AP - It's a matter of
perspective. From aboard a
12-deck cruise liner, the sight
of St. Mark's Square, the Doge's
Palace and Bridge of Sighs
gliding past from a cabin
balcony is a breathtaking
thrill.
AP
- Tunisia's prime minister said
Sunday that cutting ties with
the Syrian regime is the "least
that we can do" in the face of
escalating violence, and
asserted that Russia and China
misused their U.N. Security
Council veto.
Reuters - China has a stake in
helping euro zone countries get
through their debt crisis,
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said
in comments published on Sunday,
pointing to Europe's importance
as a market and hinting at more
possible support for beleaguered
exporters.
AP - Finns are voting for a new
president in a runoff ballot
between a veteran, conservative
front-runner and the country's
first openly gay candidate from
the small Greens party.
Reuters - Bitterly cold weather
that has claimed hundreds of
lives in eastern Europe swept
westwards over the continent on
Saturday, blanketing Rome's
Colosseum with snow for the
first time in three decades and
disrupting air and rail traffic.
AP
- Bosnia's government declared a
state of emergency in its
capital on Saturday after
Sarajevo was paralyzed by snow,
while in Rome residents dug out
from the city's biggest snowfall
in 26 years, which shut down the
Colosseum.
Reuters - The U.S. military,
which is cutting its presence in
Europe, plans to expand its
training of European partners to
cope with new threats posed by
interlinked criminal and
militant networks smuggling
weapons and drugs, said the U.S.
commander in Europe.
AP - The administration of the
Vatican City State on Saturday
categorically rejected as
groundless a top prelate's
accusations of corruption in the
Holy See's awarding of
contracts.
AP
- Romans bewildered by their
city's first big snowfall in 26
years used government-issued
shovels to clear sidewalks, and
kitchen utensils to clear
windshields Saturday.
AP - Bosnia's government
declared a state of emergency in
its capital on Saturday after
Sarajevo was paralyzed by snow,
and hundreds of people remained
trapped in their homes and
vehicles throughout the country.
Reuters - German Chancellor
Angela Merkel's backing of
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
in the upcoming presidential
vote has riled his socialist
rival Francois Hollande's camp,
which warned her to exercise
restraint, a German newspaper
reported on Saturday.
Reuters - Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta reassured European
allies on Saturday that
Washington remains committed to
their security despite an
austerity drive, as NATO pushed
for new ways for alliance
members to maintain capabilities
at lower cost.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton on
Saturday issued a new warning to
Egypt that the failure to
resolve a bitter dispute over
the status of non-governmental
pro-democracy groups may lead to
the loss of American aid to the
country.
Reuters - Tens of thousands of
Russians defied bitter cold in
Moscow on Saturday to demand
fair elections in a march
against Vladimir Putin's 12-year
rule, while supporters of the
prime minister staged a rival
rally drawing comparable
numbers.
AP
- Spain's opposition Socialist
party elected Alfredo Perez
Rubalcaba as its secretary
general on Saturday, replacing
former Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero as party
leader.
AP
- Their frozen breath rising in
the brutally frigid air, tens of
thousands of protesters marched
through downtown Moscow on
Saturday to keep up the pressure
on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
one month before a presidential
election that could extend his
rule for six more years.
AP
- Demonstrators have stormed
five Syrian embassies in Europe
and the Middle East after Syrian
forces reportedly killed more
than 200 people in the city of
Homs.
AP
- Moscow still sees two problems
of "crucial importance" with a
draft U.N. resolution on the
violence in Syria, Russia's
foreign minister said Saturday
amid Western attempts to head
off a Russian veto in the
Security Council.
AP
- The Obama administration on
Saturday called for stepped up
U.S.-European cooperation to
isolate tyrannies like the Assad
regime in Syria, promote
democracy in the Arab World and
beyond and repair damage from
the global financial crisis.
AP
- Russia's state-controlled
Gazprom natural gas giant
acknowledged for the first time
Saturday that it had briefly
reduced gas supplies to Europe
amid a spell of extreme cold.
Reuters - France raised the
pressure on Russia on Saturday
by warning that countries that
blocked a U.N. Security Council
resolution on Syria after
activists said more than 200
people were killed in Homs would
bear a "heavy responsibility in
history."
AP
- U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton is
pressing Ukrainian authorities
to quickly resolve the criminal
case brought against former
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
(YOOL'-yah tee-moh-SHEN'-koh).
AP
- NATO leaders on Saturday
downplayed Moscow's fears that a
new Europe-based missile defense
system represents a threat to
Russia, while vowing to move
ahead with it, even if those
concerns cannot be fully
addressed.
AP
- German Chancellor Angela
Merkel expressed regret Saturday
that Chinese police blocked a
human rights lawyer from meeting
her and said the Communist
government should have the
confidence to allow dissent.
Reuters - Hungary is seeking an
international credit line of 15
to 20 billion ($20 to $26.3
billion) euros, the secretary of
state heading the prime
minister's office, Mihaly Varga,
was quoted on Saturday as
saying.
Reuters - Iran's oil minister
said the Islamic state would not
retreat from its nuclear program
even if its crude oil exports
grind to a halt, the official
IRNA news agency reported on
Saturday.
Reuters - Russia sought to delay
a U.N. Security Council vote on
a resolution aimed at ending the
bloodshed in Syria, warning on
Saturday of a "scandal" if the
current draft was put to council
members, the Itar-Tass news
agency reported.
AP
- Italy is now a "safe place"
amid market turbulence, Premier
Mario Monti said in an interview
published Saturday, pressing for
Europe to turn its political
energy to generating growth
rather than further plans to
strengthen budget discipline.
AP
- U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton is
calling on Europe and the United
States to do more together to
defeat tyrannies, promote
democracy and repair the damage
from the global financial
crisis.
Reuters - Iran's oil minister
said that the Islamic state
would certainly cut its oil
exports to "some" European
countries, the semi-official
Fars news agency reported on
Saturday.
AP
- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta is reassuring Europe
that it remains central to U.S.
defense interests, even as the
Obama administration is
withdrawing two of the four Army
brigades stationed on the
continent.
Reuters - European Union
competition ministers supported
plans on Friday to remove
barriers to electronic trade in
a bid to spur economic growth
and jobs by expanding the single
market to the digital world,
officials said.
Reuters
- Nine Romanian children were
taken into care after a baby
died in an unheated house,
joining at least 189 others
killed by a Siberian front which
strengthened its hold over
Eastern Europe on Friday and
spread further west.
AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily
blocked Motorola Mobility's
attempt to have it withdraw
several iPhone and iPad models
from its Internet store in
Germany, the latest twist in an
extended legal duel over patents
between the companies.
Reuters - Bosnia passed laws on
Friday seen as crucial to
reviving its European Union
accession bid, with Serb, Croat
and Muslim leaders agreeing to
the first census since 1991 and
to a single state-level body to
coordinate EU aid programs.
Reuters - Russian opposition
leaders said on Friday that
unusually cold weather
threatened to cut numbers at a
protest against Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule
planned for Saturday.
AP - A rare snowfall blanketed
Rome on Friday, forcing the
closure of the Colosseum over
fears tourists would slip on the
icy ruins, and leaving buses
struggling to climb the city's
slushy hills. Other parts of the
country experienced frigid
temperatures unseen in years.
AP
- An Irish woman raped as a teen
by a priest said Friday some
clergy sex abuse victims are
questioning motives behind an
upcoming Vatican-backed
symposium, where she hopes the
pope and other Catholic leaders
will ask for forgiveness for
those who failed to protect
children.
AP - Spain said Friday it had
received guarantees that the
United States will help clean up
land contaminated with
radioactivity after a mid-air
collision in 1966 dumped four
U.S. hydrogen bombs in the
country's south.
AP
- Seemingly failed talks this
week between Iran and the U.N.
nuclear agency have instead
increased pressure on Tehran to
defuse suspicions before another
meeting later in the month that
it secretly worked on atomic
arms, diplomats said Friday.
AP
- Russia and Ukraine both took
extra precautions on Friday to
protect homeless people,
ordering new facilities and
medical care after scores of
people have frozen to death on
the streets of Europe during a
brutal cold snap.
Reuters - Internet activist
group Anonymous published a
recording on Friday of a
confidential call between FBI
agents and London detectives in
which the law-enforcement agents
discuss action they are taking
against hacking.
The Christian Science Monitor -
With its initial public offering
this week, Facebook is roaring
ahead. However, new European
Union privacy regulations are
taking aim at Internet
companies' ability to profit
through control of personal
information – the key to their
tremendous online
advertising profits.
AP
- In the chaotic evacuation of
the Costa Concordia, passengers
and crew abandoned almost
everything on board the cruise
ship: jewels, cash, champagne,
antiques, 19th-century Bohemian
crystal glassware and thousands
of art objects, including
300-year-old woodblock prints by
a Japanese master.
AP - The Cyprus parliament on
Thursday took the unusual step
of rebuking a United Nations
envoy over perceived bias that
it says is hindering
long-running talks to reunify
the divided island.
AP
- A Hungarian official who
oversees programs to aid the
country's Roma population is
urging other European nations to
fulfill earlier pledges to
present strategies for
integrating the minority group.
Reuters - The command centre for
a controversial missile defense
shield in Europe will be housed
at a U.S. air base in western
Germany, a NATO spokesman said
on Thursday.
AP - DEBT DELUGE: Portugal's
debt-crippled economy is choking
amid grinding austerity
measures, a steep recession, an
acute shortage of cash and
unemployment at a record 13.6
percent.
AP - Greece needs about an extra
euro15 billion ($20 billion) to
get its debt down to manageable
levels — and the rest of
17-country eurozone is being
asked to help foot the bill.
AP
- At least 11,000 villagers have
been trapped by heavy snow and
blizzards in Serbia's mountains,
authorities said Thursday, as
the death toll from Eastern
Europe's weeklong deep freeze
rose to 122, many of them
homeless people.
AP - The economic organization
that represents developed
countries says Europe probably
needs a euro1 trillion ($1.3
trillion) bailout fund if it is
to stop the spread of its debt
crisis.
Reuters - Spain and France
gained respite at bond auctions
on Thursday highlighting a rally
in euro zone government debt
markets since the European
Central Bank flooded banks with
cheap money in December.
Reuters - The trains ran and the
buses, too. Staff made it to
work and shops and banks opened
across Lisbon. Weak backing for
a transport strike on Thursday
reflected a broader lack of
appetite for militant action by
workers concerned for jobs
threatened by Portugal's growing
debt crisis.
AP
- A French appeals court on
Thursday upheld the Church of
Scientology's 2009 fraud
conviction on charges it
pressured members into paying
large sums for questionable
remedies.
AP - Greece's international debt
inspectors have discovered that
the debt-ridden country still
needs an extra euro15 billion
($20 billion) in help — on top
of a promised euro130 billion
bailout and a euro100 billion
debt relief from private
investors, a European official
said Thursday.
AP - Eurostat, the EU's
statistics office, estimates
that unemployment across the
17-nation eurozone rose by the
end of 2011 to 10.4 percent, a
joint record high since the euro
launched in 1999.
AP - Unemployment across the 17
countries that use the euro
ended 2011 at a record high of
one person in every 10, official
figures showed Tuesday, a day
after EU leaders acknowledged
that they would have to boost
economic growth with the same
urgency that they had shown in
combating their nations' debts.
AP - A defrocked Roman Catholic
priest who admitted molesting
more than 20 children in
California has been sentenced to
three years in prison in Ireland
for possessing child
pornography, court officials
said Tuesday.
LONDON –
A
defrocked
Roman
Catholic
priest
who
admitted
molesting
more
than 20
children
in
California
has been
sentenced
to three
years in
prison
in
Ireland
for
possessing
child
pornography,
court
officials
said
Tuesday.
Oliver
O'Grady,
66, was
arrested
in
Dublin
in
December
2010
after
leaving
a
computer
containing
pornographic
images
of
children
on a
flight
from
Amsterdam.
O'Grady
worked
in
northern
California
from
1971
until
1993,
when he
was
arrested
for
abusing
two
brothers.
He
served
seven
years in
prison
and was
deported
to his
native
Ireland
in 2000.
He later
moved to
the
Netherlands
for
several
years.
O'Grady
was the
subject
of the
Academy
Award-nominated
2006
documentary
"Deliver
Us From
Evil."
In the
film he
spoke
openly
of
abusing
more
than 20
children
as he
was
shuffled
from one
parish
to
another
in
California
through
the
1970s
and 80s.
The
Dutch
Catholic
Church
came
under
fire in
2010
after it
emerged
that
O'Grady
had been
working
as a
church
volunteer
in the
city of
Rotterdam.
O'Grady
had been
living
in the
country
under
another
name,
but
parishioners
recognized
him when
"Deliver
Us from
Evil"
was
aired on
Dutch
television.
By that
time,
the
disgraced
ex-cleric
had
already
left the
country.
O'Grady
had
pleaded
guilty
to three
counts
of
possessing
child
pornography.
The
Irish
Courts
Service
said he
was
sentenced
Monday
at
Dublin
Circuit
Criminal
Court.
The
Roman
Catholic
diocese
in
Stockton,
California,
disclosed
last
year
that it
had
agreed
to pay
$2
million
to a
brother
and
sister
who
alleged
O'Grady
molested
them as
children
in the
1980s
while
they
attended
the
Church
of the
Presentation
and its
school.
The
Sacramento
Bee
newspaper
reported
last
year
that the
diocese
has now
paid out
almost
$21
million
to
O'Grady's
victims.
AP - Police in northern Greece
have arrested a village priest
and a church elder for allegedly
digging for treasure in the
chancel of the church.
–
Fri Jan 27,
4:58 am ET
THESSALONIKI,
Greece –
Police
in
northern
Greece
have
arrested
a
village
priest
and a
church
elder
for
allegedly
digging
for
treasure
in the
chancel
of the
church.
A police
statement
Friday
says
villagers
complained
of loud
drilling
noises
late
Thursday
from the
church
at Fyska
near
Kilkis,
some 30
miles
(50
kilometers)
north of
Thessaloniki.
Officers
found a
two-by-one-meter
(six-by-three-foot)
hole in
the
chancel
of the
150-year-old
church
of the
Prophet
Elijah.
Police
are
seeking
four
other
people
suspected
of
taking
part in
the
illegal
dig — in
which a
pneumatic
drill
was
used.
Illegal
treasure
hunting
has
increased
amid
Greece's
acute
financial
crisis.
In
recent
months,
police
have
made a
string
of
arrests,
mainly
in the
north of
the
country,
and
located
several
tunnels.
BERLIN – A
Roman Catholic
priest in Germany has admitted to
280
counts of sexually abusing three
boys over a several-year period.
The 46-year-old priest, who has been
suspended, went on trial Thursday at
the state court in Braunschweig. The
dapd news agency reported that he
showed no remorse.
The man who was not identified was
arrested last July after one victim
told his mother what had happened.
He was charged with abusing three
boys aged between 9 and 15.
Hildesheim diocese spokesman Michael
Lukas says the defendant's actions
were "a catastrophe for the victims
and for the Catholic church." The
trial continues through Feb. 2.
The priest also faces church
disciplinary proceedings.
Germany, Pope Benedict XVI's
homeland, was
shaken in 2010 by revelations of
abuse by clergy going back decades.
AP - Belgium's Catholic Church
announced Thursday that priests
and clergy who abused children
will be required to pay damages,
even when victims make their
claims after the country's
statute of limitations has
expired.
With most of the UK on amber alert, the Met Office's second highest severe weather warning, string of sporting fixtures were also hit by the big chill.
With most of the UK on amber alert, the Met Office's second highest severe weather warning, string of sporting fixtures were also hit by the big chill.
Experts believe patients who have received more than 80 blood transfusions are most at risk of developing the fatal brain disease as it can be passed on through infected blood.
Simmering diplomatic tensions between Britain and Argentina have not deterred the Government from planning a series of high-profile events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.
Chris Huhne's ex-wife Vicky Pryce (pictured) welcomed guests to an annual party, which had been co-hosted by the couple at their home in Clapham, south London, until their split in 2010.
Experts say the former RBS chief executive, pictured, may be exploiting a legal loophole that is often used to avoid stamp duty or reduce inheritance tax.
A billionaire has offered to pay the legal costs of a student facing extradition to the U.S. on charges of copyright theft. Richard O’Dwyer, 23, is accused of running a website which directed users to other sites where they can download films illegally.
Steve Hilton, pictured, has been targeted by a mystery internet prankster, who has set up a spoof Twitter account parodying his consciously trendy, California-influenced jargon.
Protesters gathered at the Syrian Embassy in London following reports that more than 200 people had been massacred in Syria when government forces shelled civilians in a rebel city.
Producers cut scenes, redubbed dialogue and rewrote scripts because the British Board of Film Classification objected to some of the spy’s more risque exploits.
Workers are continuing to die and sustain injuries in horrific accidents as they are forced to work from morning to night for slave wages in sweatshop conditions.
Live was given exclusive access to the divers and sappers who are searching for bodies in a half-submerged hulk they know could slip into the depths at any moment.
Mohammad Shafia (pictured) his wife Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamid have been jailed fro life for killing Shafia's three teenage daughters in Kingston, Ontario and his other wife in a polygamous relationship.
CNN playing Word Omission Games
in Honor Killing case
CNN is
apparently willing to include the words “honor killing” and
“conservative Afghan” in its news reports but is unwilling to
say that the honor killing was mandated by Islamic teachings or
even mention that the murderers were Muslims. Instead, the word
“conservative” has the effect of comparing such nasty people
with the Christian right in America.
The most
tragically ironic aspect of this story is that the man who
murdered his daughters and tried to cover it up, said that he
killed them because they “betrayed kindness.”
This CNN news
report is a must-see for the network’s bias. It fits right in
line with the network’s history of running interference for
Islamists.
Thousands of people marched in Russian capital Moscow Saturday in a pro-democracy protest over the power of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to reports.
Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westward over the continent on Saturday, blanketing Rome's Colosseum with snow for the first time in nearly three decades.
A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, the hacking group known as Anonymous claimed Friday.
Irmela Mensah-Schramm has embarked on her very personal "combat mission" almost daily for 26 years. Her weapons? A scraper, nail-polish remover, a camera and lots of courage. NBC News' Andy Eckardt reports.
Irmela Mensah-Schramm has embarked on her very personal "combat mission" almost daily for 26 years. Her weapons? A scraper, nail-polish remover, a camera and lots of courage. NBC News' Andy Eckardt reports.
Flagging down a black cab on London's streets may prove a little harder during this year's Olympics after taxi drivers had a request to raise fares by 22 percent turned down.
A rabbit that rounds up sheep on a small farm in northern Sweden is rapidly gaining a following on the Internet, with more than 650,000 views in the past week on YouTube.
Some 50 people a year kill themselves on London’s subway, and in order to keep the trains running their bodies are often stored in cleaning closets, a television documentary reveals.
BMW apologized after a PR strategy to pay for the naming rights to a weather system backfired -- that system turned into the deep freeze that's claimed dozens of lives.
The Manneken-Pis, a bronze statue of a young boy urinating that is a symbol of Brussels and a major tourist attraction, has had to stop peeing because of sub-zero temperatures.
At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains, authorities said Thursday, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's deep freeze rose to 114.
It is a symbol of peace around the world, but the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro is causing a ruckus in one of London's most fashionable neighborhoods ahead of this summer's Olympics.
The artist Pablo Picasso transformed himself from a Bohemian artist into a quintessential gentleman after developing a love for English fashion and style, a new exhibition will reveal.
Dramatic new pictures show building work on the Orbit tower, designed as the landmark monument of the London 2012 Olympic Games, is almost finished. But opinion over its artistic merit remains divided.
Prime Minister David Cameron briefed on situation by Government emergency planners, as many flights cancelled and roads gridlocked after night of heavy snowfall across Britain.
The alleged terrorist mastermind behind the July 7 London bombings is reported to have been freed from a Syrian jail by President Bashar Assad's regime.
Norweigan Authorities: "All Rapes Committed (in Norway) Are by Arabs and North African Immigrants"
This is what is happening all over Europe and will happen here if the Muslim population is allowed to grow further in the USA. Facts are stubborn things that Liberals like to ignore or label as "racist" when they cannot refute them.
The country is in the grip of some wintry weather after rain spread from the west and met up with cold air across much of the mainland UK, causing heavy snowfalls.
Drinking just a little bit more alcohol than the daily recommended amount could treble your risk of developing mouth cancer, according to a new Government campaign.
Hundreds of flights from Heathrow and a string of sporting events have been cancelled, as the first of what is predicted to be heavy snow begins to fall across the country.
The global economy received a boost after better-than-expected US jobs figures pushed the Dow Jones stock market index to its highest level since before the 2008 financial crisis.
Tens of thousands of people march in Moscow in protest at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, while his supporters hold a rally elsewhere in Russia's capital.
Chris Huhne vows to clear his name as he resigns as energy secretary to fight a charge of perverting the course of justice relating to a 2003 speeding case.
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