2010年10月25日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Italian seaside town bans 'scanty clothing' (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

A fashion model shows off a miniskirt. Skimpily-clothed women in the town of Castellammare di Stabia in southern Italy are to be fined by the police under new regulations banning AFP - Skimpily-clothed women in the town of Castellammare di Stabia in southern Italy are to be fined by the police under new regulations banning "very scanty clothing" that were approved late Monday.

BP CEO hits back at media and politicians (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:51 PM PDT

Bob Dudley, Group Chief Executive of BP speaks at the annual Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference, at the Grosvenor House hotel, in London, Monday Oct. 25, 2010. Dudley defended potentially dangerous deepwater drilling, even as he attempted to strike a penitent note for the devastating Gulf of Mexico spill in his first external address since taking the top job. The American also stressed BP's commitment to the United States despite the ongoing political and public fallout there and talked up the company's ability to withstand the expected financial hit from the spill.(AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski-pa) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley accused some politicians and the media on Monday of being too hasty to pin all the blame on his company for the devastating Gulf of Mexico spill — and emphasized the need for deep-water drilling.

Chile's Pinera apologizes to Germany for slogan (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:47 PM PDT

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, right, signs the golden book as his German counterpart Christian Wulff looks on at the presidential residence Bellevue palace with in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Pinera visits Germany to thank for the German help with the rescue of 33 miners of the San Jose Mine. (AP Photo/Kai-Uwe Knoth)AP - Chile's president is apologizing for writing a slogan associated with Nazi Germany in a government guest book during a visit to Berlin.

Firms pledge to invest in wind energy sector (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:20 PM PDT

Several firms, including Japan's Mitsubishi and Spain's Gamesa, on Monday pledged major investments in the country's offshore wind sector, as London promised funding to help push the plans forward.(AFP/File/John MacDougall)AFP - Several firms, including Japan's Mitsubishi and Spain's Gamesa, on Monday pledged major investments in the country's offshore wind sector, as London promised funding to help push the plans forward.

Bank of England chief: Basel III incomplete answer (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:15 PM PDT

AP - International agreements requiring banks to hold more capital and a tax on bank balance sheets proposed by the British government are not enough to significantly reduce the risk embodied in giant banks, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said Monday.

Government warns French strike threatens recovery (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:08 PM PDT

Strikers use earth movers to block the access to an oil depot at Fos-sur-Mer, the biggest in the south of France. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government warned Monday that strikes against pension reform have cost the French economy up to three billion euros, as cracks appeared in a trade union fuel blockade.(AFP/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy's government warned Monday that strikes against pension reform have cost the French economy up to three billion euros, as cracks appeared in a trade union fuel blockade.

WikiLeaks docs raise questions of Obama policies (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks during a press conference in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. WikiLeaks revealed on Saturday previously secret files on the Iraq war, which in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.(AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)AP - President Barack Obama stepped into the White House pledging to end George W. Bush's gloves-off approach to interrogations and detention — but a flood of leaked documents suggests that some old habits were hard to break.

New Kindle Sales Exceed Amazon's Expectations (NewsFactor)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:57 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Amazon.com said Monday that its new generation of the Kindle e-reader has already become the fastest-selling Kindle of all time as well as the best-selling product on the company's web sites in the United States and the United Kingdom. What's more, Kindle e-book best sellers continue to surpass their print counterparts at Amazon.com, even as the online retail giant's traditional print book sales continue to grow.

France: Strikes costing up to $557 million per day (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:29 PM PDT

Piles of garbage, in front of a clothes shop in Marseille, southern France, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. France's massive strikes are costing the national economy up to euro400 million ($562 million) each day, the French finance minister said Monday, as workers continued to block ports, oil refineries and trash incineration plants to protest a plan to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 10,000 tons of garbage have been piling up in southern Marseille and its suburbs. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - France's massive strikes opposing changes in the country's pension system showed some signs of weakening on Monday when Marseille garbage collectors and workers at three oil refineries voted to end their walkouts.

NASDAQ OMX says its has world's fastest trading system (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:24 PM PDT

Exterior view of the Nasdaq OMX headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Stock exchange company NASDAQ OMX said Monday it had launched the world's fastest trading system, Genium INET, in its Nordic cash and fixed income derivatives markets.(AFP/SCANPIX/File/Fredrik Sandberg)AFP - Stock exchange company NASDAQ OMX said Monday it had launched the world's fastest trading system, Genium INET, in its Nordic cash and fixed income derivatives markets.

Italy town says no to miniskirts that are too mini (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 12:28 PM PDT

AP - Just how mini can a miniskirt be?

French court hears anti-Semitic murder appeal (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:44 AM PDT

The sisters of Ilan Halimi: Anne-Laure Abitbol, center, and Yael Halimi, left arrive with their mother, Ruth Halimi, at the courthouse in Creteil, east of Paris, to attend the hearing case of 18 people accused in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of their brother and son, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Ilan Halimi, who was 23 years old, was held captive for more than three weeks. He was found naked, handcuffed and covered with burn marks near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris on Feb. 13, 2006. He died on the way to the hospital. Halimi's assailants are known in the French press as the 'gang of barbarians.' (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - A Paris appeals court on Monday began hearing the case of 18 people accused in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of a young French Jew.

German Foreign Ministry confronts Nazi past (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:16 AM PDT

FILE - The October 1933 file photo shows German Foreign Minister Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath, right, and Joseph Goebbels, center, during the meeting of the League of Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. On Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 the book 'Das Amt' came into German shops describing that the German Foreign Office was more deeply involved in the genocide of the Jews than previously known. (AP Photo/Alfred Eisenstaedt)AP - Germany's diplomats were much more deeply involved in carrying out the Holocaust than previously known, according to a new report about the Foreign Ministry's Nazi past published Monday.

EU to aid Greece with migrant crisis (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:51 AM PDT

AP - Authorities in Greece say they expect the European Union to send 200 border guards to combat a surge in illegal immigration across the country's border with Turkey.

German shipping company: seized ship free again (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:15 AM PDT

A pirate stands on a rocky outcrop on the coast in Hobyo, central Somalia, in August 2010 as he looks at a hijacked supertanker anchored on the horizon. The European Union's anti-piracy mission on Monday denied that one of its helicopters was involved in a clash with Somali pirates in which four people were killed.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)AP - beluga-reederei says no crew members were injured and that the ship was on its way to south africa as planned. BERLIN (AP) — A German shipping company says its cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the coast of Kenya has been freed.

More security for Polish leaders after attack (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:08 AM PDT

AP - Bodyguards have been assigned to protect several Polish politicians after officials found a hit list on the body of a man who killed a conservative party activist last week, several officials said Monday.

Health issues raised again at Demjanjuk trial (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:07 AM PDT

AP - A German judge ordered that the trial of John Demjanjuk go ahead Monday after overruling the defense's argument the 90-year-old's health is deteriorating and that he can no longer concentrate on the proceedings.

German: Defense report calls for cuts in staff (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 07:19 AM PDT

AP - An expert commission is recommending that Germany's Defense Ministry cut its staff by half and reduce military troops by about a quarter as part of efforts to save money and transition from a conscript army to a more flexible, professional force.

Swedish police test DNA in serial shooter case (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:58 AM PDT

AP - Swedish police are analyzing DNA from a man they believe could be behind a series of shootings against people with immigrant backgrounds.

Serbia takes step toward EU membership (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:53 AM PDT

AP - The European Union agreed Monday to review in detail Serbia's request to join the bloc, an application that is warmly endorsed by Washington but that divides EU members.

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