2010年2月23日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

England's Anglican clerics back gay marriages in church (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

Gay men exchanging rings at their wedding. Clerics from the Anglican church in England on Tuesday called for an end to rules that stop gay couples marrying in religious venues such as churches or synagogues.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)AFP - Clerics from the Anglican church in England on Tuesday called for an end to rules that stop gay couples marrying in religious venues such as churches or synagogues.

UK lawmakers: govt must act to stop libel tourism (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:01 PM PST

AP - A committee of British lawmakers says the government should change the country's laws to stop "libel tourism" from stifling investigative journalism and press freedom.

Thousands protest in Spain against pension reform plan (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:39 PM PST

People hold a banner reading AFP - Tens of thousand of people across Spain protested Tuesday against the debt-laden government's plan to raise the age of retirement, first major protests by unions against the ruling Socialists.

Verdict due in Google defamation case in Italy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:09 PM PST

Reuters - Verdicts were expected on Wednesday on Google executives charged over a bullying video posted on the company's Italian website, in a case that could set a precedent for Internet content responsibility.

Flying spaniel survives 300-foot fall off UK cliff (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:19 PM PST

AP - British rescuers say a dog that chased a seagull and fell off a 300-foot (90-meter) cliff into the sea has survived with only minor injuries.

Rampant Rooney destroys Hammers (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:11 PM PST

Manchester United's English forward Wayne Rooney (R) celebrates with Manchester United's Ecuador midfielder Antonio Valencia after scoring the opening goal during the English Premier League football match against West Ham United at Old Trafford in Manchester. United won 3-0.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Wayne Rooney scored twice as Manchester United kept the pressure on Premier League leaders Chelsea by defeating West Ham 3-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

French hostage freed in Mali (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:02 PM PST

AP - A French hostage held captive in Mali for three months by Al-Qaida's North Africa offshoot was freed Tuesday, following a contested court decision ordering a jail release for four suspected members of the militant group that abducted him.

Rooney helps United keep pressure on Chelsea (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:02 PM PST

Manchester United's English forward Wayne Rooney (R) celebrates with Manchester United's Ecuador midfielder Antonio Valencia after scoring the opening goal during the English Premier League football match against West Ham United at Old Trafford in Manchester. United won 3-0.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Manchester United closed to within one point of Premier League leaders Chelsea after a Wayne Rooney double helped the defending champions to a 3-0 win over West Ham on Tuesday.

APNewsBreak: Iran nuclear offer falls short (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:53 PM PST

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured in 2009. The United States warned Iran on Tuesday that AP - Iran has formally set out its terms for giving up most of its cache of enriched uranium in a confidential document — and the conditions fall short of what has been demanded by the United States and other world powers.

17 miners killed in northwest Turkey mine collapse (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:11 PM PST

AP - A methane gas explosion caused an underground chamber in a coal mine in northwestern Turkey to collapse Tuesday, killing 17 workers, the governor said — the second deadly explosion at the mine in four years.

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Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:34 PM PST

AP - Turkey's state-run news agency says 17 workers killed in mine collapse.

NIreland police decry bombers' 17-minute warning (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 11:48 AM PST

Police Forensic Officers examine the remains of a car bomb that exploded outside Newry courthouse late Monday, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated their first car bomb in nearly a decade, damaging a courthouse but injuring nobody in an attack designed to rattle Northern Ireland's peace process. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Northern Ireland's police commander denounced Irish Republican Army dissidents Tuesday for giving his officers just 17 minutes to evacuate the center of a border town before a car bomb detonated.

Serbia police search fugitive Mladic's house (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 11:45 AM PST

A woman pushes her baby in a stroller as police officers block the area around the family house of top war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic, in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010. Masked policemen Tuesday searched the Belgrade house of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic in a sign of government resolve to hunt down war crimes fugitives as Serbia seeks EU membership. A few dozen, armed special officers blocked the street in a residential Belgrade area where the house belonging to Mladic's family is located. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)AP - Masked policemen searched the house of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic on Tuesday in an effort to capture the war crimes fugitive as Serbia seeks EU membership.

Diplomatic pitfalls in Sarkozy's trip to Rwanda (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 11:11 AM PST

AP - A photo op this week will illustrate a story of reconciliation: the presidents of France and Rwanda, standing side-by-side on an airport tarmac and solemnly listening to each other's national anthems.

Transport strikes lay bare Europe's malaise (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 10:24 AM PST

Striking employeees of the Total refinery of La Mede, southern France, vote to renew the strike, Tuesday Feb 23, 2010. Workers at an ExxonMobil-owned Esso depot joined in the walkout Tuesday to support their Total colleagues, who have been striking since last week over plans to close a plant in northern France. Together, Total and Esso refineries account for about 70 percent of France's refining capacity and the first signs of shortages were beginning to appear. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)AP - With economic recovery barely there and talk of austerity spreading, many European workers are pushing back.

Prosecutors interrogate 51 Turkish officers (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 10:03 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2005 file photo, Turkey's Air Force commander Gen. Ibrahim Firtina, left, seen with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey. Turkish police detained about 50 military commanders Monday Feb. 22, 2010 for allegedly Several high-ranking members of Turkey's military — including Firtina and Navy Chief Adm. Ozden Ornek — were among those detained. The sweep highlighted the ongoing struggle between the secular establishment and the Islamic-oriented government — and left many wondering if the military no longer called the shots in a nation accustomed to viewing it as the pillar of the secular state.(AP Photo Photo/ File)AP - The details and veracity of the latest Turkey coup plot allegations are unknown, but the narrative is clear: The army at the highest levels stands accused of plotting several years ago to overthrow the Islamic-leaning government of Turkey.

NATO seeks more trainers for Afghan army, police (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 08:38 AM PST

British Ambassador to the U.S., Sir Nigel Sheinwald, delivers a lecture titled 'Afghanistan and Pakistan: The New Political Strategy' in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Thomas Cain)AP - Military officials from NATO's 28 members and other allied nations met Tuesday to work out how they will pledge at least 2,000 new instructors to train the fast-expanding Afghan security forces.

Dutch will go to polls June 9, 1 year early (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 08:23 AM PST

Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, center, leaves Palace Noordeinde in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Feb. 22, 2010. Balkenende was meeting with Queen Beatrix to discuss options for forming a temporary government after his Cabinet collapsed early Saturday. Balkenende is expected to propose to the queen that his Christian Democrats lead a caretaker government until new national elections can be held. The queen will likely call for elections in May, but a date has not been set. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)AP - The Dutch government on Tuesday set June 9 as the date for general elections, nearly one year ahead of schedule, following the collapse of the center-right government in a dispute over the army's engagement in Afghanistan.

Holocaust expert testifies in Demjanjuk trial (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 08:05 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2010 file photo accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk gestures while arriving in a courtroom in Munich, southern Germany. Dutch Holocaust expert Johannes Houwink ten Cate is being allowed to testify at the trial of John Demjanjuk despite being on the record as saying the retired Ohio autoworker is guilty of being a Nazi death camp guard. Demjanjuk's defense attorney Ulrich Busch objected as the trial resumed on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, to Johannes Houwink ten Cate being allowed to testify. (AP Photo/Michaela Rehle, Pool)AP - Being sent to the Nazi's Sobibor camp was a death sentence for all but a handful of Jews, a Holocaust expert testified Tuesday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.

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