2008年10月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Struggling Iceland takes control of third bank (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:21 AM CDT

AP - Iceland's government took control of the country's largest bank Thursday as it struggled to prevent an all-out collapse in its overweight banking system.

Brown urges Europe to follow suit with bank rescue plan (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:20 AM CDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves 10 Downing Street in London on October 8. The government's massive bank rescue plan has been broadly welcomed, as Brown urged European counterparts to follow suit to help begin thawing the global credit freeze.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - The government's massive bank rescue plan was broadly welcomed Thursday, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged European counterparts to follow suit to help begin thawing the global credit freeze.

Councils call for savings guarantee for Icelandic deposits (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:08 AM CDT

A man walks past a branch of the Icelandic bank Glitnir in Reykjavik on October 8. Local authorities have appealed to the government to guarantee hundreds of millions of pounds of their savings invested in moribund Icelandic banks.(AFP/Olivier Morin)AFP - Local authorities appealed to the government Wednesday to guarantee hundreds of millions of pounds of their savings invested in moribund Icelandic banks.

Belgium, France, Luxembourg to cover Dexia loans (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:07 AM CDT

A man leaves a branch of Dexia bank in Brussels Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008. The French and Belgian governments have appointed a former aide to French President Nicolas Sarkozy as the new CEO of bailed-out lender Dexia SA. Pierre Mariani will take over from Axel Miller, who resigned last week after Dexia was forced to ask for a government rescue when its shares plummeted over fears it could not cover huge losses at its U.S. investment arm.(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - The governments of France, Belgium and Luxembourg announced Thursday they will give struggling lender Dexia SA a yearlong guarantee on its new loans and deposits, sending the company's shares soaring.

Hamilton 'strong and ready' for F1 title run-in (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:57 AM CDT

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton (left) and teammate Heikki Kovalainen of Finland in Tokyo. Hamilton has said he is in a far stronger position this year than last as he approaches the final races of the Formula One season.(AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Drivers world championship leader Lewis Hamilton said Thursday he is in a far stronger position this year than last as he approaches the final races of the Formula One season.

Nobel literature: Will an American win after all? (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:29 AM CDT

This is a Oct.13, 2005 file photo of the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl, about to announce the winner of the Nobel Prize 2005 Most years the big questions before the announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature are whether it will go to a man or woman, poet or novelist. But before Thursday Oct. 9, 2008 award, the question on many minds is whether the winner will be an American. Speculation has soared after committee member and permanent secretary Horace Engdahl told The Associated Press last week that the United States is too insular and ignorant to challenge Europe as the center of the literary world. (AP Photo / Henrik Montgomery, file)AP - Most years the big questions preceding the Nobel Prize in literature are, will it be a man or woman, poet or novelist?

Rhys murder trial to start (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:18 AM CDT

A handout photograph of 11-year-old Rhys Jones who was shot dead in Liverpool last August. The trial of the teenager accused of murdering Rhys is set to start. Sean Mercer, 18, denies murder.(AFP/HO/File/Merseyside Police)AFP - The trial of a teenager accused of murdering 11-year Rhys Jones in Liverpool last year is set to start on Thursday.

German trade surplus falls to 10.6 billion euros in August: Destatis (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:02 AM CDT

A container crane loads a cargo ship at the harbour of the northern German city of Hamburg. Germany's trade surplus has contracted in August as the pace of exports fell faster than that of imports, figures released have shown.(DDP/AFP/File/Roland Magunia)AFP - Germany's trade surplus contracted in August as the pace of exports fell faster than that of imports, figures released on Thursday by the national statistics office showed.

NATO mulls expanding its drug role in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:55 AM CDT

Hungarian Defense Minister Imre Szekeres, left, and his U.S. counterpart Robert Gates, right, with their delegates including American Ambassador to Hungary April H. Foley, 2nd right, have talks in Marriott Hotel, venue of the forthcoming two-day NATO defence ministers' meeting in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The meeting will start on Oct. 9 and will be attended by defence ministers of 42 countries, in addition to 700 foreign guests. (AP Photo/MTI, Szilard Koszticsak, Pool)AP - The United States on Thursday will push NATO allies to order their troops to target Afghanistan's thriving heroin trade in a bid to stem the flow of drug money to the widening insurgency against the troubled international military mission.

Iceland bank crisis 'costs entrepreneur £1bln' (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:53 AM CDT

A branch of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing in Rejkjavik. The Financial Times has reported that Britain-based entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz lost one billion pounds in 24 hours as the Icelandic banking crisis forced him to offload big stakes in British groups.(AFP/Olivier Morin)AFP - Britain-based entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz lost one billion pounds in 24 hours as the Icelandic banking crisis forced him to offload big stakes in British groups, the Financial Times said Thursday.

Ukraine's president sets date for new election (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:46 AM CDT

AP - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko decreed a Dec. 7 date for early elections Thursday after dissolving parliament.

Gayoom headed for likely runoff in Maldives (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:09 AM CDT

The first-ever democratic presidential election in the Maldives looked set to go into a second round after Asia's longest-serving leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (right) apparently failed to deliver a knock-out blow to his rivals.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)AP - President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appeared headed for a runoff against a former political prisoner who leads the main opposition in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election, according to poll results announced Thursday.

IOC to retest doping samples from Beijing (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:13 PM CDT

At left, in a July 26, 2008 file photo, IOC vice president Thomas Bach speaks in Berlin. At right, in a March 5, 2008 file photo, Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme is shown at a news conference in London. The International Olympic Committee will retest all doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-boosting drug. The unprecedented move, announced Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008, is designed to search for a banned substance that was only recently detected during retesting of samples from the Tour de France. 'It's very good. It allows us to confound the cheaters,' Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme said. IOC vice president Thomas Bach said that the future of men's road cycling in the Olympics could be threatened unless the sport cleans up its act under the aegis of the international cycling union, or UCI. (AP Photo/Files)AP - Any athletes who thought they got away with doping at the Beijing Olympics shouldn't rest easy. The drug police are coming back.

Austrian Social Democrats asked to form government (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:59 PM CDT

AP - The biggest winner in Austria's elections got the president's approval Wednesday to begin forming a coalition government that they have promised will exclude the country's powerful far-right parties.

NATO to meet as Afghan war effort founders (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:31 PM CDT

Gen. David Petraeus speaks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - When NATO defense ministers meet in Budapest on Thursday, they will face a worsening situation in Afghanistan and vexing questions about whether the war can be won.

Libya again stops oil deliveries to Switzerland (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:44 PM CDT

AP - Libya's state-owned oil company said that it stopped crude deliveries to Switzerland on Wednesday, three months after the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva sparked a diplomatic crisis.

World peacemakers offer support for Cyprus talks (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:44 PM CDT

Elders member Archbishop Desmond Tutu, right, talks with schoolchildren at the UN buffer zone in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. Tutu, along with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived to the island to lend their support to relaunched talks to reunify the war-divided island. They lauded Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat for their expressed commitment to seek a settlement to the decades-old dispute. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other international leaders voiced their support Wednesday for peace talks to reunify war-divided Cyprus.

Laureates: Financial crisis may hit AIDS funding (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:32 PM CDT

Winners of the Nobel Prize of medicine French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, left, and Luc Montagnier speaks to reporters after their meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008.Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier of France were cited for their discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 1983 and with Germany's Harald zur Hausen, who found that certain human papilloma viruses (HPV) cause cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women worldwide.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - Two French researchers who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the AIDS virus are voicing fears that the world financial crisis will hurt funding to fight the disease.

UN votes to ask for court opinion on Kosovo (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 01:36 PM CDT

AP - The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday approved a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice to provide a formal opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence.

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