2010年5月6日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Projections and results in British elections (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:30 PM PDT

AP - The following sums up the results and projections in the British election as of 0230 GMT:

Britain votes 2010 - AFP Live Report (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:26 PM PDT

From left: Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg, Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Gordon Brown and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.(AFP/File/Leon Neal/Ben Stansall)AFP - 0324: THE CONSERVATIVES overtake Labour in the total tally of seats for the House of Commons for the first time.

UK's Cameron: Brown has lost the right to govern (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:20 PM PDT

The leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, left, and his wife Sarah, right, are seen arriving to the count at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in the early hours of Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - Conservative leader David Cameron says British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party has lost its mandate to govern — but he acknowledged that the outcome of Britain's national election remained uncertain.

Country faces limbo as hung parliament looms (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:15 PM PDT

Ballot papers are counted during an election count in the UK. The country's opposition Conservatives came top in a knife-edge election but without a clear-cut majority, exit polls and partial results have suggested, threatening to plunge Britain into political limbo.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - The Conservatives came top in a knife-edge election but without a clear-cut majority, exit polls and partial results suggested Friday, threatening to plunge the country into political limbo.

(AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:02 PM PDT

AP - Conservative Party leader David Cameron says Labour has lost mandate to govern in Britain.

UK Conservatives seen largest party in poll chaos (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:26 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, and his wife Sarah, left, are seen after they have cast their vote's in Britain's General Election in North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland, Thursday, May 6 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)Reuters - Britain's opposition Conservatives were forecast on Friday to emerge as the largest party after the closest election in three decades, but seen falling just short of an outright majority in parliament.

Greek parliament backs tough austerity bill (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Reuters - Greek lawmakers approved the government's 30 billion euro ($40 billion) austerity bill in a vote in parliament on Thursday, paving the way for a record bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

'Massive' ash cloud closing western Irish airports (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT

A plume of ash rises from a volcano erupting under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, Hvolsvollur, Iceland, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. A new wave of dense volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic Wednesday in Ireland and Scotland and threatened to spill into the air space of England. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Iceland's volcano has produced a 1,000-mile-wide (1,600 kilometer-wide) ash cloud off the west coast of Ireland that will force western Irish airports to shut down again Friday, the Irish Aviation Authority announced.

Icelandic volcano emits more ash, fresh closures expected (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano continues spewing ash and ice on May 1. An Icelandic volcano which wreaked havoc on European aviation last month has sent up a new plume of ash and is set to emit another cloud of debris after surging back to life, meteorologists said.(AFP/File/Halldor Kolbeins)AFP - An Icelandic volcano which wreaked havoc on European aviation last month has sent up a new plume of ash and is set to emit another cloud of debris after surging back to life, meteorologists said.

Iceland volcano to emit large new cloud: meteorologists (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:13 PM PDT

Smoke and ash bellow from Eyjafjallajokull volcano as it is seen from Asolfsskali, Iceland, in April 2010. An Icelandic volcano which wreaked havoc on European aviation last month has sent up a new plume of ash and is set to emit another cloud of debris after surging back to life, meteorologists said.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - An Icelandic volcano which caused havoc to European aviation after erupting last month is to emit a large new ash cloud after surging back to life, meteorologists said Thursday.

Swiss question need for army defense capability (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:05 PM PDT

Guests view the Patrouille Suisse formation flight team on the opening day of the St. Gallen Symposium, a platform for dialogue on key issues in management, the entrepreneurial environment and the interfaces between business, politics and civil society, at the university of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Thursday, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Ennio Leanza)AP - Switzerland's army should stop preparing for a foreign attack and concentrate on security operations inside the country, according to a leaked government discussion paper published online Thursday.

Romanian designer creates skyscraper sandal (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 10:22 AM PDT

Romanian designer Mihai Albu displays one of his creations in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, May 5, 2010.Romanian shoe designer Mihai Albu is scaling new heights with his 12-inch heels, the latest in a series of skyscraper shoes by the former architect in line with international fashion trend for incredibly high heels.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - A designer known as Romania's "shoe architect" has come out with a new pair of sandals that increase a woman's height by 12 inches (31 centimeters).

Light aircraft carrying election candidate crashes (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 09:08 AM PDT

The light aircraft which crashed at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield, near Nottingham, England, injuring UKIP party member Nigel Farage and the plane's pilot, Thursday May 6, 2010. Member of the United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) Farage was injured early Thursday May 6, 2010, when the small plane crashed, as he was a passenger in the plane towing an election banner advising people to 'Vote UKIP'. Farage is reported to have been cut from the wreckage and taken to hospital but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. Britain goes to the polls Thursday in a General Election which seems likely to impact on the political landscape of the country. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES **AP - A leading candidate for Britain's right-wing U.K. Independence Party survived a plane crash Thursday without serious injuries.

Biden: US committed to missile defense in Europe (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:13 AM PDT

AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that Washington remains determined to deploy its planned anti-missile system in Europe to counter the danger of Iran's nuclear program and its long-range ballistic missiles.

Foreign troops to join Russia's Victory Day parade (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:48 AM PDT

Russian army fighter jets fly over the Moscow's Kremlin during general rehearsals ahead of the upcoming Victory Day Parade, in Moscow on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Russians will celebrate Victory in WWII on May 9. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - American, British and French troops are preparing to march across Red Square for the first time on Victory Day, a holiday so crucial to Russia's identity that even parade rehearsals are broadcast live.

Exhibition opens at former center of Nazi state (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:03 AM PDT

A woman inspects original remains of the historical Gestapo and SS buildings at the new documentation center Topography Of Terror in Berlin, Thursday, May 6, 2010. The new documentation and exhibition center shows how Hitler's security agencies tightly controlled the police state and how Germans dealt with the dark chapter of history in the aftermath of World War II. The center will open for public on Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Visitors to Berlin will again be able to roam the ruins where the Gestapo, SS and other Nazi agencies ran Adolf Hitler's dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, after a newly refurbished exhibition complex opens to the public.

IAEA chief focuses on Israel (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:14 AM PDT

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano addresses the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) conference at United Nations headquarters, Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog is asking for international input on an Arab-led push to have Israel join the Nonproliferation Treaty, in a move that adds to pressure on the Jewish state to disclose its unacknowledged nuclear arsenal.

Merkel risks reverse in key German vote (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:57 AM PDT

AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel's government risks a painful reverse as Germany's most populous state holds an election this weekend, with its political stock sliding after a rocky start and a buffeting from the Greek debt crisis.

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

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:14 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.

Nick Clegg: The new man in the middle (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:13 AM PDT

Britain's Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg, watched by his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, left, speaks to supporters in Eastbourne, England, Wednesday May 5, 2010, on the final day of campaigning for Britain's General Election.(AP Photo/Gareth Fuller-pa) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg took the stage in Britain's first-ever televised election debate, hand in his trouser pocket, the relaxed outsider anxious for change.

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