2009年10月25日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Obama asked Spain to deliver message to Cuba (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 04:41 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to send Cuba a message about the need for reform when he met Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earlier this month, according to a U.S. official.

Gurkha soldiers return after Afghanistan tour (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 03:36 PM PDT

Soldiers from the Second Royal Gurkha Rifles check equipment in 1999. Nepalese soldiers from The Royal Gurkha Rifles returned Sunday to their base in Britain and the arms of their families after a gruelling tour of duty in Afghanistan.(AFP/Army HO/File/Shaun Lewis)AFP - Nepalese soldiers from The Royal Gurkha Rifles returned Sunday to their base in Britain and the arms of their families after a gruelling tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Brady's Super Bowl sense stirred at Wembley (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 03:33 PM PDT

New England Patriots' Tom Brady (R) vies with Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Quincy Black (L) during their NFL International Series game against Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley Stadium, in London. The New England Patriots thrashed Tampa Bay 35-7 here on Sunday in the latest regular season NFL clash to be played at London's Wembley Stadium.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Star quarterback Tom Brady said playing at London's Wembley Stadium here on Sunday reminded him of the Super Bowl after he led the New England Patriots to a 35-7 thrashing of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Karadzic trial set to start without Karadzic (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 02:26 PM PDT

Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrenica, hold a hand woven tapestry with the names of their dead relatives, victims of the war, embroided on the tapestry and carry photographs of war victims before boarding a bus, in Sarajevo, early on Saturday Oct. 24, 2009. Buses carrying about 200 Bosnian Muslim family members of war victims departed Sarajevo for the Hague, Netherlands, to demand a swift trial and severe punishment for Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, facing a war crimes trial, scheduled to begin, Oct. 26. Families of victims of the Srebrenica massacre and others who died in the 1992-95 war are planning to hold rallies in front of the Hague tribunal building when Karadzic faces trial. (AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)AP - The trial of Radovan Karadzic starts Monday — one of the most significant war crimes cases to emerge from Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. The Bosnian Serb leader is boycotting the opening in a defiant gesture against what he considers a rush to justice by the U.N. court prosecuting him.

Conservative Anglican leaders urge change (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 02:18 PM PDT

AP - A conservative group of Anglican bishops are pushing for change in their own churches rather than suggesting the faithful turn to Rome.

U.S. basketball player dies during Portuguese match (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 01:44 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. basketball player Kevin Widemond died on Sunday in Portugal after collapsing during a break in a game for his Ovarense side, the Portuguese Basketball Federation said.

Opposition activist killed in southern Russia (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 12:25 PM PDT

AP - A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia's southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months.

Diamanti sparkles as Hammers frustrate Arsenal (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:49 AM PDT

West Ham United's Italian player Alessandro Diamanti celebrates scoring his late penalty during the English Premier league football match between West ham United and Arsenal at Upton Park in east London. The match ended in a 2-2 draw.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Alessandro Diamanti stepped off the bench to inspire a superb second-half comeback by West Ham United, who recovered from a two-goal deficit to draw 2-2 against Arsenal here at Upton Park on Sunday.

Fulham fight back to end City's home run (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 10:33 AM PDT

Fulham's English midfielder Jonathan Greening (L) vies with Manchester City's Togolese forward Emmanuel Adebayor during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Fulham at The City of Manchester stadium, Manchester.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Manchester City threw away a two-goal advantage to draw 2-2 with Fulham here at Eastlands on Sunday as their perfect home run in the Premier League this term came to an end.

Italian priest beatified in Milan (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:56 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of faithful filled a square in Milan on Sunday to attend the beatification of an Italian priest who served as military chaplain during Word War II and went on to devote his life to helping disabled children and orphans.

Scottish police review Lockerbie case (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:09 AM PDT

A memorial stone to victims of Pan-Am flight 103 in a garden of remembrance near the village of Lockerbie in Scotland. Scottish police are reexamining the evidence surrounding the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, a relative of one of the 270 people who died when a Pan Am jetliner was blown up over the Scottish town said Sunday.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AP - The Lockerbie bombing case is being reviewed by detectives trying to determine if anyone helped the only person convicted of the attack that killed 270 people on a Pam Am flight over Scotland, police and prosecutors said Sunday.

Chief bodyguard of Pope John Paul II dies (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:22 AM PDT

AP - The longtime chief bodyguard of the late Pope John Paul II, who accompanied him in trips abroad and was nearby during the 1981 attempted assassination of the pontiff, has died in Rome at 83.

Vatican aims to reintegrate traditionalists (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT

AP - The Vatican begins talks Monday to bring a group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics back under its wing, nine months after the pope created an uproar by rehabilitating one of their bishops despite his denial of the Holocaust.

Pope celebrates Mass to cap Africa meeting (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 07:25 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing at the end of a mass at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, concluding a three-week Vatican meeting on the role of the Catholic Church in Africa. The Pope concluded his remarks with a call to the African continent to 'get up'' and promised the solidarity of the whole Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI ended a three-week Vatican meeting on Africa Sunday with a call for peace and reconciliation among all people on the continent, regardless of ethnic and religious differences.

German trial over stabbing death of Muslim woman (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 04:46 AM PDT

AP - The trial of a man accused of stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a German court — an attack that outraged Muslims — opens Monday in the same courthouse, but under much greater security.

UN nuclear inspectors head to Iran to visit site (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 06:34 PM PDT

U.N inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) check in at Vienna's International Airport on their way to Iran, Vienna, Austria, Saturday Oct. 24, 2009. A team of U.N. inspectors is heading to Iran to visit a recently revealed nuclear site. The International Atomic Energy Agency experts are slated to examine an unfinished uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom to verify it is for peaceful purposes. Disclosure of its existence last month raised international suspicion over the extent and aim of the country's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - A team of U.N. inspectors went to Iran on Saturday to visit a recently revealed nuclear site, amid new efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program.

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