2010年10月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Hostage 'may have been killed by US grenade' (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:19 PM PDT

British aid worker Linda Norgrove, pictured here, who died in a failed US operation in Afghanistan may have been killed by a grenade detonated by her rescuers and not by her kidnappers, Prime Minister David Cameron said.(AFP/HO)AFP - A British aid worker who died in an attempt to rescue her from her Taliban kidnappers in Afghanistan may have been killed by a grenade detonated by US troops, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday.

Rescuers may have killed UK Afghan aid worker (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:16 PM PDT

Reuters - A British hostage who died in Afghanistan on Friday during a U.S.-led rescue mission may have been accidentally killed by the troops trying to save her, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.

Irish police find weapons, explosives cache (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 02:52 PM PDT

AP - Irish police say they have uncovered a major arms and explosives cache and described it as a significant blow to dissident republicans.

Daimler recalling autos over power steering (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 02:45 PM PDT

AP - Daimler AG said Monday it was recalling more than 100,000 Mercedes-Benz vehicles in the United States and the United Kingdom to prevent a loss of power steering fluid.

Groups plan 2nd aid flotilla to Gaza from February (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 02:03 PM PDT

AP - Pro-Palestinian groups plan to sail a flotilla of boats through Israel's sea blockade of Gaza as early as February in the second such attempt in less than a year, activists said Monday.

UK opens investigation into July 7 bombing deaths (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:35 PM PDT

Victim's family members Sean Cassidy, left, talks to Graham Foulkes outside the High Courts in London as they arrive for the start of the Inquests into the July 7, 2005 bombing of London's transport system, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Sean Cassidy's son Kieran and Graham Foulkes' son David were killed in the terrorist attack on London's transport system. A long-delayed inquest into the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings that killed 52 people on London's transit network opened Monday with a minute's silence in memory of the victims.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - An inquiry into the 2005 London suicide bombings opened Monday, with victims' family members reliving their nightmares as details poured out about the slow response to the attacks, confusion on the ground and how the bombers were seen laughing as they traveled to the city to commit mass murder.

France strikes again as pension reform enters crunch week (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:24 PM PDT

French railway workers from state-run company SNCF demonstrate in Gevrey-Chambertin marshalling yard. France faces major disruption Tuesday for the fourth time in a month as workers take to the streets -- this time threatening open-ended strikes -- to fight plans to hike the retirement age from 60 to 62.(AFP/Jeff Pachoud)AFP - France faces major disruption Tuesday for the fourth time in a month as workers take to the streets -- this time threatening open-ended strikes -- to fight plans to hike the retirement age.

First arrest in Hungarian toxic mud disaster, as toll rises (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:22 PM PDT

Rescue workers walk on a street covered in red sludge in Devecser. Hungarian police arrested Monday the managing director of the company at the centre of a toxic sludge disaster, as the body of the last missing person was recovered, bringing the death toll to eight.(AFP/Samuel Kubani)AFP - Hungarian police arrested Monday the managing director of the company at the centre of a toxic sludge disaster, as the body of the last missing person was recovered, bringing the death toll to eight.

Communism left toxic legacy in Eastern Europe (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2000 file photo a number of perch poisoned by cyanide lie on the bank of Tisa river, in Becej, some 120 km (74 miles) north of Belgrade in Vojvodina province, Yugoslavia. The deadly cyanide spill has killed a huge number of fish in the Tisa river in Yugoslavia. The spill originated in Romania where a dam at the Baia Mare gold mine overflowed on January 30th, causing cyanide to pour into the Lapus and then to Samos river. From there, the polluted water ran west into neighboring Hungary. (AP Photo/Jaroslav Pap, File)AP - Abandoned mines in Romania leach waters contaminated by heavy metals into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tons of toxic substances a year. Soil in eastern Slovakia is contaminated with cancer-producing PCBs.

Hungary firm head detained over toxic sludge (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Volunteers, wearing protective gears, walk across a street covered by toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. The population of the neighboring town of Kolontar was evacuated Saturday and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a possible new sludge deluge. Hungary's prime ministers says police have taken into custody the managing director of the company which owns the metals plant where a broken reservoir flooded several towns with toxic red sludge and water.(AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Hungarian police have detained the director of the aluminum company responsible for a flood of caustic red sludge that killed eight people when it burst from its reservoir last week, the prime minister said Monday.

Sentence for ex-Bosnian officer overturned (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:41 AM PDT

Former Bosnian security officer, Ilija Jurisic gestures to supporters, after his release, in his hometown of Tuzla, 140 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. An appeals court on Monday overturned a war crimes conviction and a 12-year prison sentence for a former Bosnian security officer whose case has strained postwar relations between Serbia and Bosnia. The Belgrade Appeals Court ordered a retrial and released Ilija Jurisic from detention. It said that the previous proceedings provided insufficient evidence, and that the new trial will result in a 'clear, legitimate and legally perfect verdict.' (AP Photo/Darko Zabus)AP - An appeals court on Monday overturned a war crimes conviction and a 12-year prison sentence for a former Bosnian security officer whose case has strained postwar relations between Serbia and Bosnia.

Rwandan rebel leader arrested in Paris (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:35 AM PDT

AP - A Rwandan rebel accused of orchestrating a humanitarian catastrophe against Congolese villagers in a blackmail scheme to leverage more political power for his group in Kigali was arrested in Paris on Monday, the International Criminal Court said.

Pope denounces terrorist ideas that spur violence (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:10 AM PDT

AP - Pope Benedict XVI denounced "terrorist ideologies" that spur violence in God's name as he opened a meeting Monday of bishops from around the Middle East.

British cruise ship named for queen (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 10:34 AM PDT

Cunard's cruise liner the Queen Elizabeth arrives in Southampton, southern England for the first time Friday Oct. 8, 2010. She will be officially named by Queen Elizabeth II in the city on Monday. (AP Photo/Chris Ison/PA Wire) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - The queen named a luxury British cruise ship the Queen Elizabeth in a lavish ceremony Monday, blessing the vessel to launch it on its maiden voyage.

Greek policeman guilty of murder in teen death (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 10:04 AM PDT

AP - A Greek policeman was convicted of murder and sentenced Monday to life imprisonment for the shooting of a teenager in central Athens that sparked nationwide riots in 2008.

Official: Anti-gay riots send wrong message to EU (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 09:58 AM PDT

A member of the Serbian riot police is assisted by passer by, during the anti gay riots in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Riot police in Serbia clashed with hundreds of far-right supporters who tried to disrupt a gay pride march in downtown Belgrade on Sunday. More than a dozen people were injured, officials said. (AP Photo)AP - An EU official said Monday that Serbia's failure to prevent an anti-gay riot could hurt its bid to join the European Union, but the U.S. Embassy praised police for doing all they could to protect the gay pride march from far-right activists.

Italy's Berlusconi has minor surgery on hand (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 08:15 AM PDT

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, right, and Premier Silvio Berlusconi attend the ceremony for the arrival of the four soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Saturday when a bomb exploded as a convoy passed insurgents and troops came under fire, at the Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi underwent minor surgery on his left hand Monday to treat tendinitis and will have to rest for a few days, doctors said.

Moody's raises Ukraine rating (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 08:10 AM PDT

AP - Credit ratings agency Moody's has raised Ukraine's sovereign rating after the country secured a $15 billion bailout loan and showed signs of recovery from the global downturn.

Correction: al-Qaida story (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 07:20 AM PDT

AP - In a story Oct. 10 about the terrorist threat posed by al-Qaida's North African offshoot, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that dozens were killed in bombings in the Paris Metro in the 1990s. Eight people were killed in those bombings and dozens were injured.

(AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 07:00 AM PDT

AP - International Criminal Court says Rwandan rebel leader accused in mass rapes arrested in Paris.

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