International Business News - Europe http://www.ibtimes.com/subsection/politicsnpolicy/europe.htm All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Spanish authorities say they have arrested five young computer hackers accused of disabling Internet pages run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia. 118045 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/5-hackers-arrested-in-spain.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 06:50:10 EDT Turkey's state-run news agency says six Kurdish rebels have been killed in a clash with soldiers in eastern Turkey. Anatolia news agency says the clash erupted in Van province near the border with Iran on Saturday. Three other rebels were injured. 118041 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48072-turkey-britain-royal-visit.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/report-6-kurdish-rebels-killed-in-turkey.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/report-6-kurdish-rebels-killed-in-turkey.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 05:59:25 EDT A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday. 117937 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/cdc-syringe-reuse-linked-to-hepatitis-c-outbreak.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 18:59:06 EDT Treasurys fell Friday after rising oil prices had investors worrying about inflation's impact on fixed-income returns. Crude prices rose more than $2 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while the average retail price of gasoline hovered around $3.77 per gallon. That has raised concerns that consumers and businesses will struggle with higher costs, and that will hurt the overall economy. 117656 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/treasurys-rise-on-mixed-economic-data.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 17:57:55 EDT A judicial probe into the assassination of a Roman Catholic lawyer in Northern Ireland reported Friday that it has lost sensitive computer data about the investigation. 117946 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/belfast-assassination-probe-loses-sensitive-data.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 17:28:00 EDT While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn. 117876 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/researchers-warn-of-nitrogen-hazard-to-environment.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 17:23:35 EDT More emergency food aid is on its way to Haiti. The U.S. government says it will ship an additional $20 million in emergency food aid to the Caribbean country. 117735 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/us-to-ship-more-food-to-struggling-haiti.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 16:11:54 EDT Shares of real estate investment trusts ended down Friday, with soaring oil prices weighing on the broader market and overshadowing better-than-expected housing news. 117867 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/closing-glance-reits-finish-mixed.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 16:03:50 EDT Hannah Montana was the last straw. When parents complained to state Rep. Karen May earlier this year that they missed out on tickets to the teen pop sensation's Chicago concert, she decided to go after the culprit: online ticket hoarders. 117856 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/ill-targets-computer-hoarding-of-concert-tickets.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 15:46:18 EDT New York is using state retirement funds to give an upstate New York paper manufacturer a $6.9 million infusion. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the investment in Climax Manufacturing will help the company add up to 75 jobs at plants in Lowville and West Carthage over the next three years. The company now has about 260 workers making recycled packaging for food, retail and industrial products. 117853 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/ny-invests-in-upstate-recycled-paper-company.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 15:31:51 EDT California's unemployment rate held steady at 6.2 percent in April, as job losses in the construction and banking sectors were offset by strength in other pockets of the economy, the state said Friday. 117842 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/californias-unemployment-steady-at-6-2-percent.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 15:03:09 EDT Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border. 117731 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/texas-officials-sue-us-over-border-fence.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:52:33 EDT Emissions from a coal-fired power plant in northeast Iowa will be cut after its owner, Interstate Power and Light Co., installs $85 million worth of new equipment, the company said Friday. 117834 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/interstate-to-cut-emissions-at-iowa-coal-plant.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:41:19 EDT The Turkmen president met with South Korea's prime minister on Friday and invited Korean companies to help tap the ex-Soviet nation's rich energy resources. 117833 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/turkmen-leader-invites-skorea-to-tap-gas.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:37:44 EDT Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to millions of dollars of agricultural tax breaks that provide state aid for farm equipment, fencing materials, gas stations, ethanol producers and dairies. 117823 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/mo-lawmakers-approve-millions-in-ag-tax-breaks.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:27:25 EDT Parkway Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, said Friday it is creating an investment fund with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas to invest in multitenant office properties. 117822 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/parkway-properties-creates-750m-investment-fund.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:25:41 EDT The city of Rochester plans to close some neighborhood service centers and eliminate 70 full-time and 33 part-time government jobs to help close a budget shortfall, the mayor said Friday. 117820 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/city-of-rochester-targets-103-job-cuts.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:23:44 EDT The shortage of workers at Ted Blair's three hotels near Yellowstone National Park is so severe that Blair himself might soon be busing tables and stripping beds. 117766 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/47547-immigration-worker-shortage.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/hotels-seek-workers-on-eve-of-summer-travel-season.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/hotels-seek-workers-on-eve-of-summer-travel-season.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:20:41 EDT A judge says he will release a man who was jailed last week for failing to make sure his daughter earned her high school equivalency diploma. Butler County Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus's decision Friday would let Brian Gegner out of jail if his 18-year-old daughter Brittany attends a GED preparatory class and schedules the test before the next court date. 117728 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/father-jailed-over-daughters-truancy-to-be-freed.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:20:14 EDT The nation's largest single immigration raid, resulting in nearly 400 arrests earlier this week, violated the constitutional rights of workers at a meatpacking plant, a federal lawsuit says. 117765 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/lawsuit-immigration-raid-violated-workers-rights.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:13:23 EDT