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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Ex-Pakistani leader admits mistakes while in power (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan, aknowledges the applauf of his supporters as he arrives for the announcement of the launch of his new political party, the 'All Pakistan Muslim League' in central London, Friday Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Pakistan's ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf has apologized for mistakes made during his last term in office as he launched a bid to return to power.

Violent protests after Dutch outlaw squatting (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT

AP - More than 100 people protesting the outlawing of squatting at unused buildings in the Netherlands clashed with police in Amsterdam's historic center late Friday, throwing stones, setting fires and erecting barricades.

Envoy urges Bosnians to vote issues, not ethnicity (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT

People wait for a train in front of a wall covered with pre-election posters of the political parties and candidates in Sarajevo. Bosnians should cast their votes based on economic and social interests, the top international envoy urged Friday as the ethnically divided Balkans country headed into an election this weekend.(AFP/Elvis Barukcic)AFP - Bosnians should cast their votes based on economic and social interests, the top international envoy urged Friday as the ethnically divided Balkans country headed into an election this weekend.

Fresh demos in German city after bloody clashes (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Police stand guard in front of a cut tree in the Schlossgarten park next to the main station in Stuttgart. German authorities braced for a fresh protest against a contentious rail project Friday that organisers hoped would draw 100,000 people, a day after demonstrators clashed with riot police.(AFP/Thomas Kienzle)AFP - Tens of thousands of people rallied in the southwestern city of Stuttgart Friday to protest against a contentious rail project, a day after riot police clashed with demonstrators.

US balloonists plunged at 50 mph, likely dead (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:42 PM PDT

This image provided by Robin Macey shows balloonists Carol Rymer Davis, left, and Richard Abruzzo launching for the Gordon Bennett gas balloon race at Bristol, England, on Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. Abruzzo and Davis were participating in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race when contact was lost Wednesday morning, Sept. 29, 2010, over the Adriatic Sea. (AP Photo/Robin Macey)AP - Two missing American balloonists plunged toward the Adriatic Sea at 50 mph (80 kph) and likely didn't survive, race organizers said Friday.

Russia warns U.S. against sanctions over lawyer death (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:08 PM PDT

Reuters - Moscow on Friday warned U.S. legislators against passing a law that would punish Russians allegedly linked to the death of an anti-corruption lawyer, saying it would undermine cooperation.

Bin Laden role eyed in latest European terror plot (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Osama bin Laden and top al Qaeda leadership are likely behind the latest European terror plot, U.S. officials said on Friday.

UN's Congo report could spur genocide trials (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:42 PM PDT

AP - On Nov. 14, 1996, armed men surrounded the Mugunga refugee camp in eastern Zaire and began shooting indiscriminately at its inhabitants as they huddled for safety or tried to flee.

Harry Potter magic could sparkle again: Rowling (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Author JK Rowling is pictured as she reads extracts from her new book 'The Tales of Beedle The Bard' to schoolchildren at a tea party at Edinburgh's Parliament Hall in 2008. Rowling, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, said she could imagine herself resurrecting her lucrative boy wizard, despite having officially penned his final adventures.(AFP/POOL/File/David Cheskin)AFP - J.K. Rowling, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, said she could imagine herself resurrecting her lucrative boy wizard, despite having officially penned his final adventures.

Spain detains 41 suspected of funding Colombia rebels (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:17 PM PDT

This pictured, released by the Spanish National Police, shows a box filled with bank notes after Spanish police detained 41 people on today suspected of laundering over 200 million euros (275 million dollars) earned from drug smuggling and using part of this money to finance Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels.(AFP/SNP-HO)AFP - Spanish police said Friday they had detained 41 people suspected of laundering over 200 million euros earned from drug smuggling and using part of this money to finance Colombia's FARC rebels.

Arbatov, Soviet foreign policy guru, dies (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:16 PM PDT

FILE - Georgi Arbatov, director of the Russiann institute which studies American policy , left, looks on as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.,talks at the Soviet Union's U.S.A. Institute in Moscow Friday, April 19, 1974. Arbatov, a foreign policy adviser to Soviet presidents who served as the country's top America-watcher during the Cold War, died Friday Oct 1 2010. He was 87. (AP Photo/file)AP - Georgy Arbatov, a foreign policy adviser to Soviet presidents who served as the country's top America-watcher during the Cold War, died Friday. He was 87.

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Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

AP - Race organizers say missing US balloonists plunged at 50 mph into Adriatic and likely died.

Russia arrests Polish reporters at plane wreckage (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:42 AM PDT

AP - Poland's Foreign Ministry says Russia has arrested three Polish journalists at the site of a plane crash where President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others died in April.

Babylonian, dead for millennia, now online (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:34 AM PDT

Babylonian speaking professor, Dr Martin Worthington poses in the library of School of Oriental and African Studies in London, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. The ancient language of Babylonian can be heard for the first time in almost 2,000 years after Cambridge University scholars posted readings and poems online. The project of resurrecting the ancient tongue by discovering how the language was pronounced and spoken is the brainchild of Dr Martin Worthington. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - The language of the Epic of Gilgamesh and King Hammurabi has found a new life online after being dead for some 2,000 years.

Georgian lawmakers shift powers to prime minister (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:32 AM PDT

AP - The Georgian parliament on Friday gave tentative approval to a constitutional reform that critics say is designed to let President Mikhail Saakashvili remain a political force even after his current term expires.

German man confesses in court to terrorism charges (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:23 AM PDT

AP - A man who was allegedly a member of a group that plotted to attack U.S. targets in Germany has confessed in court to several of the charges against him.

Police detain anti-gay protesters in Moscow (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:02 AM PDT

AP - Moscow police on Friday detained several gay rights opponents at the first sanctioned gay rights protest in years, marking a sharp reversal of policy after last week's dismissal of the city's notoriously intolerant mayor.

Ukraine's pro-Russian president gets new powers (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 07:28 AM PDT

AP - Ukraine's Constitutional Court on Friday shifted key powers from parliament to the presidency, a move that boosted the influence of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, but also threw the country into legal uncertainty.

Top IRA dissident sentenced for trying to buy arms (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:32 AM PDT

AP - A self-described senior Irish Republican Army dissident has received a 20-year prison sentence for trying to buy guns, explosives and other weapons from undercover British agents.

20 years on, Germans reflect on reunification (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin. Twenty years after the unification of East and West Germany, old habits still die hard with even Chancellor Merkel confessing she still can't shed some of her East German tendencies. Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, still washes her laundry with East German 'fit' detergent, prepares East Germans' favorite Soljanka soup, an often eclectic mix of ingredients like sausage, cabbage and sour cream in a pickle juice broth for supper and can't fight a predilection to hoard food and other goods. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)AP - Angela Merkel, the leader of Europe's richest country, still hoards food.

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