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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Sarkozy caught up in L'Oreal heiress cash scandal (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:36 AM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy gives a press conference during his visit at the Brie-Comte-Robert hospital, some 30 km east of Paris. Allegations of illegal donations from France's richest woman plunged Sarkozy into the biggest crisis of his presidency Tuesday, despite protests he is the victim of a smear campaign.(AFP/Bertrand Langlois)AFP - Allegations of illegal donations from France's richest woman plunged Nicolas Sarkozy into the biggest crisis of his presidency Tuesday, despite protests he is the victim of a smear campaign.

Russia criticizes new U.S. missile defence plans (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:31 AM PDT

Reuters - The Russia said on Tuesday the United States is ignoring its concerns about U.S. plans to build a missile shield with elements near Russia's borders.

Europe to outline bank test methods Wed: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:31 AM PDT

Reuters - European bank regulators will seek to safeguard the credibility of health checks on top banks by showing how the tests are done, to allay investors' fears of political meddling.

Sarkozy denies illegal party funding report (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Reuters - President Nicolas Sarkozy denied allegations on Tuesday that his party received illegal campaign donations in cash from France's richest woman via the current labor minister, Eric Woerth.

Queen Elizabeth II makes rare NY visit (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II , seen here in Ontario, was due Tuesday for a rare, whirlwind trip to a sweltering New York where she was to address the UN General Assembly and pay homage at Ground Zero.(AFP/Geoff Robins)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II was due Tuesday for a rare, whirlwind trip to a sweltering New York where she was to address the UN General Assembly and pay homage at Ground Zero.

PM outlines secret service torture probe (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:05 AM PDT

Former terror suspect Binyam Mohamed, seen here in 2009, was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for more than four years before being released last year. Prime Minister David Cameron has unveiled details of an inquiry into claims its security services were complicit in the torture of suspected violent extremists on foreign soil after the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled details Tuesday of an inquiry into claims its security services were complicit in the torture of suspected violent extremists on foreign soil after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

French architect Nouvel unveils red pavilion in London (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:04 AM PDT

French architect Jean Nouvel is seen posing for photographers, through his red plexi-glass structure, at the launch of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavillion in Kensington Gardens, London. The pavillion is Nouvel's first completed building in the UK.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Renowned French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled his first completed work in Britain on Tuesday, a huge pavilion in a "symphony of reds" built for the Serpentine Gallery of modern art in London's Hyde Park.

UK to probe accusations of complicity in torture (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:03 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain will investigate whether its security services knew about the torture of terrorism suspects on foreign soil and may compensate some detainees, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday.

Italian motorists steal euro10,000 ($12,580) in coins (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:42 AM PDT

In this picture taken Monday, July 5, 2010, an highway worker sweeps euro coins after a truck carrying some €2 million ($2.5 million) in coins overturned in Foggia, southern Italy, unloading its contents onto the highway and leading motorists to hit the breaks and dig in. Police said Tuesday that it was impossible to establish how much money had been stolen, as many of the €1 and €2 coins remain on the highway. (AP Photo/Vincnezo Maizzi)AP - Money makes the world go round — or in this case brings an Italian highway to a halt.

Sarkozy lashes out at 'smear' campaign in France (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:37 AM PDT

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied a report that his 2007 election campaign received euro150,000 ($188,000) in secret cash donations from the country's richest woman, saying Tuesday the allegations were an effort to smear him.

UK names judge to lead inquiry into torture claims (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:21 AM PDT

AP - Britain will hold a judge-led inquiry into allegations that its spies were complicit in the torture of terror suspects held by the U.S. and other allies.

A gay bishop for the Church of England? (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:01 AM PDT

FILE - This is a July 2, 2004 file photo of the Very Rev.Jeffrey John at St Albans Abbey in St Albans England. The Church of England may be on the verge of promoting a gay priest to bishop, a step that would widen the split over sexuality in the global Anglican Communion. If that happens, it would appear to be a significant turnaround for Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Church of England and the world's Anglicans, who recently imposed sanctions on the U.S. Episcopal Church for electing a lesbian bishop. According to newspaper reports Tuesday July 6, 2010, Williams is prepared to back the elevation of the Very Rev. Jeffrey John, who withdrew seven years ago from an appointment as a suffragan (assistant) bishop in the face of a heated controversy about his homosexuality. Williams' office will not comment. (AP Photo/Michael Stephens/PA File) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - The Church of England may be on the verge of promoting a gay priest to bishop, a step that would widen the split over sexuality in the global Anglican Communion.

Jailed Azerbaijani editor convicted on new charges (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 08:56 AM PDT

AP - An Azerbaijani newspaper editor was convicted on new charges Tuesday following a European court's ruling urging his release.

Cyprus, a familiar stopover in spy lore (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 08:13 AM PDT

Two boys pass outside of the US Foreign Broadcasting Information Service (FBIS), in Macedonitissa a suburb of divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. The arrest and escape of an alleged member of a Russian spy ring last week recalls the rich history of espionage in Cyprus, an island in the eastern Mediterranean whose position at the crossroads of Europe, Africa and the Middle East made it a hub for clandestine activity. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - The parade of foreigners who trod on Cypriot shores is long and ancient. Kings, sages, crusaders, merchants, tourists. Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Venetians, Britons, Turks. They came in war and peace. One group, the spies, came in secrecy.

90-year-old Nazi suspect Adolf Storms dies (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 08:00 AM PDT

AP - A 90-year-old former SS sergeant who was No. 4 on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects has died before he could be brought to trial, German authorities said Tuesday.

Jury convicts 4 men in huge London jewel heist (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:27 AM PDT

AP - A British jury has convicted four men of taking part in an armed robbery that netted 40 million pounds ($60 million) worth of gems from an upmarket London jeweler.

Spanish reporter's Iraq death probe reopened (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:09 AM PDT

AP - Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the reopening of a probe into the death of a Spanish journalist who was hit by U.S. tank fire in Iraq in 2003.

Italy farmers protest import of "blue" mozzarella (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:09 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of Italian farmers and farm activists massed at Italy's border with Austria on Tuesday to protest the importation into Italy of sub-quality foods claiming to be Italian.

Ukraine seizes record $60 million in cocaine (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:41 AM PDT

AP - Ukrainian customs officials say they've seized $60 million (euro47.5 million) worth of cocaine in the Black Sea Port of Odessa, in the country's biggest cocaine bust ever.

French parliament debates ban on burqa-style veils (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:31 AM PDT

FILE - This May 18 2010 file photo shows a woman, who gave her name as Najat, holding her passport during a press conference in Montreuil, east of Paris. A proposed law to ban wearing the burqa-style Islamic veil in public, in France, goes before parliament Tuesday July 6, 2010. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government has cast the measure as a way to promote equality between the sexes and protect oppressed women, despite concerns of many French Muslims, and scholars who argue that it is not constitutional. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, FILE)AP - France's hotly debated bill to ban burqa-style Islamic veils in public is going before parliament, with President Nicolas Sarkozy's government casting the measure as a way to promote equality between the sexes and protect oppressed women.

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