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Sighs of relief were exhaled across France Wednesday, with news that rioting in suburbs north of Paris had eased considerably during the third consecutive night of unrest. But even if the relative calm restored to the housing projects of Villiers-le-Bel lessened fears France might be experiencing the same kind of outbreak of violence in Paris's "banlieues" which spread to over 300 French towns in 2005, there was one reason for jittery French observers to hold their breath. Just as there were signs of cooling tempers among rioting youths, French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed that he planned...
...hours Monday night; police responded firing back tear gas and flashballs at assailants. Rioters also torched dozens of cars, several businesses, police posts and municipal buildings, and used their intimate knowledge of the labyrinth of project buildings to maneuver security forces into exposed areas. Despite a call for calm by families of the deceased, local youths continued their arson attacks and clashes Monday to protest what they say is police responsibility for the deaths...
...Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender, Northern Rock, is being kept afloat by guarantees from the Bank of England. Brown has defended his government's handling of the affair, and says his response to diverse challenges in the first months after he took office prove his competence. He looked calm and in control after terrorists targeted London and Glasgow in July and when an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was followed in September by the first case of bluetongue virus affecting U.K. livestock...
...only half-a-dozen or so bombs can be heard hitting southern Baghdad and other quarters of the city. On other nights neighborhoods within earshot of the Green Zone take brutal hammerings, a dozen strikes or more crashing in the darkness. For weeks it has gone like this - relative calm in the city during the day followed on many evenings by a chorus of explosions around the city. In the past several days, however, dawn has brought blasts of its own, a seeming answer by insurgents and militia fighters to assertions by U.S. and Iraqi officials that Baghdad and other...
...have begun cautiously venturing back to the city from safe havens found in neighboring countries or elsewhere in Iraq. Life in some parts of the city has taken on an air of normalcy, with shops and restaurants open at night. But even if the current level of calm holds, Baghdad remains the center of one of the bloodiest realms on Earth on any given...