2009年10月11日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Recession-hit govt to sell off state assets: PM (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 05:03 PM PDT

The British government will sell off a raft of state assets to help reduce its debt, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, pictured on October 9, was to announce Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Kieran Doherty)AFP - The British government will sell off a raft of state assets to help reduce its debt, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was to announce Monday.

Boyzone lead singer Gately dies on holiday in Spain (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 03:57 PM PDT

Members of music band Boyzone arrive at Palma de Mallorca's Airport a day after lead singer Stephen Gately died unexpectedly while on holiday in Mallorca. Gately, who was 33, caused a sensation in the pop world 10 years ago by announcing he was gay.(AFP/Jaime Reina)AFP - Boyzone lead singer Stephen Gately has died while on holiday in Majorca off the coast of Spain, the Irish band said on its website. He was 33.

Brown on back foot as election looms (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 03:45 PM PDT

The Houses of Parliament in central London, 2008. MPs return to work after a month of political meetings that set out the battle lines for the next election -- and the huge challenge Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces to keep his job.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - MPs return to work on Monday after a month of political meetings that set out the battle lines for the next election -- and the huge challenge Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces to keep his job.

Streisand pulls off US, British charts double (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 03:44 PM PDT

American entertainer Barbra Streisand, pictured in September 2009, achieved the feat of topping the US and British album charts simultaneously as her record AFP - American entertainer Barbra Streisand achieved the feat of topping the US and British album charts simultaneously as her record "Love Is The Answer" went to number one Sunday.

Greenpeace activists occupy parliament's roof (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 03:13 PM PDT

Greenpeace demonstrators sit on the roof of the Houses of Parliament to protest government inaction on climate change in London. At least 40 activists occupied the roof of the famous Palace of Westminster, unfurling banners reading: AFP - Greenpeace environmental campaigners on Sunday stormed the roof of the Houses of Parliament to protest about climate change, and said they were planning to stay there overnight until MPs return to session.

Clinton vows to help defuse N. Ireland stand-off (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 02:48 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on as she listens to journalists' questions during a press conference with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen at Farmleigh House in Dublin.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw America's weight Sunday behind efforts to stop Northern Ireland slipping back towards conflict, as a paramilitary group ended its decades-old armed struggle.

Irish paramilitary group renounces violence (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 01:43 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on as she listens to journalists' questions during a press conference with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen at Farmleigh House in Dublin.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - An Irish paramilitary group responsible for dozens of murders during three decades of violence in Northern Ireland has renounced its armed struggle, its political wing said Sunday.

Mitterrand, hit by sex furor, wins fresh support (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 01:40 PM PDT

Reuters - French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand won the backing of fellow politicians on Sunday against calls for his resignation for having written about paying young male prostitutes in Thailand.

The Next Step for the European Union (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 01:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The Next Step for the European Union

Opposition says Kremlin fails democracy pledge test (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 01:09 PM PDT

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gesture as they watch a World Cup 2010 Group 4 qualifying match between Russia and Germany at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow October 10, 2009. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Kremlin/Vladimir RodionovReuters - Opposition candidates and election observers said significant violations in regional votes across Russia on Sunday showed President Dmitry Medvedev was failing to follow through on a promise to boost democracy.

Turkey: Armenia must pull out of Nagorno-Karabakh (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 11:44 AM PDT

Armenian foreign minister, Edouard Nalbandian, front left, and Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, front right, shake hands while Swiss foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, and US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, back from left, applaude during the signing ceremony of the protocols and statements between Armenia and Turkey, at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Turkey and Armenia are poised to normalise relations as part of a landmark agreement brokered by Switzerland and strongly backed by the United States. (AP Photo/KeystonePartick B. Kraemer,Pool)AP - One day after Turkey signed a deal the U.S. helped salvage to end a century of enmity with Armenia, Turkey's leader set a tough condition for normalizing ties on Sunday: Armenia must withdraw from the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

British PM Brown to announce assets sell-off (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 11:41 AM PDT

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown plans to announce a sale of government assets aimed at raising 3 billion pounds ($4.8 billion), his office said Sunday.

Priest who lived with leprosy now a saint (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 11:31 AM PDT

Audrey Toguchi, 80, Hawaii walks during a canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI gave the Roman Catholic church five new saints including Father Damien, born as Jozef De Veuster in 1840, a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who cared for leprosy victims on Molokai from 1873 to 1889, when the disease killed him. Pope Benedict XVI decided that Toguchi's apparently inexplicable healing from what doctors had described as terminal cancer was a miracle wrought through Damien's intercession. The others new Saints are Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, Francisco Coll y Guitart, Rafael Arnaiz Baron, Marie de la Croix (Jeanne) Jugan. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - A 19th-century priest whose courageous work with leprosy patients in Hawaii has been likened to the efforts of those battling the stigma of AIDS was elevated to sainthood Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI, along with four other Catholics he hailed as heroes of holiness.

Climate-change protesters scale UK Parliament (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 09:37 AM PDT

Environmental campaigners stage a protest on the roof of the Houses of Parliament in London, under St. Stephen's Tower, also know as Big Ben, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Several dozen environmental activists scaled Britain's Parliament building Sunday to draw attention to climate change. Greenpeace said its members were atop the building with yellow banners reading 'Change the politics, save the climate.' The group said it planned to stay overnight so it could welcome lawmakers, who return from their summer break on Monday. (AP Photo/Max Nash/PA)AP - Several dozen environmental activists scaled Britain's Parliament building Sunday to draw attention to climate change.

Clinton: terrorists increasing threat to Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 08:46 AM PDT

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband, left, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the end of a press conference after their talks in London, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Clinton is in London as part of an official five-day tour of Europe. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - An audacious Taliban attack on Pakistan's army headquarters shows there is a growing terrorist threat to the nuclear-armed U.S. ally, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.

Physicist exchanged e-mails with al-Qaida contact (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 08:10 AM PDT

AP - A French physicist arrested last week while working at the world's largest atom smasher has acknowledged to investigators that he corresponded over the Internet with a contact in North Africa's al-Qaida branch, a judicial official said Sunday.

IRA splinter group renouncing violence in Ireland (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 07:56 AM PDT

FILE - A Republican colour guard dressed in Paramilitary style uniforms, lead the procession in Londonderry cemetery, Northern Ireland in this Sunday, March 5, 2000 file photo, for the official unveiling of an Irish National Liberation Army monument to commemorate their fallen comrades. The INLA, an IRA splinter group responsible for some of most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland conflict, said Sunday Oct 11 2009 that it is formally renouncing violence and plans to hand over weapons to disarmament officials, 11 years after declaring a shaky cease-fire reflecting the group's rival factions in Dublin and Belfast and its deep involvement in a range of criminal rackets, including drugs, counterfeit goods and smuggled cigarettes. INLA gunmen have killed or wounded more than two dozen civilians, mostly criminal rivals, in both parts of Ireland over the past decade. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)AP - The Irish National Liberation Army, an IRA splinter group responsible for some of the most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland conflict, renounced violence Sunday and signaled it could hand over weapons soon to disarmament officials.

Nasty, or nice? New mood among UK's Conservatives (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 06:51 AM PDT

AP - Who's nasty now?

Czech president last obstacle for EU reform treaty (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 06:25 AM PDT

Czech Republic's President Vaclav Klaus reads a statement at the Prague Castle in Prague Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. Klaus said the Czech Republic needs to negotiate an exemption to the EU's Lisbon Treaty that will protect the country from post-war property claims and safeguard sovereignty of the judiciary. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - The Irish finally said yes, and the Poles did Saturday, but the EU reform treaty still has a huge hurdle to clear. A "no" from the lone holdout — Czech President Vaclav Klaus — could cripple plans to transform Europe into a global player.

French author: New info on Ben Barka disappearance (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 06:23 AM PDT

AP - A French author says he has police documents that may help shed light on the mysterious disappearance in Paris nearly 45 years ago of Moroccan opposition figure Mehdi Ben Barka.

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