Monday, May 27, 2013
French police braced for violence on Sunday as a mass demonstration against a new gay marriage law kicked off in Paris amid warnings hardliners were expected to mingle with protesters and cause trouble.
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More than 4,000 Russian singers have performed outdoors in St. Petersburg with the aim of setting a world record for the largest choir. |
Britain's government is setting up a new terrorism task force to tackle radical preachers and extremism, officials said Sunday, days after suspects apparently linked to extremist Islamist activists brutally killed a British soldier in a London street.
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Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.
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Pope Francis paid tribute to a courageous priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia as a martyr and urged mobsters on Sunday to abandon their evil ways, particularly the exploitation of people in trafficking rackets such as prostitution.
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French President Francois Hollande's popularity rating inched up in May from a record low the previous month, a poll showed on Sunday, a rare positive sign after a first year in office marked by rising unemployment.
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Italians voted in local elections on Sunday that will test political parties three months from a general election that left no clear winner and a month after the start of a fragile coalition cabinet.
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Swiss police said Sunday they had arrested 61 people in clashes at a politically charged techno parade in Berne, which the authorities said left 21 members of the security forces injured.
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Cars were torched and police faced stone-throwing youths in Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Sunday, but the nightly riots that have raged for a week appeared to be easing, police said.
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