2010年4月13日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News


Ireland's top Catholic cleric 'discharged from hospital' (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:18 PM PDT

Ireland's top Catholic cleric Cardinal Sean Brady, pictured in March, has been discharged from hospital after falling ill during a church ceremony, according to the Catholic Church.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - Ireland's top Catholic cleric Cardinal Sean Brady has been discharged from hospital after falling ill during a church ceremony, the Catholic Church said Wednesday.


Poland mourns as president and wife lie in state (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

People mourn as the as the coffin of Maria Kaczynska, wife of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, arrives at the Presidential palace in Warsaw, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers on a slow-moving hearse and joined an enormous viewing line at the Presidential Palace to pay their respects Tuesday to Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife as their bodies lay in state.


AA flight makes emergency landing in Iceland (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:27 PM PDT

In this mobile phone image, American Airlines Flight 49, right, traveling from Paris to Dallas-Ft. Worth is seen on the tarmac of Keflavik, Iceland airport after an emergency landing,  Tuesday, April 13 , 2010. The American Airlines flight with 145 people on board made an emergency landing Tuesday in Iceland after five crew members took ill following reports of chemical fumes in the cabin. (AP Photo/Bjorn Malmquist)AP - An American Airlines flight with 145 people on board made an emergency landing in Iceland on Tuesday after five crew members became ill, apparently from chemical fumes in the cabin.


79,000 clients identified from stolen HSBC data: prosecutor (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:26 PM PDT

The logo of HSBC Private Bank is pictured in Geneva in 2006. Some 79,000 customers have been identified from data stolen from a Swiss unit of HSBC bank, a French prosecutor said Tuesday, citing a far higher number than previously made public.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - Some 79,000 customers have been identified from data stolen from a Swiss unit of HSBC bank, a French prosecutor said Tuesday, citing a far higher number than previously made public.


British Army dismantles car bomb in NIreland town (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:26 PM PDT

A bomb disposal robot examine a suspect car bomb abandoned outside Newtownhamilton PSNI station, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, April, 13, 2010. The suspected car bomb was abandoned outside the station early Tuesday.Army technical officers are currently examining the car abandoned outside the police station in Newtownhamilton in County Armagh.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - British Army experts dismantled a dud car bomb Tuesday outside a police base in the Northern Ireland border town of Newtownhamilton, the second such threat in the past two days.


Anelka puts Chelsea in control of Premier League title race (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:08 PM PDT

Chelsea's French footballer Nicolas Anelka (L) celebrates scoring his goal against Bolton Wanderers with Chelsea's Ivory Coast footballer Salomon Kalou during a Premier League match at Stamford Bridge in London. Chelsea extended their lead at the top of the English Premier League to four points after a 1-0 win over Bolton.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Chelsea seized control of the Premier League title race as Nicolas Anelka's goal clinched a 1-0 win over Bolton on Tuesday to leave the Blues four points clear at the top of the table.


Poles pay tribute as first couple lie in state (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:02 PM PDT

Soldiers carry the coffin of Polish First Lady Maria Kaczynska at Warsaw's airport. A queue of mourners snaked through Poland's presidential palace Tuesday where president Lech Kaczynski and his wife lay in state as thousands poured into Warsaw to pay their last respects.(AFP/Joe Klamar)AFP - Tearful mourners queued into the night Tuesday to pay tribute to Poland's presidential couple as the first cracks appeared in the unity seen since they perished with 94 others in an air crash.


Irish Catholic cardinal falls ill, hospitalized (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:58 PM PDT

AP - The Catholic Church leader in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, has been hospitalized after becoming ill while overseeing a service for children becoming confirmed in the faith.

Demjanjuk casts himself as a victim of Hitler (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:12 PM PDT

AP - Retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk told a German court Tuesday he was a victim of the Nazis, using his first major statement since his trial began to sharply criticize the country that started World War II for prosecuting him.

French general gets light sentence for child porn (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:05 PM PDT

AP - A French general who served as top military spokesman in the 1990s was convicted Tuesday of downloading thousands of images of pornography involving children, some as young as six months old, but given an unusally light sentence.

Karadzic genocide trial hears from 1st witness (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:17 AM PDT

Demonstrators hold posters claiming Serbia is hiding indicted war criminal Gen. Ratko Mladic outside the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Witness testimony began Tuesday in Radovan Karadzic's genocide trial, with a Bosnian Muslim testifying about the horrors of life in a notorious Serb-run detention camp during his country's bloody 1992-95 war. Karadzic  was first indicted in 1995 along with his military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic, who remains on the run. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - A Bosnian Muslim told judges in Radovan Karadzic's genocide trial Tuesday that Serbs burned his elderly father-in-law alive during the brutal takeover of his village at the outset of the Bosnian war.


Polish freedom icon Anna Walentynowicz dead at 80 (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:03 AM PDT

In this Oct. 9, 2003  photo Anna Walentynowicz is seen in Gdansk. Walentynowicz, killed in the Polish presidential plane crash April 10, 2010, was the union activist whose 1980 dismissal from a Gdansk shipyard touched off strikes that led to the founding of the Solidarity movement and the eventual toppling of Polish communism.(AP Photo/Maciej Kosycarz)AP - Anna Walentynowicz, a union activist whose 1980 dismissal from a Gdansk shipyard touched off strikes that led to the founding of the Solidarity movement and the eventual toppling of Polish communism, died in the plane crash that devastated the country's elite. She was 80.


UK: Hundreds of pet guinea pigs killed in fire (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:05 AM PDT

AP - British police say more than 1,000 animals — mostly guinea pigs — have died after a fire at a pet breeding center in southwest England.

Swede who flew jet with no license gets light fine (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:45 AM PDT

AP - A Swedish man who flew passenger jets in countries around Europe for more than a decade without a license was let off with a light fine by a Dutch court on Tuesday. A prosecutor paid tribute in court to his flying skills.

UK's Cameron: Public must help revitalize economy (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:31 AM PDT

David Cameron, leader of the Conservatives, Britain's opposition party on board a campaign bus in London, Sunday April 11, 2010, while campaigning for the May 6 General Election. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)AP - Britain's opposition leader David Cameron invoked John F. Kennedy's famous call for civic action Tuesday, unveiling his election platform with an appeal to Britons to take an unprecedented role in running their country.


Palestinians seen slowly weaning from aid (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:12 AM PDT

AP - The Palestinians' dependence on aid is slowly easing but Israel must lift restrictions blocking their territories' economic development, an international panel that coordinates assistance said Tuesday.

Papal aide: pope need not comment each abuse case (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 4, 2010 photo, Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during the 'Urbi et Orbi' ( to the city and  the World) message at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican. The uproar caused by reports that, as an archbishop years ago in Germany and later as a Vatican cardinal, Benedict and his aides were slow to defrock abusive priests, cannot be explained as the church equivalent of Watergate with the pope in the role of U.S. president.  (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI's private secretary on Tuesday defended the pope's prolonged silence on sexual abuse in Germany's Roman Catholic Church, while more old cases surfaced in Benedict's former diocese near Munich.


Spanish court shelves Israeli probe (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:44 AM PDT

AP - Spain's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision to shelve a probe of an Israeli air force bombing that killed a Hamas militant and 14 civilians in Gaza in 2002.

Red Cross: 8 staff kidnapped in eastern Congo (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:36 AM PDT

AP - Eight Red Cross workers have been kidnapped by a militia group in eastern Congo and negotiations are under way to secure their release, the aid group said Tuesday.

(AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:43 AM PDT

AP - American Airlines plane to make emergency landing in Iceland after reports of fumes in cabin.
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