2010年7月19日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

US court grants bail to Conrad Black (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 06:21 PM PDT

Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black, pictured in 2007, was granted bail by a US court as he appeals a six-and-a-half year jail term imposed in 2007 after he was convicted of defrauding shareholders.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP - Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black was granted bail by a US court as he appeals a six-and-a-half year jail term imposed after being convicted of defrauding shareholders.

Moody's gives Motorola positive outlook after Nokia deal (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:37 PM PDT

The Motorola Backflip with Motoblur phone is displayed at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in January 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. US credit ratings agency Moody's lifted the outlook for Motorola from negative to positive on Monday after the US mobile phone maker sold most of its networks infrastructure division to Nokia Siemens Networks.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AFP - US credit ratings agency Moody's lifted the outlook for Motorola from negative to positive on Monday after the US mobile phone maker sold most of its networks infrastructure division to Nokia Siemens Networks.

Cameron won't meet US senators on Lockerbie: embassy (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi wears a medical as he sits on a wheelchair in Tripoli in 2009. British Prime Minister David Cameron will not meet during his visit to Washington with four US senators angry over the Lockerbie bomber's release last year, Britain's embassy said Monday.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron will not meet during his visit to Washington with four US senators angry over the Lockerbie bomber's release last year, Britain's embassy said Monday.

Dollar mixed ahead of earnings, Europe bank tests (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 01:45 PM PDT

AP - The dollar was mixed Monday, hovering near two-month lows against the euro as investors weighed another disappointing report on housing and awaited a flood of earnings reports later this week.

Boeing, Airbus win orders worth over 23 billion dollars (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:35 PM PDT

Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum (2nd R) chairman and chief executive of Emirates Airline and Group, and Jim Albaugh (L), president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, sign contracts as Boeing's VP Marlin Dailey (2nd L) and UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum look on at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, southern England.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Rivals Boeing and Airbus scooped up orders for new planes worth 23 billion dollars on Monday from airlines and leasing firms seeking to meet soaring Asian demand for air travel.

Australia, Britain bury WWI soldier in France (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:21 PM PDT

Britain's Prince of Charles (R) and Governor General of Australia Quentin Bryce (L) pay their respects in Fromelles, northern France. To the mournful strains of both the Last Post and the more upbeat Waltzing Matilda, Commonwealth servicemen honoured Monday the last body recovered from Australia's AFP - To the mournful strains of both the Last Post and the more upbeat Waltzing Matilda, Commonwealth servicemen honoured Monday the last body recovered from Australia's "forgotten battle".

Airbus subsidies to continue: French official (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:16 PM PDT

French Secretary of State for Transport Dominique Bussereau, seen here addressing the press at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, said Germany, Spain, France and Britain will provide reimbursable subsidies to help Airbus develop its A350 aircraft despite the WTO's findings against past payments.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Germany, Spain, France and Britain will provide reimbursable subsidies to help Airbus develop its A350 aircraft despite the WTO's findings against past payments, a senior French official said on Monday.

UK's Cameron: releasing Lockerbie bomber was wrong (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:05 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron makes a speech the government's Big Society scheme in Liverpool England Monday July 19. 2010. (AP Photo/ Christopher Furlong/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Britain's prime minister criticized the decision to free Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi from jail last year, saying Monday that the move had been "completely and utterly wrong."

Moody's cuts Ireland on bank, growth worries (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:03 PM PDT

Members of the Fire Service stand on the picket line at Pearse Street Fire Station in Dublin, in a protest against government plans to cut pay, November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughtonReuters - Moody's cut Ireland's credit rating on Monday, warning the country still faces a slow climb out of recession after nearly two years of austerity as the cost of rescuing its banking sector mounts.

Briton killed in north Iraq attack: embassy (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:49 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman and his dog inspect a vehicle. A British national has been killed in an attack on a road convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the British embassy said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A Briton was killed in an attack on a private security firm's convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, British government officials said.

Germany offers program for extremists to quit (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 09:51 AM PDT

AP - Germany's domestic intelligence service on Monday started a program for Islamist radicals who want to quit extremism, an initiative under which people will be offered help finding new jobs and new homes in Germany.

Cuban dissidents claim they were misled by Spain (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 09:45 AM PDT

Members of the Cuban female dissident group Ladies in White gather prior to taking part in their weekly march in Havana, Sunday July 18, 2010. Nine more Cuban political prisoners will fly this week to freedom in Madrid along with around 50 of their relatives, Spain's foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - A group of Cuban political prisoners recently released to live in Spain complained Monday they felt let down by the Spanish government.

Russian court gives crime kingpin 10 years (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 09:39 AM PDT

AP - A Moscow court has sentenced an alleged kingpin of Russia's criminal underworld to 10 years in jail.

3 Belfast teenagers, woman in court over riots (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 09:08 AM PDT

AP - Three teenage boys and a 49-year-old woman have been arraigned in Belfast courts following last week's widespread rioting in Irish Catholic districts.

Report: 196 indicted in alleged Turkish coup plot (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 09:06 AM PDT

AP - A court on Monday indicted 196 people, including four retired military commanders, of conspiring in 2003 to overthrow the Islamic-oriented government in an alleged plot that highlights tension between Turkey's pious leadership and its secular opponents.

WWI soldier found in mass grave reburied in France (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 08:54 AM PDT

Australia Governor General Quentin Bryce, right, and Britain's Prince Charles, second right, follow the coffin of an unknown Australian soldier during a ceremony at the British Australian cemetery of Fromelles, northern France, Monday July 19, 2010. Royalty, governments and relatives on Monday honored Australian and British soldiers whose remains were discovered in mass graves on the 94th anniversary of the World War I battle of Fromelles in northern France. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - The remains of a World War I soldier left in a mass grave for more than 90 years were moved by four-horse cart to a new cemetery for reburial with full honors Monday in a ceremony attended by Prince Charles.

Britain's swan count starts on River Thames (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 08:02 AM PDT

AP - With a flurry of flapping wings and a cacophony of confused squeaking, the swan and her downy young cygnets were plucked from the River Thames and passed from boat to shore.

New powers given to Russia's security agency (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 07:37 AM PDT

A prison service special unit officer walks outside Moscow's high-security Lefortovo prison July 8, 2010. Russia and the United States appeared to be considering a spy swap on Wednesday to send home a ring of suspected Russian agents whose arrest cast an unwelcome Cold War chill over warming diplomatic ties. Officials for both governments declined to confirm a deal was in the works as U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed formal charges against the group. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)AP - The upper house of Russia's parliament on Monday passed a bill granting expanded powers to the country's main security agency, a move that critics say echoes the era of the Soviet KGB.

Alleged Mossad agent fights extradition to Germany (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 07:33 AM PDT

AP - An accused Mossad agent charged with involvement in the slaying of a Hamas leader in Dubai asked on Monday for a Polish court to send him to Israel instead of extraditing him to Germany.

Greek journalist slaying linked to terror group (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 05:41 AM PDT

A forensic police officer collects evidence outside the house of a Greek journalist who had been gunned down in the Athens' neighborhood of Ilioupoli,on Monday, July 19, 2010. Thirty-seven-year-old Sokratis Giolias died after being shot more than 15 times before dawn Monday. Giolias headed the radio station Thema FM and wrote on a popular online news blog, Troktiko, which often deals with scandals. The blog site said two or three gunmen were believed to have shot Giolias, who was married with a young child.(AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)AP - A Greek journalist was gunned down Monday outside his home in Athens, in an attack police say is linked to a domestic terrorist group.

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