2010年3月27日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

No 'special relationship' between Britain and US: MPs (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Talk of a AFP - Talk of a "special relationship" between Britain and the United States should be dropped, a House of Commons committee said Sunday, adding the Iraq war carried important lessons for Anglo-US ties.

Libya and EU patch up Schengen visa dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Libya lifted a visa ban on citizens of 25 European countries on Saturday after EU president Spain said a Swiss-instigated visa blacklist against 188 Libyans in those countries had been scrapped.

Flood tide overwhelms Worcester (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:20 PM PDT

England fly-half Toby Flood, pictured in action on March 20, kicked 24 points as Leicester strengthened their grip on top spot in the English Premiership with a 39-18 win at Worcester on Saturday.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)AFP - England fly-half Toby Flood kicked 24 points as Leicester strengthened their grip on top spot in the English Premiership with a 39-18 win at Worcester on Saturday.

Flights cancelled as British Airways staff strike once again (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:12 PM PDT

A British Airways plane flies over striking BA cabin crew at Heathrow airport. British Airways cabin crew launched a four-day strike Saturday, forcing the cancellation of numerous flights as they staged their second walkout in a week over an increasingly bitter dispute.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - British Airways cabin crew launched a four-day strike Saturday, forcing the cancellation of numerous flights as they staged their second walkout in a week over an increasingly bitter dispute.

Josephine letters fetch huge sums at French auction (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Close up taken before the auction in Fontainebleau, south of Paris, of a letter written in 1796 by Josephine de Beauharnais, first wife of French Emperor Napoleon I. Letters from Napoleon's first wife Josephine to France's national hero fetched huge sums Saturday at an auction, including one that went for nearly 87,000 euros.(AFP/Thomas Sanson)AFP - Letters from Napoleon's first wife Josephine to France's national hero fetched huge sums Saturday at an auction, including one that went for nearly 87,000 euros.

Devastated Murray crashes out in Miami (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Venus Williams of the United States returns a shot against Roberta Vinci of Italy during day five of the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, Florida. Williams improved her own record at the WTA Miami event Saturday while increasing the misery for Vinci with a 6-1, 6-4 victory.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Mcgrath)AFP - Defending champion Andy Murray, the world number three, crashed out of the Miami Masters on Saturday, losing his opener 6-4, 6-4 to America's world 101 Mardy Fish.

National bans is poll boon for Italian local TV, Internet (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:44 PM PDT

People walk by electoral banners reading the election dates, in downtown Rome. The suspension of political programming by national broadcasters ahead of regional elections Sunday and Monday has boosted audiences for Internet and local TV shows, a novelty in Italian politics.(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - The suspension of political programming by national broadcasters ahead of regional elections Sunday and Monday has boosted audiences for Internet and local TV shows, a novelty in Italian politics.

Greece to launch bond issue next week: report (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:37 PM PDT

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks during a press conference at the European Union summit. Greece will launch a multi-billion euro bond issue next week, the Financial Times reported Saturday, after a rescue deal by European Union leaders to help the country out of its debt crisis.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP - Greece will launch a multi-billion euro bond issue next week, the Financial Times reported Saturday, after a rescue deal by European Union leaders to help the country out of its debt crisis.

Landmarks, cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:36 PM PDT

This combination photo shows before and after showing the effects of Earth Hour, where building turned off most of their lights, in the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)AP - Europe's best known landmarks — including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum — fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to mark the Earth Hour event.

UK Parliament hosts first same-sex marriage (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:05 PM PDT

AP - Britain's Europe Minister Chris Bryant has taken part in Parliament's first gay marriage, celebrating a civil partnership ceremony at the historic venue.

Egypt's Mubarak returns home 3 weeks after surgery (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 12:16 PM PDT

AP - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak returned home Saturday three weeks after undergoing gall bladder surgery in Germany — an operation that prompted him to temporarily hand over power to his prime minister and fueled speculation about the country's leadership.

Top Vatican cardinal defends pope amid scandal (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 10:21 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 12, 2005 file picture German Cardinal Walter Kasper smiles after the daily meeting of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican. Cardinal Kasper is calling for 'housecleaning' and urges the Roman Catholic Church to be more alert and brave in dealing with cases of clerical sex abuse. He has also defended the pope, saying he was the first to recognize the need for a harsher stance against offenders. He says attacks on Pope Benedict XVI go 'beyond any limit of justice and loyalty.' The sex abuse scandal has moved across Europe and into Benedict's native Germany. It has touched the pontiff himself with a case dating to his tenure as archbishop of Munich. Kasper said in an interview published Saturday March 27, 2010 in the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera that the church needs to be more vigilant. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)AP - The Vatican said Saturday that recent attacks on the church over its handling of clerical sex abuse cases have been harmful, but insisted the pope's authority had not been weakened.

Official: Germany-US talk about Guantanamo inmates (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 09:48 AM PDT

AP - An official says Germany has reopened discussions with the United States about the possibility of taking in selected inmates to be released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Russian building collapses, 3 reported killed (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 08:04 AM PDT

Firefighters and rescuers work at a damaged building after a suspected gas explosion in the small Moscow area town of Pavlovskaya Sloboda, Saturday, March 27, 2010. An apartment block west of Moscow partially collapsed following a suspected gas explosion Saturday, killing three people and possibly trapping others under the rubble. Some of the supporting walls of the three-story building gave way and a fire broke out in the building. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - An apartment block west of Moscow partially collapsed following a suspected gas explosion Saturday, killing three people and possibly trapping others under the rubble.

Italian police find bullet in letter to Berlusconi (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 06:20 AM PDT

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) and Libya's leader Muammar Ghaddafi attend the opening session of the Arab summit in Sirte March 27, 2010. REUTERS/Presidenza del Consiglio/Livio Anticoli/Pool (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS) QUALITY FROM SOURCEAP - Italian police say they have intercepted an envelope containing a bullet addressed to Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the eve of regional elections in Italy.

Poland's ruling party picks presidential candidate (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 06:02 AM PDT

Poland's parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, right, waves after his Civic Platform party announces that he will be its candidate in presidential elections, in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday March 27, 2010. Party members overwhelmingly chose him with 68.5 percent over Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski in a two-way race, a primary modeled somewhat along American lines. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - Poland's center-right governing party has chosen Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski as its candidate for president, a largely ceremonial job but one with significant symbolic weight in this proud and patriotic country.

NATO: Europe must upgrade defenses (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 04:59 AM PDT

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a forum regarding 'Security Architecture in Europe' at the Conrad Hotel in Brussels, Saturday March 27, 2010. NATO's head on Saturday said Europe should commit itself to an-anti missile system if it wants to remain relevant in defense issues.(AP Photo/Virginia MayoAP - Europe will be a "paper tiger" in military terms unless it reverses the decline in its defensive capabilities, NATO's chief warned Saturday.

Medvedev: Iran sanctions may be needed (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:42 AM PDT

AP - Imposing more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program is not the best option, but it cannot be excluded, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday.

Clergy abuse threatens to tarnish pope's legacy (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 08:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Sept. 11, 2002, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, left, now Pope Benedict XVI, is seen with late Pope John Paul II during mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The Vatican is facing one of its gravest crises of modern times as sex abuse scandals move ever closer to former Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI - threatening not only his own legacy but also that of his revered predecessor Pope John Paul II. Benedict took a much harder stance on sex abuse than John Paul II when he assumed the papacy five years ago, disciplining a senior cleric championed by the Polish pontiff and defrocking others under a new policy of zero tolerance. But the impression remains of a woefully slowfooted church and of a pope who bears responsibility for allowing pedophile priests to keep their parishes. In an editorial Friday March 26, 2010, the National Catholic Reporter in the United States called on Benedict to answer questions about his role 'in the mismanagement' of sex abuse cases, not only in the current crisis but during his tenure in the 1980s as archbishop of Munich and then as head of the Vatican's doctrinal and disciplinary office. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, FILES)AP - The Vatican is facing one of its gravest crises of modern times as sex abuse scandals move ever closer to Pope Benedict XVI — threatening not only his own legacy but also that of his revered predecessor.

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