2009年10月26日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Govt officials to help Blair win top EU job: report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 06:34 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked two of his most senior advisers to lobby discreetly in Europe to help secure ex-premier Tony Blair, seen here, the EU presidency, according to a report Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked two of his most senior advisers to lobby discreetly in Europe to help secure ex-premier Tony Blair the EU presidency, according to a report Tuesday.

Norwegian accused of skin-crawling snake smuggling (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 06:24 PM PDT

AP - A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday the 22-year-old Norwegian citizen was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. He said the man had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.

Obama - "I may be skinny but I'm tough" (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 06:08 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama had a message for his political friends and foes on Monday -- "just because I'm skinny doesn't mean I'm not tough."

Gurkhas in fresh court battle over British army pensions (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:56 PM PDT

A Gurkha soldier is pictured in central London, in October 2008. Veteran Gurkha soldiers from Nepal are launching another court battle against the British government - this time over pension rights.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Veteran Gurkha soldiers from Nepal are launching another court battle against the British government Tuesday -- this time over pension rights.

Ecuador to Europe: Pay us not to drill in Amazon (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:02 PM PDT

AP - Ecuador's president is in London this week to promote a unique proposal: pay his country $3 billion not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon reserve.

Climate change protesters target power station (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:21 PM PDT

Protesters arrive for a demonstration on October 17 at the German energy giant E.ON 's Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, near Nottingham. Ten protesters were arrested Monday as environmental campaigners prepared to spend the night at a coal-fired power station as part of a climate change rally, police said.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Ten protesters were arrested Monday as environmental campaigners prepared to spend the night at a coal-fired power station as part of a climate change rally, police said.

Gadhafi says sorry for UK policewoman's death (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:10 PM PDT

AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has said he is sorry about the death of a British policewoman shot outside Tripoli's embassy in London 25 years ago, but does not know the identity of her killer.

CORRECTED - Pilots on wayward U.S. jetliner using laptops (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Pilots of a Northwest Airlines jetliner that overshot its destination by 150 miles last week told U.S. investigators they became distracted during an extended discussion of crew scheduling that included their use of personal laptops, officials said on Monday.

McDonald's to shut business in Iceland (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:17 PM PDT

Reuters - McDonald's Corp will shutter its business in Iceland because it is too expensive for the franchise to operate after the country's financial crisis.

Man tells German court of Egyptian wife's killing (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:27 PM PDT

Defendant Alex W., right, is brought in to a courtroom of the district court in Dresden, Germany, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The trial of the man accused of stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a German court, an attack that outraged Muslims, opened Monday in the same courthouse, but under much greater security. Marwa al-Sherbini, 31, was giving evidence in July against a man charged with defamation for having called her a 'terrorist' and 'Islamist' when he attacked her. The young woman died after being stabbed 18 times. Her husband was also stabbed. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel, Pool)AP - The husband of a pregnant Egyptian woman knifed to death in a German courtroom testified Monday that the alleged attacker continued stabbing his wife even after she was on the ground.

Reports: Berlusconi has mild case of scarlet fever (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:18 PM PDT

Pier Luigi Bersani celebrates his victory as Italy's new opposition party leader at the Orditura Villanti textile factory in Prato October 26, 2009. Italy's opposition Democratic Party elected three-time former minister Bersani as its new leader on Sunday, in a vote overshadowed by the resignation of a centre-left regional governor amid a blackmail scandal. In a Sunday poll, in which anyone over the age of 16 could vote, Bersani, 58, was chosen to lead a party riven by squabbling since being soundly defeated by Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives in last year's general election. REUTERS/Marco Bucco (ITALY POLITICS)AP - Italian news reports say Premier Silvio Berlusconi will skip an event in the quake-stricken Abruzzo region due to a mild case of scarlet fever. A doctor says risks are limited and can be controlled with antibiotics.

France: Manslaughter inquiry dropped (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:36 PM PDT

AP - A French magistrate has dropped a manslaughter investigation into a crash involving a motorbike and a police car that killed two teenagers and sparked riots in 2007, a lawyer for the boys' families said Monday.

Vatican: Talks with traditionalists will continue (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:29 PM PDT

Members of a delegation from the Society of St. Pius X, background right, framed by a Vatican Swiss guard, walk inside the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The Vatican began 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. A delegation from the Society of St. Pius X traveled to the Vatican for a first round of meetings aimed at overcoming the deep theological differences that prompted the group to split from Rome following the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI's efforts to unify the Catholic Church and reach out to Christian traditionalists took a new step Monday with the start of talks between the Vatican and a group of breakaway Catholics that includes a Holocaust denier.

German politicians sign coalition agreement (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:55 AM PDT

AP - Germany's political leaders have formally approved a new center-right coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, nearly a month after a general election.

Dutch teenager postpones plan to sail the globe (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:51 AM PDT

AP - A 14-year-old Dutch girl who hopes to become the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe solo said Monday she will wait until the school year ends before starting her attempt.

Karadzic boycotts opening of his war crimes trial (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:49 AM PDT

The empty seat where Radovan Karadzic was supposed to sit for the first day of his trial at the War Crimes Tribunal is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Oct. 26, 2009. Karadzic's war crimes trial was abruptly adjourned Monday after the former Bosnian Serb leader boycotted the opening day to protest his lack of time to prepare his defense. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, POOL)AP - His chair was empty, his headphones lay idle on the desk. In Courtroom One at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, outraged survivors of Bosnia's bloody war gasped in disbelief Monday as judges adjourned the opening day of Radovan Karadzic's trial after just 15 minutes.

Retired AP reporter Neuerbourg dies at 88 (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:34 AM PDT

FILE - AP correspondent Hanns Neuerbourg during an interview in May 2008. The roving Associated Press correspondent in eastern Europe who also covered the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and interviewed Elvis Presley, has died in Switzerland, his family said Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. He was 88. (AP Photo/Sandy Higgins)AP - Hanns Neuerbourg, a roving Associated Press correspondent in eastern Europe who also covered the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and interviewed Elvis Presley, has died in Switzerland. He was 88.

UK government delays hacker extradition deadline (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 10:57 AM PDT

AP - The British government says it will consider new medical evidence before approving the extradition of a computer hacker wanted in the U.S. on charges of breaking into military computers.

More detailed questions in new UK census (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 10:01 AM PDT

AP - How many bedrooms in your home? What kind of heater do you use? Who's staying over at your apartment tonight?

Latvian experts say meteorite crater was hoax (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 06:50 AM PDT

People walk around a crater near the northern Latvian town of Mazsalaca. Experts cast doubt on claims that a meteorite had crashed to earth near a small town in northern Latvia.(AFP/Ilmars Znotins)AP - Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax.

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