2011年2月27日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Donald downs Kaymer for PGA Match Play title (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 05:28 PM PST

Luke Donald of England watches his approach shot on the second hole during the final round of the Accenture Match Play Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Marana, Arizona. Donald defeated German Martin Kaymer 3 and 2 on Sunday to win the event.(AFP/Getty Images/Andy Lyons)AFP - Englishman Luke Donald, the best player all week at the $8.5 million Accenture Match Play Championship, claimed the title with a 3 and 2 victory over Germany's Martin Kaymer.

Britain freezes UK assets of Gadhafi and family (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST

AP - Britain on Sunday froze the U.K.-based assets of Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, members of his family and their representatives in accordance with U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya.

Talks to form new Irish government to start on Monday (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:01 PM PST

Enda Kenny, leader of Ireland's Fine Gael party, speaks to supporters at the Burlington Hotel in central Dublin. Kenny is poised to take power with a promise to move quickly on amending an unpopular international bailout after his party won historic elections.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Irish prime minister in waiting Enda Kenny will make the first moves to form a new government on Monday after his Fine Gael party emerged as the biggest party in historic elections.

Luxury dazzles, China beckons at the Geneva motor show (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 03:29 PM PST

An overall view shows visitors walking around the 80th Geneva International Motor Show at Palexpo in Geneva in 2010. Major car makers were set to dazzle visitors to the Geneva motor show over the coming week with a touch of luxury, but China and emerging markets will be firmly in mind at the European showcase.(AFP/DDP/File/Sascha Schuermann)AFP - Major car makers were set to dazzle visitors to the Geneva motor show over the coming week with a touch of luxury, but China and emerging markets will be firmly in mind at the European showcase.

Mired in scandal, Berlusconi faces tax fraud trial (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 03:22 PM PST

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi looks on as he attends an extraordinary meeting for the Libyan crisis in Rome February 22, 2011. REUTERS/Max RossiReuters - A trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on tax fraud charges resumes Monday, the first of a series of showdowns between the scandal-hit leader and Italy's judiciary that will take center stage over coming months.

Donald beats Kaymer to win WGC Match Play (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 03:17 PM PST

Luke Donald of England watches his approach shot on the second hole during the final round of the Accenture Match Play Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Marana, Arizona. Donald defeated German Martin Kaymer 3 and 2 on Sunday to win the World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play Championship.(AFP/Getty Images/Andy Lyons)AFP - England's Luke Donald defeated German Martin Kaymer 3 and 2 on Sunday to win the World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play Championship.

New Irish leader Enda Kenny often underestimated (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 02:21 PM PST

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, center, reacts in the ballot counting center at the Royal Castlebar theatre center, Castlebar, Ireland, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Ireland's ruling Fianna Fail party faced its worst defeat in nearly 80 years, an exit poll predicted Saturday, as a tidal wave of voter anger swept the Fine Gael opposition into power and crushed the party that dragged Ireland to the edge of bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Opposition leader Enda Kenny has already shattered Ireland's 80-year-old political monopoly. Now he faces an even more challenging assignment — rebuilding Ireland's economy, nearly brought to its knees by reckless property speculation and bank lending.

UK, Germany fly secret evac missions into Libya (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 02:12 PM PST

Evacuees stand on the deck of the 'SNAV Toscana' as it arrives at the harbor in Valletta, Malta, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. The ship evacuated 1749 citizens of different nationalities from Libya. The sheer numbers of foreigners leaving Libya as Moammar Gadhafi's regime attacks anti-government protesters has been staggering. As of Saturday, at least 16,000 Chinese, 15,000 Turks and 1,400 Italians had been evacuated, most working in the construction and oil industries. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - British and German military planes swooped into Libya's desert, rescuing hundreds of oil workers and civilians stranded at remote sites, as thousands of other foreigners are still stuck in Tripoli by bad weather and red tape.

Sarkozy shakes up French Cabinet to boost ratings (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 01:59 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 file photo French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures as he delivers his speech during the opening of the G20 Finance summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris. France and Germany threatened Libya's regime with EU sanctions over its fierce crackdown on protesters, while the European Union on Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011 urged an independent probe into the violence and said it 'may amount to crimes against humanity.' The continuing brutal and bloody repression against the Libyan civilian population is revolting,' French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, raising the possibility of cutting all economic and business ties between the EU and Libya. 'The international community cannot remain a spectator to these massive violations of human rights.' (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy shuffled his Cabinet's top diplomatic and security posts on Sunday, jettisoning his foreign minister who has been roundly criticized for her ties to Tunisia's ousted regime.

Report: Lockerbie bomber 'blackmailed' Gadhafi (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 01:38 PM PST

A pro-Gadhafi supporter holds a photograph of the Libyan Leader with his teeth as he and others rally on a highway in Surman, west of Zawiya, 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Tripoli, in Libya Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. Hundreds of armed anti-government forces backed by military defectors in Zawiya, the city closest to the capital Tripoli, prepared Sunday to repel an expected offensive by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi who are surrounding the city. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing had blackmailed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi into securing his release by threatening to expose his role in the attack, the former Libyan justice minister was quoted as saying Sunday.

Milan fashion both retro and futuristic (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:24 PM PST

This creation was part of the Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 2011 collection presented in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)AP - As Milan's fashion week wound up, some themes for next winter have become apparent.

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Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:08 PM PST

AP - Britain says its military has evacuated another 150 civilians from Libyan desert.

Italy suspends treaty with Libya (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 09:11 AM PST

An unidentified evacuee from Libya gestures as he disembarks with other evacuees from the Italian Navy Ship 'San Giorgio' at Catania harbour, Sicily, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. According to reports, the 'San Giorgio' evacuated 258 people of different nationalities from the Libyan port of Misurata, east of Tripoli. The sheer numbers of foreigners leaving Libya as Moammar Gadhafi's regime attacks anti-government protesters has been staggering. As of Saturday, at least 16,000 Chinese, 15,000 Turks and 1,400 Italians had been evacuated, most working in the construction and oil industries. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)AP - Italy has effectively suspended a treaty with Libya that includes a nonaggression clause, amid turmoil in the North African nation, the foreign minister said Sunday.

Libya case a new challenge for International Court (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:59 AM PST

British Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Lyall Grant and American Ambassador Susan Rice vote during a Security Council vote on the peace and security in Africa, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 at U. N. headquarters. The U.N. Security Council met urgently Saturday to consider new sanctions against Libya to halt a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but members disagreed over a proposal to refer Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and top aides to an international war crimes tribunal. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - In its nine years of existence, the International Criminal Court has yet to prove itself. Now it has been handed another tough assignment — meting out justice for possible crimes against humanity in Libya.

Gadhafi's Ukrainian nurse returns home (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:06 AM PST

In this undated photo from the Kolotnytska family archive, Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, centre, stands with his nurse Halyna Kolotnytska, centre right, and officials. Halyna Kolotnytska, 38, is joining senior government officials, diplomats and pilots who have deserted Gadhafi after he violently suppressed anti-government protests, according a local newspaper report. Kolotnytska moved to Libya 9 years ago. She first worked at a hospital and then was hired by Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Halyna Kolotnytska's family archive, HO)AP - Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on Sunday was ditched by yet another close confidant — the Ukrainian nurse thought to have a close relationship with the leader.

Turkey: Former pro-Islamic prime minister dies (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 05:41 AM PST

FILE - In this April 10, 2009 file photo, Necmettin Erbakan, a former prime minister who led Turkey's first Islamist government between 1996 and 1997, speaks during a news conference in Ankara, Turkey. Erbakan, who was pressured by the military to step down, has died in Ankara, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 at 85. Erbakan was currently the leader of his last pro-Islamic Felicity Party. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)AP - Necmettin Erbakan, a longtime leader of Turkey's Islamic political movement and briefly the country's prime minister in the first Islamic-led coalition in Turkey's modern history — died on Sunday. He was 85.

Scandinavia: a 'culinary disaster zone' no more (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 02:37 AM PST

AP - The year was 1986. The setting, one of Stockholm's most exclusive restaurants. Thomas Harmgardt, a newly arrived German chef, strapped on his apron and got to work.

Thousands of war vets rally in Croatian capital (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 08:52 PM PST

AP - Croatian police clashed with some of the 15,000 anti-government protesters who rallied in the capital Saturday, and state television reported that officers used tear gas to disperse the group. At least 25 people were injured.

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