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Young rioters clashed with police overnight and targeted a mayor’s home with a burning car as France faced a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of a teenager of North African descent, but overall violence appeared to lessen compared with previous nights.

President Macron fights to contain a mounting crisis as unrest continues over deadly police shooting of teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent in Paris suburb.

Swedish police allows burning of Quran "in line with free-speech protections", but after Turkish-led widespread outrage it opens an investigation into the man, originally from Iraq, for "agitation against an ethnic group".

In Greece’s general elections, the conservative New Democracy party led by former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a landslide victory with around 80 percent of the votes counted so far.

Front-runner Kyriakos Mitsotakis secured a strong win in the last month's election, but asked voters back to the ballot boxes after falling short of forming a single-party government.

Authorities in Belgium requested a reassessment of an Afghan refugee’s status who supports the Taliban.

1,502,319 signatures were officially submitted to the European Commission (EC), calling on the EU to ban fur farming and the placement of farmed fur products on the market once and for all.

Twenty-five soldiers from a NATO-led peacekeeping force were injured in clashes with Serb protesters while defending three town halls in northern Kosovo, while Serbia’s president put the army on the highest level of combat alert.

At least 25 civilians have been killed in a wave of Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, as Kyiv said it was nearly ready to launch a huge assault to retake occupied land.

A new UK law affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, is “incompatible” with the country’s international obligations, the UN rights chief said on Thursday.