Wednesday, 22 May 2013 09:08
Around 200 people hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a Stockholm suburb during the second day of rioting, which was triggered by the fatal police shooting of a man wielding a knife.
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Around 200 people hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a Stockholm suburb during the second day of rioting, which was triggered by the fatal police shooting of a man wielding a knife.

About 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in the UK, the government has said.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah are "propping up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and giving him increasing support.

David Cameron, British prime minister, is facing deepening splits within his Conservative Party, with a divisive bill to legalise gay marriage returning to parliament.

At least three people have been killed in back-to-back car bombings in the semi-autonomous Russian republic of Dagestan, Interfax news agency reports citing authorities.

Thousands of people have protested in Rome against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession.

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision song contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune 'Only Teardrops'.

Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich have scuffled as both sides held thousands-strong rallies in the capital, Kiev, police and local media have said.

French President Francois Hollande has signed a gay marriage and adoption bill into law, a day after the country's Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the conservative opposition.

A long-delayed inquiry to determine circumstances that led to the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian intelligence officer, could be abandoned after the official responsible for leading it partly upheld a British government request to withhold crucial evidence.
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