2010年5月5日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Last push as poll goes down to wire (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:33 PM PDT

Conservative Party leader David Cameron speaks during a rally in Bristol. Party leaders rushed across Britain in a frantic final day of campaigning Wednesday as they battled to win over undecided voters, before what is expected to be the tightest election contest in decades.(AFP/POOL/Carl de Souza)AFP - Party leaders rushed across the country in a frantic final day of campaigning Wednesday as they battled to win over undecided voters, before what is expected to be the tightest election contest in decades.

Italy mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato dies at 99 (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:07 PM PDT

AP - Giulietta Simionato, an Italian mezzo-soprano whose instantly recognizable voice was wildly popular with audiences, died Wednesday, La Scala opera house said. She would have turned 100 on May 12.

Ash cloud grounds flights in Scotland and Ireland (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:54 PM PDT

A family wait in a queue of passengers trying to get information at airline desksat Edinburgh Airport in Scotland May 5, 2010. REUTERS/David MoirReuters - A cloud of abrasive volcanic ash drifting south from Iceland disrupted flights to and from Ireland and Scotland anew on Wednesday.

Europe leaders warn of contagion; 3 dead in Greece (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:24 PM PDT

A teller counts euro banknotes inside a National Bank of Greece branch in Athens February 10, 2010. REUTERS/John Kolesidis/FilesReuters - European leaders warned on Wednesday that the euro zone debt crisis could spread like a bushfire beyond Greece, and investors sold stocks and the euro as Greek anti-austerity unrest claimed its first lives.

Summary Box: Treasurys rise again on Europe woes (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:24 PM PDT

AP - MORE GREECE: Thousands of Greek activists took to the streets to protest budget cuts as investors worried that Europe's debt crisis could spread. That pushed up demand for Treasurys.

Europe leaders warn of contagion, 3 die in Greece (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:10 PM PDT

A demonstrator and riot police face off near the Greek parliament in Athens during a nationwide strike in Greece, May 5, 2010. REUTERS/Pascal RossignolReuters - European leaders warned on Wednesday that the euro zone debt crisis could spread like a bushfire beyond Greece, and investors sold stocks and the euro as Greek anti-austerity unrest claimed its first lives.

UK election: Best bet is that history will be made (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, greets students at the University of Bradford, in Bradford England, Wednesday, May, 5 2010, the day before Britain goes to the polls in a General Election. With polls still indicating that Britain is on course for a hung parliament, all three major party leaders were engaged in frenzied last-ditch campaigning across the country. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - There's only one good bet in Britain's razor-edge election: It's likely to reshape the country's politics in historic ways.

Stocks extend decline on European debt worries (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Specialist Mario Picone at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - The stock market extended its slide Wednesday after investors couldn't shake their concerns about European countries' big debt loads.

Ireland to reopen airspace after latest ash alert (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Airport staff secure dust covers on the engines of a passenger aircraft at Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland. Ireland said its airports would reopen on Thursday after the latest aerial shutdown caused by ash from an Icelandic volcano which sparked air travel chaos in Europe last month.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - Ireland said its airports would reopen on Thursday after the latest aerial shutdown caused by ash from an Icelandic volcano which sparked air travel chaos in Europe last month.

Tottenham secure Champions League spot with win over City (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:37 PM PDT

Tottenham Hotspurs Peter Crouch (L) controls the ball under pressure from Manchester City's Ivory Coast player Kolo Toure during a Premier League match at the City Of Manchester Stadium in Manchester. Crouch scored the most important and lucrative goal of his Tottenham career to secure the 1-0 win at Manchester City on Wednesday which booked his side's place in the Champions League.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Peter Crouch scored the most important and lucrative goal of his Tottenham career to secure the 1-0 win at Manchester City on Wednesday which booked his side's place in the Champions League.

APNewsBreak: IAEA chief focuses on Israel (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 12:55 PM PDT

AP - The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog is asking for international input on how to persuade Israel to join the Nonproliferation Treaty, in a move that is sure to add to pressure on the Jewish state to disclose its unacknowledged nuclear arsenal.

Italy church sex abuse victims seek accountability (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 11:40 AM PDT

AP - Victims of a Florence priest who was defrocked for sexually and psychologically abusing his young parishioners are now demanding that his bishops be held responsible for keeping his crimes quiet.

If no one wins Britain's election, what then? (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 09:57 AM PDT

A woman passes a billboard for the UK Independence Party, featuring the portraits of the leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties, in London May 5, 2010. Britain's party leaders criss-crossed the country making a final push for votes in the last day of campaigning before Thursday's parliamentary election as two opinion polls pointed to an inconclusive result. One poll indicated that Labour, in power since 1997 but battered by recession and public anger over a parliamentary expenses scandal that has tainted all the main parties, could still win the greatest number of seats. REUTERS/John Voos (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)AP - Britain's national election Thursday is expected to deny all three major parties an outright majority, meaning the first so-called hung Parliament since 1974 is likely.

Police arrest 7 IRA dissidents over Ulster attacks (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 08:49 AM PDT

AP - Police arrested seven suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in a wave of bomb attacks this year in the British territory of Northern Ireland.

French court refuses extradition of Iranian to US (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 08:46 AM PDT

Iranian engineer Majid Kakavand, center, with lawyers Marie-Laure Bonaldi, left, and Diane Francois, right, speaks to reporters after his trial in Paris, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. A French court has turned down the United States' request for the extradition of an Iranian engineer who is accused of evading export controls to purchase U.S. technology for Iran's military. Majid Kakavand is suspected by the United States of buying American electronics over the Internet and routing them to Iran via Malaysia. The case has dragged on for over a year and has sensitive diplomatic implications in three countries. A French state prosecutor had contested the U.S. claim that Kakavand's purchases had military uses. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - A French court rejected a high-profile extradition request from the United States on Wednesday, refusing to hand over an Iranian engineer accused of evading U.S. export controls to buy technology for military firms involved in Iran's nuclear program.

German priest faces abuse claims in SA and at home (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 08:32 AM PDT

AP - A German priest on trial for sexual abuse in South Africa acknowledged this week that similar charges against him in his home country are "correct in many points," his old diocese in Aachen said Wednesday.

Austria commemorates Holocaust victims (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 08:25 AM PDT

Members of Austria's government gather at the historic assembly hall of the Austrian parliament to commemorate Nazi victims in Vienna, on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - Austrian government officials have honored Holocaust victims during a special ceremony in parliament.

French court to decide about Noriega's detention (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 08:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1989 file photo, Panamanian military strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega talks to reporters in Panama City. A French court has scheduled a hearing for this week on former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's appeal to be released from preventive detention. Noriega has been held at La Sante prison in southern Paris since April 27 following his extradition from the United States to face charges of laundering drug money. (AP Photo)AP - A French court will hear an appeal by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to be released from preventive detention, lawyers and a judge said Wednesday.

Russian court jails 2 men for eating teenage girl (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 07:42 AM PDT

AP - A Russian court has convicted two men of murdering and eating a 16-year-old schoolgirl in January.

SS guard's statements used at Demjanjuk trial (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 06:56 AM PDT

AP - A former SS guard at the Nazi's Sobibor death camp whose past testimony is being used in the trial of John Demjanjuk says all guards there were involved in killing Jews.

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