2011年4月3日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News


British spy files shed light on Nazi saboteurs (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 04:01 PM PDT

AP - The four men wading ashore on a Florida beach wearing nothing but bathing trunks and German army hats looked like an unlikely invading force.

Berlusconi faces trial battles as Ruby case looms (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures during a conference on Reuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's legal marathon resumes this week with a tax fraud hearing on Monday that will be followed two days later by the long-awaited "Rubygate" trial.


German foreign minister quitting as party leader (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 03:21 PM PDT

German Foreign Minister and vice-chancellor Guido Westerwelle addresses a press conference in Berlin. Westerwelle said Sunday he would quit as leader of his ailing Free Democratic Party (FDP) next month but stay on as the country's top diplomat.(AFP/John MacDougall)AFP - Embattled German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Sunday he would quit as leader of his ailing Free Democratic Party (FDP) next month but stay on as the country's top diplomat.


Pianos get a new lease on life in Europe's restorer hub (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 03:01 PM PDT

A worker renovates a piano for the AFP - Top-notch specialists have made Poland's city of Kalisz Europe's hub for piano restorers, with aging instruments being trucked in from far and wide for a new lease of life.


France says locates wreckage from Atlantic crash (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 02:54 PM PDT

Reuters - France has discovered what appears to be part of an Air France aircraft that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago killing all 228 people on board, accident investigators said on Sunday.

Air France plane crash parts found in Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 02:50 PM PDT

AP - Underwater search teams have located pieces of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, French investigators said Sunday, offering a surprising new glimmer of hope in the protracted hunt for clues to what happened.

Gadhafi envoy in Europe to seek end to crisis (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 02:42 PM PDT

A rebel fighter holds a cigarette in his mouth and a rocket propelled grenade launcher in his hands, near to the front line east of Brega, Libya Sunday, April 3, 2011. The Libyan rebel movement that controls the country's eastern half wants to install a parliamentary democracy across the country once they topple the regime of longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi, a top rebel official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - An envoy of Moammar Gadhafi told Greece's prime minister Sunday that the Libyan leader was seeking a way out of his country's crisis two weeks after his government's attacks to put down a rebellion drew international airstrikes, Greek officials said.


Northern Ireland condemns murder of rookie policeman (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:28 PM PDT

Forensic police officers walk from the scene of a bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone on Saturday. Politicians on all sides in Northern Ireland have insisted the killing of a Catholic policeman in the attack will not be allowed to derail the peace process, as the province gears up for elections.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - Northern Ireland politicians expressed outrage Sunday over the murder of a policeman, as they insisted the killing would not derail the peace process.


BP to resume deepwater drilling in Gulf of Mexico: report (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:06 PM PDT

A woman walks along the deserted beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, in 2010. BP will resume deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in July, some 15 months after the British energy giant was thrown into crisis after a fatal oil spill in the region, a newspaper said Sunday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - BP will resume deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in July, some 15 months after the British energy giant was thrown into crisis after a fatal oil spill in the region, a newspaper said Sunday.


Reuters photographer freed in Syria (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:27 AM PDT

AP - The Reuters news agency says Syrian authorities have freed one of its photographers after holding him for six days.

German foreign minister to quit party post (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:44 AM PDT

AP - Germany's foreign minister said Sunday he will not seek another term as leader of the junior party in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition amid calls for his replacement after embarrassing losses in recent state elections.

Osprey, 26, delights birders on return to Scotland (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:28 AM PDT

This video taken from a webcam in Aug. 2010 and released April 3, 2011 by the Scottish Wildlife Trust shows a female osprey named Lady feeding in her nest on the banks of the Loch of the Lowes, a lake in Perthshire, Scotland. Birders are waxing poetic over a female osprey who has lived three times longer than average and has faithfully returned to the same Scottish loch for over two decades. Over 130,000 people watched the imposing bird of prey on a webcam the day after she returned to the banks of the Loch of the Lowes, last week. Lady had completed an annual 3,000-mile (5,000-kilometer) migration from west Africa to the banks of the same Scottish lake for the 21st consecutive year.  (AP Photo/Scottish Wildlife Trust, ho) NO SALESAP - Birders are waxing poetic over a female osprey named Lady — she's lived three times longer than average and has faithfully returned to the same Scottish loch for over two decades.


Far-right in Hungary renews anti-Gypsy campaign (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:01 AM PDT

AP - Hungary's far-right Jobbik party is losing support. To fight the trend, it is doing what far-right parties often do in Europe: pick on the Gypsies.

Restored Renaissance synagogue to reopen in Poland (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 04:52 AM PDT

In this Thursday, March 31, 2011, photo people walk past the newly restored synagogue in Zamosc, Poland. The building is one of the most important synagogues to survive the destruction of World War II, a Renaissance gem that was looted by the Nazis and faced decades of neglect after the war, but now it has been restored and will serve as a cultural center for the town of about 65,000 in eastern Poland. It will be reintroduced to the public in an inauguration ceremony on Tuesday April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)AP - Seventy-two years after the Nazis arrived, the Polish town of Zamosc is getting its synagogue back.


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