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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Pope urges hope on Easter for end to war, poverty (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 02:46 PM PDT

Pope Benedict arrives to celebrate an Easter mass in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican April 12, 2009. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN RELIGION)AP - Pope Benedict XVI sought to give a message of hope on Easter Sunday to victims of wars, poverty and financial turmoil, saying it was urgently needed to overcome the miseries that are plaguing Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the globe.

Italy boat owner marvels at US pirate operation (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 02:24 PM PDT

AP - The owner of an Italian-flagged tugboat seized by pirates off Somalia marveled Sunday at the U.S. Navy rescue of an American hostage there, and said he hopes his crew also will be saved.

GCC mulls reopening free trade talks with EU (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 02:24 PM PDT

Foreign and finance ministers of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries meet in Riyadh in February 2009. The Gulf Cooperation Council chief and Saudi and Omani ministers on Sunday discussed how to revive talks on a free trade accord with the European Union that broke down in December, the official SPA news agency reported.(AFP/File)AFP - The Gulf Cooperation Council chief and Saudi and Omani ministers on Sunday discussed how to revive talks on a free trade accord with the European Union that broke down in December, the official SPA news agency reported.

BT to slash 10,000 jobs: report (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 01:43 PM PDT

A British Telecoms public telephone box is pictured in central London in 2008. BT will cut 10,000 jobs when it reveals its preliminary results next month, reports said Sunday.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Telecoms operator BT will cut 10,000 jobs when it reveals its preliminary results next month, reports said Sunday.

Switzerland 'to hit back' at OECD in tax row (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 01:31 PM PDT

Switzerland is considering further measures against the OECD in the row over how much the country is doing to reform its policy on tax havens, media reports said Sunday.(AFP/File/Jean Ayissi)AFP - Switzerland is considering further measures against the OECD in the row over how much the country is doing to reform its policy on tax havens, media reports said Sunday.

Dutch hostages in Yemen plea for safe release (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 01:22 PM PDT

Jan Hoogendoorn, 54, and his wife Heleen Janszen, 49, are seen in this undated recent picture obtained by AFP from the Yemeni newspaper Al-Masdar during their detention by local tribesmen in Bani Dhibyan. A Dutch couple kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen urged their government to refrain from violent methods to release them, in a video broadcast by a local television station Sunday.(AFP/AL-MASDAR NEWSPAPER)AFP - A Dutch couple kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen urged their government to refrain from violent methods to release them, in a video broadcast by a local television station Sunday.

Berlusconi shares Easter with quake survivors (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 01:18 PM PDT

A monk prepares for Easter Sunday celebrations in a tent city in L'Aquila. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi travelled Sunday to the earthquake zone to attend Easter mass with survivors and underscore his pledges of state aid to the shattered region.(AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)AFP - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi travelled Sunday to central Italy's earthquake zone to attend Easter mass with survivors and underscore his pledges of state aid to the shattered region.

IRA dissidents threaten top Sinn Fein politician (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT

A Republican Sinn Fein colour party parade through Milltown Cemetery for the 1916 Easter Rising commemoration West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday, April, 12, 2009. Irish Republican Army dissidents on Sunday threatened to kill top Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness and resume attacks in England as part of their efforts to wreck the IRA cease-fire and Northern Ireland power-sharing. An Easter statement from the outlawed Real IRA distributed to Irish media branded McGuinness a traitor because he holds the top Irish Catholic post in Northern Ireland's power-sharing government with British Protestants.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Irish Republican Army dissidents threatened Sunday to kill top Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness and resume attacks in England as part of their efforts to wreck the IRA cease-fire and Northern Ireland power-sharing.

Obama's half-brother refused UK visa: reports (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 12:09 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama's half-brother has been denied a visa to come back to Britain after he earlier gave a false name to police when accused of an attempted sexual assault, British media reported on Sunday.

Shippers face higher insurance as pirates run amok (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 11:28 AM PDT

FBI and USA government officials on the Maersk Alabama are seen at the Mombasa port in Kenya, Sunday, April 12, 2009. Nineteen American sailors who escaped a pirate hijacking off the Horn of Africa reached safe harbor, exhilarated by freedom but mourning the absence of the captain they hailed for sacrificing his freedom to save them. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - Shipping your oil across the Gulf of Aden? Don't forget your piracy insurance.

4 ex-hostages arrive in France from Somalia (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 10:35 AM PDT

AP - PARIS — A French official says three adults and a child who were freed from their Somali captives in a shootout at sea off Somalia have arrived in France.

Tamil protesters storm Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 10:08 AM PDT

AP - Police say Tamil protesters have entered the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo, smashing windows and destroying office equipment.

Moldovan generation gap stokes political feuds (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 09:57 AM PDT

FILE - This April 8, 2009 file photo shows protestors shouting slogans at the government building in Chisinau, Moldova. The unrest continues Sunday, April 12, 2009, as some 3,000 anti-government protesters gathered in downtown Chisinau to call for the government to resign. (AP Photo/Kirill Tulin, file)AP - With one-quarter of the population working abroad to eke out a living, impoverished Moldova has become a country of the young and the very old.

Swedish parishioners unveil Lego statue of Jesus (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 08:18 AM PDT

A boy examines a statue of Jesus Christ made entirely out of Lego construction bricks in a church at Vasteras, Sweden, Sunday April 12, 2009. The 1.8 metre (5.9 feet ) tall statue, a copy of Thorvaldsen's 'Resurrected Christ', has taken parishioners 1.5 years to construct out of 30.000 tiny plastic pieces. (AP Photo/Jonas Ekstromer)AP - Parishioners at a church in Sweden celebrated Easter on Sunday by unveiling a 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) statue of Jesus that they had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks.

Italian quake survivors celebrate Easter Mass (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 06:20 AM PDT

A dog sits at the place where his owner died in an earthquake in Saint Gregorio village near L'Aquila April 12, 2009. Thousands of people made homeless by Italy's deadliest earthquake in 30 years celebrated a sombre Easter on Sunday, huddling for mass at makeshift chapels set up in tent cities and emergency shelters. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY DISASTER IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE ANIMALS)AP - Earthquake survivors sought comfort amid the tragedy that leveled their cities and killed hundreds of people as they celebrated Easter Sunday Mass in makeshift chapels across central Italy.

Pope carries Easter candle in Vatican basilica (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2009 11:08 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI holds a candle during the Easter vigil mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, April 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI carried a tall, lit candle symbolizing hope into a darkened St. Peter's Basilica packed with faithful Saturday night in the traditional start of the Vatican's vigil Mass on the eve of Easter.

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