2010年12月6日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

WikiLeaks founder to meet British police (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:54 PM PST

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks at the United Nations Office in Geneva in early November. Assange is arranging to meet with British police, his lawyer has said, as the net tightened around the man behind the release of a hoard of secret US diplomatic cables.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is arranging to meet with British police, his lawyer has said, as the net tightened around the man behind the release of a hoard of secret US diplomatic cables.

England win second Ashes Test (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:06 PM PST

England fieldsman James Anderson celebrates taking a catch to dismiss Australian batsman Michael Hussey at the second Ashes cricket Test match in Adelaide on December 7, 2010. England crushed Australia by an innings and 71 runs to win the second Test and go one-up in the Ashes series at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.(AFP/William West)AFP - England crushed Australia by an innings and 71 runs to win the second Test and go one-up in the Ashes series at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.

England grab wickets in push for Ashes victory (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:44 PM PST

England fans celebrate behind England fieldsman James Anderson after taking a catch to dismiss Australian batsman Michael Hussey on the final day of the second Ashes cricket Test match in Adelaide. England were surging to victory over Australia early on the final day with three wickets in the second Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.(AFP/William West)AFP - England were surging to victory over Australia early on the final day with three wickets in the second Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.

Russia expecting EU approval on WTO bid (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:43 PM PST

Reuters - Russia is widely expected to secure European Union approval to join the World Trade Organization at a summit on Tuesday, taking Moscow closer to completing membership negotiations after 17 years.

England paceman Broad out of Ashes series (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST

England fast bowler Stuart Broad, pictured in August 2010, has been ruled out of the rest of the Ashes Test series and the one-day internationals against Australia with a stomach injury, team officials said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - England fast bowler Stuart Broad has been ruled out of the rest of the Ashes Test series and the one-day internationals against Australia with a stomach injury, team officials said on Tuesday.

Eyes on markets as EU makes no new move on debt crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:53 PM PST

A large euro sign installation is seen in front of the European Central bank in Frankfurt, November 4, 2010. REUTERS/Kai PfaffenbachReuters - European Union finance ministers meet on Tuesday to discuss the EU economy with markets expected to react nervously to Monday's decision by euro zone ministers to take no new steps to quell the debt crisis.

Europe draws line at calls to boost bailout fund (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:25 PM PST

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) and Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou talk prior to an Eurogroupe council at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Finance ministers refused Monday to be bounced into boosting bailout funding, following fierce resistance from some of the eurozone's best-performing economies.(AFP/Georges Gobet)AFP - Finance ministers refused Monday to be bounced into boosting bailout funding, following fierce resistance from some of the eurozone's best-performing economies.

Scottish artist's sound installation wins Turner Prize (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:24 PM PST

Artist Susan Philipsz on Monday won Britain's Turner Prize for her sound installation featuring a 16th century Scottish lament by a sailor lost at sea.(AFP/File)AFP - Artist Susan Philipsz on Monday won the Turner Prize for her sound installation featuring a 16th century Scottish lament by a sailor lost at sea.

Eurozone says bailout funds enough, for now (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:07 PM PST

European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet, during a round table meeting of the eurogroup at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. European nations were under pressure to commit more money to help stabilize the euro, as finance ministers gathered in Brussels to find ways to fight the debt crisis that has rocked the currency bloc. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - Top European officials insisted Monday that they have enough financial firepower right now to deal with Europe's government debt crisis — but did not rule out increasing Europe's bailout fund in the future.

Polish parliament gets its 1st African lawmaker (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:55 PM PST

File - John Abraham Godson, left, a local Polish council member originally from Nigeria, is seen alongside lawmaker Hanna Zdanowska, right, in Lodz, Poland, in this Nov. 21, 2010 file photo. Poland's parliament is getting its first ever African lawmaker, a teacher and Christian pastor from Nigeria who has lived in Poland for 17 years and proven himself a popular local leader. Godson is a councilman in the central city of Lodz. The 40-year-old will fill a seat in the national parliament vacated by a fellow lawmaker from the Civic Platform party. That lawmaker, Hanna Zdanowska, was elected mayor of Lodz on Sunday. Godson was her runner-up in the 2007 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo / file) Poland OutAP - Poland's parliament is getting its first ever African lawmaker, a teacher and Christian pastor from Nigeria who has lived in Poland for 17 years and proven himself a popular local leader.

Iran talks recess with no signs of progress (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:25 PM PST

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, greets Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief negotiator in the foyer of the conference center near the Swiss mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. The delegations of Iran, the European Union, the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Germany are meeting in Geneva for nuclear talks with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief negotiator. (AP Photo/ Anja Niedringhaus, Pool)AP - Talks between Iran and six world powers recessed Monday with no sign that Tehran was ready to discuss U.N. Security Council calls to curb its nuclear activities that could be harnessed to make weapons, an official at the negotiations said.

Italian boat finds remains of US balloonists (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:01 PM PST

The remains of the balloon and its gondola used by Richard Abruzzo, 47, of Albuquerque, and Carol Rymer Davis, 65, of Denver, to participate in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race, are seen in Vieste, southern Italy, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, after they were found by an Italian fishing boat. The boat hauled in the balloon gondola with the bodies of the Americans still inside while fishing 11 miles (17 kilometers) north of Vieste in southern Puglia before dawn. The two men had taken off with some 20 other balloons from the English coastal city of Bristol on Sept. 25, and lost contact Sept. 29, 2010 as they flew over the Adriatic. (AP Photo/Donato Fasano)AP - The bodies of two American balloonists and their gondola were discovered in the net of an Italian fishing boat on Monday, two months after the champions disappeared while competing in a race over the Adriatic Sea during a fierce storm.

Riots return to Greece, 2 years after teen's death (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 11:26 AM PST

A pedestrian, seriously injured by a flying rock, lies on a street as riot police pass by during a protest to mark two years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy that sparked Greece's worst riots in decades, in central Athens on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Police closed roads and deployed several thousand officers around the city, amid event to commemorate the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. (AP Photo)AP - Protesting youths rioted in central Athens for more than six hours Monday, attacking police with rocks, flares and petrol bombs, after a student rally marking two years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy.

Norway convicts man of breaking Somalia embargo (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:08 AM PST

AP - A court convicted a Somali-born Norwegian on Monday of breaking a U.N. arms embargo of Somalia, but found him not guilty of funding terrorism.

Swiss cut off bank account for WikiLeaks' Assange (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 08:44 AM PST

WikiLeaks web page featuring its founder Julian Assange. A Swedish prosecutor handling rape allegations against Assange has dismissed suggestions from one of his lawyers that the case might be politically motivated.(AFP/File/Thomas Coex)AP - The Swiss postal system stripped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool Monday, accusing him of lying and immediately shutting down one of his bank accounts.

International court investigating North Korea (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 08:35 AM PST

South Korean Marines patrol on the Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. South Korean troops pushed ahead with naval firing drills Monday, a day after North Korea warned such exercises would aggravate already high tensions between the rivals following the North's deadly shelling last month of the front-line South Korean island. (AP Photo/Newsis) KOREA OUTAP - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he has opened an preliminary investigation into possible war crimes by North Korea resulting from its recent clashes with South Korea.

(AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:46 AM PST

AP - International criminal court says it is investigating possible war crimes by North Korea.

Portugal examines reports of falling metal debris (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:26 AM PST

AP - Portuguese investigators said Monday they were looking into reports that small pieces of metal fell from a plane shortly after it took off from Lisbon airport.

Plane evacuated at German airport in bomb scare (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 06:48 AM PST

AP - An Aeroflot flight was evacuated at a Berlin airport on Monday after an unidentified person claimed there was a bomb on board, but the incident turned out to be a hoax, federal police said.

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