2008年12月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

EU clears KLM takeover of Martinair (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:44 AM CST

AP - European Union regulators on Wednesday approved the takeover of Dutch charter and cargo airline Martinair by the Air France-KLM group.

Pound hits record euro low (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:42 AM CST

The pound plunged on Wednesday to another record low against the euro, extending its recent weakness after publication of more gloomy economic data.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The pound plunged Wednesday to another record low against the euro, extending its recent weakness after publication of more gloomy economic data.

Greek youths hang protest banners from Acropolis (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:31 AM CST

Students light candles in the shape of the peace symbol in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Greece has seen its worst riots in decades after 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos died Dec. 6 in a police shooting. The riots quickly spread from Athens to more than a dozen cities and for a week, youths smashed and burned stores and cars, and hurled petrol bombs and rocks at riot police, who responded with stun grenades and large amounts of tear gas. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Protesters hung two giant banners off the Acropolis on Wednesday, with slogans calling for mass demonstrations and 'resistance' after days of violent protest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens.

British Airways cutting fuel surcharge (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:25 AM CST

AP - British Airways is cutting its fuel surcharges because of the falling price of oil, the company said Wednesday.

UK panel says BAA should sell 3 airports (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:25 AM CST

AP - BAA Ltd. should be forced to sell two airports serving London and one in Scotland, the government's anti-monopoly agency said Wednesday.

Police: Alleged Mafia boss hangs himself in Sicily (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:23 AM CST

AP - Police in Sicily say the alleged Mafia boss of a Palermo neighborhood hanged himself in jail, hours after he was arrested in a blitz against Cosa Nostra.

BNP Paribas shares plunge as bank reveals losses (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:17 AM CST

AP - Shares of BNP Paribas plunged Wednesday after the French bank said extreme market volatility triggered steep losses in its investment banking operations over the last two months.

Fed-inspired rally fades in Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:17 AM CST

A man walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo December 16, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - Europe failed on Wednesday to extend strong gains in Asian stocks and on Wall Street as initial optimism from the Federal Reserve's move to slash interest rates toward zero faded, while the dollar fell broadly.

Arrested mob boss hangs himself in Italian jail (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:16 AM CST

Italian Carabinieri police accompany Gaetano Lo Presti from their headquarters in Palermo, December 16, 2008. Presti, a suspected Mafia boss arrested on Tuesday in a high-profile police swoop, has hung himself in his prison cell, police sources said on Wednesday. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - A suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a high-profile police swoop has hung himself in his prison cell, police sources said Wednesday.

BA cuts fuel surcharge on tickets as oil prices slide (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 02:58 AM CST

Airline passengers await their flights inside Terminal 4 at Heathrow airport. British Airways has said it was cutting fuel surcharges on long-haul plane tickets by as much as a third because of tumbling oil prices which slash the cost of jet fuel.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - British Airways said on Wednesday it was cutting fuel surcharges on long-haul plane tickets by as much as a third because of tumbling oil prices which slash the cost of jet fuel.

Germany seeking US global warming cooperation (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 06:14 PM CST

AP - Germany is looking for ways to nudge the United States, and the incoming Obama administration, to step up efforts to slow global warming.

Officials say Gitmo detainees arrive in Bosnia (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 04:35 PM CST

Nadja Dizdarevic, wife of Hajj Boudella, one of five Algerians ordered released last week from Guantanamo Bay prison, carries her husband's letters and other documents on a rainy day in Sarajevo November 25, 2008. Boudella's children will have to wait a while to see their father, even though a U.S. federal judge ordered his release last week from the Guantanamo Bay prison after nearly seven years. Picture taken November 25, 2008. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)AP - Three Guantanamo prisoners were flown to Bosnia Tuesday and released to their families in the first detainee transfer ordered by a U.S. federal judge, according to local police and an attorney for the men.

Doctor convicted in failed London, Glasgow attacks (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 03:03 PM CST

This CCTV image made available in London Tuesday Dec. 16, 2008, by the Metropolitan Police, shows the scene when a Jeep Cherokee burst into flames during in a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport, Scotland, in June 2007. Bilal Abdulla was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in London, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2008, of conspiring to murder hundreds of people with car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow. Abdulla, 29 an Iraqi doctor, claimed that he intended only to frighten Britons. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police, ho)AP - A British-Iraqi doctor was convicted of conspiracy to murder Tuesday for failed car bomb attacks upon young nightclubbers and rescue workers in London and airport travelers in Scotland. Prosecutors said he plotted to kill hundreds in revenge for the deaths of loved ones in Iraq.

TNT discovered at famed Paris department store (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 01:42 PM CST

French police stand guard outside the Printemps Haussman department store in Paris.(AFP/Patrick Kovarik)AP - Police acting on a warning Tuesday found a bundle of dynamite inside a Paris department store at the height of the Christmas season, and a group demanding that France withdraw from Afghanistan claimed responsibility.

German police hold 2 in stabbing of mayor (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 01:31 PM CST

AP - Investigators say they have taken into custody two people suspected in the stabbing of a police chief in a presumed neo-Nazi attack.

French terrorism police question 7 around Paris (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 12:51 PM CST

AP - France's domestic counterterrorism agency arrested seven people around Paris and was questioning them Tuesday on suspicion that some may have been planning an attack, a police official said.

Nobel medicine laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek dies (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 12:45 PM CST

AP - Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, who studied brain diseases and infections that lie dormant for years before attacking the body, has died, his biographer said Tuesday. Gajdusek was 85.

UK gang member found guilty of killing schoolboy (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 12:35 PM CST

The parents of murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones, Melanie Jones, left and Stephen Jones are seen speaking outside the Liverpool Crown Court, Liverpool, England, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. A jury in Liverpool has found 18-year-old gang member Sean Mercer, guilty of murdering 11-year-old Rhys Jones, who became a random victim of a gang dispute. In addition to Tuesday's verdict for Sean Mercer, the jury also found six fellow gang members guilty of assisting in the murder and its cover up. Jones was shot dead outside a pub in the Croxteth section of Liverpool while returning home from football practice in August 2007. The random killing raised fears that a culture of gun and gang violence was on the rise in Britain. (AP Photo/Paul Thomas)AP - A teenage gang member was found guilty Tuesday of murdering an 11-year-old schoolboy in a case that raised the specter of American-style gun violence in Britain.

Turkish jets attack Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 11:59 AM CST

AP - Turkey's military says its air force has attacked Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.

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