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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Economy facing 'worst downturn in 60 years': Darling (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 04:07 AM CDT

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling (seen here in July 2008) has warned the country is facing AFP - Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has warned the country is facing "arguably the worst" economic downturn in 60 years and says it will be "more profound and long-lasting" than people had expected.

Bombs kill at least 2 Russian soldiers in Chechnya (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 03:35 AM CDT

Reuters - At least two Russian soldiers have been killed in bombings in Chechnya, including a suicide attack on a government camp, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday.

Ince set for mixed reception at West Ham (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 03:27 AM CDT

West Ham's manager Alan Curbishley is pictured during their Premier League football match against Wigan at Upton Park, London, England, on August 16. West Ham have endured a mixed start. Despite defeating Wigan Athletic 2-1 in their first game, they were soundly beaten 3-0 at Manchester City last weekend after being reduced to 10 men following the first half dismissal of Mark Noble.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Blackburn's Paul Ince admits his first trip back to West Ham United as a manager is the game of the season for him.

Wenger's anger gets Arsenal firing (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 03:25 AM CDT

Arsenal players celebrate scoring during their third round, 2nd leg, UEFA Champions League qualifier match against FC Twente at the Emirates Stadium, London on August 27. Arsene Wenger might be one of the Premier League's elder statesmen, but any thoughts that age had dulled his fierce intensity were dispelled at a stroke last week.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Arsene Wenger might be one of the Premier League's elder statesmen, but any thoughts that age had dulled his fierce intensity were dispelled at a stroke last week.

Italy-Libya set to turn page on colonial-era disputes (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 03:18 AM CDT

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi speaks during a meeting in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on August 28. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is heading to Libya to sign an accord aimed at resolving colonial era disputes that have long soured relations between Rome and Tripoli.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is due in Libya on Saturday to sign an accord aimed at resolving colonial era disputes that have long troubled relations between Rome and Tripoli.

Basque separatist leader Otegi freed from jail (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 02:19 AM CDT

Former leader of Batasuna, the banned political wing of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, Arnaldo Otegi addresses journalists after leaving the Martutene prison in the northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian, on August 30. Otegi was released from jail after spending just over a year behind bars.(AFP/Rafa Rivas)AFP - Arnaldo Otegi, the former leader of Batasuna, the banned political wing of armed Basque separatist group ETA, was released from jail Saturday after spending just over a year behind bars.

Australian police clear Indian doctor of involvement in terror (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 01:54 AM CDT

Indian doctor, Mohamed Haneef, at a press conference in Bangalore in early August. Australian police have cleared Haneef of involvement in failed bomb attacks in Britain last year after a bungled 14-month probe(AFP/File/Dibyangshu Sarkar)AFP - Australian police have cleared an Indian doctor of involvement in failed bomb attacks in Britain last year after a bungled 14-month probe that is now the subject of a judicial inquiry.

China traces dumpling poisoning to factory (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 01:22 AM CDT

Reuters - A row over pesticide-laced Chinese dumplings has moved a step closer to a settlement after China told Japan that a factory worker was probably to blame, NHK public television said on Saturday.

Allianz says is in talks to sell Dresdner Bank (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 09:58 PM CDT

Dresdner Bank offices pictured in Frankfurt. The German insurance giant is in AFP - German insurance giant Allianz is in "advanced talks" on the future of its Dresdner Bank unit, "that may or may not lead to a deal," it said Friday in a brief statement to financial markets.

Dollar firms against euro on hope for US rate hike (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 05:16 PM CDT

A US dollar note and a UK sterling note. At the end of a bad week for sterling, the pound took advantage of a slightly weaker dollar to recover some of this week's losses.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The dollar firmed against the euro Friday, bolstered by rising US inflation that stirred speculation the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.

UK official gets more time in Guantanamo case (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 05:07 PM CDT

The sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base. Two detainees at the Guantanamo war-on-terror jail were recently transferred to Algeria, the US Department of Defense said Tuesday, adding that about 260 people are still being held at the facility.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - A British court on Friday gave Foreign Secretary David Miliband a week to justify his decision to suppress secret documents that lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee argue could prove their client was tortured in Morocco.

Polish PM: nothing to fear over base (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 04:59 PM CDT

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, speaks with Gen. Mieczyslaw Stachowiak from the Polish Army in front of a half opened former air force hangar at the site where a U.S. missile defense base is to be constructed, in Redzikowo, northern Poland, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Tusk came to Redzikowo and nearby town Slupsk to answer local community's concerns over their security once the base starts to operate. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - Poland's prime minister sought to reassure worried residents near the site of a planned U.S. missile defense base on Friday, pledging that they and the country would be more secure, despite threats from an angry Russia.

France: No EU sanctions against Russia imminent (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 04:27 PM CDT

AP - The European Union is not expected to imposed sanctions on Russia at a summit next week but may name a special envoy to Georgia to ensure that a cease-fire there is observed, officials in Paris and Brussels said Friday.

AP IMPACT: Georgians uprooted in South Ossetia (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 03:55 PM CDT

Ethnic Ossetian Yekaterina Doguzova, 70, reacts, at the place of temporary grave of her son Lenya Doguzov, 46, in a fruit garden near her house, in Ksuisi village, 20 km East from Tskhinvali, near South-Ossetian- Georgian border Georgia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. The war between Russia and Georgia has caused the worst rift between Russia and the West since the Cold War. But it has also pitted neighbor against neighbor in this region of mountain slopes and fruit orchards, home to two ethnic groups who have lived side by side for centuries. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - After Georgian soldiers stormed South Ossetia and killed Vitaly Guzitayev's friend, he hid in the woods. Once the Georgians left, he set fire to the elegant brick homes of ethnic Georgians who lived nearby.

Europeans: Obama's speech a strong performance (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 12:04 PM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., with his vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., talk on the tarmac before they board the plane at the airport in Denver Friday, Aug. 29, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Europeans on Friday greeted Barack Obama's acceptance of the U.S. Democratic nomination as a strong performance that boosted his campaign and went beyond mere show to offer a clearer picture of what he might do as president.

Anne Frank museum restores fading photo collage (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 11:35 AM CDT

In this hand out image made available Friday Aug. 29, 2008, Postcards of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, top right, Princess Margaret, bottom right and a 1943 photo of the Dutch Royal family in exile in Ottawa, Canada, are seen on the wall above Anne Franks' desk, in The Secret Annex at the Anne Frank House museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker says it has restored 52 photographs of celebrities that the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. The museum says the fading photographs and wallpaper will now be safe for at least several decades without further intervention. Bekker said that the photos, have been placed behind climate-controlled glass. The photos were removed in October 2007 for the restoration, and facsimiles hung in their place until last month. (AP Photo/ Anne Frank house Museum, HO)AP - The Anne Frank House museum said Friday it has restored 52 photographs and images the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while hiding from the Nazis.

Spain: airline considered switching planes (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 10:38 AM CDT

A helicopter flies over the site where a Spanair jetliner skidded off the runway at Madrid's airport on August 20, 2008. Spanair had considered transferring passengers to another aircraft after detecting a fault in the plane that crashed this month, but ultimately decided against it, the government said Friday.(AFP/File/Dani Pozo)AP - The airline involved in last week's plane disaster in Madrid considered switching aircraft at the last minute because of a mechanical problem but ultimately went ahead with the plane that ended up crashing, a government minister said Friday.

Ancient gold treasure puzzles Greek archaeologists (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 10:10 AM CDT

In this hand out image provided by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Friday. Aug. 29, 2008, a 2,300-year-old gold wreath among human bones in a water-logged gold jar found is seen. Archaeologists say the discovery, at the ancient city of Aigai in northern Greece, is very important due to the richness of the artifacts and the unusual circumstances in which they were buried. The finds appear to have been removed from a grave and concealed under the marketplace of Aigai, the heart of the ancient city. (AP Photo/ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, HO)AP - A priceless gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Greece, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that workers initially took for a land mine.

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