2010年7月25日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News


Al-Qaida in N. Africa says French hostage killed (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:46 PM PDT

AP - The leader of al-Qaida's offshoot in North Africa said in a message broadcast Sunday that the group has killed a French engineer taken hostage in Niger in April.

Families mark 10 years since Concorde crash (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:39 PM PDT

The families of victims from the Concorde supersonic jet crash gather at the site of the crash in Gonesse, North of Paris, Sunday July 25, 2010. Families of those who died when a supersonic Concorde jet crashed on takeoff from Paris have gathered to mark the tenth anniversary of the disaster. Air France officials gave flowers to some 100 family members, mostly from Germany, to lay at a monument to the dead in Gonesse, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Families whose loved ones died in the fiery crash of a supersonic Concorde jet 10 years ago joined together near Paris on Sunday, laying flowers at a monument to the dead and wandering the breezy field where the plane went down.


Richards lifts Red Bulls past Man City in friendly (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:56 PM PDT

Thierry Henry (L) of the New York Red Bulls makes a shot past Alex Tchuimeni-Nimely (R) of Manchester City during a friendly match at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. Dane Richards scored in the 70th minute to give the New York Red Bulls a 2-1 victory over big-spending Manchester City of the English Premier League in a friendly on Sunday.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - Dane Richards scored in the 70th minute to give the New York Red Bulls a 2-1 victory over big-spending Manchester City of the English Premier League in a friendly on Sunday.


Obika lifts Spurs into draw with Sporting in New Jersey friendly (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:52 PM PDT

Robbie Keane of Tottenham Hotspurs celebrates his goal at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. Substitute Jonathan Obika's goal in the 70th minute lifted Tottenham to a 2-2 draw with Sporting Lisbon in an international football friendly here on Sunday.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - Substitute Jonathan Obika's goal in the 70th minute lifted Tottenham Hotspur to a 2-2 draw with Sporting Lisbon in an international football friendly here on Sunday.


Furious Love Parade survivors slam organisers (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:45 PM PDT

Outlines of bodies can be seen at the entrance to the tunnel where panic broke out during the Loveparade in Duisburg, western Germany. Angry survivors demanded answers Sunday after 19 people were killed in a stampede at Germany's Love Parade and prosecutors launched an inquiry into who was to blame for the tragedy.(AFP/Patrik Stollarz)AFP - Angry survivors demanded answers on Sunday and prosecutors launched an inquiry after a panicked stampede at a techno music festival in Germany killed 19 people and left hundreds hurt.


Al Qaeda claims to have killed French hostage after raid (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:36 PM PDT

A banner on the front of the Marcoussis city hall, south of Paris, shows a portrait of French Enmilal aid group member Michel Germaneau. An Al-Qaeda-linked gang in the Sahara desert said Sunday that it had killed a 78-year-old French hostage in revenge for the killing of six comrades in a failed Mauritanian-French rescue raid.(AFP/Thomas Samson)Reuters - Al Qaeda's wing in North Africa said it had killed a French hostage in response to a raid last week by French troops against a base in the Sahara desert, according to a recording aired on Sunday by Al Jazeera.


Russia's Putin sings with expelled agents (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:19 PM PDT

In this July 24, 2010 photo, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, left, greets Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during their meeting at a presidential  residence in Foros, near Yalta, in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula. (AP Photo/Andrey Mosienko, Presidential Press Service, Pool)AP - Vladimir Putin says he met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the United States, joining them in singing an unofficial KGB anthem and promising them good jobs and a bright future back in their homeland.


Hayward expected to resign as BP looks to rebuild (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:17 PM PDT

BP will sacrifice embattled chief executive Tony Hayward, pictured in June 2010, within days as it tries to rebuild its image in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, reports said Sunday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - BP will sacrifice embattled chief executive Tony Hayward within days as it tries to rebuild its image in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, reports said Sunday.


US preferred Megrahi be free than in Libyan jail: report (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 01:58 PM PDT

Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, pictured in 2009. The United States told Scotland it was AFP - The United States told Scotland it was "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie bomber than have him transferred to a Libyan jail, leaked documents showed Sunday, amid renewed US criticism of the release.


Ceremonies mark 10 years since Paris Concorde crash (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 01:12 PM PDT

Air France flight attendants give flowers to relatives of German victims and Air France crew during a ceremony in front of a memorial plaque for the 113 victims (mostly from Germany) of the Air France Concorde plane crash for the 10th anniversary of the accident, in Gonesse, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris.(AFP/Bertrand Langlois)AFP - Hundreds of people attended sombre ceremonies on Sunday near the site of the Paris Concorde crash, marking the 10th anniversary of the disaster which killed 113 people.


High security for Israeli athletes in Turkey (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:13 AM PDT

Riot police surround the Kocatepe Mosque against possible protest before a funeral service for captain Ibrahim Baris Yurtseven, an army officer who was wounded last week when Kurdish rebels killed six Turkish soldiers in Hakkari at Turkey-Iraq border and died Friday, in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, July 24, 2010.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Turkey defeated Israel 3-0 in a women's volleyball game Sunday that was guarded by hundreds of police because of concerns that pro-Palestinian demonstrators would try to disrupt the event.


A Russian milestone: 1st black elected to office (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 06:22 AM PDT

In this July 20, 2010 photo, Russian councilman Jean Gregoire Sagbo smiles in Novozavidovo, a village 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Moscow. People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare — an honest politician. Sagbo last month became the first black to be elected to office in Russia. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare â€" an honest politician.


Peres: Croatian WWII camp was a show of `sadism' (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:41 AM PDT

President of Israel Shimon Peres, attends the ceremony at the site of Croatia's notorious WWII-era extermination camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, Sunday, July, 25, 2010. President Peres concluded his three day official visit to Croatia by commemorating victims of Jasenovac camp. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - Touring the site of Croatia's World War II concentration camp, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday it was a demonstration of "sheer sadism" and that Iran's president, who has denied the Holocaust, should visit it.


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