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Yahoo! News: Europe News

UK to hold "thousands" of wedding street parties (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:14 PM PDT

Reuters - Thousands of street parties will be held across Britain to celebrate Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton next month, local government officials said on Saturday, as royal wedding fever grips parts of the country.

SFA back down on Lennon touchline ban (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Celtic boss Neil Lennon, seen here in 2007, will return to the dugout for the visit of St Mirren on April 9 after the Scottish Football Association (SFA) confirmed Friday he will serve his two four-match bans concurrently.(AFP/File/Paco Serinelli)AFP - Celtic boss Neil Lennon will return to the dugout for the visit of St Mirren on April 9 after the Scottish Football Association (SFA) confirmed Friday he will serve his two four-match bans concurrently.

Baa-Baas clash gets full-cap status (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:07 PM PDT

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff is seen here in 2010. The Welsh Rugby Union have announced that Wales' Millennium Stadium clash against the Barbarians on June 4 will be a full-cap international for what will be the WRU's 130th anniversary fixture.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - The Welsh Rugby Union have announced that Wales' Millennium Stadium clash against the Barbarians on June 4 will be a full-cap international for what will be the WRU's 130th anniversary fixture.

Former British soldier: I broke into Auschwitz (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:09 PM PDT

AP - A British prisoner of war described Friday how he struck up a forbidden friendship with a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and then swapped places with him briefly to see first hand how Jewish inmates were starved and tortured inside the notorious Nazi camp.

Libyan government aide holds talks in Britain (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:58 PM PDT

Libyan rebels man a check point at the front line near Brega, Libya, Friday, April 1, 2011. Libya's rebels will agree to a cease-fire if Moammar Gadhafi pulls his military forces out of cities and allows peaceful protests against his regime, an opposition leader said Friday as rebels showed signs that their front-line organization is improving. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)AP - A key Libyan official involved in negotiations on the future of Moammar Gadhafi's regime said Friday that Tripoli was attempting to hold talks with the U.S., Britain and France to find a mutual end to the crisis.

Neymar won't apologise to Scots over 'racism' claim (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:36 PM PDT

Brazilian striker Neymar, seen here on March 27, said on Friday he wouldn't apologise to Scottish fans after claiming he was the victim of racism in last Sunday's friendly international in London.(AFP/File/Ian Kington)AFP - Brazilian striker Neymar said on Friday he wouldn't apologise to Scottish fans after claiming he was the victim of racism in last Sunday's friendly international in London.

Spanish police arrest the fax escape man (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:02 PM PDT

AP - Spanish police say they have arrested a man who twice escaped from custody by having his wife send fake faxes ordering his release.

NIreland man acquitted over 1977 murder of soldier (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 12:53 PM PDT

AP - A Northern Ireland man was acquitted Friday on charges he helped to kidnap, imprison and murder an undercover British soldier who was abducted from a border pub in 1977.

Portugal pays high rates, Fitch slashes ratings (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 12:34 PM PDT

A trader looks at computer screens in Lisbon in March 2011. Debt-burdened Portugal had to pay sharply higher returns Friday to raise fresh funds as Fitch slashed its ratings on concerns upcoming polls will make life even more difficult for the country.(AFP/File/Patricia de Melo Moreira)AFP - Debt-burdened Portugal had to pay sharply higher returns Friday to raise fresh funds as Fitch slashed its ratings on concerns upcoming polls will make life even more difficult for the country.

Germany urges EU export ban of US execution drug (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:35 AM PDT

AP - Germany's human rights commissioner says the country is pushing for the European Union to ban the export of a lethal injection drug used in several U.S. states.

US Air Force attack jet crashes in Germany (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:47 AM PDT

The debris of a crashed US military plane lie in a field near Laufeld, western Germany on Friday, April 1, 2011. A police spokesman said the pilot ejected before the crash. He was injured and hospitalized. The spokesman identified the plane as a Warthog — an A-10 Thunderbolt. (AP Photo/dapd, Harald Tittel)AP - A U.S. Air Force attack jet on a training mission crashed in western Germany on Friday, injuring the pilot as he ejected to safety, authorities said.

Spoofs, lookalikes abound as royal wedding nears (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:35 AM PDT

Lookalikes of Kate Middleton and Britain's Prince William arrive in a carriage for a book signing event at a bookshop, in central London April 1, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthAP - The streets of Piccadilly Circus were crowded as usual Friday when Russian tourist Olga Yershevich did an unexpected doubletake: Right in front of her, in a horse-drawn carriage, were three people who looked very much like Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William, and, in a wedding gown, Kate Middleton.

NATO: Libyan war showcases alliance's abilities (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:35 AM PDT

Adm. James G. Stavridis, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, left, and Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 29, 2011, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the U.S. mission in Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The Libyan operation demonstrates just how capable the Western alliance remains two decades after the end of the Cold War, its top military commander said Friday.

Montenegro, Kosovo census ethnically tense (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:31 AM PDT

A woman with her child walks by billboard reading 'Free Census 2011', in downtown Podgorica, Montenegro, Friday, April 1, 2011. Montenegro and Kosovo were holding their first censuses since gaining independence, rekindling ethnic rivalries that had led to conflicts in the troubled Balkans in the past. In Montenegro, the pre-census atmosphere turned into a race between pro-Serb groups and the Montenegrins who narrowly split the country from Serbia in a referendum in 2006. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)AP - Montenegro and Kosovo are holding their first census since gaining independence, rekindling the bitter ethnic rivalries that tore the Balkan region apart.

World court ends Georgia's case against Russia (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:21 AM PDT

Presiding judge Owada of Japan, center behind microphone, opens the session of International Court of Justice in The Hague, Friday April 1, 2011, as the court rules on Russia's preliminary objections to a case filed by Georgia stemming from the five-day war the two countries fought in 2008 over Georgia's breakaway provinces. Georgia complained to the International Court of Justice at the end of the brief war that Russian authorities and separatist militias murdered thousands of ethnic Georgians and displaced some 300,000 people in a two-decade campaign of discrimination in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - The United Nations' highest court on Friday threw out Georgia's complaint accusing Russia and separatist militias of years of ethnic cleansing in two breakaway Georgian provinces.

Swiss police: 3 German skiers killed by avalanche (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:03 AM PDT

AP - Three German skiers were killed by a massive avalanche in southern Switzerland on Friday, the second deadly incident involving foreign tourists in less than a week.

Strong quake strikes Crete (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:53 AM PDT

AP - A strong earthquake struck the southern Greek island of Crete Friday, rattling buildings as far away as Egypt and Turkey. Local police said they had no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

(AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:50 AM PDT

AP - German police say US military plane crashes, pilot injured

Italian anarchists claim Greek, Swiss mail bombs (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:18 AM PDT

AP - An Italian radical anarchist group has claimed responsibility for three mail bomb attacks on a Greek prison, an office of the Swiss nuclear power industry and an Italian military barracks, authorities said Friday.

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