2010年6月29日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Fire at Total oil refinery, one worker missing (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:45 PM PDT

A general view of the Total Lindsay oil refinery. A fire broke out at Britain's third largest oil refinery Tuesday, causing an explosion and leaving one oil worker missing, the company that owns the site and emergency services said.(AFP/Nick Robinson)AFP - A fire broke out at the third largest oil refinery Tuesday, causing an explosion and leaving one oil worker missing, the company that owns the site and emergency services said.

21 killed as heavy rain, floods hit Romania (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:19 PM PDT

The river Siret partly floods the village of Sendreni. Heavy rains caused floods that killed 21 people in Romania and thousands of others were evacuated from their homes on Tuesday as rivers threatened to burst their banks.(AFP/Andrei Pungovschi)AFP - Heavy rains caused floods that killed 21 people in Romania and thousands of others were evacuated from their homes on Tuesday as rivers threatened to burst their banks.

Report: 1 in 9 of histoic English churches at risk (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:07 PM PDT

AP - About one in nine of England's historically important places of worship are in a bad state of repair, and rural churches tend to be in worse shape than ones in cities, according to research released Wednesday by a conservation group.

Britain's budget cuts to cost 1.3 million jobs: report (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain's tough deficit-busting budget will lead to 1.3 million job losses over five years, the Guardian reported on its website on Tuesday, citing unpublished Treasury estimates.

Thousands mourn servicemen killed in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT

A convoy of hearses containing the bodies of seven soldiers killed in Afghanistan, passes through the village of Wootton Bassett, in Wiltshire.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Thousands of mourners lined the streets of a Wootton Bassett Tuesday to pay their final respects to seven servicemen killed in Afghanistan, as their bodies were brought home.

Govt to announce torture complicity probe: report (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:09 PM PDT

Ethiopian born former terror suspect Binyam Mohamed is pictured in central London in 2009. The government is poised to announce the details of a judge-led inquiry into claims its secret agents were complicit in the torture of terror suspects after a spate of allegations, the BBC reported Tuesday.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The government is poised to announce the details of a judge-led inquiry into claims its secret agents were complicit in the torture of terror suspects after a spate of allegations, the BBC reported Tuesday.

Queen Elizabeth II helps celebrate Canadian navy's 100th (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:42 PM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II, pictured on June 12, marked the 100th anniversary of Canada's navy by taking part Tuesday in an international fleet review at the port of Halifax, on the Atlantic coast.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II marked the 100th anniversary of Canada's navy by taking part Tuesday in an international fleet review at the port of Halifax, on the Atlantic coast.

Veteran Russian editor: state seeks media control (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:21 PM PDT

Reuters - A veteran Russian newspaper editor said Tuesday the authorities were trying harder than ever to control what appears in the press.

Russia: Suspected spies include Russian citizens (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:17 PM PDT

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo)AP - Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia's Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it insisted they did nothing to hurt U.S. interests.

Russia angry as U.S. seeks to limit spy fallout (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:00 PM PDT

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads 'Russia, Moscow. Left 4 dead???' (AP Photo)Reuters - Moscow on Tuesday angrily rejected allegations by Washington that it had cracked an undercover Russian spy ring but U.S. officials said the Cold War-style cloak and dagger saga would not undermine a thaw in relations.

Noriega says French laundering trial a conspiracy (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1989 file photo Panamanian military strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega talks to reporters in Panama City. Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's lawyers argued for his release as he went on trial in France on Monday June 28, 2010, saying he should be set free instead of facing money laundering charges that could put him back in jail for a decade. Noriega, who spent 20 years in U.S. custody for drug trafficking, started his testimony with a stumble, when he was asked about discrepancies in his date of birth on different legal documents. (AP Photo)AP - Relishing the chance to defend himself in court, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega boasted Tuesday of his one-time international stature and decried the United States as the mastermind of a "conspiracy" that has kept him behind bars for two decades.

Is UK government's political honeymoon over? (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:05 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron answers a reporter's question during a news conference at the end of the G20 nations summit in Toronto, Canada, Sunday June 27, 2010. Wary of slamming on the stimulus brakes too quickly but shaken by the European debt crisis, world leaders pledged Sunday to slash government deficits in the most industrialized nations in half by 2013, with wiggle room to meet the goal. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Is the honeymoon over for Britain's unlikely political marriage?

Masked protesters clash with Greek police (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 09:43 AM PDT

Strikers block the entrance of the ferry Apollon Hellas, at the Greek port of Piraeus, Tuesday June 29, 2010. Public services shut down across Greece Tuesday as workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike that disrupted public transport, left hospitals operating on emergency staff and pulled all news broadcasts off the air. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)AP - Dozens of masked youths clashed with police at a union protest Tuesday in Athens during the country's fifth general strike this year against the cash-strapped government's planned pension and labor reforms.

Rudolf Leopold, Austrian art collector, dies at 85 (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 09:38 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2008 file photo Austria's most important art collector and Director of Vienna's Leopold museum Rudolf Leopold speaks during a news conference in Vienna. Leopold died on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at the age of 85 in a Vienna hospital. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, File)AP - Rudolf Leopold, who assembled Austria's largest private art collection, including works allegedly stolen by the Nazis, died Tuesday at the age of 85.

Belgian files complaint over church sex abuse raid (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 09:20 AM PDT

File - In this April 23, 2010 file photo, Belgium's Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard addresses the media in Brussels. The pope on Sunday, June 27, 2010 called the recent raids carried out by Belgian police investigating priestly sex abuse 'surprising and deplorable' and voiced his support for the Belgian bishops who were held during the searches. In a message of solidarity to the head of the Belgian bishops' conference, Pope Benedict XVI said justice must take its course but also asserted the right of the Catholic Church to investigate abuse alongside civil law enforcement authorities. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)AP - A Belgian man who says he was sexually abused by a priest filed a complaint with Brussels prosecutors Tuesday after his confidential testimony to a church-appointed panel was seized by Belgian police.

(AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:46 AM PDT

AP - Russia's Foreign Ministry says the suspected spies arrested in US include Russian citizens.

President vote provides test for Germany's Merkel (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:35 AM PDT

AP - Germany's president traditionally has little political influence, but the election Wednesday of a new head of state has turned into a challenge for Chancellor Angela Merkel's troubled government.

12 dead, 2 missing in floods in Romania (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:23 AM PDT

AP - Torrential rains and heavy flooding have left 12 dead and two missing in northeastern Romania, authorities said Tuesday.

Demjanjuk trial in Munich postponed due to health (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:09 AM PDT

AP - John Demjanjuk's son accused a German court Tuesday of pushing ahead with a trial on allegations that his father served as a Nazi death camp guard despite what he said were indications the 90-year-old's health is deteriorating.

Leading figure in Swiss Jewish community dies (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 29, 2008 file picture the President of the Swiss Jewish Community Federation SIG, Alfred Donath, speaks at a press conference in Berne, Switzerland. Alfred Donath, a Jewish activist who helped Holocaust victims and their heirs recover money from Swiss banks, has died. He was 78. The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG), which Donath led from 2000 to 2008, said he died suddenly at a hospital Monday night June 28, 2010. The cause of death was not given. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro della Valle,File)AP - Alfred Donath, a Jewish activist who helped Holocaust victims and their heirs recover money from Swiss banks, has died. He was 78.

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