2010年7月9日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Police in talks with fugitive 'gunman' (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:20 PM PDT

A CCTV image released by Northumbria Police shows fugitive gunman suspect Raoul Moat in Newcastle on July 2. Police moved to reassure the public that every effort was being made to find Moat after new information indicated he may pose a threat to the public as well as police.(Northumbria Police)AFP - The police chasing a suspected gunman at the epicentre of a massive manhunt after allegedly shooting three people said Friday they were negotiating with a man they believe is the fugitive.

Russia's list for spy swap with US (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 2, 2002, file photo a policeman escorts Russian arms control analyst Igor Sutyagin, accused of spying for the United States, to a courtroom in Moscow. A lawyer for Sutyagin said Thursday, July 8, 2010, he reportedly has been flown to Vienna in what appeared to be the first step of a Russia-U.S. spy swap.(AP Photo/Maxim Marmur, File)AP - Convicts whom Russia released in a spy swap:

Bettencourt probes add to pressure on French government (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:13 PM PDT

View of a residence of Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L'Oreal fortune, in Arcouest near Ploubazlanec, northern Brittany, July 9, 2010. REUTERS/Stephane MaheReuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will make a rare summer address to the nation, his office said on Friday, amid mounting pressure on his government over a key pension reform and questions about political donations.

UK police negotiate with murder suspect (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:35 PM PDT

AP - British police said Friday they were negotiating with a murder suspect they had found after searching for him for a week.

Glamorous Russian spy could be stripped of British passport (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:30 PM PDT

A New York newspaper is on display featuring a personal photo of Russian spy, Anna Chapman, at a news stand in New York on June 2010. Britain said Friday it was urgently considering whether to take away the British passport of glamorous Russian spy Chapman, amid reports she might want to return here.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Britain said Friday it was urgently considering whether to take away the British passport of glamorous Russian spy Anna Chapman, amid reports she might want to return here.

Naomi Campbell to testify at Taylor war crimes trial (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, pictured in June 2010, will give evidence at the warcrimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor about a AFP - British supermodel Naomi Campbell will give evidence at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor about a "blood diamond" he allegedly gave her, her spokeswoman said Friday.

European bank tests put focus on capital hikes (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:22 PM PDT

Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank (ECB) addresses the media during his monthly news conference at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt June 10, 2010. REUTERS/Ralph OrlowskiReuters - European finance ministers will shift their focus next week onto a possible need for banks to raise more capital and on who will cover any shortfalls exposed by stress tests -- a sum which Credit Suisse estimated could reach 90 billion euros ($114 billion).

Pope names official to run Legionaries (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Thousands of priests attend a mass marking the end of the Year for Priests, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 11, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/FilesAP - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named a senior Vatican official to run the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ after an eight-month investigation of the order.

Axis Capital unit opens offices in UK, Ireland (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 12:49 PM PDT

AP - Axis Global Accident & Health, a division of Axis Capital Holdings Ltd., said it opened offices in Dublin and London to sell its reinsurance products internationally.

Adviser to heiress target of French police search (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Police officers stand outside the offices of Patrice de Maistre, chief financial adviser to L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, Friday, July 9, 2010, outside Paris. Police are searching the offices of the financial adviser to France's richest woman as part of a scandal that has included claims of illegal campaign funding. French authorities are looking into Bettencourt's foreign bank accounts and claims that she secretly gave cash to President Nicolas Sarkozy's election campaign in 2007. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Police searched the offices of the financial adviser to France's richest woman Friday as part of a growing scandal that includes allegations she gave cash illegally to President Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign.

Norwegian terror trial could face problems (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 11:29 AM PDT

Norway`s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, right, and Minister of Justice Knut Storberget, attend a press conference in Oslo Thursday July 8, 2010, after three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested in what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans in New York and England. The three men, whose names were not released, had been under surveillance for more than a year. Two of the men were arrested in Norway and one in Germany, although oficials declined to give further details of the locations. Officials believe they were planning attacks with portable but powerful bombs like the ones at the heart of last year's thwarted suicide attack in the New York City subway.(AP Photo/Gorm Kallestad, Scanpix) --NORWAY OUT--AP - The arrest of three suspected al-Qaida members planning bomb attacks and operating in Norway went smoothly, but a conviction might be harder to get.

Cold War redux: US, Russia swap 14 spies in Vienna (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 11:18 AM PDT

A U.S., front, and a Russian plane, rear, believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap as part of the largest spy swap since the Cold War have parked on the tarmac at Vienna's Schwechat airport, On Friday, July 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - The U.S. and Russia orchestrated the largest spy swap since the Cold War, exchanging 10 spies arrested in the U.S. for four convicted in Russia in an elaborately choreographed diplomatic dance Friday at Vienna's airport.

Details emerge from Mladic's secret wartime diary (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 10:31 AM PDT

AP - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic recorded details of secret deals with Bosnian Croats to divide the country and expel the Muslim population in the early 1990s, according to excerpts of his diaries released Friday.

German bishop acknowledges abuse scandal mistakes (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 10:07 AM PDT

AP - Germany's top Roman Catholic bishop on Friday acknowledged mistakes in dealing with allegations against a priest who is believed to have molested boys over more than two decades.

Doubt cast on Georgian's claim to be 130 years old (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 09:36 AM PDT

AP - An expert is casting doubt on a claim by a Georgian woman to be the world's oldest person.

Survey: Europeans back veil ban, Americans opposed (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 08:43 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 - While most Americans oppose banning face-covering Islamic veils, most western Europeans questioned in a new global poll say the garments should be forbidden — especially in France, where a ban may soon be a reality.

Sarajevans honor Srebrenica massacre victims (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 08:05 AM PDT

Bosnian worker Mirza Dautovic checks name tags on some of the 775 coffins at city morgue in central-Bosnian town of Visoko, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Coffins of identified Srebrenica victims prepared to be transported and buried at their final resting place at memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica. All 775 bodies were excavated from mass graves in Eastern-Bosnia and identified by teams of local and international forensic experts. The burial ceremony will be held on 11 July, 2010, in Srebrenica, on 15th anniversary of Srebrenica tragedy when Bosnian Serb forces stormed the enclave and systematically killed thousands of Bosnian Muslims. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - Thousands lined up Sarajevo's main street Friday while trucks bearing 775 coffins passed through on their way to Srebrenica, where the victims of Europe's worst crime since the Nazi era will be buried.

Gaza aid ship prepares to set sail from Greece (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 06:56 AM PDT

Workers load supplies on to a cargo ship at the Lavrio port, about 60 kilometers (37miles) southeast of Athens,Greece, Friday, July 9, 2010. The Moldova-flagged cargo ship Amalthea commissioned by a Libyan state charity organization made preparations Friday to set sail to Gaza from Greece loaded with aid. It comes over a month after Israel raided Gaza-bound aid ships, killing eight Turks and a Turkish-American on May 31. The flotilla was trying to break Israel's blockade on Gaza. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - A ship commissioned by a Libyan charity organization made preparations Friday to set sail to Gaza loaded with aid.

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Posted: 09 Jul 2010 06:53 AM PDT

AP - State news agency RIA Novosti says a plane carrying 10 Russian spies has landed in Moscow.

Church of England debates allowing women bishops (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 05:34 AM PDT

AP - The Church of England's governing body is opening a five-day meeting dominated by more arguments about allowing women to be bishops.

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