2010年7月5日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Body of chess champion Fischer exhumed in Iceland (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:31 AM PDT

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer during his match against his archrival Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, in 1992. REUTERS/Ivan MilutinovicReuters - The body of former chess champion Bobby Fischer, who died in Iceland two years ago, has been exhumed to provide forensic evidence in a paternity suit, the police said on Monday.

EU eyes visa-free travel for Taiwan visitors (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:24 AM PDT

This general view shows the Love River in the downtown area of the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung. The European Commission proposed Monday to grant Taiwan passport holders the right to visit European Union countries without a visa for short trips.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - The European Commission proposed Monday to grant Taiwan passport holders the right to visit European Union countries without a visa for short trips.

Komorowski win strengthens Polish government (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:23 AM PDT

Poland's acting President Bronislaw Komorowski, speaker of the parliament and presidential candidate from Civic Platform Party (PO) waves to supporters at his election headquarters in Warsaw, July 4, 2010. Komorowski, candidate of Poland's ruling pro-business party, Civic Platform (PO), won Sunday's presidential election, exit polls showed. REUTERS/Kacper PempelAP - Poland chose a rival of the late president over his twin brother in a vote seen as a move away from three months of shock, grief and mourning that followed the death of Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash.

EU's Rehn backs full bank stress tests transparency (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:05 AM PDT

Reuters - Results of the stress tests imposed on European Union banks should be completely transparent to help boost confidence in the bloc's economy, the EU's monetary affairs chief said on Monday.

Johnson looking forward after England knock-back (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:00 AM PDT

Manchester City winger Adam Johnson, pictured in March 2010, says he has put the disappointment of missing out on a World Cup place with England behind him and is relishing the battle for a first-team place next season.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Manchester City winger Adam Johnson says he has put the disappointment of missing out on a World Cup place with England behind him and is relishing the battle for a first-team place next season.

Spain's Pamplona bans vuvuzelas for bull run (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:58 AM PDT

A supporter of Spain blows a vuvuzela as he arrives at Ellis Park stadium before the 2010 World Cup quarter-final football match between Paraguay and Spain on July 3. The Spanish city of Pamplona on Monday banned World Cup vuvuzela trumpets on the eve of its famous bull run, with the deafening instrument already popular ahead of Spain's football semi-final.(AFP/File/Monirul Bhuiyan)AFP - The Spanish city of Pamplona on Monday banned World Cup vuvuzela trumpets on the eve of its famous bull run, with the deafening instrument already popular ahead of Spain's football semi-final.

Alleged Mossad spy appears in Polish court (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:34 AM PDT

Hiding his face, Israeli citizen Uri Brodsky is escorted by anti-terrorists to a court session in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday July 5, 2010. The court is to decide whether Brodsky, an alleged Mossad agent, should be extradited to Germany on a European Arrest Warrant in connection to a Hamas leader's slaying. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - A Polish court demanded more documents Monday in the extradition case of an Israeli man suspected of being a Mossad agent involved in the slaying of a Hamas leader in Dubai.

10 dead in military plane crash in Romania (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:34 AM PDT

AP - Officials say a Romanian military plane has crashed in Romania near the Black Sea, killing 10 people and injuring three.

Fake Kremlin Twitter account mocks Russia's President (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:23 AM PDT

Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev's embrace of Twitter has spawned a new twist in Russia's rich tradition of political humour: a mock account lampooning the tech-savvy leader and his uphill battle to modernise the nation.

Serb lawmaker shot in Kosovo (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:16 AM PDT

AP - A gunman wounded a Serb member of Kosovo's parliament on Monday, police said, in an attack that could further stoke ethnic tensions in the unstable region.

Hearing opens in Britain for ex-Bosnian leader (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:14 AM PDT

Former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic, center, arrives with his son Emir, left, and daughter Emina for a five-day extradition hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, Monday, July 5, 2010. Dr Ganic was arrested at Heathrow on March 1 over war crime allegations.(AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - A former Bosnian vice president arrested on war crimes charges Monday protested his potential extradition from Britain to Serbia, claiming authorities in Belgrade won't give him a fair trial.

UK deputy leader promises 2011 reform referendum (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:01 AM PDT

AP - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Monday outlined plans for a sweeping shake up of Britain's political system, one that could nudge the U.K. from a mainly two-party system toward more European-style coalition politics.

Interpol seeks public's help to find top fugitives (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 08:20 AM PDT

AP - International police agency Interpol launched an unusual appeal Monday to the global public to report sightings of 26 leading fugitives — whether on the street or on a Facebook page.

(AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 08:08 AM PDT

AP - Final count in Poland's election confirms Bronislaw Komorowski as new president.

Cypriot authorities searching spy suspect's laptop (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:55 AM PDT

Undated handout photo released from the Cyprus police on Thursday, July 1, 2010, showing alleged Russian spy Christopher Robert Metsos, 54, who they are looking for after he skipped bail and vanished. Metsos, who identified himself as a Canadian citizen, is wanted in the US on charges that he supplied money to a spy ring that authorities say operated under deep cover in America's suburbs. Metsos was arrested Tuesday in Cyprus as he tried to board a flight for Budapest, Hungary, but a Cypriot judge freed him on euro27,000 (US$33,000) bail, and he has now gone missing but is thought to still be on the Mediterranean island. (AP Photo/Cyprus Police, HO)AP - Cyprus police are searching the contents of a confiscated laptop belonging to an alleged Russian spy who has vanished, the east Mediterranean island's justice minister said on Monday.

Youth gored to death in Spanish festival (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:14 AM PDT

FILE-- In this file photo from July 8, 2009, revelers run during the second run of the Cebada Gago fighting bulls at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain. Hordes of humans are gearing up to sprint just ahead of thundering beasts in this city's historic old quarter, but Spain's famed running of the bulls is overshadowed this year by a vote to ban bullfighting in a populous province and a debt crisis forcing villages nationwide to cancel subsidized pueblo parties known for their wine, food, live music and bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)AP - Spain's Interior Ministry says a youth was gored to death during a running of bulls at a festival in a small north-central town over the weekend.

Chess icon Fischer's body exhumed over paternity (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 06:50 AM PDT

FILE - This April 28, 1962 file photo shows chess star Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., in New York. The remains of chess genius Bobby Fischer are to be exhumed to determine whether he is the father of a 9-year-old girl, a lawyer representing the child and her mother said Thursday June 17, 2010. Thordur Bogason, a lawyer based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, said the country's Supreme Court made the decision earlier this week in order to allow for tests so his client, Jinky Young, can find out who her father is. Fischer, 64, died in Iceland in January 2008. He left no will, Bogason said, adding legal cases over who has the right to the U.S.-born player's estate are ongoing. (AP Photo/John Lent)AP - Authorities in Iceland have exhumed the body of American chess champion Bobby Fischer to determine whether he is the father of a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines.

Cost of the queen: less than $1 per person a year (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 06:34 AM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II, left, smiles while talking to jockey David Moran at The Queen's Plate at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto on Sunday, July 4, 2010. The royal couple is on a nine-day tour of Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Nathan Denette)AP - Like millions of her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II is going to have to make do and mend — cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal finances are squeezed by Britain's budget crisis.

Clinton: US supports democratic forces in Georgia (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 06:31 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in the Armenian capital Yerevan, Sunday, July 4, 2010, during her brief visit to the ex-Soviet nation. Clinton on Sunday appealed to Armenia and Azerbaijan for a peaceful resolution of a long-running territorial dispute between the neighboring ex-Soviet states, but there were no outward signs of fresh diplomatic progress. (AP Photo/PanARMENIAN Photo)Hakobyan)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday pledged U.S. support for Georgia, a former Soviet state recovering from an August 2008 Russian military invasion and seeking to consolidate its democracy.

Rising Danube threatens Romanian city (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 05:44 AM PDT

AP - Romanian authorities were stacking sand bags Monday along a 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) dike to prevent the river Danube overflowing its banks and flooding the city of Galati.

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