2010年10月28日星期四

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EU backs limited treaty change to ward off crises (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:33 PM PDT

Reuters - The European Union on Thursday supported calls by Germany and France for limited changes to the bloc's main treaty to help shore up Europe's defenses against any new financial crises.

UK spy chief defends secrecy in 1st public speech (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT

Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, chief John Sawers addresses a gathering of academics, officials and editors in London Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. The boss of Britain's MI6 spy agency has delivered his first public speech, one devoted to explaining his secretive organization's work and outlining the difficulties he faced in ensuring that foreign partners acted fairly. (AP Photo//Toby Melville, Pool)AP - Britain's spy agency chief stepped out of the shadows with an unprecedented public address, defending the need for secrecy to counter growing terror threats such as Iran's nuclear proliferation.

Cameron strives to stop EU budget rise (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

L-R: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas arrive prior to a family photo of a European Union summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. Cameron took his campaign for austerity to the European Union, calling for support from counterparts in his campaign against a steep EU budget hike in tough times.(AFP/Eric Feferberg)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron took his battle for austerity to the European Union, holding up a summit on economic reform to attack a steep EU budget hike in tough times.

Virgin slams soaring air tax hike (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT

A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 aircraft takes off from Heathrow Airport. The Virgin Atlantic airline blasted the rise in the country's airport departure tax being introduced Monday, warning that many families would be priced out of a holiday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The Virgin Atlantic airline blasted the rise in the country's airport departure tax being introduced Monday, warning that many families would be priced out of a holiday.

Secret World War II heroine's file released (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:01 PM PDT

AP - Buried deep in Eileen Nearne's secret World War II file, released Friday by the National Archives, is the secrecy agreement she signed on September 4, 1942. It was a commitment she honored until her death last month at the age of 89.

Is the U.S. Bullying Europe Into Cutting Ties with Iran? (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Even with a new set of E.U. sanctions against Iran, European companies still have an economic relationship with the country. But some firms say the U.S. is pushing them to go beyond the sanctions and stop trading with Iran completely

EU debates cracking down on deficits, debts (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:16 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives for a pre-EU summit meeting in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. European Union leaders, opening a two-day summit Thursday, are at pains to inject more financial discipline into eurozone nations to prevent another debt crisis from gutting confidence in Europe's single currency. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - EU leaders worked on a deal early Friday to punish spendthrift nations whose overspending put Europe's single currency at risk, but officials said German Chancellor Angela Merkel found no takers for the idea they lose their voting rights.

Italy seeks stiffer sentence for ex-CIA official (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:52 PM PDT

AP - An Italian prosecutor has asked for a stiffer sentence for a CIA station chief convicted in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan.

SIM Card Could Free iPhone from European Carriers (NewsFactor)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:07 PM PDT

NewsFactor - You buy an iPhone with a special SIM card, and then you choose and activate your wireless carrier. According to news reports, Apple is working on such a potential game-changer for the European market.

French port strike strands hundreds of sailors (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:59 PM PDT

AP - They're the unseen victims of France's strikes: up to 1,600 foreign sailors trapped in 80 ships off the southern coast of Marseille, most of them unable to get to the shore that is so tantalizingly close.

Ties, iPad among list of UK prime minister's gifts (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:43 AM PDT

AP - Tennis rackets from the French president, an iPad from the New York mayor, ties from Italy's prime minister: Being Britain's prime minister, David Cameron has some perks, though he's not allowed to take any of these gifts home for free.

Russian military test-fires 3 ballistic missiles (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:38 AM PDT

AP - Russia's military on Thursday successfully test-fired three intercontinental ballistic missiles in one day during training of its strategic forces.

WWII US airman seeks justice for late Serb general (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:52 AM PDT

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Milton Friend speaks and gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Oct 28, 2010. Friend has a new mission: Correct a historic injustice by communists against a Serb World War II guerrilla leader. The 88-year-old Florida man was saved by the Serbs after his B-24 Liberator bomber was shot down by German fighter planes over central Serbia in the summer of 1944. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)AP - An American whose U.S. Air Force bomber was shot down over the Balkans during World War II is on a new mission in the region: Correct a historic injustice against a former Serb guerrilla leader.

Tests find no drugs, poison in slain UK spy's body (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:25 AM PDT

AP - Police investigating the unexplained slaying of a British intelligence official say tests on his body indicate no traces of drugs or poisons that may have led to his death.

Russia's hungry bears dig up graves for food (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:09 AM PDT

AP - Famished bears in northern Russia have resorted to digging up graves in cemeteries - and reportedly eating at least one body - after a scorching summer destroyed their natural food sources of forest berries and mushrooms, officials said Thursday.

Court challenge to a bullfighting ban in Spain (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:53 AM PDT

AP - Recent legislation banning bullfighting in a region of Spain was challenged by a major political party in court on Thursday.

Berlusconi dismisses prostitute reports as 'trash' (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:28 AM PDT

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he presides over a meeting to discuss the Naples garbage crisis, in Naples, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. Premier Silvio Berlusconi has dismissed as 'media trash' reports that two television executives helped introduce an underage girl into his entourage. Italian reports say a 17-year-old Moroccan runaway named Ruby told prosecutors she attended dinners at Berlusconi's villa in Arcore, outside Milan. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta )AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday dismissed as "media trash" reports that two television executives helped introduce an underage girl into his entourage. It's the second time in as many years that Berlusconi has been linked to a purported prostitute scandal.

Ukraine's local elections a democracy test (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:22 AM PDT

In this Oct. 11, 2010 photo, a former Prime Minister and opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, left, and activists of her party are seen during a strike outside the central election commission in the Ukrainian capital Kiev to protest alleged election fraud. Since he came to power this year, President Viktor Yanukovych has curbed anti-government protests, sent security forces to investigate civil society groups, manipulated the Constitution to boost his powers and sought to limit press freedoms. Upcoming local council elections are being watched as a barometer of how far Yanukovych has rolled back freedoms gained after his first fraud-tainted grab at the presidency in 2004 sparked the Orange Revolution.(AP Photo/Olexander Prokopenko)AP - When democracy activist Volodymyr Podrezov went on a hunger strike to protest alleged election fraud, authorities in Kiev were quick to respond. They set up a fair right near Podrezov's tent and bused in farmers to sell steaming grilled meat and bakers to hand out free pancakes with sour cream and jam.

Serbia offers $14 million for Mladic's capture (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:15 AM PDT

A woman walks by graffiti of war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. The EU agreed Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 to review in detail Serbia's request to join, but it said Serbia's entry would ultimately be determined by whether it makes an effort to arrest Ratko Mladic, the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal on genocide charges, including the massacre of 8000 men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)AP - Serbia's government says it has increased its reward for the capture of Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic from euro1 million ($1.4 million) to euro10 million ($14 million).

'Ate' or 'Et'? British Library mulls pronunciation (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:01 AM PDT

This image made available by The British Library in London, Thursday, Oct 28, 2010, shows a Punch cartoon dating from Oct. 1855. Punch was the leading British satirical periodical in the 19th century, and its cartoons are a wonderful source of material about social attitudes to language. This one looks at the British pre-occupation with H-dropping as a marker of social class. The Library is inviting people to have their voices recorded as part of a project to chart the way English pronunciation and accents are changing. It wants visitors to an upcoming exhibition to record themselves reading a passage from the children's book 'Mr. Tickle.' Linguists say pronunciation is constantly evolving. Young British people are more likely to call the eighth letter of the alphabet 'haitch,' rather than 'aitch,' and pronounce the past tense of 'to eat' as 'ate' instead of the old-fashioned 'et.' The library said that visitors to its Evolving English exhibition will be able to record themselves in specially designed phone booths, or submit clips on the library's website. The exhibition opens Nov. 12 and runs to April 3.( AP Photo/The British Library) **EDITORIAL USE ONLY**  AP - If you say tomato, and I say tomahto, the British Library wants to know.

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