercussions between the two allied nations. By Alessandra Rizzo. Ap Photos.
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¶ GREECE-RIOTS ANNIVERSARY. Greek youths riot in Athens for 2nd day.
¶ ATHENS, Greece _ Masked youths smashed store windows and hurled rocks and firebombs at riot police who responded with tear gas Monday in a second day of violence during commemorations of last year’s fatal police shooting of a teenager. By Nicholas Paphitis. Ap Photos.
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¶ IRAQ
¶ BAGHDAD _ An explosion outside an elementary school in a Shiite district of Baghdad kills at least eight people, as Iraqi officials consider delaying national elections until at least February. By Chelsea J. Carter. AP Photos.
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¶ PARAGUAY-PEOPLE’S ARMY. Paraguay’s US-equipped police hunt kidnappers.
¶ ASUNCION, Paraguay _ Hundreds of special forces agents armed with recently donated U.S. anti-terror equipment are searching Paraguay’s lawless north, hoping to rescue a wealthy rancher whose kidnapping has been seized upon by opponents bent on challenging Fernando Lugo’s presidency. By Michael Warren. AP Photos.
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¶ US-AFGHANISTAN. US says bin Laden sometimes slips into Afghanistan.
¶ WASHINGTON _ Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden may periodically slip back into Afghanistan from his remote hideout in neighboring Pakistan, a senior White House official says, adding a new twist to the mystery of the elusive terrorist’s whereabouts. By Robert Burns. AP Photos.
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¶ US-HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL
¶ WASHINGTON _ The Senate Democratic leader says the end is in sight on passage of a sweeping health care overhaul. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says that presidents and lawmakers have tried for some 70 years to remake the nation’s health care system.
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¶ PEARL HARBOR ANNIVERSARY
¶ PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii _ Retired firefighter Ed Johann was a teenage apprentice seaman on Dec. 7, 1941, when he spotted Japanese planes coming in over Pearl Harbor.The 86-year-old is due to return Monday to Pearl Harbor for the first time since World War II to attend a ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. naval base that pulled America into the war.
By Audrey McAvoy. AP Photos.
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¶ ITALY-LA SCALA. Barenboim conducts ‘Carmen’ at La Scala
¶ MILAN _ Daniel Barenboim conducts Bizet’s “Carmen” in La Scala’s highly anticipated season premiere. The gala season opener evening stars German tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Don Jose and 25-year-old Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, just a year out of La Scala’s academy, in the title role as Carmen. By Colleen Barry.
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¶ WORLD MARKETS
¶ LONDON _ European stock markets fall as the dollar jumps to a five week high against the euro amid improved expectations about the pace of recovery in the world’s largest economy. By Pan Pylas. AP Photos.
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¶ US-BAILOUT COSTS. Administration to slash bailout cost estimate.
¶ WASHINGTON _ The Obama administration will lose $200 billion less than expected from the federal bailout program and is looking at using part of the savings to fund new job creation efforts. By Martin Crutsinger.
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¶ BRITAIN-PREBUDGET PREVIEW. UK looks to high earners to pay price of recovery.
¶ LONDON _ The British government is likely to slug high earners with more taxes to pay the cost of economic recovery in a major budgetary report this week that will stake out its position ahead of the country’s next general election. By Jane Wardell.
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¶ BRITAIN-KRAFT-CADBURY. Cadbury to respond to Kraft offer next week.
¶ LONDON _ Cadbury PLC says it plans to publish its formal response to a 9.8 billion pound ($16.3 billion) hostile takeover offer from Kraft Foods Inc. on Dec. 14.
¶ Kraft, the maker of Oreo cookies, Nabisco crackers and its namesake cheese, took the offer straight to shareholders of the British candy company on Friday. By Jane Wardell.
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¶ GERMANY-DAIMLER. Daimler reports 16 pct increase in Nov car sales
La vida de Bella será puesta en peligro por un ser que busca venganza y que desata una serie de misteriosos asesinatos en el poblado de Forks, Washington.
Mientras se prepara para su graduación, la protagonista, encarnada por Kristen Stewart, deberá además eligir entre el amor de Edward (Robert Pattinson) y la amistad Jacob (Taylor Lautner), decisión que podría desatar una campal batalla entre vampiro y hombres lobos.
Al ya conocido elenco se suman Bryce Dallas Howard y la niña Jodelle Ferland, a quien pudimos ver en la versión cinematográfica del popular videojuego “Silent Hill”.
Para hacer menos agonizante la cuenta regresiva les dejamos el primer póster teaser de la cinta.
