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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s worst riots in years might benefit a far-right party in elections next year if scenes of immigrants burning cars and smashing up buildings cause voters to rethink their traditional welcome to foreigners.

GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay told governments yesterday that trying to fight terrorism by limiting personal freedoms and mistreating suspects could only worsen the problem.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A wave of bombs exploded in markets in mainly Shi’ite neighbourhoods across Baghdad today, killing more than 50 people in the latest attacks to increase fears Iraq risks sliding back into broad sectarian conflict.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) – A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 today struck the border region of the contiguous Central American nations of Panama and Costa Rica, the U.S.

JOHANNESBURG/MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – A website created for Africa’s proposed continental defence force proclaims a lofty mission “to support and keep peace for Africa’s prosperity and a better life for all in the world”.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Colombia and the Marxist-led FARC rebels have reached agreement on the critical issue of agrarian reform, the two sides said today in what appeared to be a major step forward for the peace process aimed at ending their long war.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said yesterday his group would stay in the Syrian war “to the end of the road” and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Brazil will cancel or restructure almost $900 million in debt owed by African countries, a Brazilian official said yesterday, as part of a plan to increase future funding to the continent.

LONDON (Reuters) – British counter-terrorism police yesterday arrested three people suspected of involvement in the killing of a soldier hacked to death in a London street by two men shouting Islamist slogans.

TOKYO (Reuters) – A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assasinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of hauntings.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the US Congress, an American official said.

BEIRUT,(Reuters) – The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said on Saturday his group would stay in the Syrian war “to the end of the road” and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found yesterday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited yesterday to the United States to face money-laundering charges, just days after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s genocide conviction was overturned.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday that Attorney General Eric Holder and other senior officials vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.

(Reuters) – Latin America should suffer just a short, sharp shock to its financial markets when the U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French magistrates decided yesterday not to place IMF chief Christine Lagarde under formal investigation over her role in a 285-million-euro ($368.5 million) arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this weekend.

SAN DIEGO,  (Reuters) – Former Mexican drug lord Eduardo Arellano Felix, the last of four brothers captured or killed in connection with a once-powerful Tijuana-based cartel depicted in the Oscar-winning film “Traffic,” pleaded guilty to U.S.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, under pressure to respond to allegations he was filmed using drugs, said yesterday that he does not smoke crack cocaine and could not comment on a video he had not seen or does not exist.