2010年5月26日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 04:01 PM PDT

AP - Amnesty International accused the United States, Russia and China on Thursday of ignoring human rights violations by allies and failing to open their own records to scrutiny in an annual survey meant to pressure governments to act more compassionately.

British lawmaker proposes libel law reform bill (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 04:01 PM PDT

AP - A British lawmaker Thursday began a new attempt Thursday to reform the country's libel laws, long criticized for what is said to be a chilling effect on journalism and free speech.

US recovery on track despite European debt concerns (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 03:07 PM PDT

A AFP - Better-than-expected economic indicators this week pointed to an on-track US recovery, even as European debt concerns cast a shadow over the world's largest economy.

UK police arrest suspect in triple killing (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:51 PM PDT

AP - British police say they've arrested a 40-year-old man in the killing of three prostitutes in northern England.

Man arrested over prostitute deaths (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:04 PM PDT

AFP - Police have arrested a 40-year-old man over the deaths of three prostitutes in northern England, while body parts have been found in a river, officers said Wednesday.

New video of UK couple kidnapped by Somali pirates (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 01:23 PM PDT

AP - A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates more than six months ago appeared in a video Wednesday appealing to the new U.K. government to secure their release.

Somalia hostage couple appeal to new government (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Rachel Chandler, seen here in captivity in Somalia in January 2010 three months after being kidnapped along with her husband Paul, appealed to the coalition government to help secure their release, in a new television interview aired Wednesday.(AFP/File/Mohamed Dahir)AFP - A British couple held hostage in Somalia appealed to Prime Minister David Cameron's government to help free them, in an interview aired Wednesday, but London again insisted it would not talk to hostage-takers.

China report harms efforts to bolster euro (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:56 PM PDT

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner attend a news conference at 11 Downing Street in central London May 26, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettReuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sought to support the battered euro on Wednesday, but the currency extended its decline on a report that China was reviewing its euro holdings.

Bomb kills 5 at Russian dance show (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2010 12:43 PM PDT

Interior Ministry officers stand guard at the site of a bomb explosion in Russia's southern city of Stavropol May 26, 2010. REUTERS/Eduard KorniyenkoReuters - At least five people were killed and 20 injured on Wednesday when a bomb exploded outside a theater in the southern Russian city of Stavropol just before the start of a Chechen dance show, investigators said.

Italy makes cuts to dodge euro crisis (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, right, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, during their meeting at Chigi Palace, Premier's office, in Rome, Friday, May 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday that euro24 billion (nearly $30 billion) in budget cuts aimed largely at its bloated bureaucracy are essential to restore confidence in the euro and to stop Italy living beyond its means.

Officials: Terror blast in southern Russia kills 5 (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 11:27 AM PDT

Rescuers tend to an injured person at the site of an explosion outside a cultural center in the southern Russian city of Stavropol, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Explosives placed in a bag under a tree in the center of a southern Russian city blew up Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring at least 13, officials said. (AP Photo)AP - An explosion tore through the center of a southern Russian city on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding at least 20 as locals gathered for a Chechen dance concert, officials said.

Poland welcomes US soldiers, Patriot missiles (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 11:12 AM PDT

A U.S. soldier stands next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Polish and U.S. officials hailed the arrival in Poland of an American Patriot missile battery, saying Wednesday that the hardware and soldiers just kilometers from the Russian border enhance Polish security but pose no threat to Russia. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - Polish and U.S. officials hailed the arrival in Poland of an American Patriot missile battery, saying Wednesday that the hardware and soldiers close to the Russian border enhance Polish security but pose no threat to Russia.

UK gov't discloses size of its nuclear stockpile (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 10:59 AM PDT

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, makes a statement in the House of Commons on Britain's stockpile of nuclear warheads in this image taken from TV in London Wednesday May 26, 2010 . Britain offered its first accounting of its nuclear arsenal Wednesday, revealing that it has a stockpile of 225 warheads in a move that offers transparency to non-nuclear states in hopes of winning stricter global controls on the spread of atomic weapons. (AP Photo/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Britain offered its first public accounting of its nuclear arsenal Wednesday, disclosing that it has a stockpile of 225 warheads in a move that offers transparency to non-nuclear states in hope of winning stricter global controls on the spread of atomic weapons.

French detain Rwandan doctor on intn'l warrant (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 10:31 AM PDT

AP - A judicial official says French police have detained a Rwandan doctor convicted in absentia in his homeland for a role in that country's 1994 genocide.

Red Cross defends first aid courses for Taliban (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 10:17 AM PDT

Armed Pakistani Taliban gather at a hideout in the semi-autonomous tribal district of Orakzai in 2009. At least 12 militants were killed in a clash with Pakistani troops in a restive tribal district Tuesday, officials said. The fighting broke out during a search operation in Orakzai, where troops have been battling the Taliban since March, security officials said.(AFP/File/Rehman Ali)AP - The international Red Cross said Wednesday it would continue giving first aid training and kits to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, despite drawing angry e-mails from around the world and criticism from an Afghan official after the practice was publicized.

Scottish protesters plan to bogey Trump's course (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 09:55 AM PDT

US billionaire Donald Trump gestures, during a press conference about his plans for the 'world's greatest' luxury golf and housing project on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, at Aberdeen Airport Training Centre, Scotland, Wednesday May 26, 2010. Protesters opposed to Donald Trump's planned $1.5 billion Scottish golf resort say they've pulled a trick shot out of their bag, a legal move which will force the U.S. tycoon to confront more than 60 landowners rather than just a lone holdout. At the center of the plan is local fisherman Michael Forbes, who has long been an irritant to Trump. Forbes refuses Trump's offer of nearly $700,000 (488,000 pounds) to buy his family's run-down farm, which sits at the center of the planned resort. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson/PA Wire) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Protesters opposed to Donald Trump's planned $1.5 billion Scottish golf resort say they've pulled a trick shot out of their bag.

EU-US talks on privacy may take up to 2 years (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 08:21 AM PDT

AP - Negotiations for trans-Atlantic privacy protection agreement could take two years and limit governments' access to personal data while forcing them to delete inaccurate information, an EU official said Wednesday.

Prosecutors demand 7-year sentences for piracy (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 08:14 AM PDT

In this Friday, May 7, 2010 photo, a Swedish navy officer jogs aboard Swedish warship HMS Carlskrona, the flagship of the European Union's force to hunt down Somali pirates, off the coast of Somalia. Building an international alliance to fight the pirates means navies have to try to harmonize their cultures alongside their weapons and communications systems. (AP Photo / Tim Freccia)AP - Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday demanded seven-year prison sentences for five Somali men accused of attempting to hijack a cargo ship, in Europe's first piracy trial stemming from the rising tide of banditry in the Gulf of Aden.

Intn'l court reports Sudan to UN Security Council (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 07:52 AM PDT

AP - The International Criminal Court said Wednesday it has reported Sudan to the U.N. Security Council for refusing to arrest a government minister and a militia leader suspected of war crimes in Darfur.

(AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 07:38 AM PDT

AP - British government reveals size of its nuclear stockpile; says it has 225 warheads.

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