2010年5月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Westwood leads by one at Players Championship (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Lee Westwood of England hits his tee shot on the ninth hole during the second round of The Players Championship held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Westwood couldn't be bothered contesting last year's Players Championship, but he's sure glad he decided to play this time after taking the second-round lead on Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/Richard Heathcote)AFP - Lee Westwood couldn't be bothered contesting last year's Players Championship, but he's sure glad he decided to play this time after taking the second-round lead on Friday.

Child labor drops but not fast enough: UN report (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT

AP - Child labor has declined, but progress toward eradicating the practice is uneven and risks grinding to a halt, the U.N. labor agency said Saturday.

Europe tries to calm fears over Greek debt crisis (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 04:57 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, waits to cast her ballot in the German Federal Parliament in Berlin, Friday, May 7, 2010. Germany's parliament is expected to give the go-ahead for the country's share of the rescue package for debt-laden Greece. Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition has a comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament and also controls a majority in the upper house, which represents Germany's 16 states. Both chambers are to vote on the plan Friday. Germany is to grant as much as 22.4 billion euro (US dlrs 28.6 billion) in credit over three years as part of a wider 110 billion euro package backed by eurozone members and the International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced early Saturday that Europe will set up an intervention mechanism to calm markets rattled by the Greek debt crisis.

Report: Cardinal attacks former Vatican No. 2 (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 04:46 PM PDT

AP - Austria's cardinal has said the former second-highest Vatican official blocked a probe into a sex abuse scandal that rocked the country's Catholic church 15 years ago.

Conservatives, Liberals in talks (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 03:44 PM PDT

Opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron (L), shakes hands with opposition Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg at the end of the live televised debate in Birmingham on April 2010. Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties held talks Friday to discuss a possible deal on the shape of the next government following the inconclusive general election results.(AFP/POOL/File/Gareth Fuller)AFP - Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties held talks Friday to discuss a possible deal on the shape of the next government following the inconclusive general election results.

G7 watching Europe, market volatility with concern (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Reuters - The Group of Seven rich countries is concerned about Greece's debt problems, a Canadian official said on Friday, and hinted that there may be other countries that will also need help.

Belgian bishops nix US sex norms but vow action (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT

AP - Tough U.S. norms about dealing with clerical sex abuse that have been hailed as a model by the Vatican aren't appropriate for Belgium, even as it deals with dozens of new reports of priests molesting children, a leading archbishop said Friday.

APNewsBreak: Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 02:36 PM PDT

AP - Israel's secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press.

Bosnian Serb war criminal assaulted in UK prison (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 02:32 PM PDT

File - Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic appears during his appeal hearing of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, in this Monday April 19, 2004 file photo. A Bosnian Serb war criminal serving time for his role in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica was assaulted by fellow inmates Friday May 7, 2010, at a high-security prison in northern England, officials said. Radislav Krstic was hospitalized after an attack at Wakefield prison, about 190 miles (300 kilometers) north of London, an official at Britain's Justice Ministry told The Associated Press. (AP Photo / Pool, Paul Vreeker, File )AP - A Bosnian Serb war criminal serving time for his role in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica was assaulted by fellow inmates Friday at a high-security prison in northern England, officials said.

Report: Sexual abuse charge against German bishop (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 12:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 2, 2009 file picture Walter Mixa, Catholic Bishop of Augsburg t speaks at the beginning of the Spring Assembly of the German Bishop's Conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. German officials say prosecutors in Ingolstadt have launched a preliminary investigation against Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa. A local paper is reporting it involves a case of sexual abuse. Mixa offered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI last month after allegations he physically abused children decades ago. The daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported Friday May 7, 2010 that Ingolstadt prosecutors had launched a preliminary investigation against the bishop after a complaint of alleged sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Focke Strangmann,File)AP - German officials said Friday that a preliminary investigation has been launched against Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa, who offered Pope Benedict XVI his resignation already last month over allegations he physically abused minors.

Iranian wanted by US flies home from France (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 10:03 AM PDT

AP - An Iranian detained in France on accusations he evaded export controls to purchase technology over the Internet to sell to Iran's military has left the country.

Lithuanian court reverses ban on gay pride parade (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 08:58 AM PDT

AP - A Lithuanian appeals court said Friday that the country's first gay pride parade can go ahead as planned, overturning a ban imposed by a lower court that had warned of violent protests.

Atlantic ash cloud forcing US-Europe flights south (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 08:49 AM 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 - A mammoth cloud of volcanic ash is stretching 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the North Atlantic and forcing aircraft to divert south into a long-haul traffic jam, Irish and European air authorities said Friday.

US Vice President Biden visits Spain (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 07:14 AM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Biden waves as he walks down the stairs on his arrival at Torrejon de Ardoz Militar Base, near Madrid, Friday, May 7, 2010.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Spain to meet with Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and King Juan Carlos for talks.

Germany says WWII's end was liberation (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 06:50 AM PDT

Russian soldiers attend a wreath laying ceremony of Russian and of former Soviet states representatives in Germany, at the eve of the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, in Berlin, Friday, May 7, 2010. Several hundreds of people attend the ceremony at the largest Soviet military memorial outside the former Soviet Union at the district Treptow. Around 7,000 Soviet soldiers were killed in the fight to take Berlin in 1945, and were buried at the memorial. With the capitulation of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, WW II ended in Europe. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - The Allied victory in World War II 65 years ago was a "liberation for all," even though it took many Germans some time to acknowledge that, German parliament president Norbert Lammert said Friday.

Russia says pirates who held tanker are freed (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 06:35 AM PDT

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF MOSB111 ** In this April 6, 2003 file picture Russian anti-submarine ship Marshal Shaposhnikov of the Pacific Fleet, is ready to leave Vladivostok harbour in the Russian Far East, to head to the Indian Ocean. The Russian Defense Ministry says, the Russian anti-submarine destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov has freed the Moscow University, a Russian oil tanker that had been seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo, file)AP - The pirates seized by a Russian warship off the coast of Somalia have been released because of "imperfections" in international law, the Defense Ministry said Friday, a claim that sparked skepticism — and even suspicion the pirates might have been killed.

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