2009年9月3日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Brothers, 10 and 12, plead guilty to brutal attack (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 06:20 PM PDT

AP - A pair of British brothers pleaded guilty Thursday to luring two young boys into a clearing to see some animals — and then torturing them in an attack so violent it left one of the victims pleading to be left alone to die.

Brown says UK troops stay in Afghanistan for now (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 04:02 PM PDT

An Afghan policeman tries to secure the area as smoke form a suicide attack is seen in Kabul August 18, 2009. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops on a major road in the east of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, two days before presidential elections, police and witnesses said. A Reuters reporter saw thick black smoke rising from the area and police rushing what appeared to be two badly wounded people from the scene of the attack, on the road linking Kabul with the eastern city of Jalalabad. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY ELECTIONS POLITICS)AP - Britain's military will stay in Afghanistan until it can look after its own security, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday, dismissing a call from one of his government's defense aides to begin planning a pullout from the country.

Study: New treatment may combat drug-resistant flu (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 04:01 PM PDT

AP - A new and unlicensed treatment for swine flu could be used in patients who have Tamiflu-resistant viruses, doctors say.

Blasts kill 6 at Serbia munitions factory (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT

AP - A series of explosions late Thursday at an ammunition factory in central Serbia killed at least six people and injured 10, police said.

Key Energy lifts stake in Russian oilfield company (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT

AP - Key Energy Services Inc. said Thursday it closed the second part of its investment in Russian oilfield services company OOO GeoStream Services Group this week.

Darling predicts global economic recovery in 2010 (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling (C) speaks with workers and contractors in the canteen at the Aquatic Centre construction site at the London 2012 Olympic village in east London. Darling voiced optimism Thursday for a global economic recovery in 2010, but repeated a warning against complacency, ahead of a G20 finance ministers' meeting.(AFP/POOL/Stephen Hird)AFP - The Chancellor of the Exchequer voiced optimism Thursday for a global economic recovery in 2010, but repeated a warning against complacency, ahead of a G20 finance ministers' meeting.

Key aide to defence minister quits over Afghan conflict (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:03 PM PDT

Eric Joyce, the parliamentary private secretary to Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth, seen here in June 2009, resigned Thursday over the war in Afghanistan, and launched an attack on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government's handling of the conflict.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP - A key aide to the defence secretary resigned Thursday over the war in Afghanistan, and launched an attack on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government's handling of the conflict.

Explosions in Serb ammunition factory kill six (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 02:59 PM PDT

Reuters - Four explosions at an ammunition factory in western Serbia killed six people and wounded at least eight on Thursday, a police official said.

UN chief: rapid progress needed in climate talks (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 02:24 PM PDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon speaks during the opening of the World Climate Conference - 3 at the World Meteorological Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. The climate conference in Geneva is aimed at providing ways for the world to cope with global warming that will occur because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, regardless of what the Copenhagen meeting achieves. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)AP - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told a meeting of some 150 governments on Thursday that time is running out for a new climate deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Two young brothers admit 'horror' attacks on boys (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 02:19 PM PDT

Two brothers aged 12 and 10 admitted Thursday carrying out a brutal attack in a village on two young boys who were beaten and tortured, while one had a sink dropped on his head. The brothers pleaded guilty in court to grievous bodily harm over the AFP - Two brothers aged 12 and 10 admitted Thursday carrying out a brutal attack in a village on two young boys who were beaten and tortured, while one had a sink dropped on his head.

Scottish national party to press for independence (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 02:05 PM PDT

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, left, gestures at Justice Secretary Kenny McAskill during First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday Sept. 3, 2009. The session was was dominated by the controversial decision to release Libyan Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.(AP Photo/Andrew Milligan-pa)AP - Scotland's separatist government said Thursday that it would push for a referendum on independence from the United Kingdom next year — a proposal unlikely to go far because the nationalists are outnumbered in Scotland's parliament.

Britain confirms identity of dead hostage in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 01:22 PM PDT

Iraq's President Jalal Talabani (R) talks to Jordan's Prime Minister Nader Dahabi during the latter's visit to Sulaimaniya, 260 km (162 miles) northeast of Baghdad, September 3, 2009. REUTERS/Iraqi Government/Handout (IRAQ CONFLICT POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - A British hostage discovered dead in Iraq has been identified as a security contractor abducted by militants in 2007, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.

Russian expert in Arctic Sea case flees country (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 11:51 AM PDT

AP - The Russian maritime expert who was among the first to raise the alarm about the mysterious disappearance of the Arctic Sea freighter said Thursday he has fled the country after receiving a threatening phone call.

'The Road' premieres at Venice (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 11:30 AM PDT

Actor Viggo Mortensen, left, and Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee pose for photographs before they attend the Premiere of 'The Road' at Venice Film Festival, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)AP - Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play father and son on a harrowing and hopeless journey in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's devastating novel "The Road," premiering Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.

Turkey to give Iraq, Syria more water amid drought (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 10:37 AM PDT

Iraq's Water Resources Minister Abdul Latif Jamal Rasheed speaks during a meeting on water-sharing in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. A water rights battle over the historic Tigris and Euphrates rivers simmered Thursday, as Iraq and Syria appealed for increased water flows to cope with severe drought but Turkey said it was already too overstretched. (AP Photo)AP - In a change of heart, Turkey said Thursday it would strive to increase the amount of water it releases to Syria and Iraq through the historic Tigris and Euphrates rivers but warned that it too was suffering from a severe drought.

Oopsie! Police slash research hemp instead of pot (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 10:14 AM PDT

AP - Dutch police who mowed down what they thought were illicit marijuana plants were red-faced Thursday when it emerged they'd ruined a research group's giant, officially sanctioned field of harmless hemp.

Newspaper editor who criticized Berlusconi quits (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 10:11 AM PDT

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi returns to his vehicle after he and Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, not pictured, attended a ceremony to lay the first stone of a new Italian-funded highway, in Tuweisha, Libya, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - The editor of a prominent Catholic newspaper that demanded Premier Silvio Berlusconi answer questions about a sex scandal resigned Thursday, saying he and his family were hurt by an attack on his reputation from a Berlusconi family newspaper.

Greece heads for early election in October (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 09:22 AM PDT

Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis walks after his meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, Athens, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Karamanlis formally declared that early elections will be held on Oct. 4, after the president on Thursday accepted his request to dissolve Parliament. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - The early election that Greece's embattled conservative prime minister has called for next month — just halfway through his four-year term — will be a risky bid to shore up enough support to reform the country's faltering economy.

Trial told UK teen sought explosives for massacre (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 09:04 AM PDT

AP - A teenager accused of plotting a Columbine-inspired school massacre tried to obtain an ingredient for a homemade bomb, a witness told the teen's trial Thursday.

Court orders renewed probe into Russian slaying (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 08:56 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Oct. 2004 file photo reporter Anna Politkovskaya attends a rally against war in Chechnya in downtown Moscow. Russia's Supreme Court changed the rules Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 for the investigation into Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya's killing, giving her family a glimmer of hope for justice and in a case that is testing President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to change. But lawyers and colleagues of Politkovskaya, the fearless investigative reporter who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in 2006, suggested the decision will lead to a dead end unless the authorities make an honest effort to solve a crime that underscored the risks run by Russians who challenged Vladimir Putin's Kremlin (AP Photo/Fyodor Savintsev, File)AP - Russia's Supreme Court changed the rules Thursday for the investigation into Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya's killing, giving her family a glimmer of hope for justice and testing President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to judicial reform.

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