2011年3月27日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News


Anarchists will target royal wedding: police (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PDT

Police officers stand guard outside the Fortnum and Mason department store, during a mass demonstration against government financial cuts, in central London, on March 26. Anarchist militants who clashed with police during Saturday's march against public sector cuts will AFP - Anarchist militants who clashed with police during Saturday's march against public sector cuts will "deliberately target" next month's royal wedding, a senior policeman told Monday's Telegraph.


More to come from Crusaders, says coach Blackadder (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PDT

Crusaders' Sonny Bill Williams (L) prepares to hand the ball off as he gets tackled by Sharks' Ryan Kankowski (R) and Charl McLeod (C) during the Super Rugby match at Twickenham Stadium, southwest of London. Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder warned his Super 15 rivals his side can get even better after their 44-28 defeat of the Sharks here at Twickenham on Sunday.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder warned his Super 15 rivals his side can get even better after their 44-28 defeat of the Sharks here at Twickenham on Sunday.


Sarkozy squeezed by left and right in French polls (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:36 PM PDT

Reuters - The opposition Socialist Party comprehensively won French local elections on Sunday as the far-right National Front surged, between them pressuring President Nicolas Sarkozy a year before he faces the electorate.

Formula One driver Hamilton eyes Malaysia revenge (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PDT

Red Bull-Renault driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany (R) claps as McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton (L) points on the podium after Vettel's victory in Formula One's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Vettel reigned supreme in Sunday's Formula One season opener but beaten rival Hamilton said McLaren would come back hard in the second race in Malaysia.(AFP/Greg Wood)AFP - Sebastian Vettel reigned supreme in Sunday's Formula One season opener in Australia but beaten rival Lewis Hamilton said McLaren would come back hard in the second race in Malaysia.


Scotsman Laird wins PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:27 PM PDT

Martin Laird of Scotland watches his tee shot at the second hole during the final round of the 2011 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard at the Bay Hill Lodge and Country Club in Orlando, Florida. Laird won the PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday despite struggling to a three-over par 75 in the final round, becoming the first European champion in 33 Bay Hill events.(AFP/Getty Images/David Cannon)AFP - Scotsman Martin Laird won the PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday despite struggling to a three-over par 75 in the final round, becoming the first European champion in 33 Bay Hill events.


Sarkozy's party takes drubbing in test elections (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:33 PM PDT

People count ballots at a polling station after the second round of the local elections, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's party has taken a drubbing in local elections that served as a test ahead of the presidential vote next year and saw rival Socialists gaining ground. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's party took a drubbing in Sunday's local elections, seen as a test ahead of next year's presidential vote, and the far-right National Front left its first footprint in France's smallest administrative districts.


Two Reuters journalists missing in Syria (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:18 PM PDT

Pro-Syrian government supporters rally outside the Syrian Embassy in Beirut to show their support for President Bashar al-Assad (posters). Two Reuters journalists reporting on the ongoing protests in Syria have gone missing, the news agency said Sunday.(AFP)AFP - Two Reuters journalists reporting on the ongoing protests in Syria have gone missing, the news agency said Sunday.


Anti-nuke Greens sailing to power in German state (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:16 PM PDT

Top candidate of the Green Party in  Baden-Wuerttemberg, Winfried Kretschmann,  celebrates after the first predictions of the state elections, in Stuttgart southern Germany, Sunday March 27, 2011. An exit poll indicated Sunday that German chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has suffered a defeat in the  state election after almost six decades in power there. The opposition anti-nuclear Greens could win their first-ever governorship, the exit poll for Baden-Wuerttemberg state published by public broadcaster ARD also found.  The poll puts the Greens at 25 percent and the center-left Social Democrats at 23.5 percent, securing them a majority to form a coalition government in the state.  (AP Photo/dapd/Michael Gottschalk)AP - Germany's anti-nuclear Greens on Sunday scored a remarkable victory over chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party in a state election that had turned into a referendum on nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster.


NATO to assume command of Libya air operations (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:45 PM PDT

In this Dec. 7, 2006 photo, Maj. Gen. Charles Bouchard, left, sits in the cockpit of a DA40 Diamond Star as he listens to Lt. Chevon Smith, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Friday, March 25, 2011 that Lt.-Gen. Bouchard has been designated to lead the alliance's military campaign in Libya. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, M.Cpl. France Huard) NO SALESAP - NATO will assume command of all aerial operations in Libya from the U.S.-led force that has been conducting air strikes against Moammar Gadhafi's forces, officials said Sunday.


Squatters threaten view of London's royal wedding (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:41 PM PDT

Tents of anti-war protesters are seen in Parliament Square in central London on March 24. The squatters installed in washed-out tents opposite Westminster Abbey will have the perfect view of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton -- as long as they have not been evicted by then.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - The squatters installed in washed-out tents opposite Westminster Abbey will have the perfect view of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton -- as long as they have not been evicted by then.


Reuters says 2 reporters missing in Syria (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 12:22 PM PDT

AP - International news agency Reuters says two of its journalists have gone missing in Syria.

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Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:16 AM PDT

AP - NATO agrees to take over command of all aerial operations — including air strikes — in Libya.

Pope visits memorial to Nazi victims in Rome (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:49 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his message during his visit to Rome's Ardeatine Graves, Sunday, March 27, 2011, where 335 Italians were slaughtered by occupying Nazis on March 24, 1944. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed at the memorial to victims of a 1944 massacre that was one of the worst atrocities by German occupiers in Italy during World War II and denounced what he called the "abominable" legacy of violence unleashed during war.


Hundreds of Africans reach Italy in boats (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:32 AM PDT

Migrants arrive at a detention center in Manduria, southern Italy, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Hundreds of African migrants are arriving on Italian shores aboard boats from Libya, overwhelming a tiny island already struggling to host thousands who fled Tunisia. Authorities are using Italian naval vessels to ferry illegal migrants who landed on Lampedusa island to detention centers on the mainland. Early Sunday, one boat filled with Etrirean, Ethiopean and Somali migrants was diverted to Linosa, an even tinier island off Sicily because Lampedusa couldn't handle any more. (AP Photo/Lapresse) ITALY OUTAP - Boatloads of illegal African migrants have resumed setting sail from Libya for Italy, authorities said, overwhelming tiny islands and towns in southern Italy already struggling to host thousands fleeing unrest in Tunisia.


Pope urges dialogue in Libya, not 'use of arms' (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:03 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI stands up during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged diplomats to work for immediate dialogue aimed at suspending the use of arms by all sides in Libya.


London's biggest protest since Iraq war in 2003 (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 08:39 PM PDT

Demonstrators protest against the coalition government spending cuts as they march in London, Saturday, March 26, 2011.   Some tens of thousands of mostly peaceful demonstrators streamed into central London on Saturday to march against government budget cuts, with a small breakaway group of demonstrators smashing its way into a bank, breaking windows and spray painting logos on the walls, as police struggle to contain the situation. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - More than 250,000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II — one of the largest demonstrations since the Iraq war — as riot police clashed with a small groups. More than 200 people were arrested.


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