2009年8月17日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Mother of soldier killed in Afghanistan slams govt (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 06:07 PM PDT

File photo shows British soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province. The mother of the 200th British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan urged Tuesday all lawmakers to AFP - The mother of the 200th British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan urged Tuesday all members of parliament to "get out on the front line" to see how desperate troops were for resources.

Richards gets three-year coaching ban in 'bloodgate' row (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:59 PM PDT

A rugby player catches the ball during a training session. Former Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards was banned from all coaching for three years by an independent European Rugby Cup disciplinary committee in Glasgow on Monday.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Former Harlequins rugby director Dean Richards was banned from coaching for three years by an independent European Rugby Cup (ERC) disciplinary committee in Glasgow on Monday.

No cocktail for Columbus at Cuba landing monument (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Reuters - "A Columbus cocktail?" asked the bartender with a quizzical look.

Suicide bomb kills 20, injures over 130 in Russia (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 03:48 PM PDT

A general view of a destroyed police station in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. A suicide bomber exploded a truck at a police station in Russia's restive North Caucasus Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 60 others, officials said. (AP Photo)AP - A suicide bomber rammed a truck into a police station in the Russian region of Ingushetia on Monday, killing at least 20 police in the worst attack to ravage the poor North Caucasus republic in years.

Scots walk diplomatic tightrope in Lockerbie case (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (centre) is pictured being escorted by security officers in Tripoli in 1992. Scotland's justice minister came under growing pressure to decide the ailing Lockerbie bomber's fate, amid conflicting reports over whether he will be allowed to fly home to Libya.(AFP/File/Manoocher Deghati)AP - The Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing is expected to drop his appeal Tuesday, a step that could lead to his rapid release or a transfer back to a prison in his homeland.

Russia: Missing ship found off Cape Verde, crew OK (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:40 PM PDT

FILE- In this Dec. 29, 2008 file photo the cargo ship the Arctic Sea is seen in Kotka, Finland. The Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials. There was no immediate information about the condition of the crew or whether there was anyone else on board. (AP Photo/Pekka Laakso, Lehitukuva, File)AP - The high seas mystery over the freighter Arctic Sea was far from solved Monday after the Russian navy found the ship off West Africa, far from the Algerian port where it was supposed to dock two weeks ago.

UK authorities evacuate 2 villages after bomb find (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:35 PM PDT

AP - British authorities say they will evacuate two small villages in northern England after a World War II-era bomb was found buried in a nearby field.

Row in Britain over 'London' airport name change (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:04 PM PDT

A row erupted in Britain Monday over the rebranding of Oxford Airport as London Oxford Airport - despite being 60 miles from the capital's centre.(AFP/OFF)AFP - A row erupted in Britain Monday over the rebranding of Oxford Airport as London Oxford Airport - despite being 60 miles from the capital's centre.

Weak China energy demand could dent oil prices: CGES (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:50 PM PDT

A petrol station attendant pulls out the gas pump after filling the tank of a vehicle in June 2009, west of Dingzhou in northern China's Hebei province. Weaker Chinese energy demand could bring the recent oil price surge to an AFP - Weaker Chinese energy demand could bring the recent oil price surge to an "abrupt end" as a credit squeeze hammers crude imports by the Asian powerhouse, energy consultancy CGES warned on Monday.

Accident at Russian hydroelectric plant kills 11 (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:20 PM PDT

Map locating the region in Siberia where sixty-eight people were missing after an accident at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant that killed seven people.(AFP/Graphic)AP - An accident during repair work at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant on Monday killed at least 11 workers, while as many as 65 others were missing after an engine room was suddenly flooded, officials said.

Italy's elusive lotto jackpot climbs to euro140m (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:29 PM PDT

A German would-be millionaire, one of the 140 winners of a contest organized by a German top-selling newspaper who flew them from Berlin to Milan, shows her Lotto ticket at the airport Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Besides the free seats, the winners were being treated to a heaped plateful of pasta, a cup of espresso and the opportunity to buy Superenalotto tickets. Germans, Austrians and other foreigners are heading into Italy to play the lottery ahead of a record euro 131.5 ($186 million) jackpot, whose six-number combination will be announced by about 8:30 p.m. local time Thursday. The writing on the jersey is a play with words as it sounds like the 'O sole mio' popular Italian song, with the word 'Kohle', a German slang for money. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar)AP - Millions of Italians and foreigners failed once again to guess the winning numbers in Italy's state lottery, and the record jackpot climbed to euro139.9 million ($197 million) after Monday's draw.

Film critic, screenwriter Tullio Kezich dead at 80 (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 11:22 AM PDT

AP - Tullio Kezich, a prominent film critic for the daily Corriere della Sera who befriended and collaborated with Italian directing greats Federico Fellini and Ermanno Olmi, died Monday. He was 80.

Swine flu inspires new video game (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:24 AM PDT

A thermal camera monitor shows the body temperature of passengers arriving from overseas, against the possible infection of the swine flu at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009. South Korea says a woman infected with swine flu has died, becoming the country's second fatality linked to the virus.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Ahn Jung-hwan)AP - Since swine flu first emerged in April, it has sparked panic, vaccine production and now, a video game.

Father: Frenchwoman should leave Iran within weeks (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency on Aug. 8, 2009, French lecturer Clotilde Reiss, 24, is seen in a court room in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. The French academic who is part of a mass trial in Iran has been freed from prison on bail and turned over to the French embassy in good health, officials said Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 as they asked that charges against her be dropped. (AP Photo/ILNA, Hanif Shoaee, File) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - The father of a French academic on trial in Iran said Monday he hopes she can come home within weeks as the government continued efforts to secure her unconditional release.

Key developments in search for missing ship (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:09 AM PDT

AP - Key developments in the search for the ship Arctic Sea, which disappeared along with its 15-man Russian crew in the Atlantic nearly three weeks ago.

Liechtenstein prince: Bank secrecy saved WWII Jews (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 07:44 AM PDT

AP - Liechtenstein's reigning prince has angered German Jews by invoking the Holocaust to defend his country's banking secrecy.

American extradited to Germany in 1984 killing (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 06:58 AM PDT

AP - An American man has been extradited to Germany to face charges that he raped and murdered a 19-year-old woman near where he worked on a U.S. military base 25 years ago, police said Monday.

Charity asks Britain for IDs of 2 Afghan detainees (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 06:52 AM PDT

AP - A prisoner rights group said Monday it has begun legal action to force the British government to reveal the identities of two men detained by British troops in Iraq and transferred to U.S. custody in Afghanistan.

(AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 06:40 AM PDT

AP - Russian agencies quote defense minister saying missing ship, crew found near Cape Verde

A look at Russia's violence-wracked Caucasus (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 06:17 AM PDT

AP - The mountainous regions just to the north of Russia's southern border known as the North Caucasus have long been troubled by violence, stoked by poverty, Islamic extremism, ethnic tensions, feuding criminal gangs and the two separatist wars that ravaged Chechnya since 1994.

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