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The British soldier brutally killed in London in a suspected terror attack was a drummer in a military band who had served in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.Lee Rigby, 25, known as “Riggers” to his friends, was killed in broad daylight on Wednesday as he walked in Woolwich, South London, near an army barracks.In a statement, the U.K.

STOCKHOLM -- Hundreds of youths have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers.Violence spread from the north to the south of the city on Wednesday as groups of youths pushed through Stockholm's suburbs ...

LONDON - A mother-of-two who confronted a blood-soaked, knife-carrying man in the moments after the suspected ideologically motivated murder of a British soldier said she did so in order to protect the crowd of onlookers.Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, jumped off the bus she was riding in southeast London Wednesday when she saw a man slumped on the sidewalk next to a crashed car.British police said on T...

The Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that U.S.

ROME, Italy - An American tourist underwent emergency surgery after being stabbed in the Italian city of Florence on Tuesday, a hospital doctor and media reports said.The 68-year-old was in front of the city’s famed Duomo cathedral listening to a street musician with his wife when someone tried to mug him and he resisted, according to a report by Italian news agency, ANSA.The report said he suffer...

A man, reported to be a British soldier, was attacked in a London street Wednesday in what is being investigated as a possible terror attack or politically-motivated killing.Eyewitnesses told ITV News that a man was attacked in the street by two individuals who were later shot by officers.Local lawmaker Nick Raynsford said the dead man was a soldier serving at a nearby barracks but the Ministry of...