2010年5月4日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

General strike in debt-ridden Greece over new cuts (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Giant banners protesting Greece's austerity measures hang near the Parthenon on Acropolis hill in Athens early May 4, 2010. A group of demonstrators from Greece's communist party, KKE, staged the protest atop the Acropolis as Athens braced for a 48-hour nationwide strike by civil servants which would also include the shutdown of travel services. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (GREECE - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP - A general strike Wednesday in Greece was halting flights, trains and ferries and paralyzing public services, as unions rally against major new spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy.

Iceland's ash may keep choking Europe's air travel (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, April 17, 2010 file photo, an aerial view showing the crater spewing ash and plumes of grit at the summit of the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier The Irish Aviation Authority decided to impose a “no-fly zone” over Ireland on Monday, May 3, 2010, under advice from the Volcanic Ash Advice Centre in London that there was a risk of “ash ingestion” to aircraft engines. Ireland is due to reopen its airspace Tuesday afternoon, due to the threat from volcanic ash fading, but authorities say air travelers to Ireland face a 'summer of uncertainty' because of the long-running Icelandic eruption. (AP Photo/Arnar Thorisson/Helicopter.is, File) ** ICELAND OUT **AP - Iceland's clouds of volcanic ash are menacing European air traffic again, but transport chiefs insisted Tuesday they are learning from last month's crisis and won't let the hard-to-measure emissions ground their continent again.

Rain in England's favour as they reach Super Eights (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 03:47 PM PDT

England cricketer Kevin Pietersen (R) attempts to run out Paul Stirling of Ireland during their match in the ICC World Twenty20 2010 at the Providence Stadium in Guyana. England qualified for the second round Super Eights of the World Twenty20 following a no-result washout with Ireland here on Tuesday.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - England qualified for the second round Super Eights of the World Twenty20 following a no-result washout with Ireland here on Tuesday.

Europe debt fears hammer financial markets (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 03:12 PM PDT

Riot policemen clash with demonstrators near the Parliament building in Athens. Stock markets worldwide suffered heavy losses Tuesday in rumour-driven trade on fears the Greek debt debacle will defy an international bailout and spread to Spain and Portugal.(AFP/Aris Messinis)AFP - Stock markets worldwide suffered heavy losses Tuesday amid fresh fears that a massive Greek bailout will not be enough to stop its debt crisis spreading to Spain and Portugal.

Ash grounds Irish, UK flights; summer chaos feared (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2010 02:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Airspace over Scotland and Northern Ireland will be closed from early Wednesday because of volcanic ash that closed airports in Ireland on Tuesday and could threaten summer holiday travel.

4 convicted in Greece for hotel poisoning deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 01:42 PM PDT

Sharron Wood, mother of Robert and Christianne Shepherd, second left, and her husband Paul Wood, first left, father Neil Shepherd, second right, his partner Ruth Beatson, first right, and a Greek translator make a statement outside a court in Corfu island, northwestern Greece, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. A court on the Greek holiday island of Corfu on Tuesday convicted four people over the fatal carbon monoxide poisoning of two British children at a local luxury hotel in 2006. (AP Photo/Eurokinissi) ** GREECE OUT **AP - A court on the Greek holiday island of Corfu convicted four people Tuesday in the fatal carbon monoxide poisoning of two British children at a local luxury hotel in 2006.

Scotland, N.Ireland airspace to close in new ash alert (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Airport staff secure dust covers on the engines of a passenger aircraft at Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland. Aviation regulators said airspace over Scotland and Northern Ireland will close from 7:00 am Wednesday due to dangers posed by ash from an Icelandic volcano.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - Aviation chiefs said airspace over Scotland and Northern Ireland would be closed Wednesday as more ash is spewed from an Icelandic volcano that caused air travel chaos in Europe last month.

Party leaders make final tour of Britain for votes (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2010 01:38 PM PDT

Britain's opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron puts party leaflets through the letter boxes of homes in north London May 4, 2010. REUTERS/Carl de Souza/PoolReuters - Britain's party leaders campaigned around the clock Tuesday in a final push for votes, two days before a parliamentary election that opinion polls suggest could redraw the political map.

Churchill memorabilia sold at London auction (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 12:06 PM PDT

AP - Christie's said Tuesday it was auctioning what it said was the most important private collection of letters and books related to Britain's World War II prime minister, Winston Churchill.

Noriega's lawyers complain to Red Cross (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 12:03 PM PDT

Lawyers of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, Yves Leberquier, background, and Olivier Metzner leave the Paris courthouse, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. A judge has ordered Manuel Noriega to be jailed in France pending a new trial on money laundering charges. Noriega has spent the last 20 years in prison near Miami and was extradited Tuesday to France from the United States. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - French lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega sent a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday to protest his lack of prisoner-of-war status in France and complain about his prison conditions.

Serbian Orthodox Church to replace its Kosovo head (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 11:57 AM PDT

AP - The Serbian Orthodox Church says Archbishop Artemije will no longer be its spiritual leader in Kosovo after allegations that millions in church and state funds were embezzled under his leadership.

German seeks compensation from church for 'abuse' (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 8, 2010 file photo Wilfried Fesselmann during an interview with the Associated Press, in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany.The German man who says a priest sexually abused him when he was an altar boy has sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI seeking financial compensation from the church. Wilfried Fesselmann told The Associated Press he is also demanding an apology from the pope and asking for a personal audience at the Vatican. Fesselmann said he sent the letter Tuesday May 4, 2010. He is claiming unspecified compensation. He wrote: 'How much is the life and the soul of a victim worth?' The 41-year-old said he was abused when the priest was in the Essen diocese in western Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner,File)AP - A German man who says a priest sexually abused him when he was an altar boy has sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI seeking what he calls "high" financial compensation from the church.

France approves return of Maori heads (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:06 AM PDT

AP - French lawmakers decided Tuesday to return 16 tattooed and mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, ending years of debate on what to do with the human remains acquired long ago by French museums seeking exotic curiosities.

Lithuanian woman accused of terror plot in Russia (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 08:15 AM PDT

AP - A Lithuanian woman has been detained on suspicion of liaising with radical Islamic groups and plotting a suicide attack against an undisclosed Russian military target, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Atlantic hunt for crashed Air France jet extended (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 07:55 AM PDT

AP - French investigators said Tuesday they are extending the undersea hunt for wreckage from the Air France jet that crashed last year in the mid-Atlantic through late May, but with fewer resources.

Spanish face transplant patient goes public (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 07:19 AM PDT

Rafael, a man who underwent a partial face transplant in January, embraces a nurse, left, as he appears in public for the first time in a news conference at the Virgen del Rocio University Hospital in Seville, Spain, on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Doctors replaced the bottom two-thirds of his face because of a congenital disease that left it deformed with benign tumors.(AP Photo)AP - A Spanish man who underwent a partial face transplant in January has appeared in public for the first time, hugging his surgeon and thanking the donor's family.

UK parties eye deals with rivals ahead of vote (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 07:16 AM PDT

Britain's former Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Tony Blair is given a cake by during a visit to the Rams Head Inn in Denshaw northern England while campaigning for the Labour Party Tuesday May 4, 2010. Britain goes to the polls in a General Election on Thursday (AP Photo/ Dave Thompson/Pool)AP - Britain's main political parties crisscrossed the country to woo wavering voters Tuesday, but they also courted each other as opinion polls indicated that the national election could produce no clear winner.

UK court rules bars secret evidence in Gitmo suit (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 06:44 AM PDT

Detainees at the maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base, in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. The United States on Tuesday released two detainees from Guantanamo to Bulgaria and one to Spain, reducing the number of inmates held at the prison to 181, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.(AFP/POOL/File/Marlk Wilson)AP - A British court says the government will not be allowed to keep evidence secret from former Guantanamo prisoners who are suing the U.K. over its alleged complicity in their detention.

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