2009年11月29日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Nazi guard Demjanjuk to stand trial in Germany (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:56 PM PST

File photo of suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk returning to the U.S. from an Israeli jail in 1993. REUTERS/Jack Dabaghian/FilesReuters - John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former Nazi camp guard, is due to stand trial on Monday on charges of helping to force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in 1943.

Reina "one of the best in the world" says Benitez (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:46 PM PST

Spain's goalkeeper Pepe Reina dives for the ball during a training session at Las Rozas Sport City near Madrid on November 12. Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez labelled Reina AFP - Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez labelled Jose Reina "one of the best keepers in the world" after the Spain international inspired his side to victory in the Merseyside derby.

Early bird Bowyer deepens Wolves woe (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:34 PM PST

Birmingham City's English midfielder Lee Bowyer (R) celebrates scoring against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Moulineux Stadium in Wolverhampton. Alex McLeish paid tribute to veteran Premier League midfielder Bowyer for his match-winning role in an important victory over local rivals Wolves that keeps Birmingham City on course for top flight survival.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Alex McLeish paid tribute to veteran Premier League midfielder Lee Bowyer for his match-winning role in an important victory over local rivals Wolves that keeps Birmingham City on course for top flight survival.

Daniels' X Factor dream ends (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:24 PM PST

Welsh singer Lloyd Daniels was defiant on Sunday with no sign of tears after learning his X Factor dream was in tatters.(X Factor)AFP - Welsh singer Lloyd Daniels was defiant on Sunday with no sign of tears after learning his X Factor dream was in tatters.

Britain's Royal Society puts rare scientific manuscripts online (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:16 PM PST

Historic manuscripts by ground-breaking scientists will be published online for the first time, Britain's Royal Society said Monday. The works include a 1770 scientific study confirming that composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a genius and, more recently, acclaimed British scientist Stephen Hawking's early writings on black holes.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other ground-breaking scientists will be published online for the first time, Britain's Royal Society said Monday.

Switzerland votes to ban new minarets (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST

A traffic sign AFP - Switzerland approved Sunday a ban on new minarets from being built, with the referendum initiated by far-right politicians picking up strong support.

Royal Society celebrates 350 years of discovery (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:02 PM PST

AP - Sometimes, history's turning points come in blood and gunfire, and sometimes in pen and ink.

Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:40 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo a man passes by a poster of the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) which shows a woman wearing a burqa against a background of a Swiss flag upon which several minarets resemble missiles at the central station in Geneva, Switzerland. An attempt to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland has set off an emotional debate on Islam in the Alpine nation, stirring fears of boycotts from Muslim countries and of violent reactions. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)AP - Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash against a growing Muslim population.

Egypt mufti says Swiss minaret ban insults Muslims (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:55 PM PST

Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa, pictured in March 2009, denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an AFP - Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an "insult" to Muslims across the world, while calling on Muslims not to be provoked by the move.

Saddam ordered Radio Free Europe attack in Prague (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:28 PM PST

Reuters - Saddam Hussein ordered his secret agents to attack the Prague headquarters of U.S. run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to end broadcasting to Iraq, a Czech intelligence service spokesman said Sunday.

Italian chef missing at sea on Caribbean cruise (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:40 PM PST

This undated picture released Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 by the family of Italian chef Angelo Faliva shows Angelo Faliva at an unknown location. The Italian foreign ministry said Sunday Nov. 29, 2009 Italian chef Angelo Faliva is missing in the Caribbean Sea from a U.S. flagged cruise ship and that the FBI and Colombian maritime authorities are investigating. Faliva's sister, Chiara Faliva, said Sunday the family was alerted Thursday that he had been reported missing and that a life preserver was also missing, with its nighttime illumination flares torn off and left aboard the ship. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the family of Angelo Faliva, ho)AP - Colombian maritime authorities searched Sunday for an Italian chef believed to have gone overboard from a U.S. cruise ship off Colombia's Caribbean coast, officials and the man's family said.

France and Rwanda agree to restore ties (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 11:37 AM PST

AP - France and Rwanda have restored diplomatic ties, officials in both countries said Sunday, three years after relations were severed when a Paris judge accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame of ordering his predecessor's assassination.

Russia sends security pact draft to leaders abroad (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:28 AM PST

AP - Russia stepped up its campaign for a new trans-Atlantic security treaty that would bolster Russia's global influence, saying Sunday that President Dmitry Medvedev had sent a draft proposal to foreign leaders.

Russians mourn victims of express train wreck (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:18 AM PST

Investigators and rescue workers are seen amid wreckage and damaged coaches at the site of a train derailment near the town of Uglovka, some 400 km (250 miles) north-west of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others in what may have been an act of sabotage, Russian officials said. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Russians mourned at religious services and soccer stadiums Sunday after a deadly train wreck that authorities blamed on a terrorist bomb. The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church urged the nation not to give in to fear.

Spain says trawler attacked by pirates (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:46 AM PST

The Spanish trawler Alakrana slowly pulls into port at Victoria on November 20. A Spanish fishing boat has thwarted an attack by pirates in the Indian Ocean in the early hours of Sunday morning, Spain's defence ministry has said.(AFP/File/Stringer)AP - Pirates attacked a Spanish fishing vessel Sunday in the Indian Ocean with small arms and a rocket-propelled grenade but private security guards aboard the ship drove them off with gunfire, officials said.

E-mail and a view: Polanski heads for house arrest (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:10 AM PST

The chalet named 'Milky Way' of film director Roman Polanski, is seen in Gstaad, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. Security experts on Saturday started preparing Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet for the movie director's house arrest while Swiss authorities consider whether to extradite him to the United States.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the United States.

(AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:34 AM PST

AP - Widely accepted projections based on ballot results show Swiss have voted to ban new minarets.

Pope urges prayer, action to comfort AIDS patients (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:24 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during a Vespers Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers and concrete action to comfort all those who are suffering from AIDS.

Police: moose a suspect in Swedish death (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:16 AM PST

AP - Swedish police say they've cleared a man who was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife after deciding the culprit was most likely a moose.

German trial is new twist in Demjanjuk saga (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:21 PM PST

FILE - In this April 14, 2009 file photo John Demjanjuk, second from right, is taken from his home in Seven Hills, Ohio by immigration agents. The 89-year-old goes on trial Monday in Munich on 27,900 counts of accessory to murder following 30 years of legal efforts against Demjanjuk on three continents. The trial breaks new legal ground in Germany, which is pressing forward vigorously with attempts to bring to justice World War II perpetrators while they remain alive. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)AP - John Demjanjuk once was the focus of the world's attention for the bloodcurdling crimes he stood accused of. Today, he's attracting notice for being the lowest-ranking person to go on trial for Nazi crimes in World War II.

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