2011年1月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Summary Box: France's Sarkozy lays out G-20 aims (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reacts during his press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday Jan.24, 2011. Sarkozy says he will use France's presidency of the Group of 20 this year to try to tame volatility in global currency and commodity markets. Sarkozy said at a news conference Monday that he's asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel to co-preside a working group on reform of the international monetary system. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)AP - THE NEWS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy laid out his 2011 agenda Monday as France takes up the presidency of the Group of 20. In a wide-ranging press conference, Sarkozy spoke of terrorism, governmental upheaval in Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Tunisia, and other topics.

Guinness Records drops elephant polo statistics (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:50 PM PST

Guinness World Records said Monday it had decided to remove all references to elephant polo, following complaints from animal-rights campaigners.(AFP/File)AFP - Guinness World Records said Monday it had decided to remove all references to elephant polo, following complaints from animal-rights campaigners.

Bombing at Moscow airport called terrorist attack (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST

Firefighters and rescuers gather outside Moscow's Domodedovo international airport. A suicide bomber killed at least 35 and wounded dozens Monday when he blew himself up in the packed arrivals hall of Moscow's largest airport in an attack slammed by the Kremlin as an act of terror.(AFP/Andrey Smirnov)AP - Terrorists struck again in the heart of Russia, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up Monday in Moscow's busiest airport and turning its international arrivals terminal into a smoky, blood-spattered hall of dismembered bodies, screaming survivors and abandoned suitcases. At least 35 people were killed, including two British travelers.

Ireland gears up for February poll after parties strike deal (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen announces that he is resigning as leader of the Fianna Fail party but will stay on as Prime Minister during a press conference in Dubin on January 22. Ireland's crumbling government has held crisis talks with opposition parties over their demands to bring elections forward to February and fast-track a finance bill to secure an EU-IMF bailout.(AFP/File)AFP - Ireland looked set to go to the polls in late February after its crisis-hit government Monday struck a deal with the opposition to fast-track legislation needed to secure an EU-IMF bailout.

Spain to allow partial takeover of troubled lenders (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:54 PM PST

Spain will require all its banks to increase their core capital ratio to 8.0 percent to give them a bigger cushion against economic difficulties and boost confidence in the nation's financial system, Economy Minister Elena Salgado, pictured on January 18, said Monday.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP - Spain will change regulations to allow the partial takeover of its weakest lenders and require all banks to bolster the amount of capital they hold to shore up confidence in its financial system, Economy Minister Elena Salgado said Monday.

Sky Sports pundits red carded in sexism row (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:53 PM PST

Assistant referee Sian Massey (L) looks on during Saturday's match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool. A pair of television football pundits caught up in a sexism row have been dropped from covering Monday's Premier League game between Bolton and Chelsea.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - A pair of television football pundits caught up in a sexism row have been dropped from covering Monday's Premier League game between Bolton and Chelsea.

Facebook agrees German privacy-protection deal: official (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:43 PM PST

Under pressure from German privacy watchdogs, Facebook has agreed to beef up privacy protections in its Friend Finder feature, the data protection supervisor in Hamburg said Monday.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - Under pressure from German privacy watchdogs, Facebook has agreed to beef up privacy protections in its Friend Finder feature, the data protection supervisor in Hamburg said Monday.

Chelsea destroy Bolton in rare away win (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:15 PM PST

Chelsea's Florent Malouda (C) celebrates scoring against Bolton Wanderers during English Premier League football match at The Reebok Stadium in Bolton. Chelsea won 4-0.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka and Ramires were all on target as Chelsea ended their miserable run of away form with a 4-0 victory at Bolton here on Monday to keep alive their dim hopes of the Premier League title.

UN chief criticized as soft on human rights (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:14 PM PST

Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth talks during a media conference at the Residence Palace in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. Human Rights Watch released its annual review of human rights situations around the world, this year focusing on what it calls the silence and complicity of the U.S., U.N., EU and major European nations in dealing with rights-abusing developing nations. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - Human Rights Watch singled out U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for especially harsh criticism Monday as it took world leaders to task for what it called their failure to be tougher on rights offenders.

Subtlety in the spotlight at Dior in Paris (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:08 PM PST

A model wears a creation by British fashion designer John Galliano for Dior's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2011 fashion collection presented in Paris, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - Paris' rarified haute couture collections are a chance for fashion houses to pull out all the stops and showcase the savoir faire of the traditional craftspeople, from embroiders to seamstresses, who handcraft the wildly expensive made-to-measure garments.

AP Interview: IAEA head seeks openness from Iran (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:58 PM PST

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. The chief U.N. inspector says he cannot be sure that Iran is not secretly working on nuclear arms.(AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday his organization cannot be sure that Iran is not secretly working on nuclear arms, in comments reflecting disappointment with the collapse of talks between Tehran and six world powers.

Irish lawmakers agree deal for February election (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:11 PM PST

Green Party leader John Gormley speaks to the media after his party announced its withdrawal from Ireland's coalition government in Dublin , Ireland, Sunday Jan, 23,2011. The party's withdrawal from the Irish government, raises pressure for Prime Minister Brian Cowen to resign from office and for Ireland to hold a national election sooner than March 11 as planned. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Ireland's government and opposition chiefs reached an agreement Monday that will allow lawmakers to rush a critical tax-raising bill through parliament so that Ireland's government can be dissolved next week for a national election in late February.

At Davos, a litany of problems raise their head (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 12:19 PM PST

A worker makes the last preparations on the stage inside the Congress Center in the new Congress Hall room two days before the opening of the 41st Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)AP - The annual World Economic Forum opens this week under a cloud of economic worries, concern over China's growing influence in politics and business, and simmering anxieties over Europe's debt crisis.

A timeline of major terror attacks in Russia (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 11:57 AM PST

AP - Major terror attacks in Russia over the past 15 years:

Turkey president lays into Israel flotilla inquiry (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:44 AM PST

FILE - This file image made from video provided by the Israeli Defence Force on Monday, May 31, 2010 shows what the IDF says is one of several commandos being dropped onto the Mavi Marmara ship by helicopter in the Mediterranean Sea. An Israeli inquiry commission is defending the actions of its troops during last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla sailing from Turkey. The nearly 300-page reported released Sunday Jan. 23, 2011 by the government-appointed commission says the actions of the soldiers 'were found to be legal pursuant to the rules of international law.' (AP Photo/Israel Defence Force, File) AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE VIDEO PROVIDED BY THE ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCEAP - Turkey's president on Monday lambasted an Israeli inquiry that cleared its military and government of any wrongdoing in a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound international flotilla as having "no value or credibility."

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:19 AM PST

AP - Russian investigators say suicide bomber most likely carried out attack on Moscow airport.

Italy's top bishop slams Berlusconi for scandal (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:48 AM PST

The head of the influential Catholic Church in Italy has added his voice to business leaders who warn the country may pay the price for a raging sex scandal surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, pictured on January 20.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)AP - Italy's top bishop has issued scathing criticism of Premier Silvio Berlusconi over his sex scandal by insisting that public officials must control themselves and warning of the damage being done to Italians and their reputation.

London-bound flight diverted after threat (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:47 AM PST

AP - British authorities say a Heathrow Airport-bound flight from Abu Dhabi was diverted and given a fighter escort after a passenger began making threats.

German doctors: No sodium thiopental to US (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:40 AM PST

AP - Germany's leading medical association called Monday on the nation's pharmaceutical companies to refrain from selling a drug used in lethal injections to the United States.

Rights group says democracies ignore abuses (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:03 AM PST

Uzbekistan President Islom Karimov, left, looks at European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, as he is welcomed at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Democracies around the world are ignoring abuses by repressive regimes and opting for improved relations rather than condemning rights violations and curtailing aid, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

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