2009年7月25日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Protesters call for end to Iranian rights abuses (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:46 PM PDT

Protesters attend a demonstration on the Global Day of Solidarity with Iran, in Berlin July 25, 2009. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY POLITICS CONFLICT)AP - Protesters across the world called on Iran Saturday to end its clampdown on opposition activists, demanding the release of hundreds rounded up during demonstrations against the country's disputed election.

Lawmakers urge UK government to talk to Hamas (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:17 PM PDT

Israeli Arab children demonstrators wave Palestinian militant group Hamas' flags during a rally to mark Land Day in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva in this file photo from March 28, 2009. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Lawmakers urged the British government on Sunday to talk to moderates within Hamas, saying the West's policy of shunning the Palestinian Islamist group was showing little sign of success.

City plans to use catacombs for swine flu victims (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:12 PM PDT

DNA test kits of the the influenza A (H1N1) or Swine Flu virus. A city council said Saturday it was considering using underground burial chambers, currently a tourist attraction, to store the corpses of swine flu victims if the pandemic worsens.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A city council said Saturday it was considering using underground burial chambers, currently a tourist attraction, to store the corpses of swine flu victims if the pandemic worsens.

Scene cut from Athens museum film after protests (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:07 PM PDT

A general view of the new Acropolis Museum as the ancient Parthenon temple is seen in the background, in Athens, Thursday, June 25, 2009. Greek authorities have said admission will be one euro-the price of a bus ticket- until the end of this year. In 2010 the charge will be five euros. Museum official say that the museum can take 10,000 visitors per day. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - A scene from an animated film shown to visitors at the new Acropolis Museum that depicts Christian priests destroying parts of the Parthenon has been deleted following protests by the Greek Orthodox Church.

Anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrators rally in London (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:06 PM PDT

Iranian protesters hold a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in central London in June 2009. More than 1,000 people gathered outside the Iranian embassy in London on Saturday for a noisy protest against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - More than 1,000 people gathered outside the Iranian embassy in London on Saturday for a noisy protest against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Harry Patch, last veteran of World War I trenches, dies at 111 (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:55 PM PDT

World War One veteran Harry Patch attends an Armistice Day commemoration ceremony in London in 2008. Patch, the last British soldier to fight in the trenches during the First World War has died aged 111, his care home said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Harry Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe during World War I, died Saturday at the age of 111, drawing poignant tributes led by Queen Elizabeth II.

Spain expects 10 percent drop in foreign tourists this year (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:11 PM PDT

Tourists lie on the beach of Palma in June 2009 in Mallorca, Spain. Spain expects foreign tourist arrivals to drop by up to 10 percent this year due largely to the global economic downturn, Industry and Tourism Minister Miguel Sebastian said Saturday.(AFP/DDP/File/Joerg Koch)AFP - Spain expects foreign tourist arrivals to drop by up to 10 percent this year due largely to the global economic downturn, Industry and Tourism Minister Miguel Sebastian said Saturday.

Mediterranean wildfires wreak destruction, recrimination (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:08 PM PDT

A forest on fire near of the village of Aullene in Corsica. Deadly wildfires sweeping through southern Europe ravaged areas of Italy and Corsica Saturday, as a French foreign legionnaire was charged over a blaze that reached the gates of Marseille.(AFP/Stephan Agostini)AFP - Deadly wildfires sweeping through southern Europe ravaged areas of Italy and Corsica Saturday, as a French foreign legionnaire was charged over a blaze that reached the gates of Marseille.

Angel's face uncovered at Istanbul's Haghia Sophia (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:08 PM PDT

Turkey's Culture Minister Ertugrul Gunay speaks to journalists beside a well-preserved, long-hidden mosaic depicting the face of an angel which was uncovered by restoration workers in the former Byzantine cathedral of Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, July 25, 2009. The seraphim figure — one of two located on the side of a dome — had been covered up along with the building's other Christian mosaics shortly after Constantinople — the former name for Istanbul — fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 and the cathedral was turned into a mosque. The mosaics were plastered over according to Muslim custom that prohibits the representation of humans. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Restoration workers have uncovered a well-preserved, long-hidden mosaic face of an angel at the former Byzantine cathedral of Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, an official said Friday.

Ericsson buys a North American chunk of Nortel (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:19 PM PDT

A man walks past the Nortel Networks booth at a communications convention. Swedish telecoms manufacturer Ericsson said Saturday it is buying a North American chunk of Canada's failed Nortel Networks for 1.13 billion dollars.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Erik S. Lesser)AFP - Swedish telecoms manufacturer Ericsson said Saturday it is buying a North American chunk of Canada's failed Nortel Networks for 1.13 billion dollars.

Vatican: pope's wrist healing well (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 10:44 AM PDT

AP - Doctors examined Pope Benedict XVI's broken wrist at the pontiff's Alpine vacation chalet and are pleased with how the injury is healing, a Vatican spokesman said Saturday.

Kilts and controversy as Scottish clans gather (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 09:55 AM PDT

Scottish Clan members stand under umbrellas outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland Friday July 24, 2009 at the Clan Convention. One hundred of Scotland's Clan Chiefs will gather for a Clan Convention as part of the Gathering weekend in the city (AP Photo/ David Cheskin/PA Wire)AP - There were kilts, caber-tossing and a touch of controversy as more than 40,000 Scots from around the world descended on Edinburgh Saturday for an event billed as the largest gathering of the clans in 200 years.

Last UK veteran of WWI trench battles dies at 111 (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 08:40 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 27, 2007 photo shows Harry Patch, then aged 109, from Wells, England, as a guest of honor during commemorations in Weston-super-Mare, England to launch the local poppy appeal. An English nursing home says Harry Patch, the last British veteran of World War I, has died at 111. Patch had been the last surviving British soldier who served in the 1914-18 war. The only other surviving British veteran of the war, former airman Henry Allingham, died a week ago at age 113. (AP Photo/Barry Batchelor/PA Wire)AP - Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation.

French pilot re-enacts 1st English Channel flight (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 08:01 AM PDT

A view of the Bleriot XI plane presented at the Arts et Metiers museum in Paris, Wednesday July 22, 2009. The Bleriot XI is the plane on which Louis Bleriot, a French aviator, inventor and engineer crossed the English Channel on July 25, 1909. The flight came six years after the Wright brothers flew overland over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and during a decade in which pioneers in Europe and North America were developing the rudiments of airplane technology and expanding its limits. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - A French pilot on Saturday recreated the first-ever flight across the English Channel in a monoplane like the one that Louis Bleriot flew in 1909, complete with a wooden propeller, bicycle wheels and an engine about as powerful as a lawnmower.

Ericsson buys Nortel wireless units for $1.13 bln (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 05:46 AM PDT

AP - Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson on Saturday said it had penned a deal to buy a majority of Nortel Networks' North American wireless business for $1.13 billion.

UK nurses' group ends opposition to assisted dying (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:14 AM PDT

A general view shows the building currently used by the Swiss organisation Dignitas in the industry area of Pfaeffikon near Zurich July 15, 2009. Renowned British conductor Edward Downes and his wife Joan have ended their lives at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, their children said in a statement on Tuesday. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (SWITZERLAND)AP - Britain's main nurses' organization has dropped its opposition to assisted suicide, as a new poll released Saturday showed solid support for the right to die.

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