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Yahoo! News: Europe News

EU agrees on $89 billion bailout loan for Ireland (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:49 PM PST

**ALTERNATIVE CROP OF DR103** A riot police runs as a patrol police car burns during riots in Barcelona on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession.(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)AP - European Union nations agreed to give euro67.5 billion ($89.4 billion) in bailout loans to Ireland on Sunday to help it weather the cost of its massive banking crisis, and sketched out new rules for future emergencies in an effort to restore faith in the euro currency.

Europe fixes Irish bailout, future rescue rules (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:29 PM PST

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen speaks to the media in Dublin. Europe and the IMF finalised Ireland's bailout on Sunday, warning creditors they will also share the burden of future rescues as Brussels fights market moves on Portugal and Spain.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - Europe on Sunday agreed a bailout for Ireland and new rules for future rescues which, under stringent IMF terms, would hit government bond investors.

Spain's ruling Socialists defeated in Catalonia (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 03:51 PM PST

Catalan Nationalist Party president Artur Mas (C) celebrates with his wife Helena (R) and Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida after CiU (Catalan Convergence and Unity party) won the regional election in Catalonia. Voters hammered Spain's ruling Socialists over a biting economic crisis Sunday, turfing them from power in Catalonia in a bad omen for national elections scheduled for 2012.(AFP/Lluis Gene)AFP - Voters hammered Spain's ruling Socialists over a biting economic crisis Sunday, turfing them from power in Catalonia in a bad omen for national elections scheduled for 2012.

Guardian defends publishing WikiLeaks memos (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 03:26 PM PST

Australian founder of whistleblowing website 'WikiLeaks', Julian Assange, holds a copy of the Guardian newspaper during a press conference in London in July 2010. The Guardian on Sunday defended its decision to publish hundreds of secret US memos released by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The Guardian on Sunday defended its decision to publish hundreds of secret US memos released by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

Irish central bank wants lenders overcapitalized (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 02:17 PM PST

Reuters - Ireland's central bank wants lenders to "overcapitalize" beyond a new target agreed with the IMF and the EU to cover potential future losses, it said on Sunday.

Instant View: EU finance ministers agree Ireland rescue (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 01:19 PM PST

Reuters - European Union finance ministers agreed an 85-billion-euro ($115 billion) rescue package for Ireland on Sunday which they said would help safeguard financial stability in the euro zone. Here are some reactions to the agreement:

Swiss voters approve foreigner deportation plan (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:58 PM PST

Swiss voters stand in a voting booth inside a school in the center of Geneva, Switzerland, voting in a referendum on deporting criminal foreigners from Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Switzerland goes to the polls to decide whether foreigners who commit serious crimes in their country should be automatically deported. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Swiss voters on Sunday approved a plan to automatically deport foreigners who commit serious crimes or benefit fraud, in a significant victory for the nationalist party that pushed the proposal against the will of the government.

Highlights: Prime Minister Cowen announces Irish bailout (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:21 PM PST

Reuters - Following are highlights from Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen's announcement of a bailout loan package agreed with the IMF and European Union.

Federer out-lasts Nadal to take Tour Finals crown (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:10 PM PST

Switzerland's Roger Federer holds his trophy after beating Spain's Rafael Nadal during their singles final tennis match, on the last day of the ATP World Tour Finals, at the O2, in south-east London.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Roger Federer won the ATP World Tour Finals for the fifth time after beating Rafael Nadal 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in Sunday's final at the O2 Arena in London.

Europe's poorest nation chooses between east, west (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:58 AM PST

A woman walks past election propoganda put up by the Communist Party in Chisinau, Moldova Friday Nov. 26, 2010. Moldova will hold parliamentary elections for the third time in two years on Nov. 28. (AP Photo/John McConnico)AP - Voters in Europe's poorest nation tried Sunday to break a political deadlock that has kept it without a functioning government for more than a year.

German Jews elect 1st leader born after Holocaust (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:23 AM PST

AP - Germany's main Jewish group on Sunday elected its first leader born after the Holocaust, a 60-year-old businessman who promised to focus the organization more on contemporary Jewish life.

Escort: Berlusconi personally invited her to house (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:16 AM PST

FILE - In this April 18, 2008 file photo, Italy's Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi, right, and Russia's President Vladmir Putin seen after a joint news conference following talks in Berlusconi's 'Villa Certosa' in Porto Rotondo, on the island region of Sardinia, Italy. The classified diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks and reported by The New York Times said a batch of documents raised questions about Berlusconi and his relationship with Putin. One cable said Berlusconi 'appears increasingly to be the mouthpiece of Putin' in Europe. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)AP - A self-described escort said Sunday that Premier Silvio Berlusconi personally invited her to two parties at his villas where young, foreign women were plentiful.

One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:39 AM PST

In this photo taken Oct. 23, 2010 Russian scientist Sergey Zimov talks about mammoth bones he has collected in this remote area of northeast Siberia. Zimov has stacked the bones on a barge in the river near the Northeast Science Station, which he directs, in the town of Chersky, Russia. Zimov believes mammoths, woolly rhinos and other Ice Age animals became extinct after human hunters killed too many to maintain the delicate balance between the animals and the grasslands that fed them. (AP Photo/Arthur Max)AP - Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer.

Hunters may have delivered fatal blow to mammoths (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 09:02 PM PST

In this photo taken Oct. 23, 2010 Russian scientist Sergey Zimov talks about mammoth bones he has collected in this remote area of northeast Siberia. Zimov has stacked the bones on a barge in the river near the Northeast Science Station, which he directs, in the town of Chersky, Russia. Zimov believes mammoths, woolly rhinos and other Ice Age animals became extinct after human hunters killed too many to maintain the delicate balance between the animals and the grasslands that fed them. (AP Photo/Arthur Max)AP - During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago — in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few hundred years — the last of them disappeared.

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