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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Fergie still cautious as Harry bets on United fab five football trophies (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 05:43 PM PST

Manchester United's manager Alex Ferguson celebrates with the trophy after his team beat Tottenham to win the 2009 Carling Cup final at Wembley stadium, north London, on March 1. United won by beating holders Tottenham 4-1 on penalties after the match ended 0-0 after extra-time.(AFP/Pool/Stephen Pond)AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson insists it will take a freakish run of good luck for it to happen. But Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is prepared to put his money on Manchester United ending the season with an unprecedented haul of five major trophies.

Medvedev wants specific U.S. missile proposals (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 05:29 PM PST

Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is expecting specific U.S. proposals on missile defense, one of the main bones of contention between Moscow and Washington, to discuss at his first meeting with President Barack Obama.

EU rejects eastern Europe bailout, protectionism (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 04:48 PM PST

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek holds a press conference at the end of an economic summit of European leaders at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels. EU leaders ruled out on Sunday a regional bailout plan for eastern Europe despite a Hungarian warning of a AFP - EU leaders ruled out on Sunday a regional bailout plan for eastern Europe despite a Hungarian warning of a "new iron curtain" while rejecting protectionism as a response to the economic crisis.

Spain's Basques pick regional government (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 04:39 PM PST

A Basque priest wearing his typical beret on his head, is seen at a polling center as he votes in San Sebastian northern Spain Sunday March 1, 2009. In Spain's turbulent Basque region, political power is spelled PNV: the acronym for the nationalist party that has ruled for nearly 30 years on a platform flirting with independence. But in elections this weekend, that grip might be in jeopardy. (AP Photo /Alvaro Barrientos)AP - Non-nationalists won more parliamentary seats than Basque nationalists in elections in Spain's most turbulent region Sunday, in a result that could usher in the region's first non-nationalist government in 30 years.

Democracy is firmly rooted in Iraq: British general (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 04:21 PM PST

Reuters - British forces will leave Iraq this year with democracy "firmly rooted" and al Qaeda largely thwarted, a senior British army officer said in an interview published on Monday.

Ruling Socialists suffer setbacks in Spanish polls (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 04:00 PM PST

Current Basque regional president Juan Jose Ibarretxe addresses journalists in Bilbao following the disclosure of voting results in the Basque regional elections. Spain's ruling Socialists were ousted from power in Galicia and trailed the incumbent party in the Basque Country in regional elections on Sunday seen as the first test of voter sentiment since the country plunged into recession.(AFP/Rafa Rivas)AFP - Spain's ruling Socialists were ousted from power in Galicia and trailed the incumbent party in the Basque Country in regional elections on Sunday seen as the first test of voter sentiment since the country plunged into recession.

Scotland-Wales Euro 2016 bid abandoned (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 02:52 PM PST

Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Scotland and Wales have abandoned a planned joint bid to host the 2016 European Championships due to the economic downturn, Welsh football chiefs said Sunday.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Scotland and Wales have abandoned a planned joint bid to host the 2016 European Championships due to the economic downturn, Welsh football chiefs said Sunday.

Report: HSBC to reduce US lending (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 02:16 PM PST

AP - HSBC PLC plans to scale back its consumer lending operations in the United States and to close hundreds of branches there, British and U.S. newspapers reported Sunday.

Manly end Super League's five-year World Challenge grip (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 02:12 PM PST

Two tries each from Brett Stewart, pictured in 2007, and Anthony Watmough helped Manly Sea Eagles beat Leeds 28-20 and win the World Club Challenge for the first time on Sunday.(AFP/File/Dean Treml)AFP - Two tries each from Brett Stewart and Anthony Watmough helped Manly Sea Eagles beat Leeds 28-20 and win the World Club Challenge for the first time on Sunday.

Merkel, EU reject bailout for eastern Europe (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 01:56 PM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Sunday March 1, 2009. With their economies tanking and finances fraying, EU leaders meet Sunday keen to show that they will stick together and work on ideas of how to put the recession behind them. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU leaders flatly rejected a new multibillion euro (dollar) bailout for eastern Europe on Sunday, suggesting that additional aid be given to struggling nations only on a case-by-case basis.

Spain looks back at dark chapter of adoptions (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 01:11 PM PST

Antonia Radas, 70, poses after an interview with The Associated Press in Sarria de Ter, northern Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. As Antonia Radas left school one day in 1945, a cheerful third grader growing up as a beloved only child, a stranger greeted her with shocking news. The little girl was not who she thought she was. It would take decades for Radas to learn the truth about her past: that as a toddler she shared a prison cell with her biological mother during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, and that her mother lost her simply by being on the losing side of that ruinous conflict. They were not reunited until 1993. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP - As Antonia Radas left school one day in 1945, a cheerful third-grader growing up as a beloved only child, a stranger greeted her with shocking news. The little girl was not who she thought she was.

Italy returns Orthodox church to Russia (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 11:01 AM PST

AP - Italy on Sunday returned ownership to Russia of an Orthodox church named after St. Nicholas in a goodwill gesture toward Moscow and the Orthodox faithful.

President Obama to meet EU leaders in April (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 10:28 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama will meet with European Union leaders at a special summit in April during his first trip to Europe, an official said Sunday.

Russians vote in regional elections (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 09:17 AM PST

AP - Voters in dozens of towns and regions across Russia cast ballots on Sunday for mayors and regional legislatures.

Flights in Amsterdam now to fly over wreckage (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 09:17 AM PST

Relatives of the pilot Hasan Tahsin Arisan mourn over his coffin during a ceremony outside the Turkish Airlines headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009. Turkish Airlines held a funeral service for three pilots and a flight attendant who died when its Boeing 737-800 crashed in a field near Amsterdam airport three days ago. AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Flights were resuming Sunday night on the Amsterdam runway where a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 was supposed to land before it crashed four days ago, killing nine people.

Court prosecuting Hariri suspects opens (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 07:55 AM PST

Court prosecutor Daniel Bellemare of Canada looks on during an opening ceremony of an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Sunday March 1, 2009. Hariri and 22 others were killed in a Feb. 14, 2005, suicide bombing in Beirut. (AP Photo/ Bas Czerwinski)AP - An international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri opened Sunday with a moment's silence and a pledge to impartially investigate the politically charged case.

Unemployed besiege British zoo seeking summer jobs (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 07:48 AM PST

AP - The jobs are temporary, at basic wages, and some involve cleaning up after zoo animals. But Britain is suffering a recession, so when the help-wanted ads appeared, about 3,000 people applied, including laid-off executives and company bosses.

Meltdown pain felt in remnants of French empire (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 07:08 AM PST

In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, labor union members shout slogans during a protest in Point-a-Pitre, French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Lately weeks of strikes and outbursts of rioting on Guadeloupe and nearby Martinique have disrupted the Caribbean calm. The world economic crisis is pushing up prices of staples that already cost more than on the French mainland, and reviving the resentment of the mixed-race majority toward the descendants of slave-owners and white colonists who still run much of the islands' economies. For French President Nicolas Sarkozy, already unpopular, the Caribbean unrest is a big challenge. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)AP - Christine Pochot buys croissants in her corner bakery, votes in French elections and is as French as her president — but lives a hemisphere away from his Parisian palace, on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

A look at France's overseas possessions (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 06:29 AM PST

AP - France's overseas possessions:

New trial for Russia tycoon — and for rule of law (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 05:47 AM PST

Former CEO of Russian oil giant Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands behind bars during a trial in Moscow, Friday, in this April 1, 2005 file photo. Jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from his Siberian prison to Moscow for a new trial, a court official and lawyers said Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - From a tiny cell in one of Moscow's most notorious prisons, the man who was once his country's wealthiest tycoon awaits a trial that for many will be a critical test of Russian justice — and President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to the rule of law.

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