2011年5月5日星期四

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Braga set up all-Portuguese Europa final with Porto (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:59 PM PDT

Braga's defender Silvio (L) vies with Benfica's forward Nicolas Gaitan (R) during their UEFA Europa League football match at Braga Stadium in Braga. SC Braga beat rivals Benfica 1-0.(AFP/Francisco Leong)AFP - Unheralded Sporting Braga edged domestic rivals Benfica 1-0 in a nerve-jangling semi-final second leg on Thursday to set up an all-Portuguese Europa League final with league champions FC Porto.

Work, shopping: Royal newlyweds slip into routine (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:45 PM PDT

Britain's Prince William kisses his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, on the balcony of Buckhingham Palace, after their wedding service.(AFP/Leon Neal)AP - Prince William and Kate Middleton have slipped into a routine in the week after their lavish wedding.

Referendum looks set to reject voting change (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:14 PM PDT

Police officers walk out of a polling station at Elvetham Heath near Fleet, Hampshire. Voters appeared set to reject a change in the way they elect their MPs as they cast their ballots in a national referendum that has threatened to tear the ruling coalition apart.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Britons looked set Thursday to reject a change in the way they elect their lawmakers as they voted in a national referendum that has threatened to tear the ruling coalition apart.

Brazil court raises damage award for flight victim (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 01:53 PM PDT

An Air France photo of the Brazil memorial to the 228 victims of Air France flight 447 who perished when the plane crashed in 2009. A Brazilian court has again raised the damage award the French airline company must pay to the family of a Brazilian victim.(AFP/Air France/Ho)AFP - A Brazilian court has again rejected an appeal by Air France and raised the damage award the French airline company must pay to the family of a Brazilian victim of Flight 447.

Inquisition killings of Jews condemned in Spain (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 01:52 PM PDT

Balearic Islands President, Francesc Antich, left, shakes hands with Mallorca's Rabbi Nissan Ben Avraham, right next to Joseph Wallis, a descendent of Jewish family members killed by the Spanish Inquisition in the 15th century during a ceremony in Palma de Mallorca, Spain Thursday May 5, 2011. More than three centuries after 37 Jews from the Mediterranean island of Mallorca were killed during the Inquisition for secretly practicing their faith, the Balearic Islands regional president Francesc Antich issued a rare official condemnation. It was the first time that the 1691 killings have been officially criticized in Mallorca by a government figure, and Spain's national Jewish federation said it may have been the first event of its kind for the nation. (AP Photo/Manu Mielniezuk)AP - More than three centuries after 37 Jews from Mallorca were killed during the Spanish Inquisition for secretly practicing their faith, the island's leading government figure issued an official condemnation Thursday.

France: Peace talks soon or Palestinian state (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 01:10 PM PDT

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will support a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence if peace talks with Israel don't restart by September, dealing a tough setback to Israel's campaign to isolate the incoming Palestinian unity government.

AP Exclusive: Bosnian Serbs given ultimatum (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:59 PM PDT

FILE -In this file photo taken Wednesday, April. 13,2011 Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia's Serb-dominated part, addresses the region's parliament in the Bosnia town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo . Dodik wants to hold a mid-June referendum vote to reflect what he says is a widespread rejection of Bosnia's federal institutions, especially the war crimes court. He has accused the court of bias. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic,file)AP - Bosnian Serbs have been given a week to call off a referendum many fear will throw an already volatile country into further turmoil, Turkey's ambassador said Thursday.

Rhodia hikes annual outlook on strong Q1 results (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:55 PM PDT

French chemical group Rhodia CEO Jean-Pierre Clamadieu give a press conference in Paris on April 4. The company raised its annual outlook as surging demand from emerging markets boosted its first quarter profits to a record high.(AFP/File/BERTRAND LANGLOIS)AFP - French chemical group Rhodia on Thursday raised its annual outlook as surging demand from emerging markets boosted its first quarter profits to a record high.

Vandalized 500-year-old grapevine survives (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:55 PM PDT

AP - Talk about a robust wine.

Israeli PM urges clarity from Hamas (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday in Paris called on Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to clarify its position toward Israel before peace talks with Palestinians can resume.

Prosecutor: Ex-Taliban fighter recruited in UK (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:36 PM PDT

British Muslim convert Matthew Newton, 29, arrives at Manchester Crown Court, England, Thursday May 5, 2011. A British prosecutor alleged Thursday that Newton was one of several extremists who manned an Islamic bookstall in the northern English city of Manchester in the hope of enrolling holy warriors for jihad in Afghanistan. The men were eventually arrested in a counterterrorism operation. All four deny the charges being leveled against them. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - A former Taliban fighter manned an Islamic bookstall while trying to drum up recruits for jihad in Afghanistan, a British prosecutor alleged Thursday.

Latvia launches hotel wiretap investigation (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:32 PM PDT

AP - Latvian prosecutors opened an investigation Thursday into allegations by an influential opposition lawmaker who has accused the security services of bugging several high-end hotel rooms where foreign dignitaries have stayed.

Red Cross holds back judgment on bin Laden death (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:25 PM PDT

AP - The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is reserving judgment on Osama bin Laden's death until it receives more information about the circumstances of his killing.

APNewsBreak: Gadhafi nurse seeks asylum in Norway (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 11:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated photo from the Kolotnytska family archive, Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's nurse Halyna Kolotnytska is seen. Norwegian security police told The Associated Press on Thursday, May 5, 2011, Moammar Gadhafi's Ukrainian nurse is seeking political asylum in Norway. (AP Photo/Halyna Kolotnytska's family archive, HO)AP - Moammar Gadhafi's Ukrainian nurse is in Norway and has applied for political asylum, say the Nordic country's security police.

US wants to give frozen Libyan assets to rebels (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:58 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, talks to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, right, with French Foreign Minister Alain Marie Juppé, left, during a diplomatic meeting on how to support rebels fighting the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at Rome's Foreign Ministry, Thursday, May 5, 2011. The meeting of 22 nations and some international organizations also included the NATO chief, the Arab League, the leader of Libya's opposition council, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, who used to be Gadhafi's justice minister. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The United States is trying to free up part of $30 billion it has frozen in Libyan assets so it can better support opponents of Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a conference Thursday on Libya.

Legal aid granted in UK for deformities case (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 09:59 AM PDT

AP - A British man seeking compensation for birth defects has won legal aid to begin a possible court case against the maker of a pregnancy testing drug.

Demjanjuk attorney: Client suffered like Jews did (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 09:11 AM PDT

John Demjanjuk arrives in his wheelchair at the court building in Munich, southern Germany, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 90, is accused of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly serving as a guard in the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. Demjanjuk's defense start with the closing arguments. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)AP - John Demjanjuk's attorney argued Thursday for his client's acquittal on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, saying the 91-year-old alleged former guard suffered as much as the Jews did at the hands of Nazis.

Body from 2009 Air France crash in Atlantic raised (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 08:09 AM PDT

AP - A remote-controlled submarine on Thursday removed a body from the deep-sea wreckage of the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago and raised the remains 12,000 feet (3,900 meters) to the water's surface, the French recovery team said.

Al-Qaida suspect confesses as German trial opens (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Rami Makanesi, foreground left, awaits the beginning of his trial at a court in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, May 5, 2011. The 25-year-old German-Syrian who authorities believe trained in an al-Qaida paramilitary camp in Pakistan faces charges of membership in a terror organization. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - A German-Syrian man admitted Thursday to belonging to a terrorist group and training in an al-Qaida paramilitary camp in Pakistan, and now faces up to five years in prison under a plea deal, German officials said.

Inquest judge to rule on London transit bombings (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 07:37 AM PDT

FILE -- The wreckage of a double-decker bus with its top blown off and damaged cars scattered on the road at Tavistock Square in central London in this July 7, 2005 file photo. A judge will deliver her findings Friday May 5, 2011, at the inquest for 52 people killed in the July 7, 2005 bombings on London's transit system, the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil. Judge Heather Hallett will almost certainly find that the commuters were unlawfully killed by four British Muslim men, inspired by Osama bin Laden, who blew themselves up on three subway trains and a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour.(AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)AP - David Gardner was brushing up on his Shakespeare. Martine Wright was reading a newspaper on her morning commute.

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