2010年10月22日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

French Senate passes pension overhaul (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

French Senator Isabelle Debre, right, votes on a pension reform for members of UMP, at the Senate in Paris, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. The French Senate is to vote on a pension reform, after the government short-circuited a protracted debate. The Senate is near certain to approve the measure, which raises the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 later Friday, despite months of strikes and protests that reached a climax of radical action and scattered clashes this week. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Under pressure from the government, the French Senate voted Friday to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, a victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy after days of street rage, acrimonious debate and strikes that dried up the supply of gasoline across the country.

How Serious Is the Terror Threat in Europe? (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Continuing reports of terror threats against Europe can be alarming. But counter-terrorism experts talking to TIME say that the information being revealed is too vague and too unsurprising to signal an imminent attack

WikiLeaks near release of secret US war documents (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 02:06 PM PDT

File - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington, in this March 27, 2008 file photo. The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In a message posted to its Twitter page on Thursday Oct. 21, 2010, the organization said there was a 'major WikiLeaks press conference in Europe coming up.' (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The WikiLeaks website is poised to release what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports that could amount to a classified history of the war in Iraq.

Austrian with high-tech robot arm dies after crash (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 02:02 PM PDT

FILE - The Nov. 27, 2009 file photo shpws Christian Kandlbauer from Austria presenting an artificial arm in Vienna, that is temperature and pressure sensitive and feels real to the person wearing it. He was the first in Europe to wear the innovative high-tech artificial arm and died after the car he was driving veered off the road and crashed into a tree. Christian Kandlbauer lost both arms in an electrical accident in 2005 but was able to live a largely normal life thanks to a mind-controlled robotic prosthetic left arm and a normal prosthesis in place of his right arm. The 22-year-old died Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 said Andreas Waltensdorfer, a senior physician at a hospital in the southern city of Graz, where Kandlbauer had been in intensive care since Tuesday, the day of the crash. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - In the five years since losing both arms in an accident, Christian Kandlbauer had regained much of his cherished independence thanks to a high-tech, mind-controlled robotic limb. He even got a driver's license.

Russell Brand minders clash with photographers in India (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 01:28 PM PDT

A bodyguard(R) of British comic-turned-Hollywood star Russell Brand confronts news photographers while a security guard (3rd, L) argues with AFP photographer Manan Vatsyayana (down, 2ndL) at the Ranthambore National Park in Ranthambore, India, during a jeep safari.(AFP/Saran Vaid)AFP - Bodyguards of British comic-turned-Hollywood star Russell Brand clashed with news photographers in an Indian tiger reserve on Friday, ahead of his wedding to US singer Katy Perry.

Cash-strapped Portsmouth say on brink of folding (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 01:14 PM PDT

Cash-strapped second tier English Championship side Portsmouth said Friday they face being closed down unless they can reach a deal with former owner and creditor Alexandre Gaydamak as well as prospective buyer Balram Chainrai.(Portsmouth FC)AFP - Cash-strapped second tier English Championship side Portsmouth said Friday they face being closed down unless they can reach a deal with former owner and creditor Alexandre Gaydamak as well as prospective buyer Balram Chainrai.

French Senate defies strikes to pass pensions reform (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 01:07 PM PDT

Strikers sit near a burning barricade in front of the French Total group refinery in Grandpuits, east of Paris. French senators were Friday expected to defy mass strikes, riots and fuel blockades and pass President Nicolas Sarkozy's fiercely contested bill to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.(AFP/Thomas Samson)AFP - French senators defied mass strikes, riots and fuel blockades Friday to pass President Nicolas Sarkozy's fiercely contested bill to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.

Nuclear sub towed free after running aground (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:46 PM PDT

British Royal Navy's nuclear submarine, HMS Astute seen here in 2009, was towed out to sea after spending Friday stuck on a shingle bank after running aground off a Scottish island.(AFP/File/Andy Buchanan)AFP - The Royal Navy's newest nuclear submarine was dragged free after running aground off a Scottish island on Friday, in an embarrassing blunder just days after the government announced deep cuts to the Royal Navy.

Virgin spaceship gets new runway (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:32 PM PDT

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2 (VSS Enterprise)(Bottom) begins to glide toward earth on its first test flight after release from the mothership, AFP - The world's first commercial passenger spaceship moved a step closer to deployment Friday as tycoon Richard Branson unveiled a new runway at a remote New Mexico spaceport.

Restart for Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker's hate speech trial (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:32 PM PDT

Dutch anti-Islam deputy Geert Wilders (R) and his lawyer Bram Moszkowicz look at newspapers in the courtroom in Amsterdam. The hate speech trial of Wilders will start afresh after judges trying him were ordered to step down Friday by a panel of their colleagues at the politician's request.(AFP/POOL/Koen van Weel)AFP - The hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders will start afresh after judges trying him were ordered to step down by a panel of their peers who upheld the politician's bias claims.

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Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:19 AM PDT

AP - French Senate approves raising retirement age to 62 after protracted debate and mass protests.

Grounded UK nuclear submarine freed (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 10:40 AM PDT

British Royal Navy's nuclear submarine, HMS Astute seen here in 2009, was towed out to sea after spending Friday stuck on a shingle bank after running aground off a Scottish island.(AFP/File/Andy Buchanan)AP - Britain's newest nuclear-powered submarine ran aground off the coast of Scotland Friday but officials say the incident was not serious and no one was injured.

Skipper of Dutch passenger ferry killed in crash (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Rescue workers are seen near a capsized ferry, rear, after a German freight ship struck a small Dutch passenger ferry in a canal near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday Oct. 22, 2010, capsizing the smaller vessel and knocking the skipper and any other passengers who may have been aboard into the water. 'There's one person missing, possibly more,' national police spokesman Frans Zuiderhoek said on Dutch television. 'At this moment we don't know how many people were on board the ferry.' (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)AP - Divers have recovered the body of the skipper of a Dutch passenger ferry killed when his vessel collided with a German freight ship on a busy waterway near Amsterdam, police said Friday.

UK aid worker died of head injuries in rescue bid (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 10:19 AM PDT

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Spc. Gerald R. Jenkins of Circleville, Ohio, upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. The Department of Defense announced the Oct. 20 death of Jenkins who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - A British aid worker killed after she was taken captive in Afghanistan died from head and chest injuries during a rescue attempt, police said Friday.

Wild tigers could face extinction in just 12 years (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 10:11 AM PDT

FILE- A caged South China tiger seen behind bars in Johannesburg in this file photo dated Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Environmental experts who are meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday Oct. 22, 2010, have warned that the world's tiger population in the wild, could be extinct within 12-years because of illegal trophy hunting, deteriorating habitats and the use of tiger parts in eastern medicine, according to World Wildlife spokeswoman Marie von Zeipel. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)AP - The world's tiger population could soon be extinct because of poaching, shrinking habitats and the use of tiger parts in Eastern medicine, environmental experts warned Friday.

Swiss official to submit nuke smuggling probe soon (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 09:47 AM PDT

AP - A Swiss investigating magistrate says he will submit the findings of his probe into an alleged nuclear smuggling ring to prosecutors before the end of the year.

Slovenia: Mass grave with post-WWII victims found (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 09:10 AM PDT

AP - A Slovenian official in charge of exhumations says a new mass grave containing remains of victims killed by antifascists after World War II has been discovered in a covered-up wartime trench.

5 al-Qaida suspects detained in Turkey (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:55 AM PDT

AP - Police have detained five people, including three university students, suspected of providing financial and technical support to the al-Qaida network in Afghanistan, police and reports said Friday.

Dutch retrial ordered for Wilders hate speech case (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:39 AM PDT

AP - A Dutch court ordered a retrial Friday for anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, sending the closely-watched hate speech case back to square one before a whole new panel of judges.

Italy's Berlusconi promises to fix garbage crisis (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:03 AM PDT

Police officers take cover as demonstrators aim fireworks at them, in Terzigno, near Naples, during clashes in the early hours of Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. People demonstrating against plans to build a garbage dump near Naples hurled stones and firecrackers at police and set vehicles ablaze, as the confrontation continued during most of the night. The clashes highlighted the latest garbage crisis in the area around Naples, in southern Italy. Premier Silvio Berlusconi discussed the situation during an emergency cabinet meeting in Rome Friday. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)AP - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi promised a swift solution to the latest garbage crisis in southern Italy, saying Friday that the government will take over management of a local dump where angry residents and police have clashed for days, and pledging millions of euros in compensation.

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