2010年2月4日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Protestants accept deal to save NIreland govt (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:27 PM PST

AP - Lawmakers from Northern Ireland's major Protestant party have unanimously backed a compromise plan with the Catholic minority to save their power-sharing government, Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson declared Friday.

N.Ireland party backs deal, saves power-sharing (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:00 PM PST

Northern Ireland's leader Peter Robinson, pictured on February 1, has said his party has backed a deal with their power-sharing partners to pull the province's threatened administration back from the brink.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - Northern Ireland's leader Peter Robinson has said his party has backed a deal with their power-sharing partners to pull the province's threatened administration back from the brink.

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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:35 PM PST

AP - NIreland's major Protestant party announces agreement with Catholics to save power-sharing.

Sarkozy and Merkel brush off Obama snub (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:22 PM PST

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama's decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders while stressing Thursday the importance of Russia as a European partner.

Airman killed in German avalanche: ministry (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:18 PM PST

Aftermath of a 2008 avalanche. A British airman died Thursday after being hit by an avalanche while skiing in Germany as part of a training exercise, defence officials said.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - A British airman died Thursday after being hit by an avalanche while skiing in Germany as part of a training exercise, defence officials said.

Stocks tumble on worries about jobs, European debt (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:07 PM PST

Specialist Patrick King works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Stocks buckled Thursday under the growing belief that the global economy is weaker than many investors expected and likely to stop companies from hiring. The Dow Jones industrials briefly traded below 10,000 for the first time in three months.

Dollar gains as debt worries spread in Europe (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:55 PM PST

AP - The dollar rose to its highest level against the euro in more than eight months Thursday as concerns over public debt in Europe spread.

Bond yields tumble on latest European debt worries (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:20 PM PST

AP - Interest rates fell sharply in the bond market Thursday as new problems with European government debt brought worries that the global economy is sicker than many had believed.

Call for public inquiry into claims Iraqis abused (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:19 PM PST

A British soldier takes a combat position during a patrol in the southern city of Basra in 2006. Lawyers for scores of Iraqis who claim they were abused by British soldiers called on Thursday for a public inquiry into how the country's forces have treated detainees during the US-led war.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Lawyers for scores of Iraqis who claim they were abused by soldiers called on Thursday for a public inquiry into how the country's forces have treated detainees during the US-led war.

Cheers! Brits toast new shatterproof pint glass (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:17 PM PST

British Home Secretary Alan Johnson holds two prototype pint glasses designed not to break up into dangerous shards on impact, in London, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The British government wants pubs to try out shatterproof pint glasses as a way to cut back on beer-related violence. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVEAP - Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses won't.

Ukraine's election hits last-minute turbulence (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:42 PM PST

Passengers sit in a metro train under a TV set showing an election advertisement for a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, head of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Accusing her opponent Viktor Yanukovych of preparing to steal Sunday's election, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko vowed Thursday to send her followers to the streets in a repeat of the 2004 Orange Revolution. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - The spirit of the Orange revolution may be stirring once again.

Romania to host US missile interceptors (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:51 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2009 file photo, Romanian President Traian Basescu looks on during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania. Basescu said Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 the country's top defense body has approved a U.S. proposal to place anti-ballistic interceptors in Romania as part of a revamped U.S. missile shield. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)AP - Romania's top defense body on Thursday approved a U.S. proposal to place anti-ballistic missile interceptors in the country as part of a revamped American missile shield, the president said.

US war commander sees progress in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:46 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, bottom left, sits beside Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, bottom center, flanked by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, bottom right, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, top left, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, top right, Masood Ahmed of the IMF, 2nd right top, and Juan Miranda, Director General of the ADB's Central and West Asia Department, 2nd left top, as they pose for a family photo opportunity at the start of the Afghanistan Conference in London, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Major world powers opened talks Thursday seeking an end to the grinding conflict in Afghanistan, drafting plans to hand over security responsibilities to local forces and quell the insurgency with an offer of jobs and housing to lure Taliban fighters to renounce violence. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)AP - A top U.S. military commander offered a hint of optimism on the war in Afghanistan on Thursday by declaring, in contrast to other officials, that the security situation in the Central Asian state was no longer "deteriorating" but merely "serious."

Spain's super-judge closer to being charged (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:57 AM PST

AP - The magistrate known for indicting Osama bin Laden and Augusto Pinochet may have knowingly acted without jurisdiction by probing Spanish Civil War atrocities, a court said Thursday in a ruling that takes Spain's most famed judge a step closer to being put on trial himself.

Iran says Russia offers missile reassurance (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:55 AM PST

AP - The Iranian ambassador in Moscow says Russia has assured Iran that it still intends to deliver long-range air-defense missiles.

UK park alerted to rhino birth by viewer on webcam (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:07 AM PST

In this photo released by the Blair Drummond Safari Park, a rhino calf named Ailsa is seen with its keepers Ailsa West, left, and Chris Lucas, right, as it is weighed at the Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirling, Scotland, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Ailsa is one of eight southern white rhinos born in captivity in Europe last year and there are an estimated 11,000 in the wild, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. (AP Photo/Blair Drummond Safari Park)AP - Wildlife park employees in Scotland were celebrating Thursday the birth of a white rhinocerous — an event they would have missed without the tip of a webcam viewer.

UK auditor: 392 lawmakers to pay back expenses (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 09:36 AM PST

AP - An inquiry into a scandal that tarnished British politics found Thursday more than half the House of Commons made excessive or bogus expense claims worth about 1 million pounds ($1.6 million).

Poland convicts man who imprisoned, raped daughter (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 09:00 AM PST

AP - A Polish court on Thursday convicted a man who held his daughter captive for six years, raped her repeatedly and fathered two sons with her. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Austrian magazine slammed for use of Jewish star (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:41 AM PST

AP - An Austrian dog magazine has pulled a flyer that showed a pit bull wearing a yellow star after protests from the country's Jewish community.

Dog rescued from icy Baltic Sea gets new master (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:04 AM PST

AP - Baltic, the adventurous dog who floated at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) on an ice floe, has a new owner: The seaman who rescued him.

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