2010年6月2日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Turkish activist planes land Istanbul (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:17 PM PDT

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks with a Turkish activist injured in Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound convoy Monday, after his arrival at Etimesgut military airport in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hotly rejected calls to lift a blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Wednesday, insisting the ban prevents missile attacks on Israel and labeling worldwide criticism of his navy's bloody raid on a pro-Palestinian flotilla as 'hypocrisy.' (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of activists deported from Israel following a bloody raid on a pro-Palestinian flotilla by Israeli soldiers, returned to a hero's welcome in Turkey early Thursday. Nine bodies were also on the first plane.

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Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:30 PM PDT

AP - Turkey's NTV television says first plane carrying hundreds of activists have landed in Istanbul.

Gunman kills 12 in rampage through tourist hotspot (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:15 PM PDT

Police officers look a body at the scene of a shooting in Seascale, Cumbria. A gunman killed at least 12 people in a deadly rampage through a popular tourist region Wednesday, before apparently turning the gun on himself, police said.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - A gunman killed at least 12 people in a deadly rampage through a popular tourist region Wednesday, before apparently turning the gun on himself, police said.

UK taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25 in rampage (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Police stand next to a body following a shooting on Duke Street, in the town of Whitehaven in northwest England Wednesday June 2, 2010. British police were hunting down a man suspected in a shooting spree that has left more than one person dead in northwest England. The Cumbria Constabulary said there have been 'a number of fatalities' as well as several injuries after shots were fired in the town of Whitehaven and nearby Seascale and Egremont. (AP Photo/Rod Minchin/PA Wire) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - A taxi driver drove his vehicle on a shooting spree across a tranquil stretch of northwest England on Wednesday, methodically killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself, officials said. The rampage in the county of Cumbria was Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996 and it jolted a country where handguns are banned and multiple shootings rare.

European chill as G20 finance heads meet in SKorea (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:56 PM PDT

South Korea's Capital Defense Command soldiers capture a supposed terrorist, center, during an anti-terror military exercise, Tuesday, June 1, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's special task force is preparing for possible emergencies during this week's G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting June 4th and 5th, in the southern city of Busan. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Europe's debt woes are set to dominate talks as finance mandarins from the newly powerful G-20 group of rich and developing nations meet this week to push ahead with reforms of the global economy.

Spain to pass labour reforms on June 16: prime minister (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:56 PM PDT

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero gives a press conference in Madrid. Spain's government will approve labour market reforms aimed at reviving the economy on June 16 even if no agreement is reached with unions on the plan, the prime minister announced Wednesday.(AFP/Dominique Faget)AFP - Spain's government will approve labour market reforms aimed at reviving the economy on June 16 even if no agreement is reached with unions on the plan, the prime minister announced Wednesday.

Morocco court jails man for heist (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:52 PM PDT

A court in Morocco has sentenced a cage fighter with British and Moroccan nationality to 10 years in jail for Britain's biggest cash robbery carried out in 2006, a source said Wednesday. Ibrahim Lee Murray, pictured in 2007, was sentenced in Sale on various charges including membership of a criminal gang, theft with an armed weapon, wearing an illegal uniform and kidnapping, the source said.(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - A court in Morocco has sentenced a cage fighter with British and Moroccan nationality to 10 years in jail for Britain's biggest cash robbery carried out in 2006, a source said Wednesday.

AP INTERVIEW: Turkish aid group had terror ties (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:51 PM PDT

AP - The Turkish Islamic charity behind a flotilla of aid ships that was raided by Israeli forces on its way to Gaza had ties to terrorism networks, including a 1999 al-Qaida plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, France's former top anti-terrorism judge said Wednesday.

Liverpool mull Benitez severance deal - report (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Liverpool have offered coach Rafael Benitez, seen here in April 2010, a three million pounds deal paving the way for the Spaniard to leave the club in the summer, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Javier Soriano)AFP - Liverpool have offered coach Rafael Benitez a three million pounds deal paving the way for the Spaniard to leave the club in the summer, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Dollar mixed on home sales, European debt crisis (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:37 PM PDT

AP - The dollar was mixed against major currencies Wednesday as investors weighed upbeat news on U.S. home sales with the impact of the debt crisis on some of Europe's banks.

Saakashvili's party sweeps Georgia local elections (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:09 PM PDT

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks to the media after voting, during the municipal elections at a polling station in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, May 30, 2010. Voters in Georgia were choosing local leaders Sunday in the first ballot since President Mikhail Saakashvili led the country into a disastrous war with neighboring Russia nearly two years ago. Saakashvili's rule has elevated Georgia's status in the West yet turned it into a bitter adversary of Russia. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)AP - Georgia's president has won a huge vote of confidence in the former Soviet nation's first elections since he led it into a disastrous war against Russia in 2008.

Iran accuses nuclear agency of false reporting (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 12:06 PM PDT

Palestinian Ahmed Al-Dahshan (L), who was detained while aboard a Gaza-bound ship, is hugged by relatives upon his arrival to Gaza City June 2, 2010. In a televised address after world outrage erupted over nine deaths in Monday's seizure of a Turkish ship bound for Gaza, a defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said easing controls would put long-range Iranian missiles into the hands of the Palestinian enclave's Hamas rulers.Israel said it was deporting all 682 activists from more than 35 countries detained after the assault in international waters on the six ships it commandeered. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP - A senior Iranian envoy accused the International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday of false reporting in saying that agency inspectors probing a laboratory for suspected undeclared nuclear experiments found some equipment removed.

Prosecutors investigating Germany's top cleric (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 10:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2010 file photo Archbishop Robert Zollitsch listens to reporters questions during a press conference following an audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. German prosecutors say Wednesday June 2, 2010 they are investigating allegations that the country's top Roman Catholic cleric was responsible for hiring a priest known to have sexually abused minors. Prosecutor Wolfgang Maier said the investigation of Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch is based solely on a complaint by an abuse victim and the allegations haven't yet been scrutinized. Zollitsch also heads the German Bishops Conference. Spokesman Robert Eberle rejected as baseless the allegation that he was an accessory to abuse of minors by omission. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)AP - German prosecutors are investigating allegations that the country's top Roman Catholic cleric was responsible in the 1980s for hiring a priest known to have sexually abused minors, a spokesman said Tuesday.

UN expert: 'Targeted killings' may be war crimes (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 08:45 AM PDT

AP - Governments must come clean on their methods for killing suspected terrorists and insurgents — especially when using unmanned drones — because they may be committing war crimes, a U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday.

Russia launching 520-day Mars mission simulation (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 06:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 14, 2009 file photo the team of researchers is greeted after ending a three-month simulation mission to Mars at a Moscow research facility, Russia. Another team of researchers will launch a longer, 520-day simulation of Mars mission at the same facility in Moscow on Thursday June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)AP - A manned mission to Mars may be decades away, but an international team of researchers will try to experience what one might be like by locking themselves up in a windowless capsule for a year-and-half — the time needed for a roundtrip to the red planet.

Poland arrests US fugitive wanted by FBI for fraud (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 06:39 AM PDT

AP - U.S. officials say an American fugitive wanted for money laundering and other financial fraud has been arrested in Poland.

3 killed trying to disarm WWII-era bomb in Germany (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 06:05 AM PDT

AP - Three experts working to defuse a bomb from World War II were killed when the device exploded, injuring six others, police said Wednesday.

Standards body: elevators can help in evacuations (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:25 AM PDT

AP - Ever read that sign in the elevator that tells you to take the stairs in an emergency?

Danish police drop church sexual abuse probe (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:19 AM PDT

AP - Danish police say they won't investigate alleged cases of sexual abuse in the country's Catholic Church because most of them are obsolete.

Russian space capsule with 3 aboard lands (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:39 PM PDT

AP - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts back from a five-month mission on the International Space Station landed early Wednesday in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

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