2009年12月22日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

British priest: Shoplifting by poor sometimes OK (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST

This frame grab image taken from a recent BBC news television interview shows Rev. Tim Jones, parish priest of St. Lawrence and St. Hilda in York, England. Jones caused an uproar by telling his congregation that it is sometimes acceptable for desperate people to shoplift — as long as they do it at large national chain stores, rather than small, family businesses. (AP Photo/BBC News)AP - For a priest in northern England, the commandment that dictates "thou shalt not steal" isn't exactly written in stone.

Brother of Sinn Fein chief Adams turns himself in (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:18 PM PST

Police close off a road near Belfast, Northern Ireland in March 2009. The brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams handed himself over to Ireland's police to face allegations of child sex abuse after appeals from his family to come forward, police and reports said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - The brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams handed himself over to Ireland's police to face allegations of child sex abuse after appeals from his family to come forward, police and reports said Tuesday.

Ship carrying 3 astronauts docks at space station (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:08 PM PST

AP - A Russian spacecraft carrying an American, a Russian and a Japanese austronaut docked successfully at the International Space Station on Wednesday, officials said.

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Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:57 PM PST

AP - Russia's Mission Control says spacecraft with 3 astronauts has docked at the space station.

Court: Bosnia discriminates against Jews and Roma (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:53 PM PST

AP - Bosnia's constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma because it does not allow them to run for parliament or president, the European Court of Human Rights said in a ruling Tuesday.

Prince William spends night on London streets (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:08 PM PST

In this image made available by the Charity Centrepoint in London, Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009, Britain's Prince William and Centrepoint CEO Seyi Obakin prepare for a night sleeping rough in freezing temperatures in central London, Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009. The Prince bedded down in a sleeping bag next to a group of wheelie bins around Blackfriars Bridge, sleeping rough to experience being homeless, in an event organised by the homeless charity Centrepoint.(AP Photo/Centrepoint, ho)AP - A cold alley in central London is a far cry from a palace — but it was the spot Prince William chose to sleep to highlight the plight of homeless British teenagers.

Grounded European flights add to Christmas travel woes (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:06 PM PST

Stranded passenger sleep at Frankfurt airport. Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths brought chaos to Christmas holiday plans.(AFP/DDP/Thomas Lohnes)AFP - Mass flight cancellations heaped fresh misery on European travellers Tuesday, as the freezing weather that has caused at least 90 deaths on the continent brought chaos to Christmas holiday plans.

Report: Weapons flight heading to Iran (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:00 PM PST

AP - The flight plan for an aircraft seized in Thailand with a load of illicit North Korean arms and ammunition shows that the mysterious plane was headed to Iran, a new report from arms trafficking researchers says.

SFA agree deal with Levein (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:53 PM PST

Craig Levein is to become the next Scotland football manager the Scottish Football Association told BBC Scotland on Tuesday.(SFA)AFP - Craig Levein is to become the next Scotland football manager the Scottish Football Association told BBC Scotland on Tuesday.

Eurostar starts to bring angry passengers home (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:43 PM PST

Passengers disembark from the first Eurostar train coming from St Pancras station in London, arriving at Brussels as the firm started to clear a backlog of 75,000 stranded by a winter weather shutdown.(AFP/BELGA/Christophe Legasse)AFP - Packed Eurostar trains began to haul thousands of angry passengers between Paris, Brussels and London on Tuesday as the firm started to clear a backlog of 75,000 stranded by a winter weather shutdown.

Some Romanians nostalgic 20 years after communism (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 11:55 AM PST

A woman lights candles next to a cross during a memorial event for the anti-communist uprising 20 years ago, in the University Square in Bucharest Romania, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. This week Romanians commemorate 20 years since communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu fled Bucharest during a popular uprising on Dec. 22, 1989, after ruling Romania for 25 years. Ceausescu was executed together with his wife Elena on Dec. 25, 1989. More than a thousand people are reported to have lost their lives during the Romanian revolution. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - He was the poster child of East Europe's bloodiest revolution against communism 20 years ago, a dashing young academic who captured the yearning of Romania's masses for a new beginning after decades of Stalinist repression by an aging dictator and his henchmen.

Police: Foreigner behind Auschwitz sign theft (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 10:23 AM PST

Police officers present parts of the retrieved inscription from the Auschwitz Birkenau entrance, during a press conference in Krakow, Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. The infamous inscription 'Arbeit Macht Frei' from the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau was stolen Dec. 18, 2009 and retrieved by the Polish Police three days later. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - A foreigner outside of Poland commissioned the brazen theft of the infamous Auschwitz sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") and detectives must expand their investigation beyond the country's borders, officials said.

Panel: Lithuanian security approved CIA prisons (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:42 AM PST

AP - Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it's unclear whether they were actually used to interrogate terror suspects, a parliamentary panel said Tuesday.

Appeals court upholds conviction in Kercher murder (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:38 AM PST

Rudy Hermann Guede, of Ivory Coast, left, is escorted by a penitentiary police officer as he arrives for his appeals trial in Perugia, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. An Italian jury began deliberating Tuesday in the appeals trial of Guede, convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher and sentenced to 30 years in jail. Guede of Ivory Coast denies killing Meredith Kercher and has appealed his conviction. A verdict by the eight-member jury is expected later Tuesday. Also convicted in the case, but in a separate trial, are Amanda Knox, the U.S. student who was the victim's roommate in Perugia, and Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend at the time of the 2007 slaying. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - An Italian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the guilty verdict for a man convicted of murdering a British student, but cut his prison sentence to 16 years.

Lawmaker plans bill to ban all-encompassing veil (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 08:48 AM PST

AP - A French parliamentarian said Tuesday he would file legislation to bar Muslim women from wearing veils that hide their faces in public.

Eurostar resumes service between Paris and London (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 08:34 AM PST

AP - Eurostar resumed its high-speed rail service linking Britain, France and Belgium on Tuesday after a three-day suspension that stranded tens of thousands of holiday travelers and left French President Nicolas Sarkozy indignant.

Demjanjuk trial witness describes deportation (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 08:27 AM PST

Medical assistants escort the defendant John Demjanjuk on his way to the court room for his trial in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. Demjanjuk is on trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27.900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, opening the final chapter of some 30 years of efforts to prosecute the retired Ohio autoworker. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein)AP - A survivor of the Sobibor death camp testified that Ukrainian guards in Nazi-occupied Poland were worse than the Nazis' infamous paramilitary SS as he recalled his experiences Tuesday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.

Police: Body found in river missing American man (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 06:42 AM PST

An undated private photo provided by the police in Frankfurt, Germany, shows US citizen Devon Hollahan. The father of Devon Hollahan the 22-year-old American man who went missing in Germany more than a week ago said Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 he is 'terrified' by his son's disappearance. 'Unfortunately, still no major clues in the case, but they're still hard at it,' Jeff Hollahan told The Associated Press in a telephone interview about the mystery surrounding his son, Devon Hollahan. The younger Hollahan had been teaching English in Prague since July. He was last seen at around 3 a.m. on Nov. 21, 2009 after a concert in Frankfurt. (AP Photo/Polizei Frankfurt)AP - German police said Tuesday that the body of a man pulled from the Rhine River last week has been identified as missing 22-year-old American Devon Hollahan.

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