2010年12月31日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Fireworks fill the sky as Britain welcomes in 2011 (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:28 PM PST

Fireworks are seen over the London Eye to mark the celebration of New Year's Day in London. Britain celebrated the arrival of 2011 with a blaze of fireworks lighting up the skies over both London and Edinburgh as thousands partied in the streets.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Britain celebrated the New Year with a blaze of fireworks lighting up the skies over London and Edinburgh as thousands partied in the streets to welcome in 2011.

Celtic-Rangers to go head to head in derby (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:13 PM PST

Glasgow Ranger's coach Walter Smith. Only a point separates Rangers from Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premier League as the two sides prepare to clash in the second Old Firm derby of the season on Sunday.(AFP/File/Jose Jordan)AFP - Only a point separates Rangers from Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premier League as the two sides prepare to clash in the second Old Firm derby of the season on Sunday.

Baltic state of Estonia adopts the euro (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:11 PM PST

People pass by a poster saying 'Euro is our money' in Tallinn, Estonia, on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. Despite a hellish year for the euro, the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia will be joining the single currency club as the champagne corks pop at midnight on New Year's Eve. Estonia will become the eurozone's 17th member and instantly claim the mantle of the poorest as well as one of the smallest representing just over one-tenth of a percent of the bloc's $12.5 trillion economy. (AP Photo/Timur Nisametdinov, NIPA)AP - The Baltic state of Estonia early Saturday became the 17th European Union member to adopt the joint European currency, the euro.

Hungary, under fire over media law, takes over EU presidency (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:38 PM PST

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives a press conference on November 2010 following their meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. Hungary took the helm of the European Union on Saturday even as a new law which sparked concern about media freedom in the country came into force in the teeth of fierce opposition.(AFP/File/Thierry Charlier)AFP - Hungary took the helm of the European Union on Saturday even as a new law which sparked concern about media freedom in the country came into force in the teeth of fierce opposition.

Report delivered on NewsCorp's BSkyB takeover bid (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:05 PM PST

Britain's telecommunications regulator delivered to the government Friday its report into News Corporation's takeover bid for pay television giant BSkyB.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain's Telecommunications regulator delivered to the government Friday its report into News Corporation's takeover bid for pay television giant BSkyB.

(AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:02 PM PST

AP - The Baltic state of Estonia has become the 17th European Union member to adopt the euro.

Sarkozy says euro's demise would be end of Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:20 PM PST

Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday he would fight to shield the euro as the currency's members struggle with a debt crisis and vowed to fulfill France's commitments to improve its own finances.

Russian police detain 130 in anti-government protests (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:05 PM PST

Reuters - Police detained at least 130 protesters at New Year's Eve rallies in Moscow and St Petersburg on Friday against restrictions on freedom of assembly and a court decision to keep former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in jail.

Abbas urges U.S., Europe and U.N. to draft new peace plan (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 11:39 AM PST

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah December 13, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanReuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Middle East power brokers on Friday to draft a new peace plan for the region that could help revive failed U.S.-backed negotiations with Israel.

Belarus orders closure of OSCE office in Minsk (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 11:23 AM PST

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko gives a press conference in Minsk on December 20. Belarus on Friday ordered the closure of the office of the OSCE in Minsk, in an apparent response to the transatlantic security group's stinging criticism of its presidential polls.(AFP/File/Sergei Supinsky)AFP - Belarus on Friday ordered the closure of the office of the OSCE in Minsk, in an apparent response to the transatlantic security group's stinging criticism of its presidential polls.

Belarusian KGB raids journalists' homes, offices (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:37 AM PST

AP - The Belarusian KGB has been searching the homes and offices of independent journalists following an election that handed the authoritarian president a fourth term, journalists and a media watchdog group said.

Moscow police detain 68 anti-Kremlin protesters (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:31 AM PST

Riot police officers detain a protester during a rally in central Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. The Russian opposition protests on the 31st of each month are a nod to the 31st article of the Russian constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Moscow police detained 68 people during anti-Kremlin protests that drew hundreds of people on New Year's Eve. Police said about 50 were detained at a similar protest in St. Petersburg.

Iraqi suspect says unaware of Danish terror plot (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:18 AM PST

Danish police officers stand guard as one of four suspect arrested on suspicion of planning a shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad arrives at a court in Glostup, south of Copenhagen, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The Wednesday arrests rattled Danes and brought renewed attention to simmering anger at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which has been the target of several attacks and threats since publishing cartoons of Muhammad in 2005, in what it called a challenge to perceived self-censorship. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Peter Hove Olesen) DENMARK OUTAP - An Iraqi immigrant accused of helping plot an attack against a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad said in an interview published Friday that he was an innocent man arrested while providing three other suspects with an apartment.

UK changes policy to boost organ donor numbers (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:10 AM PST

AP - Drivers applying for new licenses in Britain will have to choose whether or not to become organ donors under a program announced Friday aimed at increasing the number of people registered.

Khodorkovsky's lawyer appeals his new sentence (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:45 AM PST

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, reacts after being sentenced as he seen from behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to six more years in prison Thursday following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Vladimir Putin's power. Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to fourteen years after convicting him of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds, but the judge said the new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. Khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - A lawyer for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Friday appealed his sentence of six more years in prison, a punishment seen as payback for challenging Vladimir Putin's power and which was widely condemned in the West.

Russian spy Anna Chapman gets lion cub (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:15 AM PST

AP - Russian spy Anna Chapman has revealed some secrets in her first TV interview: She has a passion for shooting and wants a lion cub as a pet — though she remained coy on the job that made her an international tabloid star.

UK would back troop deployment to Ivory Coast (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:22 AM PST

AP - Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague says the U.K. would support a United Nations-sanctioned military intervention by Ivory Coast's neighbors if negotiations fail to persuade president Laurent Gbagbo to hand over power.

Bomb explodes outside closed night club in Greece (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:50 PM PST

AP - Police in Greece say a powerful bomb has exploded outside a closed night club in Athens, causing no injuries, in an attack linked with criminal extortion groups.

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