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Yahoo! News: Europe News

France urges Israel not to attack Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:35 AM CDT

Reuters - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has urged Israel not to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday

EU Georgia monitors see sign of Russia pullback (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:27 AM CDT

Reuters - European Union monitors in Georgia observed the dismantling of a Russian checkpoint near breakaway South Ossetia in the "first open sign" of a promised pullback by October 10, an EU spokesperson said on Sunday.

Labour heading for electoral disaster: poll (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:21 AM CDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour party is set to lose more than half its MPs at the next election and hand control of parliament to the opposition Conservatives, a poll has found.(AFP/Gerard Cerles)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour party is set to lose more than half its MPs at the next election and hand control of parliament to the opposition Conservatives, a poll has said.

EU leaders to seek early release euro funds: Brown (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:16 AM CDT

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, German chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speak after a meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris. European leaders have agreed to ask for the early release of 32 billion euros in European funds to help small businesses weather the global finance crisis, Brown said Saturday.(AFP/Gerard Cerles)AFP - European leaders have agreed to ask for the early release of 32 billion euros (25 billion pounds) in European funds to help small businesses weather the global finance crisis, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.

Rice says US not trying to undermine Russia (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 02:54 AM CDT

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gestures during a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008. Rice arrived in the Indian capital Saturday to commemorate, but not sign, a historic deal that opens up U.S. nuclear trade with the Asian giant. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia.

Europe fights financial storm as bank deal collapses (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 01:09 AM CDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (centre), flanked by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (right). The leaders of Europe's four main economic powers vowed to protect fragile banks in their fight against the global credit crisis as the biggest rescue in German financial history collapsed.(AFP/Gerard Cerles)AFP - The leaders of Europe's four main economic powers vowed to protect fragile banks in their fight against the global credit crisis as the biggest rescue in German financial history collapsed.

Voting begins in Bosnia's local elections (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 12:35 AM CDT

Members of the recently established AFP - Voting started on Sunday in Bosnia's forth post-war local elections which are expected to confirm the dominance of the ruling nationalists.

Skydivers make unprecedented jump over Everest (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 12:27 AM CDT

Reuters - Three skydivers made the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest on Sunday, organisers and participants said, culminating years of preparation.

Turks, Kurdish rebels in worst clashes in 8 months (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 09:29 PM CDT

In this Feb. 23, 2008 file photo, Turkish soldiers search for mines as they patrol to secure a main road in Senoba, Sirnak, at the border with Iraq. Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq has killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, the military said in Ankara, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008, in the deadliest battle between the longtime enemies this year. (AP Photo / Burhan Ozbilici, File)AP - The Turkish army clashed with Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq in their deadliest battle in eight months, and the government vowed Saturday to fight the rebels at full force.

Ferguson demands Man Utd winning football run (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 07:38 PM CDT

Arsenal's midfielder Cesc Fabregas celebrates after heading a last minute goal during their Premier league football match against Sunderland at The Sadium Of Light in Sunderland. Fabregas claimed a vital injury-time equaliser as Arsenal escaped with a point from a dramatic 1-1 draw at Sunderland on Saturday.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Alex Ferguson demanded a lengthy winning streak from his Manchester United side to stop leaders Chelsea and Liverpool from stealing their English Premier League crown.

UK official: Taliban part of Afghan solution (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:47 PM CDT

German Bundeswehr army soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) get a briefing at the army base in Kunduz before leaving for a mission to Taloqan, west of Kunduz, October 5, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (AFGHANISTAN)AP - Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may well be part of a long-term solution for the country, the senior British commander in Afghanistan was quoted as saying Sunday.

EU leaders make vows not plans in face of crisis (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 05:39 PM CDT

From left to right, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet stand for a group photo during an emergency financial summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Saturday Oct. 4, 2008. The global financial crisis is forcing the leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Italy to come together for an emergency summit in Paris. But differences on how to respond to the economic turmoil could drive them apart. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)AP - Europe's four major powers vowed Saturday to do all they could to prevent Wall Street's turmoil from destabilizing their banking systems — even as a $48 billion plan to save a German lender fell apart.

Austrian police: Man sets in-laws on fire (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 12:40 PM CDT

AP - A man killed his parents-in-law by setting them on fire with a homemade flame-thrower, Austrian police said Saturday.

Georgian coast guard to train aboard US warship (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 11:46 AM CDT

European Union observers talk with a Georgian soldier at a checkpoint near the Georgian village of Xevtubani, some 10 kms outside Gori. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday ordered a tightening of security in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region after a bomb killed eight Russian soldiers amid tensions over a planned troop pull-back.(AFP/Vano Shlamov)AP - Georgian coast guard personnel began a weeklong training program Saturday aboard a U.S. destroyer in the Black Sea, a Georgian official said.

Italian troops deploy in crime-ridden town (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 10:46 AM CDT

An Italian Army 'Folgore' corps paratrooper, patrols the streets at a checkpoint in Castelvolturno, near Caserta, southern Italy, Saturday Oct. 4, 2008. Italian troops manned checkpoints and checked vehicles as they deployed Saturday in a crime-ridden, mob-plagued southern area where six Africans were gunned down last month. The soldiers total 500 and deployed in and around Caserta, a small town near Naples. The Camorra organized crime syndicate is based in the area. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)AP - Italian troops manned checkpoints and checked vehicles as they deployed Saturday in a crime-ridden, mob-plagued southern area of the country where six Africans were gunned down last month.

Israel: North Korea adds to Mideast proliferation (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:25 AM CDT

U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill, right, tries to get in a car after meeting with his South Korean counterpart Kim Sook, left, at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The chief U.S. envoy at six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament met with Kim Sook Friday after spending three days in the North trying to persuade it to resume dismantling its nuclear program. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of supplying at least half a dozen rogue Mideast regimes with nuclear technology or conventional arms. World powers, meanwhile, urged Pyongyang to stop reactivating its weapons-producing atomic program.

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