2009年1月3日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Gazprom says Ukraine won't negotiate gas deal (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 05:40 AM CST

A metre shows the gas pressure in Hungary's pipelines at oil and gas group MOL's gas transmission subsidiary in Vecses January 2, 2009. The gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine has not so far caused any disruption in gas supply in Hungary, and MOL said it has not seen a decline in gas pressure. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai (HUNGARY)AP - The Russian gas monopoly Gazprom says Ukraine has been boycotting negotiations on a contract dispute that has led to supply reductions in several European countries.

Russia gas row disruption spreads to Bulgaria (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 05:05 AM CST

A pressure gauge is seen at a Ukrainian gas compressor station in the village of Boyarka near the capital Kiev, January 1, 2009. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)Reuters - Russian gas flows to Bulgaria dropped on Saturday in a fresh sign that Moscow's decision to cut off its neighbor Ukraine in a row over pricing was disrupting supplies to some European Union members.

Romanian minister discussed drop in Russian gas (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 03:57 AM CST

AP - Romania's economy minister has called a meeting with gas officials after supplies from Russia through a pipeline traversing Ukraine dropped by around a third.

Romance of the FA Cup takes on harder edge (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 03:24 AM CST

Reading's Dave Kitson (centre) celebrates a goal during a Premiership football match in Derby, in May 2008.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The third round of the FA Cup is a time in the knockout competition renowned for shocks and 'giantkilling' exploits.

British couple has 'black-and-white twins' twice (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:54 PM CST

AP - A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds — twice — by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and the other white. Dean Durrant's newborn daughter Miya has dark skin like him. Twin sister Leah has fair skin like her blue-eyed, red-haired mother, Alison Spooner.

"Flying Doctor" needs bigger planes for obese Aussies (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:05 PM CST

Reuters - Increasing obesity has prompted an Australian state to seek larger planes for the country's famous "Flying Doctor" service, ambulance and government officials said Saturday.

Ferguson challenges misfiring United to run riot at Southampton (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 08:40 PM CST

Manchester United's South Korean midfielder Park Ji-Sung. Manager Sir Alex Ferguson has challenged his misfiring players to use this weekend's FA Cup third round trip to Southampton as an opportunity to rediscover their scoring touch(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has challenged his misfiring players to use this weekend's FA Cup third round trip to Southampton as an opportunity to rediscover their scoring touch.

Cup offers way out of Wenger's woes (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 08:21 PM CST

Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger, seen on December 2, may still talk up his Arsenal side's title prospects but the manager knows the FA Cup third round tie with Plymouth Argyle is almost as important for the Gunners as the Premier League.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Arsene Wenger may still talk up his Arsenal side's title prospects but the manager knows the FA Cup third round tie with Plymouth Argyle is almost as important for the Gunners as the Premier League.

World's oldest woman dies in Portugal aged 115 (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 03:27 PM CST

In this Sept. 10, 2006 file photo Maria de Jesus, is touched by Berenice, her eight month old great-great granddaughter as she celebrated her one hundred and thirteen year birthday in Corujo, Portugal, 150km north of Lisbon. A woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person living, has died in northwest Portugal at the age of 115, officials said Friday Jan. 2, 2009. De Jesus, who lived to reach 115 years and 114 days and was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Gerontology Research Group as the world's oldest person, died in an ambulance near the town of Tomar. (AP Photo/Steven Governo, File)AP - A Portuguese woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person died on Friday at the age of 115, officials said.

British protestors target Egypt over Gaza conflict (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST

Protestors opposed to Israeli military action in Gaza burn material enscribed with Israeli national emblems outside the Egyptian embassy in London. Protestors rallied outside Egypt's embassy in London on Friday, urging Cairo to open its border with Gaza, in the latest in a week of demonstrations here over the Israeli military clampdown.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Protestors rallied outside Egypt's embassy in London on Friday, urging Cairo to open its border with Gaza, in the latest in a week of demonstrations here over the Israeli military clampdown.

Japanese, South African nominated to head IAEA (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:55 AM CST

AP - The International Atomic Energy Agency says a Japanese diplomat and a South African official are in the running to become the U.N. nuclear watchdog's next chief executive.

Parliament gives new government green light (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:32 AM CST

AP - Belgium's prime minister won a parliamentary vote of confidence Friday for a coalition government to replace one that collapsed in December in a bank bailout scandal.

Picasso, Matisse prints stolen from Berlin gallery (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:42 AM CST

AP - Thieves stole works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others from a Berlin gallery over the New Year's holiday, police said Friday.

French warship thwarts Somali pirate attack (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 04:36 AM CST

A French Ministry of Defense hand out shows weapons seized whilst presumed Somali pirates were arrested off the Somali coast. The first days of 2009 have seen at least five pirate attacks off Somalia, but the bandits are becoming desperate as the international community cracks down, a maritime watchdog has said.(AFP/MINISTERE DE LA DEFENSE/File)AP - A French warship has thwarted an attack by Somali pirates on a cargo ship in the dangerous Gulf of Aden on a day when several cargo ships were attacked, the French president's office said.

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