2010年10月29日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Medvedev to sign nuclear power deal in Vietnam (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:16 PM PDT

Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will sign agreements to help build Vietnam's first nuclear power plant and a hydroelectric power station during a visit to the Soviet-era ally starting on Saturday, Kremlin sources said.

Berlusconi amid scandal: 'I love women' (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures while speaking during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. EU leaders on Friday agreed on tougher rules for spendthrift nations whose overspending threatens Europe's single currency and risks triggering a debt crisis. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi issued an unapologetic defense of his lifestyle Friday amid the latest scandal involving his personal life, admitting that he intervened to secure the release from police custody of a 17-year-old Moroccan girl who had previously been at his villa.

Portugal government, opposition reach austerity budget deal (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:58 PM PDT

A Portuguese worker shouts as he takes part on a demo in downtown Lisbon on September 2010. Portugal's minority Socialist government and its centre-right opposition PSD reached a deal late Friday that will ensure parliament adopts an austerity budget for 2011, a PSD spokesman told AFP.(AFP/File/Sara Matos)AFP - Portugal's minority Socialist government and its centre-right opposition PSD reached a deal late Friday that will ensure parliament adopts an austerity budget for 2011, a PSD spokesman told AFP.

Berlusconi says deal reached to end Naples garbage crisis (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds a picture of the Terzigno rubbish dump during a press conference after his visit an incinerator in Acerra, near Naples on October 28. Berlusconi said Friday he had reached a deal with mayors in the Naples region to end a garbage crisis that has led to angry clashes and stinking waste piling up in streets.(AFP/File/Carlo Hermann)AFP - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Friday he had reached a deal with mayors in the Naples region to end a garbage crisis that has led to angry clashes and stinking waste piling up in streets.

Saudi minister visits Spain, reportedly for major tank deal (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:04 PM PDT

Saudi deputy Defence Minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan, pictured on October 27, will visit Spain next week, officials said Friday, and he is reportedly considering the purchase of Leopard 2E tanks for up to three billion euros.(AFP/File/Hamad Olayan)AFP - Saudi Arabia's assistant defence minister will visit Spain next week, officials said Friday, and he is reportedly considering the purchase of Leopard 2E tanks for up to three billion euros.

Massive Lego Map Has Europe Covered (PC World)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:26 PM PDT

PC World - It's no secret that we here at GeekTech are massive Lego fans, so imagine our excitement when we stumbled across a massive all-Lego hand-made map of Europe, monuments included! The idea to build the giant map, dubbed Euromap, was kickstarted at a 2009 Lego Fan Weekend event, and after months of planning a group of five dedicated European Lego fans got to work on the huge task.

Iran says it is ready to restart nuclear talks (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:19 PM PDT

The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen at center, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start up of a facility that leaders have touted as defying of international efforts to curtail the country's nuclear ambitions. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)AP - Iran offered on Friday to negotiate with six world powers about its disputed nuclear program in a new bid to end growing concern that it could be used to produce weapons.

US and Russian forces team up for Afghan drug bust (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 26, 2010 file photo, Viktor Ivanov, head of the Russian anti-narcotics agency speaks at a news conference in Moscow. Ivanov said his agency cooperated closely with U.S. counterparts to organize a drug bust in Afghanistan, which ended Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 and destroyed 932 kilograms (2,050 pounds) of heroin and 156 kilograms (340 pounds) of opium worth an estimated $250 million. (AP Photo/ Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)AP - Russian counternarcotics agents teamed up with U.S. and Afghan forces in an unprecedented joint raid that destroyed nearly $56 million worth of heroin near the Pakistani border, officials said Friday.

Britain scrambles for new security steps on Yemen freight (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:11 PM PDT

Supplies are loaded on to a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport in 2004. Police examined a suspicious package flown in from Yemen to the East Midlands Airport on Friday, but the BBC reported the object was not a bomb although it was AFP - Britain is "urgently considering" new security measures for air cargo from Yemen after a suspect package flown in from the country sparked an international alert, the government said Friday.

New York Judge rules 6-year-old can be sued (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:00 PM PDT

Reuters - A girl can be sued over accusations she ran over an elderly woman with her training bicycle when she was 4 years old, a New York Supreme Court justice has ruled.

In Turkey, celebrations highlight division (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:44 PM PDT

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, second right, walks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, unseen, and various army commanders and political leaders, surrounded by security agents during a ceremony marking the 87th anniversary of the Turkish Republic at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. On Turkey's anniversary celebrations, all eyes are on the head of the president's wife. In a gesture that strikes at the heart of a wrenching debate over secularism and piety, Hayrunnisa Gul is to wear an Islamic headscarf at a reception marking the founding of modern Turkey by Ataturk, whose secular principles are revered by the nation's traditional establishment with almost religious fervor.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - On Turkey's anniversary celebrations, all eyes were on the head of the president's wife.

NATO to reduce Kosovo force by spring (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 11:42 AM PDT

AP - NATO's top commander in Kosovo said Friday the alliance's 10,000-strong peacekeeping force will be halved next year but warned that the country's Serb-run north remains a hotspot.

Italian surgeons get prison for unneeded surgery (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:58 AM PDT

AP - A Milan court has convicted three doctors of performing unnecessary surgeries in what the Italian media has dubbed a "clinic of horrors," with the hospital's chief surgeon sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison.

WWII US airman tells court about Serbia rescue (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:38 AM PDT

A sympathizer of the Serbian WWII royalist guerrillas, left, and a sympathizer of the Serbian WWII communist guerrillas argue in front of a court building in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. A retired U.S. airman has testified before a Serbian court reviewing the case of Serb royalist guerrilla who was executed as traitor by the postwar Yugoslav communist authorities in 1946. His followers and relatives are seeking to exonerate him claiming the trial was staged. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)AP - A former U.S. soldier told a Serbian court Friday how he and his fellow service members were rescued during World War II by fighters led by a Serb guerrilla who was later executed as a traitor by the postwar Yugoslav communist authorities.

Victims: child sex abuse is crime against humanity (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:12 AM PDT

AP - People who were raped and molested by priests are gathering in Rome this weekend to launch a petition demanding the United Nations designate systematic sexual abuse of children as a crime against humanity.

Polish teen sailors safe despite severe weather (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:43 AM PDT

**FILE** In this Sept. 19, 2010 file photo Polish tall ship Fryderyk Chopin used to train young sailors is entering the Baltic port of Gdynia. The ship has lost both its masts in foul weather and is drifting off the coast of southern England, British coast guards said Friday, Oct.29, 2010. The 36 teens on board don't appear to be in any immediate danger as two ships are heading in its direction to help tow it to port. (AP Photo/Andrzej J. Gojke, File)AP - A group of teenage sailors whose ship was drifting at sea after it lost both masts in gale-force winds is safe from harm, coast guards said Friday, and the vessel was to be towed to a British port for repairs.

Russian poll: Medvedev almost as popular as Putin (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:21 AM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on oil industry development in Samara, about 900 kilometers (550 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)AP - A new poll shows the approval ratings of President Dmitry Medvedev edging closer to those of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has been highly popular among Russians since first coming to power more than a decade ago.

Ukraine President to skip traffic in helicopter (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych adjusts his earphone during a news conference after his meeting with German Chancellor Merkel, not pictured, at the Chancellery in Berlin. President Viktor Yanukovych isn't letting traffic on the way to the office get him down any more. He's rising above it. Literally. In the coming months, a helicopter will begin chauffeuring Yanukovych to the center of Kiev from his suburban residence and back. Yanukovych's chief of staff Serghiy Lyovochkin says Friday Oct. 29 ,2010 the president is doing the capital a favor by unclogging the streets that he currently travels in his motorcade. Police close off entire avenues for that. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)AP - President Viktor Yanukovych isn't letting traffic on the way to the office get him down any more. He's rising above it. Literally.

France firm on burqa ban despite bin Laden threat (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:45 AM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures while speaking during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. EU leaders on Friday agreed on tougher rules for spendthrift nations whose overspending threatens Europe's single currency and risks triggering a debt crisis. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - France stands by its law banning burqa-like Muslim veils despite a threatening new message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.

UK hostage's parents credit US for coming clean (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:39 AM PDT

The coffin of aid worker Linda Norgrove is carried from the Uig Community Centre on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, by mourners after her funeral service, Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010. Slain British aid worker Linda Norgrove has been laid to rest in a ceremony marked by Afghan music and Gaelic gospel tunes on the remote Scottish island of Lewis. The 36-year-old was killed in a failed U.S. rescue operation following her kidnapping by Afghan militants. U.S. and British officials initially claimed she was killed by her captors, but U.S. Gen. David Petraeus later acknowledged that she may have died when one of her would-be rescuers threw a grenade. (AP Photo/Andrew Milligan, PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - The parents of British aid worker Linda Norgrove praised the U.S. military for admitting one of its service members may have accidentally killed her — saying in an interview televised Friday that the circumstances of the death could easily have been kept secret.

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