2008年11月12日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

BoE says inflation to fall below 2 pct target (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:37 AM CST

AP - The Bank of England said Wednesday it expects inflation to fall to the government's target of 2 percent next year, but warned that inflation would then continue falling to well below that level as the economy contracts further.

Europe stocks down on signs of global slump (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:29 AM CST

Chart shows performance of stock markets around the world;AP - European stocks were mostly lower Wednesday, with investors still hurting from Tuesday's heavy losses, and as earnings reports and economic data showed the global gloom is thickening.

Spain: Iberia profits plummet (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:29 AM CST

AP - Spanish airline Iberia said Wednesday its 3rd-quarter profits plummeted 80 percent to 30.4 million euros ($38.8 million) compared to the same period of 2007, as international economic slowdown sapped demand.

German economy will grind to halt in 2009, say experts (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:18 AM CST

A view of downtown Frankfurt's financial centre, October 2008. A blue-ribbon panel of experts has said that German economic growth will grind to a halt next year, raising doubts about Berlin's plans to shield Europe's biggest economy from the global turmoil.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - A blue-ribbon panel of experts said on Wednesday that German economic growth will grind to a halt next year, raising doubts about Berlin's plans to shield Europe's biggest economy from the global turmoil.

EU backs proposed Alitalia takeover (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:18 AM CST

AP - The European Union's transport chief says he approves the proposed takeover of bankrupt Alitalia airline but insists it must repay a 300 million-euro ($380 million) rescue loan to the Italian state.

Report: Kremlin rejects US missile defense (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:17 AM CST

AP - Russian news agencies say the Kremlin is rejecting U.S. proposals for missile defense cooperation, calling them inadequate.

Russia rejects U.S. missile proposals (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:17 AM CST

Reuters - Russia has rejected U.S. proposals on a missile defense system that Washington plans to deploy in Europe, Itar-Tass news agency quoted an unidentified Kremlin source as saying Wednesday.

EU levies largest ever cartel fine on glass makers (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:07 AM CST

AP - The European Union has imposed its highest ever cartel fines of more than 1.3 billion euros ($1.66 billion) on four companies for fixing the price of glass used in cars.

European stocks rally despite pall of global gloom (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 04:42 AM CST

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown at his monthly press conference inside 10 Downing Street, London. Calling for strong joint action to hold off a global recession Brown has said: AFP - A technical rebound on European markets after another round of heavy losses provided some cheer Wednesday but continued weakness on the corporate front, with poor results from finance companies, kept the tone cautious.

German economy expected to stagnate in 2009 (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 04:40 AM CST

AP - Growth in Germany will slow to a standstill next year in the wake of the global financial crisis, the government's independent panel of economic advisers forecast Wednesday.

US soldier to face court martial over Iraqi deaths (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 04:12 AM CST

AP - A U.S. Army sergeant accused of involvement in the killing of four Iraqi prisoners is facing a court martial.

Postwar Bosnia's surprising export: peacekeepers (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 01:43 AM CST

Bosnian Army soldiers Edin Ahmetovic, left, Slobodan Misanovic, center, and Pero Budimir , right, practice for future peacekeeping operation in Army barracks near Bosnian town of Tuzla, north of Sarajevo, on Monday Nov. 3, 2008. It took 60,000 NATO troops to force Bosnians to stop shooting at each other. Now, the three former rivals Muslim Bosniak, a Roman Catholic Croat and a Christian Orthodox Serb are training together as they prepare for voluntary duty as peacekeepers in other crisis areas around the world. They are unlikely peacekeepers, if only because Bosnia itself is still patrolled by 2,100 foreign troops determined to keep the peace amid deeply ingrained ethnic tensions that have festered since the country's 1992-95 war.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - It took 60,000 NATO troops to force Bosnians like Edin Ahmetovic, Pero Budimir and Slobodan Misanovic to stop shooting at each other.

Britain to NATO members: help more in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 05:44 PM CST

AP - British and U.S. officials urged other NATO members Tuesday to send more troops to Afghanistan, saying the alliance's success there required a more equal sharing of the war burden.

British girl allowed to refuse heart transplant (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:53 PM CST

AP - Hannah Jones, 13, is not afraid of dying — she is afraid of spending her remaining days in a hospital bed.

French town honors last US soldier killed in WWI (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:48 PM CST

AP - One minute before the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I took its last American victim.

Rwandan president: arrested aide on gov't business (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:12 PM CST

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is seen during a press conference in Frankfurt, central Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. Kagame's chief of protocol Rose Kabuye was arrested Sunday at Frankfurt airport on a warrant from France, where she is wanted in connection with the presidential assassination that preceded the African nation's 1994 genocide. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - Rwanda expelled the German ambassador on Tuesday and its president declared that Germany violated his country's sovereignty when it arrested one of his aides in connection with an attack that set off Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

Conductor drops out of concert for Prince Charles (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 02:37 PM CST

Britain's Prince Charles leaves the Douaumont memorial, near Verdun, eastern France, following ceremonies marking the 90th anniversary of World War I Armistice, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Gerard Cerles, Pool)AP - Plans for Italian conductor Riccardo Muti to perform at Buckingham Palace on Thursday for Prince Charles' 60th birthday party have collapsed.

Serb who hijacked US plane in 1979 dies (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:43 PM CST

** FILE * This is a March 9 2008 file photo. of Nikola Kavaja a self-styled assassin to former Yugoslavia's dictator Josip Broz Tito, who claimed Osama Bin Laden had copied his idea of crushing passenger jets into high-rises during the 9/11 attacks, has died of a heart attack, Belgrade media reported Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. In 1979, he hijacked an American Airlines jet in New York and commandeered it over the Atlantic with the intention of crashing it into the high-rise Yugoslav Communist Party headquarters in Belgrade. He was extradited to the U.S. from Ireland where the Boeing 707 landed when he abandoned his highjack mission, saying at the time he was not sure of the exact location of the downtown party headquarters and did not want innocent civilians to die if the jet missed the target. Kavaja, who spent 18 years in a U.S. federal prison on highjack charges, and was released 1999 had claimed that he was recruited by CIA to kill former communist dictator Josip Broz Tito, who ruled Yugoslavia from 1945 until he died in 1980, during his visits to Brazil and Chile in the early 1960s. (AP Photo/Bosko Karanovic, files)AP - Nikola Kavaja, who hijacked a U.S. passenger jet in 1979 with the intention of crashing it into Yugoslav Communist Party headquarters, has died.

UK doctor on trial says he backed Iraq insurgents (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:32 PM CST

AP - An Iraqi doctor on trial for allegedly attempting a suicide bombing in Britain testified Tuesday that he supported Sunni insurgents in his homeland but felt no grudge against the British people.

English city to reward people for keeping fit (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 12:43 PM CST

AP - The English city of Manchester has come up with a simple formula it hopes will help keep its citizens trim: eat right, get stuff. Exercise, get more stuff.

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