2011年5月26日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

IMF presses Greece on funding, policy plans (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Protesters demonstrate in front of the Greek parliament in Athens against a new austerity package. The International Monetary Fund warned Athens Thursday to firm up its broad financing plans and policy actions to be able to continue receiving IMF bailout funds in concert with the European Union.(AFP/Aris Messinis)AFP - The International Monetary Fund warned Athens Thursday to firm up its broad financing plans and policy actions to be able to continue receiving IMF bailout funds in concert with the European Union.

UK approves use of Apache helicopters for Libya (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 04:18 PM PDT

AP - The British government has given clearance for the use of its attack helicopters in Libya, putting the final decision on deployment in NATO's hands.

Serbia arrests Mladic on war crimes charges (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 03:51 PM PDT

In this handout image released by the Serbian government Thursday, May 26, 2011, Ratko Mladic enters court in Belgrade, Thursday, May 26, 2011. Ratko Mladic, in baseball cap, the ruthless Bosnian Serb military leader charged with orchestrating Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II, was arrested before dawn at a relative's home in a tiny Serbian village on Thursday after a 16-year hunt for the architect of what a war-crimes judge called 'scenes from hell.' (AP Photo / Serbian Government, HANDOUT)AP - After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge Thursday — the first step in facing charges for international war crimes, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.

Mladic's arrest draws divided reaction in Bosnia (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 03:48 PM PDT

Police guard the street in the village of Lazarevo close to the northern Serbian town of Zrenjanin, 50 kilometers north of Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 26, 2011. War crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic was arrested Thursday in village of Lazarevo. Gen. Ratko Mladic, Europe's most wanted war crimes suspect, has been arrested in Serbia after years in hiding, the country's president said Thursday. (AP Photo/Andrej Cukic)AP - Former comrades and supporters of Ratko Mladic were shocked by the arrest of the Bosnian Serb general, but those who survived mass killings by his forces welcomed his capture and said it should have happened sooner.

Ratko Mladic hunted for massacre to face tribunal (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2011 03:31 PM PDT

FILE Undated file photo showing top war crimes fugitives Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic, right, and political leader Radovan Karadzic. Belgrade media reports Thursday May 26, 2011 that a man suspected to be Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia. Serbia state TV said a man who identified himself as Milorad Komadic when he was arrested Thursday is the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander. It gave no other details. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic, File)Reuters - Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic will face trial on genocide charges in the Hague following his arrest in Serbia after 15 years on the run, with European officials expecting his extradition within 10 days.

Yemen worries G8 as France and U.S. condemn Saleh (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2011 02:57 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States, France and Canada stepped up their calls on Thursday for Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, after overnight gunbattles killed dozens of people.

Govt to deploy helicopters against Libyan forces (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 02:57 PM PDT

An Apache military helicopter. The government will deploy Apache gunships against Moamer Kadhafi's forces in Libya, an official confirmed Thursday, after days of reports it would join France in sending in attack helicopters.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - The government confirmed Thursday it would deploy Apache helicopter gunships in Libya, saying the change in tactics would give a final push to the regime of an increasingly "paranoid" Moamer Kadhafi.

Glance of events that led to Srebrenica massacre (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 02:56 PM PDT

AP - On July 11, 1995, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, an enclave declared a "safe area" by the United Nations and protected by U.N. peacekeepers.

A selection of reactions to Mladic's arrest (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 02:39 PM PDT

AP - A selection of quotes in response to the arrest Thursday of Ratko Mladic, the top Bosnian Serb general during the 1992-95 Bosnian war who was wanted for genocide and other war crimes.

Missile issue a sticking point for Obama, Medvedev (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 02:16 PM PDT

Russian President Federation Dmitry Medvedev, left, and President Barack Obama are greeted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as they arrive at the G8 Summit, in Deauville, France, Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - It is no simple thing to push the "reset" button on U.S.-Russian relations.

Echoes of Mladic's cruelty felt in wounded Bosnia (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 01:29 PM PDT

Bosnian Muslim woman Hatidza Mehmedovic says her prayer in front of the wall written with names of victimes of Srebrenica masacre at the memorial center Potocari near Srebrenica, 170 kms north east from Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Thursday May 26 2011. Gen. Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the bloody massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested in an early morning raid Thursday May 26, 2011 in Serbia after more than a decade hiding from genocide charges, the country's president said.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - The shadow Ratko Mladic cast over Bosnia persists nearly 20 years after he led Serb military forces in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. Bosnia's Serbs revere him for his devotion to their failed cause, its Muslims are repulsed by his cruelty, and the soul of the capital they once shared peacefully has been scorched forever.

World press has trackside view of G8 summit (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 12:48 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy welcome guests at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Reporters covering this year's G8 summit got a trackside view for the event. Organizers have set the thousand-seat press center smack along the rail of Deauville's tres chic La Touques thoroughbred racecourse.

(AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 11:53 AM PDT

AP - Defense lawyer: Mladic says he does not recognize UN war crimes tribunal.

Austrian memorial for Nazi victims unveiled (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 10:49 AM PDT

Austrian President Heinz Fischer delivers a speech during the official reopening ceremony of the memorial for Nazi-victims, in particular resistance fighters and anti-Fascists in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday May 26, 2011, after it was closed for renovation. Letters read 'Memorial for the victims of the Austrian resistance fight'. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Austria's president unveiled a newly revamped memorial Thursday commemorating victims of the Nazis, including those who lost their lives because they stood up to the brutal regime.

2 ex-presidential candidates jailed in Belarus (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 10:46 AM PDT

Former opposition presidential candidates Vladimir Neklyayev, right, and Dmitry Uss hug in a court corridor, as they are surrounded by press prior a court session in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, May 26, 2011. A court in authoritarian ex-Soviet nation has handed out prison sentences to two former presidential hopefuls for allegedly organizing riots after last year's disputed election. A district court in the capital, Minsk, sentenced Nikolai Statkevich and Dmitry Uss to 6 and 5 1/2 years in a maximum security jail, respectively. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Two presidential candidates who challenged the autocratic president of Belarus in last year's election were sentenced to jail Thursday.

UK convicts ex-peer of expenses fraud (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 10:23 AM PDT

AP - A British jury has convicted a member of the House of Lords on six counts of expenses fraud.

Karadzic sorry for Mladic's loss of freedom (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 10:18 AM PDT

FILE In this Jan. 20, 2002 photo, a Bosnian couple passes by a poster of Bosnia's two most wanted war crimes suspects, the leader of Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic and his war time commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, in Sarajevo. Mladic, Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive, has been arrested in Serbia, the country's president said Thursday, May 26, 2011. Mladic has been on the run since 1995 when he was indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, for genocide in the slaughter of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes committed by his troops during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. (AP Photo/Sava Radovanovic)AP - In a message from his jail cell, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic regretted the arrest Thursday of his wartime ally Ratko Mladic, and said he wants to work with him "to bring out the truth" about the Bosnian war at their trials.

Obama hails European war crimes suspect's arrest (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 10:07 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says the arrest of Ratko Mladic (RAHT'-koh MLAH'-dich), Europe's most wanted war crimes suspect, is an important day for the families of his victims.

UK makes donation to preserve Auschwitz memorial (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 10:04 AM PDT

AP - Britain says it is donating 2.1 million pounds ($3.4 million) to a fund that will help preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site over the coming decades.

Ratko Mladic: Genocide suspect, goat herd, 'God' (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 09:40 AM PDT

FILE - Bosnian-Serb General Ratko Mladic is seen in this 1995 file photo during a visit to troops in the east Bosnian town of Vlasenica. Belgrade's B-92 radio reports Thursday May 26, 2011 that a man suspected to be Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia. Serbia's war crimes prosecutors refused to confirm or deny the report. (AP Photo/Oleg Stjepanovic)AP - Gen. Ratko Mladic's ruthlessness was legendary: "Burn their brains!" he once bellowed as his men pounded Sarajevo with artillery fire.

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