2010年12月11日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Vatican Bank mired in laundering scandal (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 05:32 PM PST

FILE - This Dec. 1981 file picture shows Italian financier Roberto Calvi. A financial advisor to the Vatican, Calvi headed the Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's largest fraud cases following the disappearance of $1.3 billion in loans the bank had made to dummy companies in Latin America. The Vatican had provided letters of credit for the loan. After the collapse in 1982, Calvi suddenly disappeared from Italy. He was found a short time later hanging from scaffolding on Blackfriar's Bridge, his suit pockets loaded with 11 pounds of bricks and $11,700 in various currencies stuffed in his pocket. London investigators first ruled that Calvi committed suicide, but his family pressed for further investigation. Eventually murder charged were filed against five people, including a major Mafia figure, but they were all acquitted after a trial in 2007. While denying any wrongdoing, the Vatican bank agreed to pay $250 million to Ambrosiano's creditors. (AP Photo)AP - This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall.

Two blasts hit Stockholm, linked to Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 04:18 PM PST

Reuters - Two blasts rocked the center of Stockholm on Saturday in a possible attack inspired by Sweden's presence in Afghanistan, killing the bomber and wounding two other people, police and media said.

Moscow police, mourners clash; 3 reported injured (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 03:29 PM PST

Portrait of Spartak Moscow fan Yegor Sviridov is seen during a rally in Moscow on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Sviridov was killed on Dec. 6, 2010 in an attack on soccer supporters. Police have detained a man from Russia's North Caucasus. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Police clashed with thousands of soccer fans and nationalists who gathered near the Kremlin on Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of a man on the streets of Moscow. At least three people were reported injured and 65 detained.

Knox makes emotional address in Italy appeal (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 03:27 PM PST

Amanda Knox sits at the beginning of a hearing in her appeals trial, at Perugia's courthouse, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. The 23-year-old American student was convicted of murder and sexual assault in the 2007 death of her flatmate, British student Meredith Kercher, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Convicted murderer Amanda Knox broke into tears Saturday as she made an emotional address to an appeals court in Italy, saying she was the innocent victim of an "enormous mistake" and that her life had been "broken" by three years in jail.

Explosions kill 1, injure 2 in central Stockholm (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 03:19 PM PST

Police forensics expert at the scene of an explosion in Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Two explosions in central Stockholm killed one person and injured two on Saturday, causing panic among Christmas shoppers. Police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander said a car exploded near Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street in the center of the city. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson) SWEDEN OUTAP - A car explosion and what appeared to be a suicide attack injured two people, killed the apparent bomber, and caused panic among Christmas shoppers in Stockholm Saturday.

U.S. intel hub to counter Islamism in Spain: cable (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 02:13 PM PST

Reuters - The U.S. Embassy in Madrid proposed setting up an intelligence hub in the northeastern region of Catalonia to counter a "major center of radical Islamist activity," according to a U.S. cable obtained by WikiLeaks and published Saturday by the newspaper El Pais.

Ex-Croatian PM held in Austria pending extradition (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 12:58 PM PST

AP - Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was questioned by a judge Saturday and then ordered held during extradition proceedings linked to charges in his homeland of corruption while in office.

EU leaders to agree on law change for euro stability (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 11:11 AM PST

Reuters - European Union leaders will agree next week to insert two sentences into the EU treaty to pave the way for the creation of the European Stability Mechanism from 2013, draft conclusions of the summit showed.

German robber couple killed in shootout (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 10:54 AM PST

AP - Authorities in southwestern Germany say they believe a man and a woman who were killed in a shootout with police after robbing a bank in Karlsruhe were a notorious couple known as the "Gentlemen Thieves."

Cables show Ireland irked Vatican on sovereignty (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 10:42 AM PST

CHANGES RELEASE SATURDAY TO PUBLISHED SATURDAY FILE - An aerial view of the Vatican with St. Peter's Basilica is seen in this 2003 file photo made available Friday Feb. 4, 2005. Newly released, confidential U.S. diplomatic cables published Saturday Dec. 11, 2010 indicate that Ireland caved in to Vatican pressure to grant immunity to church officials in the investigation of decades of sex abuse by Irish clergy. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri - File)AP - Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican felt "offended" that Ireland failed to respect Holy See "sovereignty" by asking high-ranking churchmen to answer questions from an Irish commission probing decades of sex abuse of minors by clergy.

Huge crowd rallies in Rome against Berlusconi (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 10:00 AM PST

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi shakes hands with supporters as he walks in downtown Milan, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. The 74-year-old leader faces a no-confidence vote next week that will determine the fate of his government. Just weeks ago, it appeared Berlusconi had little chance of winning after his biggest ally withdrew his backing, effectively depriving him of the votes he would need to survive Tuesday's challenge. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP - Tens of thousands of Italians opposed to Premier Silvio Berlusconi marched through Rome on Saturday, before a make-or-break vote in Parliament, to press their demand that the media mogul leave power.

WikiLeaks: US concern about terrorism in Spain (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 09:20 AM PST

AP - The U.S. grew so concerned about the possibility of an Islamist terrorist attack in Spain in 2007 that it proposed setting up a counterterrorism center in the country's second-largest city, according to confidential cables.

Tale of two sisters points to changing Gypsy world (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 09:26 PM PST

In this Nov. 25, 2010 picture. Narcisa Tranca, 22, holds one of her children in Udupu, Romania. Among Gypsies, or Roma, marrying young is a tradition born of the need to survive in an environment where young women were fair game for non-Roma men. Romanian Roma, in particular, turned to early marriage during 500 years of slavery that ended only in the 19th century. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - Halfway through another 12-hour day, Narcisa Tranca scrubs the floor, one eye on her infant son and her thoughts on the tasks ahead — cleaning, cooking, feeding the pigs and chickens.

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