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Britain's Labour party pummeled in Europe vote (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 06:05 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown listens during a meeting with Labour activists in Stratford, east London June 7, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/PoolReuters - Support for Britain's ruling Labour Party plunged to its lowest level in a century in European elections on Sunday, prompting fresh calls for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down.

Conservatives score wins in EU parliament voting (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:29 PM PDT

A man watches an election program on a large screen outside the European Parliament building in Brussels, Sunday, June 7, 2009. The make-up of the European Parliament is thought to have shifted towards the centre right of the parliamentary spectrum in early results, but ballots are still being counted. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - Conservatives scored victories in some of Europe's largest economies Sunday as voters punished left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and other nations.

Brown suffers, as far-right surges in EU vote (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:29 PM PDT

A woman sits at a polling station in Lyon, eastern France, during the European parliamentary election. Conservative parties decisively beat Socialists in the EU parliamentary elections which ended Sunday, marred by a new record low turnout.(AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)AFP - Gordon Brown's Labour party suffered another humiliating poll defeat, in European elections which saw a surge by far-right and nationalist parties.

Murray in Wimbledon build-up as Queen's top seed (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Andy Murray (seen here on May 12) begins his quest to become the first British winner at Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936 by entering this week's tournament at Queen's as the top seed. Rafael Nadal's late withdrawal means Murray is already the first Briton to be the top seed at the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event and the Scot is hoping to make the most of his first competitive outing.(AFP/File/Javier Soriano)AFP - Andy Murray begins his quest to become the first British winner at Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936 by entering this week's tournament at Queen's as the top seed.

Crews find more bodies from Air France crash (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:17 PM PDT

Mickael Pietrus of the Orlando Magic has the Air France flight number of the plane that plunged in the Atlantic nearly a week ago on his shoes during Game 2 of their NBA Finals basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles June 7, 2009. Searchers found 15 more bodies from the crashed Air France jet and retrieved a large amount of debris from the plane in the worst air disaster since 2001. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES SPORT BASKETBALL DISASTER)Reuters - Searchers found 15 more bodies from a crashed Air France jet on Sunday and retrieved a large amount of debris from the plane that plunged into the Atlantic ocean in the worst air disaster since 2001.

Merkel party wins German vote; rival embarrassed (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:33 PM PDT

AP - Germans handed a lackluster victory to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and a historically heavy defeat to their center-left rivals in Sunday's European Parliament vote, months before a national election.

Centre-right wins EU vote, turnout hits record low (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:32 PM PDT

Rudolf Gregus, 97, casts his vote for the European Parliament elections into a mobile ballot box in his kitchen in the village of Makov, near the border with the Czech Republic, June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Radovan StoklasaReuters - Center-right parties retained control of the European Parliament in an election that ended on Sunday with a record low turnout but which spared most big national governments from embarrassing defeats.

UK sends 1st right-extremist to EU parliament (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:31 PM PDT

AP - Britain elected its first extreme-right politician to the European Parliament in results announced Sunday, a development mainstream lawmakers blamed on the recession and a collapse of trust in major political parties.

Britain's Brown faces showdown with rebels (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 03:53 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown attends a meeting in Stratford, east London where he spoke with local Labour Party activists Sunday June 7, 2009. A top deputy to Britain's troubled Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday warned lawmakers seeking his ouster to end their rebellion — or risk making the situation of the governing Labour Party more tenuous. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr talk show, urged party dissidents to think about the consequences of an ugly leadership battle. The tussle comes as voters are punishing Labour lawmakers for abusing their expense claims in a scandal that has shaken the government. (AP Photo/ Stefan Rousseau/PA)AP - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown heads into a key showdown Monday with rebel lawmakers after projections that his governing Labour Party has produced its worst-ever results in European and local elections.

Initial European Parliament vote results (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 03:11 PM PDT

AP - Incomplete European election results project this range of seats for political groups in the next EU assembly:

(AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 01:56 PM PDT

AP - EU projects group of center-right parties will have most seats in European Parliament.

Paris mayor gives Dalai Lama honorary citizenship (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 11:58 AM PDT

AP - Paris' mayor has conferred a certificate of honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama, in a move that could further strain France's relations with China.

Ukraine's premier says coalition talks collapse (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 11:16 AM PDT

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks during her televised address in Kiev June 7, 2009. Ukraine's chief opposition on Sunday abandoned talks with Prime Minister Tymoshenko on forming a coalition to rescue Ukraine from political turmoil and deepening economic crisis. REUTERS/Alexander Prokopenko/Pool (UKRAINE)AP - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Sunday that talks with the main opposition party on forming a coalition have collapsed, indicating a continuation of the turmoil that has plagued the country's politics and hobbled its response to the severe economic crisis.

Latvia to abandon Soviet-era bomb shelters (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 10:15 AM PDT

In this photo taken on May 26, 2009, a poster called 'Means of individual skin protection' seen on a wall in the bomb shelter in Ligatne, Latvia. The shelter in Ligatne, which is now a museum, was designed to be a self-sustaining facility for three months. The shelter boasts a bowed wall for absorbing a nuclear shock wave and an enormous facility for filtering radioation-poisoned air, all testimony to the indomitable might of the Soviet military-industrial complex. The Ligatne shelter had separate rooms for the KGB, equipped with direct phone lines to Moscow and racks of gray electronic devices capable of eavesdropping on nearly any room in the facility. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)AP - One of the old bomb shelters is now a fish cannery. Another has just been turned into a high-tech data storage center. Yet another is a museum.

Alexander the Great's statue stirs Balkan passions (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 10:11 AM PDT

In this image made on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 people walk in Macedonia square, the main square of Skopje. Macedonians plan to build a 22-meter (72-foot) statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje's main square, dwarfing any other building in the capital's center and outraging neighboring Greece — where the ancient warrior king was voted recently as the greatest Greek of all times. The bronze statue is being made in Florence at a cost of Û4 million (US$5.5 million) and will be erected in 2010. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)AP - As an exercise in nation-building, Macedonia's latest effort is pretty audacious — an eight-story-high statue of Alexander the Great on horseback, in the center of the capital.

Obama spends time sightseeing in Paris with family (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 07:36 AM PDT

U.S. President barack Obama waves from the top gallery during a visit to the Pompidou center in Paris, Sunday June 7, 2009. President Barack Obama spent a few hours as a tourist this weekend, seeing Paris with his wife and two young girls after his trip to the Middle East, Germany and the beaches of Normandy. The Pompidou center is a modern art museum constructed with color-coded ducts that has become a famous landmark since it opened in 1977. Obama is to leave France early Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)AP - President Barack Obama spent a few hours as a tourist this weekend, seeing Paris with his wife and two young girls after his trip to the Middle East, Germany and the beaches of Normandy.

Zimbabwe PM takes first step in re-engagement (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 06:50 AM PDT

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai looks on during a press conference in The Hague, The Netherlands, Sunday, June 7, 2009. Tsvangirai says he hopes to launch a new round of talks with the EU aimed at ending the country's isolation. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)AP - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai launched a three-week trip to the West on Sunday saying he is seeking re-engagement, not touring with a "begging bowl" asking for aid.

Dutch navy escorting freed Nigerian tugboat (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 06:13 AM PDT

Puntland Marine Forces escort injured suspected Somali pirates in the northern port town of Bosasso June 7, 2009, after they were captured in the Gulf of Aden by French forces and presented to the Puntland officials. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/Abdiqani Hassan (SOMALIA CONFLICT CRIME LAW POLITICS)AP - Somali pirates have released a Nigerian tugboat they hijacked 10 months ago and a Dutch navy ship is escorting it to a safe harbor, the Dutch Defense Ministry said Sunday.

2 US soldiers in Germany have swine flu (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:45 AM PDT

The anti-viral treatment Tamiflu at a pharmacy in Duesseldorf, western Germany. Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has said Tamiflu is effective in treating swine flu.(AFP/DDP/File/Philipp Guelland)AP - The U.S. military says two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in soldiers at its medical center in Landstuhl, Germany.

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