2010年2月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

We can still give Rangers a run for their money: Mowbray (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:11 PM PST

Marc-Antoine Fortune of Celtic, pictured in 2009. Celtic kept their faint hopes of the title alive on Wednesday when they reduced the gap at the top to eight points with a 2-0 win over Hearts at Parkhead as leaders Rangers were held to a 1-1 draw by Motherwell.(AFP/File)AFP - Tony Mowbray says his Celtic side will only get better after he watched them keep their faint Scottish Premier League title hopes alive as they reduced the gap with Rangers to eight points following a 2-0 win over Hearts at Parkhead.

IAEA suggests Iran's new enrichment modest (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:07 PM PST

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours an exhibition on laser technology in Tehran on February 7, 2010. Iran was expected Monday to officially inform the UN nuclear watchdog of its plans to enrich uranium to a higher level, but insisted it will stop the process if a UN-backed nuclear deal is clinched.(AFP/Atta Kenare)AP - Iran expects to produce its first batch of higher enriched uranium in a few days but its initial effort is modest, using only a small amount of feedstock and a fraction of its capacities, according to a confidential document shared Wednesday with The Associated Press.

Freud self-portrait fetches 2.8 million pounds (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:27 PM PST

A painting entitled 'Self-Portrait with a Black Eye' by artist Lucian Freud is displayed at Sotheby's auction house in central London, in January. The self-portrait of Freud has sold for more than 2.8 million pounds at a London auction.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - A self-portrait of Lucian Freud nursing a black eye after a fight with a taxi driver sold for more than 2.8 million pounds (3.2 million euros, 4.4 million dollars) at a London auction.

Greek unions strike over deficit-slashing measures (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:57 PM PST

A stranded traveler sleeps on a bench at Athens airport after her flight was canceled due to 24-hour air traffic controllers' strike, part of a civil service walkout against wage freezes on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2009. Thousands of civil servants and Communist Party-affiliated workers gathered in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, Wednesday for demonstrations against the center-left government's austerity plan to ease Greece out of a major debt crisis that has alarmed European Union partners and international markets, weakening the euro. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)AP - Greek workers shut down schools, grounded flights and walked out of hospitals Wednesday to protest austerity measures brought on by the nation's staggering debt, as European leaders wrangled over whether and how to come to the country's financial rescue.

UK govt forced to publish U.S. torture allegations (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

Reuters - The British government lost a legal battle Wednesday to prevent the disclosure of secret U.S. intelligence material relating to allegations of "cruel and inhuman" treatment involving the CIA.

Britain discloses secret data on detainee abuse (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:34 PM PST

In this file photo dated 2000 and released by the human rights and legal defense organization Reprieve, Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed is pictured in London. The British government on Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010 disclosed once-secret information on the treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. The information, contained in seven paragraphs, summarizes an American account of Mohamed's treatment by U.S. authorities before he was interviewed by an MI5 agent in May 2002. Judges rejected the government's claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation. (AP Photo/Reprieve, File)AP - Britain was forced by an appeals court Wednesday to reveal a long-secret description of how a former terrorism suspect was beaten, shackled and deprived of sleep during interrogations by U.S. agents.

Saha the star as Everton stun Chelsea (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:28 PM PST

Everton's French forward Louis Saha (C) celebrates scoring his second goal of the English Premier League football match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park, Liverpool. Saha had a night to remember by scoring both of Everton's goals in a 2-1 win over Premier League leaders Chelsea.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Louis Saha had a night to remember by scoring both of Everton's goals in a 2-1 win over Premier League leaders Chelsea that threw the title race wide open again on Wednesday.

Watchdog: 110 journalists killed in 2009 (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:07 PM PST

AP - A total of 110 journalists lost their lives in 2009, making it the deadliest year in a decade for the profession, a media watchdog said Thursday.

Terry given time off after affair allegations (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:50 PM PST

Chelsea's English defender John Terry is seen during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park, Liverpool. Chelsea assistant manager Ray Wilkins has confirmed Terry will be allowed to miss Saturday's FA Cup fifth round tie against Cardiff.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Chelsea assistant manager Ray Wilkins has confirmed John Terry will be allowed to miss Saturday's FA Cup fifth round tie against Cardiff.

Lawyer: man who killed Iranian PM may be freed (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:34 PM PST

AP - Judges indicated on Wednesday that they are in favor of freeing a man convicted of assassinating former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar outside Paris in 1991, the prisoner's lawyer said.

Iran (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 01:18 PM PST

AP - Confidential IAEA document suggests Iran's higher enrichment operations modest in scale.

Dog rescued from icy Baltic waters returns to sea (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:41 PM PST

Baltic, a Polish dog that survived an ordeal of several days on an ice floe, is seen with his new owner Adam Buczynski just before they head out on a three-day mission at sea, in Gdynia, Poland, on Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010. Baltic was rescued by Buczynski about 15 miles from the Polish coast after getting stuck on an ice sheet that carried him at least 75 miles down the Vistula River and out to sea. (AP Photo/Krzysztof Mystkowski)AP - Baltic, the Polish dog rescued from the frigid Baltic Sea after a long journey on an ice floe, is again braving those waters — this time safely onboard the ship that saved him.

Pro-Russian leader consolidating power in Ukraine (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:51 AM PST

In this photo taken on Monday, Dec.28, 2009. Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych speaks during an interview to the Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine. According to the election commission, Yanukovych is leading in Sunday's vote by 3.5 percentage points with only 0.02 percent of precincts left to count. Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko plans to legally challenge the results of the presidential runoff that opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych appears to have won, her campaign said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Stanislav Krasnov marched with the hundreds of thousands demanding a pro-Western government during Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution.

Demjanjuk's attorney questions evidence (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 08:33 AM PST

Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk arrives in a courtroom in Munich, southern Germany on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former U.S. auto worker, is on trial in Germany facing charges he helped force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943. John Demjanjuk's defense lawyer is questioning the validity of evidence presented by a top German investigator, including an identity card that allegedly shows his client was a death camp guard at Sobibor. Attorney Ulrich Busch said in court Wednesday that he has seen 'conflicting' examples of the ID card and asked investigator Thomas Walther how the original came into the hands of the United States Department of Justice. Walther says he doesn't know. (AP Photo/Michaela Rehle, Pool)AP - John Demjanjuk's defense lawyer on Wednesday questioned the validity of evidence presented by a top German investigator, including an identity card that allegedly shows his client was a guard at the Nazi's Sobibor death camp.

London to open 1st exercise area for older people (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 07:35 AM PST

Susan Edgar 65-years-old is seen on a piece of fitness machinery in a play area for older people at Dam Head Park in the Blackley inner-city suburb of Manchester, England, Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010. The playground promotes physical activity for those later in life and such exercise areas aimed at the elderly are popular in Europe and Asia . (AP Photo/Jon Super).AP - It may not be Swinging London — but the British capital's aging baby boomers may soon be flexing muscles that haven't gotten much use since the 1960s.

Secret UK info on ex-Gitmo detainee's treatment (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:54 AM PST

AP - Here are the seven once-secret paragraphs that summarize the U.S. account of the treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002.

US wants UN debate on Iran's human rights (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:14 AM PST

Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh delivers a speech during the presentation of Iran's OMID satellite model at Vienna's International Center on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - The United States hopes a U.N. debate next week on Iran will shine a light on Tehran's mistreatment of prisoners, its repression of protesters and its imprisonment of journalists and intellectuals, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.

(AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 01:48 AM PST

AP - Court rules British government must reveal secret documents on Guantanamo detainee's treatment.

UN forecasts 'stable' Afghan opium crop (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:09 AM PST

AP - After a major drop over the past two years, Afghanistan's opium cultivation is unlikely to rise or fall dramatically in 2010, a U.N. report said Wednesday.

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