Yahoo! News: Europe News

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• Euro zone seeks way out of Irish debt crisis (Reuters)
• Guantanamo detainees to be paid compensation: report (AFP)
• UK agrees settlement with ex-Guantanamo detainees (AP)
• Paraguay nixes British expedition to remote tribal region (AFP)
• Police arrest student over extinguisher attack (AFP)
• Beginning of end for Berlusconi? (AP)
• Germans held in Iran say deceived by activist: report (Reuters)
• Mohammad cartoonist wants his old identity back (Reuters)
• Cameron: UK still a world power, despite cuts (AP)
• How the major stock indexes fared Monday (AP)
• 2 Russians conduct 6.5-hour spacewalk (AP)
• Immigrants in Italy end 2-week protest atop crane (AP)
• British hostage couple learn of father's death (AP)
• Italy seizes 1,000 kg of cocaine from container (AP)
• Chechen president under fire ahead of murder trial (AP)
• UK Parliament warns staff over Mumbai-style attack (AP)
• Get Happy! UK government to measure well-being (AP)
• UN prosecutor allows Mladic may not be in Serbia (AP)
• NATO, Russia to cooperate in Afghan war (AP)
• American charged with stealing stuffed birds in UK (AP)

Euro zone seeks way out of Irish debt crisis (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 05:35 PM PST Reuters - Euro zone finance ministers will try to find a way to end Ireland's debt crisis on Tuesday, with Dublin resisting pressure to seek a state bailout by signaling that only its banks may need help.

Guantanamo detainees to be paid compensation: report (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 05:27 PM PST AFP - The government is expected to announce Tuesday that it will pay more than a million pounds' (1.6 million dollars, 1.1 million euros) compensation to former Guantanamo Bay detainees.

UK agrees settlement with ex-Guantanamo detainees (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 04:55 PM PST AP - Britain's government will announce details Tuesday of settlements agreed with a group of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees who were suing the U.K. for alleged complicity in their torture overseas.

Paraguay nixes British expedition to remote tribal region (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 04:46 PM PST AFP - Paraguay on Monday suspended a British scientific expedition into the remote Chaco woodlands after indigenous rights groups raised concerns over the welfare of protected tribes in the region.

Police arrest student over extinguisher attack (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 04:03 PM PST AFP - Police arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder Monday over a fire extinguisher thrown off a roof during last week's student protest at Prime Minister David Cameron's party headquarters.

Beginning of end for Berlusconi? (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 04:01 PM PST AP - For Silvio Berlusconi, the question no longer seems if he will be forced from power — but when.

Germans held in Iran say deceived by activist: report (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 03:50 PM PST Reuters - A German arrested in Iran in October while trying to interview the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery was shown on Iranian state television on Monday saying he had been deceived by an Iranian activist in Germany.

Mohammad cartoonist wants his old identity back (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 02:44 PM PST Reuters - A Danish cartoonist at the center of a crisis in 2006 that set off riots in the Muslim world dislikes the profile the incident gave him and would prefer to return to his old identity as an ordinary artist.

Cameron: UK still a world power, despite cuts (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 01:42 PM PST AP - Britain can hold onto its position as a leading world power if it fixes its sluggish economy, reaches out to emerging capitals and learns lessons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday.

How the major stock indexes fared Monday (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 01:41 PM PST AP - Stocks slumped to a mixed finish Monday as the dollar posted its second day of gains over concerns that Europe is on the edge of another bailout. Investors believe that Ireland may seek help from its fellow members in the European Union as its economy sputters. The dollar also spiked in May when Europe bailed out Greece.

2 Russians conduct 6.5-hour spacewalk (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 01:40 PM PST AP - Two Russian cosmonauts conducted a 6 1/2-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install and reposition equipment.

Immigrants in Italy end 2-week protest atop crane (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 12:46 PM PST AP - Four immigrants who have lived atop a 35-meter (115-foot) crane for two weeks to protest Italy's immigration policies have climbed down.

British hostage couple learn of father's death (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 11:20 AM PST AP - Paul and Rachel Chandler — the British couple held hostage by Somali pirates for 388 days — have been given the news that Paul Chandler's father died while the pair was in captivity, the couple said Monday.

Italy seizes 1,000 kg of cocaine from container (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 11:11 AM PST AP - Italian police have seized 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of pure cocaine worth as much as euro250 million ($340 million) from a shipping container carrying farm equipment from Brazil.

Chechen president under fire ahead of murder trial (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:50 AM PST AP - An Austrian human rights lawyer and others on Monday blamed the slaying of a Chechen refugee on the president of the southern Russian republic and expressed hope that an upcoming trial will help prosecute him.

UK Parliament warns staff over Mumbai-style attack (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:26 AM PST AP - Britain's Houses of Parliament says it is developing plans to respond to a Mumbai-style gun attack by terrorists.

Get Happy! UK government to measure well-being (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:38 AM PST AP - Feeling fine? Frustrated? Fantastic? The British government really wants to know.

UN prosecutor allows Mladic may not be in Serbia (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:34 AM PST AP - The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia left open for the first time Monday the possibility that Europe's most wanted fugitive, Ratko Mladic, may be hiding outside Serbia.

NATO, Russia to cooperate in Afghan war (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 06:49 AM PST AP - NATO and Russia are ready to conclude a series of agreements designed to boost cooperation in the Afghan war, NATO's chief and a senior U.S. official said Monday.

American charged with stealing stuffed birds in UK (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 06:44 AM PST AP - British police say they have arrested and charged an American man for stealing hundreds of rare bird skins from a British museum outside London.

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