2010年8月18日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Beckham urges support before World Cup inspection (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

David Beckham, pictured on August 14, urged English football fans Thursday to show their support for the country's bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup by getting involved in events aimed at impressing a FIFA inspection team.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mike Stobe)AFP - David Beckham urged English football fans Thursday to show their support for the country's bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup by getting involved in events aimed at impressing a FIFA inspection team.

Barclays agrees to pay 300-million-dollar US sanctions fine (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 04:18 PM PDT

The British bank Barclays has agreed to pay almost 300 million dollars in fines for violating US sanctions on countries including Cuba, Iran and Sudan, the US Justice Department said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)AFP - The British bank Barclays has agreed to pay almost 300 million dollars in fines for violating US sanctions on countries including Cuba, Iran and Sudan, the US Justice Department said Wednesday.

Bull rams spectators in Spain, 30 injured (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 04:06 PM PDT

People look at a man faces a bull in Amposta, south of Catalonia. A bull leapt out of the arena at a bullring in northern Spain Wednesday and charged into a crowd of terrified spectators, injuring some 30 people, Spanish media said.(AFP/Josep Lago)AFP - A bull leapt out of the arena at a bullring in northern Spain Wednesday and charged into a crowd of terrified spectators, injuring some 30 people, Spanish media said.

Canadian police find bears guarding pot crop (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Reuters - A pair of marijuana growers in Western Canada appear to have been using bears to protect their illegal crop, but the well-fed animals proved to be a bit lax in their guard duties, police said on Wednesday.

Potential Belgium PM remains hopeful over coalition (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 01:58 PM PDT

Pre-formateur and PS chairman Elio Di Rupo talks during a press conference at the federal parliament, after a meeting with King Albert II of Belgium, in Brussels. Di Rupo, who may become Belgium's first francophone prime minister in 30 years, said Wednesday he remained hopeful of forming a coalition government with Flemish and French-speaking parties.(AFP/BELGA/Nicolas Maeterlinck)AFP - Elio Di Rupo, who may become Belgium's first francophone prime minister in 30 years, said Wednesday he remained hopeful of forming a coalition government with Flemish and French-speaking parties.

Criticism mounts over France's Roma expulsion (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 01:29 PM PDT

Members belonging to the Roma community rest on a mastress in a gymnasium in Choisy-le-Roi, outside Paris, where they took refugee after they were expelled from their camp site by French autorities on August 12. Criticism mounted Wednesday of France's move to expel hundreds of Roma gypsies, with Romania warning of a xenophobic reaction and the EU calling on France to obey migration rules.(AFP/Bertrand Guay)AFP - Criticism mounted Wednesday of France's move to expel hundreds of Roma gypsies, with Romania warning of a xenophobic reaction and the EU calling on France to obey migration rules.

Riaz in dreamland after five wickets on debut (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:24 PM PDT

Wahid Riaz(R) reacts after taking the wicket of England captain Andrew Strauss at the Oval. Pakistan debutant Riaz took three wickets as England slumped to 70 for five at lunch on the first day of the third Test at The Oval on Wednesday.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Wahab Riaz said his dream had come true after he took five wickets on his debut to leave Pakistan well-placed in the third Test against England at The Oval here on Wednesday.

All cafes ordered shut in Chechnya during Ramadan (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:17 PM PDT

Reuters - The spiritual leader of the Muslim region of Chechnya has ordered that eateries shut down completely for the month of Ramadan, sparking outrage from activists and residents who say it violates Russian law.

Drink, then drive? Whisky fuel could power cars (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:01 PM PDT

AP - How about a whisky to go? Scientists said they have developed biofuel for cars from waste produced in distilling Scotch whisky. Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University produced a type of fuel called butanol using "pot ale" — the liquid residue from copper stills — and "draff," or leftover grain.

German robber nabbed after mocking police in email (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 11:30 AM PDT

Reuters - A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him. Authorities in the southern city of Wuerzburg said on Wednesday the 19-year-old sent emails to police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank raid in the town of Roettingen a week ago.

Morocco border blockade of Spain enclave suspended (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 11:29 AM PDT

Moroccan activists wave Moroccan flags during a brief demonstration, on Tuesday night, Aug. 17, 2010 at the border crossing between Bni Anser and Melilla in a dispute over alleged police violence and racism against Moroccans entering the city. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)AP - Activists in Morocco who have twice blockaded food shipments into a Spanish enclave in the last week to protest alleged abuses by border police agreed Wednesday to suspend their demonstrations until September, when the holy Islamic month of Ramadan ends, a merchants association said.

French crackdown on Gypsies raises concern (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 11:05 AM PDT

AP - Since French police moved in on a Gypsy squatters' camp a week ago, confiscating trailers and turning everyone out, the group has taken refuge in a gymnasium outside Paris. At night, wailing babies keep many awake — to ponder their uncertain future.

Medvedev talks with Afghan, Pakistani leaders (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:49 AM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, listens to his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday offered Pakistan support in dealing with catastrophic floods as he hosted the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan for talks on efforts to stabilize the region. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday offered Pakistan support in dealing with catastrophic floods as he hosted the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan for talks on efforts to stabilize the region.

Karadzic gets 2 weeks to study Mladic recordings (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:41 AM PDT

AP - Yugoslav war crimes tribunal judges have given former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic two weeks to study video and audio recordings seized from the family home of his wartime military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic.

AP Interview: Iranian may be spared execution (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:27 AM PDT

Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei briefs the media at a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Mostafaei fled Iran for Turkey after defending his client, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of cheating on her husband and sentenced to death by stoning in Iran. Human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei told The Associated Press in Berlin on Wednesday he thinks there is too much international pressure for the Iranian justice system and government to carry out Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's execution. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - The international outcry over the death sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery might be enough to save her from execution, the lawyer who defended her told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

After slow start, aid finally flowing to Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:18 AM PDT

World Food Program wheat is unloaded from a U.S Navy MH-53E helicopter during a rescue and aid mission by the U.S Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) August 17, 2010 in Khawazakhela , Upper Swat, Pakistan. The U.S. military has been taking part in the recovery efforts during the devastating Pakistan floods since August 4, that has carried 215 metric tons of relief supplies from the World Food Program (WFP) to the Swat region, a region that has been cut off when bridges were washed away during flash flooding. According to the U.S. military, they have evacuated 3,571 people from Kalam in Upper Swat. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been effected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The army and aid organizations are struggling to cope with the scope of the wide spread scale of the disaster that has killed over 1,600 people and displaced millions. The UN has described the disaster as unprecedented, with over a third of the country under water. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)AP - Crops destroyed, millions homeless, children hungry. The scenes from flood-hit Pakistan are wrenching â€" but the global response has been criticized as sluggish.

Israeli doctors in Romania to help burned newborns (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:18 AM PDT

Paramedics evacuate a new born baby in an incubator following an explosion in the intensive care section of a hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A fourth baby died Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, and seven remained in critical condition following a fire at a Bucharest maternity hospital that the health minister called 'one of the darkest tragedies' of Romania's health system.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - Israeli doctors who rushed to Romania on Wednesday said they feared there was not much they could do to help seven premature infants who were critically burned in a hospital fire that left four other babies dead.

Volunteers join search for human remains in lake (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:17 AM PDT

Volunteers dig in a temporarily drained artificial lake as they search for human remains, Lake Perucac, Bosnia-Herzegovina Wednesday, Aug, 18, 2010. Shovel wielding volunteers on Wednesday joined forensic experts searching for more remains of Bosnian war victims on the muddy banks of Lake Perucac in eastern Bosnia. The search began a month ago after the water level was lowered for dam work, exposing 73 sets of human bones, the remains of people killed at the start of the 1992-1995 war and thrown into the Drina river, which divides Serbia and Bosnia. (AP Photo/Sulejman Omerbasic)AP - It's a grim legacy of the Balkan wars: Dozens of skeletons exposed after a manmade lake was partially drained for maintenance.

Smog lingers over Russian capital (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 07:33 AM PDT

Elderly women from the village Yuzhniy where houses were burnt to the ground during the forest fires, sit in a refugee camp in the village Ivatino, some 300 kilometers (187.5 miles) east of Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - The number of wildfires in Russia has shrunk significantly, but clouds of acrid smog generated by them still hung over the Russian capital Wednesday.

WikiLeaks: US Army willing to discuss Afghan files (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 06:14 AM PDT

AP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the U.S. Army has expressed willingness to discuss the online whistleblower's request for help in reviewing classified documents from the Afghan war and removing information that could harm civilians.

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