2010年9月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Wawrinka beats Murray at US Open (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland returns a shot to Andy Murray of Britain during a third round US Open match on September 5, 2010 in New York. Murray crashed out of the US Open on Sunday, losing 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-3 to Wawrinka.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - Fourth seed Andy Murray crashed out of the US Open on Sunday, losing 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-3 to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland.

3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT

A view of the site of suicide car-bomb attack on Russian base in the city of Buinaksk in the violence-plagued republic of Dagestan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. A spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry, said the driver of the explosives-laden small Zhiguli automobile smashed through a gate of the base and headed for an area where soldiers are quartered in tents. But soldiers opened fire on him before he reached the center of the base. The spokesman said, the driver rammed the car into a military truck where it exploded. (AP Photo/Abdula Magomedov, News Team)AP - A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.

Get ready for break-up of Belgium: top minister (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Belgium's caretaker federal minister for health and social affairs Laurette Onkelinx pictured at EU headquarters in Brussels in July 2010. Onkelinx warned Belgium's citizens on Sunday to AFP - A top Belgian politician warned the country's citizens on Sunday to "get ready for the break-up of Belgium," as King Albert II seeks to relaunch knife-edge coalition talks.

Accident at German flight show kills 1, injures 38 (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT

People stand next to the debris of a small plane at the Lillinghof airfield near the Bavarian town of Lauf Germany Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Police say the pilot of the small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking part at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators, leaving one person dead and several injured. A spokesman said Sunday that police had not yet established how many people were injured in the crash, at the Lillinghof airfield. (AP Photo/dapd/Stefanie Buchner-Freiberger)AP - A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and 38 injured, police said.

Afridi blasts Hameed in Pakistan corruption row (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:05 PM PDT

Pakistan cricketer Yasir Hameed leaves the Pakistan High Commission in London. Hameed insisted Sunday he had been misled by an undercover reporter and was only repeating allegations he had read about when he said his teammates were corrupt.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi blasted Yasir Hameed as being mentally a teenager as the batsman insisted he was duped by a newspaper over betting scam claims which eclipsed the team's defeat to England.

Pension age hike "untouchable" in France debate (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:48 PM PDT

Reuters - The French government will consider changes to details of its pension reform proposals but will not back down from the basic plan to raise the retirement age, top advisers to President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday.

Berlusconi rival Fini "will not force election" (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:38 PM PDT

Reuters - Gianfranco Fini, the former ally of Silvio Berlusconi turned bitter rival, made a fierce attack on the Italian prime minister Sunday but said he would avoid steps that could trigger an early election. Fini, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, was expelled in July from the People of Freedom (PDL) party he set up with Berlusconi, leaving the government without a secure majority after months of increasing friction between the two.

Basque ETA call to halt attacks met with caution (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:35 PM PDT

A boy watches a video with the declaration of a ceasefire by armed Basque separatists ETA, broadcast on the CNN channel in Guernica September 5, 2010. REUTERS/Vincent WestReuters - The Basque rebel group ETA called a halt to armed attacks on Sunday but the government said the declaration was not enough and urged the weakened organization to renounce violence once and for all.

Hameed says was repeating claims and misled (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:01 PM PDT

Pakistan cricketer Yasir Hameed leaves the Pakistan High Commission in London. Hameed insisted Sunday he had been misled by an undercover reporter and was only repeating allegations he had read about when he said his teammates were corrupt.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed insisted Sunday he had been misled by an undercover reporter and was only repeating allegations he had read about when he said his teammates were corrupt.

Islamist threat to Germany is growing say police (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Reuters - The threat of Islamist attacks in Germany is growing as numbers of people returning from militant camps on the Afghan-Pakistan border rise, a senior police official said.

Basque separatist group ETA announce cease-fire (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:33 AM PDT

In this video grab provided by ETA to Gara.net, members of the Basque Separatist militant group ETA gesture as they make a statement. The Basque separatist militant group ETA has issued a video on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, declaring a cease fire. The video appeared on Basque newspaper Gara's website and was also made available to the British broadcaster BBC. It showed three masked militants making a statement in Basque, in usual ETA style. Gara accompanied the video with a transcription of the statement in Basque and Spanish. (AP Photo/Gara.net)AP - The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.

Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal' (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:04 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his secretary Georg Gaenswein, right, blesses faithful during the Angelus prayer at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

(AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:06 AM PDT

AP - Basque government official says ETA ceasefire announcement is 'absolutely insufficient'

2 Danes fail 1st try to launch home-built rocket (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 07:27 AM PDT

AP - Two Danish space enthusiasts have failed in their first attempt to send up a privately built rocket into space.

Ex-UK military chief says Blair underfunded army (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 06:05 AM PDT

AP - The former head of the British Army has accused former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of forcing the military to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan without adequate funding.

Relics of Russian saint, icons stolen (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:51 AM PDT

AP - A Russian news agency is reporting that three ancient icons, one of which contained relics of Russia's most venerated saint, have been stolen.

2 French hostages in Afghanistan 'in good health' (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:42 AM PDT

AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy's chief of staff says two French journalists held hostage in Afghanistan are "in good health" and that negotiations toward their release will resume.

French bid to ban veils worries allies, tourists (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:38 AM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 6, 2010, a veiled woman walks past luxury shops in the so-called Golden Triangle, a high-priced shopping district centered around the Champs-Elysees Avenue, in Paris. A bill to outlaw face veils, aimed at upholding French values but with international implications, is expected to win Senate approval this month. If it passes this key hurdle, French diplomats will have their work cut out for them, ensuring the ban doesn't alienate governments, deter devout foreign shoppers loaded with cash, or inspire Islamist terrorists. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Protests in Pakistan, al-Qaida warnings, skittish Muslim tourists: France's plan to do away with burqa-style veils is already reverberating far beyond its borders.

Shoes, eggs hurled at ex-Brit PM Blair in Dublin (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 08:43 PM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, attends a public book signing, with Conor Whelen, Managing Director of Eason book store, in Dublin, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. Anti-war protesters hurled shoes and eggs at Tony Blair as he arrived for his first public signing of his fast-selling memoir. (AP Photo/Niall Carson, pool)AP - Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed — evidence that the divisions left by Blair's decade as British leader have yet to heal.

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