2010年1月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Controversy hits pope's Rome synagogue visit (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:10 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI gestures to the faithful, during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican, Wednesday Jan 13, 2010. The pontiff appealed for a generous international aid response for the victims of Haiti's earthquake and has pledged concrete help from the Catholic Church. Benedict also urged prayers for the victims and assured all those who were suffering that he was spiritually close to them and had 'implored God for consolation and relief in their suffering.' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI's planned visit to Rome's main synagogue on Sunday has sharply divided Italian Jews, with some angered by his moves to push World War II Pope Pius XII toward sainthood.

Ukraine presidential hopefuls fear election fraud (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:08 AM PST

Ukrainian President and Presidential candidate, Viktor Yushchenko speaks during a presentations of his book 'To Nation' in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. The first round of voting in Ukraine's presidential election is set for January 17. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Ukraine's presidential candidates are trading accusations of plans to steal Sunday's election, with at least one warning of possible street confrontations.

European stocks mixed before US results (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:01 AM PST

A trader monitors shares prices in Paris in 2008. Europe's main stock markets traded mixed on Friday as investors braced for more key US earnings and after Tokyo hit a 15-month high and Wall Street rose overnight.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)AFP - Europe's main stock markets traded mixed on Friday as investors braced for more key US earnings and after Tokyo hit a 15-month high and Wall Street rose overnight.

Spain plans time capsule under Cervantes statue (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:01 AM PST

AP - The Spanish capital is planning to place a time capsule under a statue of author Miguel de Cervantes.

AB InBev wins ruling to end Belgian blockade (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:56 AM PST

Reuters - Anheuser-Busch InBev , the world's largest brewer, said on Friday it had won a court ruling to end a blockade at one of its Belgian breweries and unions responded that they would strike if it were enforced.

Pope defends invitation to Anglicans to convert (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:42 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI gestures to the faithful, during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican, Wednesday Jan 13, 2010. The pontiff appealed for a generous international aid response for the victims of Haiti's earthquake and has pledged concrete help from the Catholic Church. Benedict also urged prayers for the victims and assured all those who were suffering that he was spiritually close to them and had 'implored God for consolation and relief in their suffering.' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has defended his decision to invite disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church by saying it is the "ultimate aim" of ecumenism.

Torres wants Liverpool owners to splash the cash (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:35 AM PST

Liverpool and Spain striker Fernando Torres eyes the ball during his side's FA Cup third round match against Reading at The Madejski Stadium, Reading, January 2. Torres has told Liverpool's owners to ease the pressure on under-fire manager Rafael Benitez by launching a major spending spree.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Fernando Torres has told Liverpool's owners to ease the pressure on under-fire manager Rafael Benitez by launching a major spending spree.

Many countries report missing and dead in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:33 AM PST

AP - A glance on countries reporting dead and missing in Haiti:

UN: Looters break into UN warehouses in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:33 AM PST

Parcels of medicine boxes and humanitarian aid are loaded on a plane at Merignac airport, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. French NGO Doctors Without Borders chartered the plane to send aid to earthquake-hit Haiti Thursday. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)AP - Looters have broken into U.N. food warehouses in Haiti's crumbled capital, an official said Friday, as security and logistical challenges mounted for groups trying to feed at least 2 million people reeling from a devastating earthquake.

South Africa close in on England in final Test (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:33 AM PST

South Africa's captain Graeme Smith plays a stroke. Smith and Hashim Amla have shared a century partnership as South Africa closed in on England's first innings total on the second day of the fourth and final Test at the Wanderers Stadium.(AFP/Stephane de Sakutin)AFP - Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla shared a century partnership as South Africa closed in on England's first innings total on the second day of the fourth and final Test at the Wanderers Stadium on Friday.

Sobibor survivor testifying in Demjanjuk trial (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:33 AM PST

AP - When Thomas Toivi Blatt was a prisoner at Sobibor, assigned to sort clothes and destroy documents of fellow Jews after their corpses were incinerated, it was said that the only way out of the death camp would be "with the smoke, traveling with the wind."

Status of face-covering veils Muslim around Europe (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:58 AM PST

AP - • FRANCE: After passing 2004 law banning Muslim headscarves and other "ostentatious" religious symbols from classrooms, France's government submitted a draft law this week on a ban on face-covering veils. The bill could be debated this spring.

France moves closer to banning full Muslim veil (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:55 AM PST

Faiza Silmi, a 32-year-old Moroccan , is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, 38 kilometers (24 miles) southwest of Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Silmi has taken her plight to the European Court of Human Rights. But her fate could be decided before the case is heard if France passes a law making such dress taboo, which appears increasingly likely. Full-body robes are a rare sight in the streets of France, although France is home to an estimated 5 million Muslims, the largest such population in western Europe. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - The man she married is French, her four children were born in France and she speaks French with only a trace of her native Arabic tongue. Faiza Silmi contends her clothes — a head-to-toe robe and filmy tissue covering her face — are the reason France has denied her citizenship in her adopted land.

Cyprus police arrest 3 over publisher's murder (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:15 PM PST

Relatives and friends of Andis Hadjicostis, 41, the Director of Dias Media Group, carry his coffin during a funeral service at the church in Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010. Hadjicostis director of the Dias publishing group, was fatally shot late Monday, Jan. 11, outside his home in central Nicosia, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a contract killing.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - Police in Cyprus arrested three men suspected of the murder of the island's most powerful publisher, a police spokesman said Friday.

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