2009年6月27日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Loyalist paramilitaries give up arms in N Ireland (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 04:47 PM PDT

A loyalist mural is pictured in East Belfast, Northern Ireland. The main loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland announced Saturday they were decommissioning their weapons, a new milestone on the road to peace after decades of unrest.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - The main loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland announced Saturday they were decommissioning their weapons, a new milestone on the road to peace after decades of unrest.

European leaders mark Iron Curtain fall in Hungary (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 04:34 PM PDT

Finnish President Tarja Kaarina Halonen, right, shake hands with Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom, second right, while Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Katalin Szili, left, and Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, second left, look on during a memorial day marking the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Iron Curtain in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 27, 2009. In this day of 1989 Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn and Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock cut-off the Iron Curtain, which physically and symbolically divided Eastern Europe from the western part of the continent. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - European leaders marked the 20th anniversary of the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain, often described as the first crack in the Berlin Wall and one of the key episodes leading to the end of communism in Eastern Europe, in Budapest on Saturday.

Glastonbury cheers 'The Boss', hails 'The King' (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT

US rock musician Bruce Springsteen performs in the headline slot on the Pyramid stage on the second day of the annual Glastonbury festival. Springsteen topped the bill at Britain's Glastonbury music festival Saturday but the artists hailed the music of Michael Jackson as inspirational.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Rock legend Bruce Springsteen topped the bill at Britain's Glastonbury music festival Saturday but the artists hailed the music of Michael Jackson as inspirational.

Amid Jewish revival, Poland gets openly gay rabbi (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 03:50 PM PDT

In this June 12, 2009 photo, Rabbi Aaron Katz is seen during a service at the progressive Judaism Synagogue in Warsaw. He is Poland's first openly and unabashedly gay rabbi. Katz settled in Warsaw with Kevin Gleason, a former Hollywood producer with whom he entered into a registered domestic partnership in Los Angeles two years ago. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw's former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew.

Three suspected swine flu cases at Glastonbury festival (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 02:42 PM PDT

Fans gather in the main field on the second day of the annual Glastonbury festival. Three people were sent home from the Glastonbury music festival with suspected swine flu on Saturday, organisers said.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Three people were sent home from the Glastonbury music festival with suspected swine flu on Saturday, organisers said.

Nielsen satisfied as Sussex hold Australia (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 01:02 PM PDT

Australia coach Tim Nielsen, seen here on June 22, 2009, said he was satisfied with his side's workout after seeing the tourists held to a draw by Sussex on Saturday at Hove.(AFP/File/Ian Kington)AFP - Australia coach Tim Nielsen said he was satisfied with his side's workout after seeing the tourists held to a draw by Sussex on Saturday at Hove.

Murray on course with Hewitt, Haas, Roddick at Wimbledon (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 12:59 PM PDT

Scotland's Andy Murray returns a ball to Serbia's Viktor Troicki during their match on Day 6 at the 2009 Wimbledon tennis championships at the All England Club. Murray, bidding to end Britain's agonising 73-year wait for a home men's champion brushed past Troicki 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 and will now face Switzerland's Stanilas Wawrinka for a place in the quarter-finals.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Andy Murray cruised into the Wimbledon last 16 on Saturday while veterans Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt and Tommy Haas led the charge of the old boys club.

Hundreds protest in France to defend illegal immigrants (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 12:46 PM PDT

Anti-globalization militants, members of trade unions and political unions demonstrate in Calais, northern France, to denounce the situation of immigrants in the area. Hundreds of leftist demonstrators from Europe on Saturday protested against the fate of illegal immigrants living in France's northern city of Calais, a key exit point to Britain.(AFP/Denis Charlet)AFP - Hundreds of leftist demonstrators from Europe on Saturday protested against the fate of illegal immigrants living in France's northern city of Calais, a key exit point to Britain.

Kuznetsova, Jankovic out as Venus gets Wimbledon revenge (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 12:16 PM PDT

American Venus Williams returns a ball to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro during their match at the 2009 Wimbledon championships in London. Williams avenged one of the most embarrassing defeats of her career as the defending champion swept into the last 16 at Wimbledon with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Navarro.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and former world number one Jelena Jankovic crashed out of Wimbledon on Saturday, while Venus Williams avenged one of her most embarrassing defeats.

NATO and Russia resume security ties despite Georgia row (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:59 AM PDT

The NATO-Russia Council is Reuters - NATO and Russia on Saturday resumed formal cooperation on broad security threats but failed to bridge major differences over Georgia in their first high-level talks since the war in the Caucasus region.

US announces big shift in Afghanistan drug policy (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:21 AM PDT

In this June 20, 2009 image, U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines pass through a poppy field during operations against the Taliban near Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province. The U.S. announced a new drug policy Saturday, June 27, 2009, for opium-rich Afghanistan, saying it was phasing out funding for eradication efforts and using the money for drug interdiction and alternate crop programs instead. The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, told The Associated Press that eradication programs weren't working and were only driving farmers into the hands of the Taliban. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan's drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight trafficking and promote alternate crops, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan said Saturday.

NATO and Russia resume military ties (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 09:55 AM PDT

AP - NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the alliance and Russia have agreed to resume military ties after 10-month hiatus caused by the war between Russia and Georgia.

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Posted: 27 Jun 2009 09:46 AM PDT

AP - NATO and Russia agree to resume military ties after 10-month hiatus caused by Georgian war.

Italy expels Palestinian hijacker to Syria (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 09:38 AM PDT

AP - A lawyer says Italian authorities are set to expel to Syria one of the Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed an American passenger in 1985.

Protestant outlaws in NIreland embrace disarmament (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 08:34 AM PDT

Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) leader Dawn Purvis, left, with PUP member Winkie Dodds, right, and former assembly member Billy Hutchinson centre, speak to the media during a press conference in east Belfast, where details of Loyalist paramilitaries decommissioning was given. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament — and pledged that their decades of slaughtering Catholic civilians were over for good.

Berlusconi's wife angry at attention on divorce (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 06:00 AM PDT

AP - The estranged wife of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi lashed out Saturday at what she called excessive attention and unwanted advice in the media following her decision to divorce the conservative leader.

Protesters break into Iranian embassy in Sweden (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 08:19 PM PDT

Demonstrators, centre with sticks, attack Iranian Embassy security personnel on the Embassy's grounds, outside Stockholm, the Swedish capital Friday June 26, 2009. About 150 protesters, some masked, rushed the embassy gates, but it was not immediately clear if any managed to get inside the building, police said. (AP Photo/Maja Suslin)AP - Angry demonstrators broke into the Iranian Embassy outside Stockholm on Friday, climbing in through shattered windows and injuring one embassy worker, police said.

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