2010年10月5日星期二

Yahoo! News: Europe News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Europe News

Hungary sludge flood called 'ecological disaster' (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 06:19 PM PDT

A Hungarian soldier wearing a chemical protection gear walks through a street flooded by toxic in the town of Devecser, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Monday's flooding was caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant in western Hungary and has affected seven towns near the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in the town of Ajka, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - A lethal torrent of toxic red sludge from a metal refinery engulfed towns in Hungary, burning villagers through their clothes and threatening an ecological disaster Tuesday as it swept toward the Danube River.

Hungary toxic mud spill kills four (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 06:14 PM PDT

A man wades through his mud-soaked garden in Devecser, southwest of Budapest, on October 5, 2010 after the village was submerged by toxic red sludge from an aluminium plant.(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)AFP - Hungary declared a state of emergency after a toxic mud spill swamped seven villages killing four people and injuring 120 in what officials said was the country's worst-ever chemical accident.

Cameron vows stinging govt cuts will be 'fair' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:18 PM PDT

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, drinks a cup of tea during a visit to a regeneration project at a community centre in Alum Rock, Birmingham. Cameron is to promise that harsh public sector cuts will be AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron is to promise that harsh public sector cuts will be "fair", while admitting jobs and services will be badly hit in a major speech Wednesday.

Briton killed by drone in Pakistan 'was to be terror chief' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:15 PM PDT

A US 'Predator' drone passes overhead near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009. A British terror suspect killed in a drone strike in Pakistan last month was being groomed to head a new Al-Qaeda splinter group in Britain tasked with attacking Europe, the BBC reported Tuesday.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - A British terror suspect killed in a drone strike in Pakistan last month was being groomed to head a new Al-Qaeda splinter group in Britain tasked with attacking Europe, the BBC reported Tuesday.

French ex-trader must pay $6.7 billion for fraud (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:53 PM PDT

Jerome Kerviel, center, followed by his lawyer Olivier Metzner, second right, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010. The Paris court will hand down a verdict in the case of the former French trader accused of masterminding one of history's biggest trading frauds and costing one of France's largest banks billions in losses. Kerviel, the 33-year-old former index futures trader at Societe Generale SA, risks five years in prison and a euro 375,000 ($513,000) fine on charges related to the claim that he covered up bets worth nearly euro 50 billion, or more than the bank was worth, between late 2007 and early 2008. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Ex-trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted on all counts Tuesday in history's biggest rogue trading scandal, sentenced to at least three years in prison and ordered to pay his former employer damages of euro4.9 billion ($6.7 billion) — a sum so staggering it drew gasps in the courtroom.

Euro terror alert spotlights voiceprint technology (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:47 PM PDT

A police officer with a dog, patrols a central London train station, Monday Oct. 4, 2010. Britain's Foreign Office has upgraded its travel advice for France and Germany, warning Britons going to those countries that the threat of terrorism there is high. Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May said that the threat of terrorism in the U.K. remains unchanged at 'severe,' meaning an attack is highly likely. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Did their voices betray them? The discovery of an alleged terror plot against Europe owes at least some of its success to "voiceprint" technology that allows law enforcement to electronically match a voice to its owner.

Khan confident of defending title against Maidana (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Britain's WBA champion Amir Khan, pictured in September 2010, says his superior speed and punching power will make the difference when he defends his super lightweight title against Marcos Maidana in his first Las Vegas fight.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Britain's WBA champion Amir Khan says his superior speed and punching power will make the difference when he defends his super lightweight title against Marcos Maidana in his first Las Vegas fight.

Liverpool's board confirm two 'excellent' bids (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:24 PM PDT

The Liverpool football club emblem is pictured on a gate at the Anfield ground in Liverpool. The board of English Premier League club Liverpool confirmed on Tuesday they have received AFP - The board of English Premier League club Liverpool confirmed on Tuesday they have received "two excellent financial offers" to buy the club.

Prosecutor: Video shows Saudi prince beating aide (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 02:21 PM PDT

AP - Security camera footage captured a Saudi prince savagely beating his servant in a luxury hotel elevator only weeks before the aide was slain, a British prosecutor said Tuesday.

Turkmen activists barred from human rights meeting (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:56 PM PDT

AP - Two exiled opposition activists from Turkmenistan have been barred from a human rights conference in Warsaw, apparently because their country objected to their presence, prompting criticism Tuesday from the United States, the European Union and Canada.

France: 12 arrested in counterterrorism cases (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:05 PM PDT

AP - Police in southern France arrested 12 people in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks on Tuesday, including three men being checked for potential links to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan, officials said.

New mob threat: bazooka near Italy courthouse (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 11:42 AM PDT

AP - A bazooka was discovered Tuesday near a courthouse in southern Italy in what police said was the latest act of intimidation by the 'ndrangheta mob against prosecutors.

Habsburg heir takes Austria to human rights court (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 09:57 AM PDT

AP - A descendant of the Habsburgs is taking Austria to the European Court for Human Rights for not allowing him to run for president, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Karadzic faces off with old adversary in courtroom (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 09:49 AM PDT

AP - A former commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Bosnia testified Tuesday that Radovan Karadzic directed Serb troops to terrorize civilians with sniping campaigns and reduce Muslim enclaves to near starvation throughout the country's devastating war.

UN official denies she has role representing Earth (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 09:41 AM PDT

Mazlan Othman, head of the UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs, poses for the Associated Press, outside a Royal Society conference she was attending in Chicheley, England, Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010. Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, said it would make sense for the United Nations and its member states to be studying the important question of who should represent humanity if aliens do come to this planet. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Yes, she heads the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. No, she has not been appointed to represent the Earth in future negotiations with aliens.

Italian PM under fire again, for Holocaust remark (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 08:28 AM PDT

AP - The head of Rome's Jewish community joined the Vatican newspaper and others Tuesday in sharply rebuking Premier Silvio Berlusconi for a joke about Jews, money and the Holocaust which was caught on videotape.

Swedish premier forms minority gov't (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 07:25 AM PDT

Jimmie Akesson, front left, leader of the right-wing Sweden Democrats party, and his girlfriend Louise Erixson, dressed in national traditional costume, on their way for a church service at the Stockholm Cathedral in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, ahead of the official opening ceremony of the Swedish Parliament. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Fredrik Persson) ** SWEDEN OUT **AP - Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has formed a minority government after his center-right coalition lost control of Parliament in last month's election.

Prince William makes first royal rescue for RAF (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 07:06 AM PDT

This image taken Saturday Oct. 2, 2010 and made available by the Ministry of Defense shows the Captain of 'Rescue 122', left, and Flt Lt William Wales Britain's Prince William, known as Flight Lt. Wales in his new job, right, discuss the rescue mission they have just completed after leaving their Sea King helicopter after a rescue mission, at the RAF Valley on Anglesey, North Wales. Prince William has completed his first mission as a search-and-rescue helicopter co-pilot, plucking a stricken worker from an offshore gas rig. William's London office said Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010 that the 28-year-old prince was among the crew of a Royal Air Force Sea King helicopter called to the rig in Morecambe Bay, off the coast of northwestern England, on Saturday. (AP Photo/SAC Dek Traylor/PA Wire) ** NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT **AP - Britain's Prince William has completed his first mission as a Royal Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter co-pilot, plucking a stricken worker from an offshore gas rig, his office said Tuesday.

IRA dissident car bomb hits Londonderry businesses (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 06:35 AM PDT

A forensic officer works at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside the Ulster Bank Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The explosion damaged a branch of the Ulster Bank and a nearby hotel and restaurant complex. The attack early Tuesday in Londonderry has been blamed on dissident republicans opposed to the peace process. (AP Photo/Paul Faith/PA Wire) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - A dissident Irish Republican Army car bomb damaged a hotel, bank and other businesses but caused no injuries Tuesday in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, the sixth such attack this year in the British territory.

Dutch politician hate speech trial to resume (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 06:33 AM PDT

AP - An Amsterdam court Tuesday ordered the hate speech trial of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders to resume, rejecting his arguments that judges are biased against him.

发贴者：iwvck18 时间 18:46 0 条评论

bnzv