Europe
The best of breaking news from journalists on-the-ground in Europe.
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Today has been the opening day of Primavera Sound 2013 in Barcelona. First day of the Primavera Sound has been free entrance and the festival will take place until may 26th, with more than 100 artists and bands performing.
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Matteo Renzi, Mayor of Florence, is in Monopoli to endorse Michele Suma, candidate for mayor, during upcoming municipal elections.
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Savages, an English post-punk rock band formed in London in 2011, plays at Circolo Magnolia in Milano. Savages had been nominated for the Sound of 2013, and played day two of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in 2013.
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Giovanni Visconti (Team Movistar) wins stage 17 of the 2013 Giro d'Italia, Caravaggio – Vicenza. Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin Sharp) takes second, and Luka Mezgec (Team Argos Shimano) takes the third place on the podium.
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by Santino Pani
A debate named Lessons from US Prisons: Third annual Prisoners’ Advice Service/ Justice Gap" held at University College London, where Professor Cleve Stafford, Judge John Samuels and John Podmore intervened.
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Children sand-jumping at Southbank Centre. The photos were taken as part of the UK Aware Campaign.
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Red Arrows display team gave a show at Patras, Greece, after the end of the last phase of their training, at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, practising for a summer of displays. The team have flown with all nine members for the first time since 2011.
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FM Wolfgang Schäuble and the Portuguese colleague Vítor Gaspar have met in Berlin to exchange information and views on economic and monetary union, the financial assistance program for Portugal and bilateral cooperation between Germany and Portugal.
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The Metropolitan police said officers were attending reports of ‘an assault’ on John Wilson Street at 2.20pm after eyewitness reports of a shooting, amid some gruesome claims from the scene. A number of carving knives have been found at the scene.
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Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich gives a speech at the opening of the new facilities of the Interior Ministry in Berlin with Enak Ferlemann, Parliamentary State Secretary .
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by Amer Ghazzal
Hundreds of Lawyers and members of the legal profession stage a protest outside the British Parliament in Westminster against proposed changes to criminal aid which will save GBP 220 million in legal aid.
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Spanish model Malena Costa attends Herbal Essence Garden photocall at Mercure Santo Domingo Hotel in Madrid, Spain.
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by Tomas Hajek
Interest remarkable view of Brno from the highest building in the Czech Republic showed several hundred people. AZ Tower is open to the public.
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by Jacob Khrist
A Femen activist has been arrested after carrying out a topless protest in Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral.
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A group of temporary workers, gathered under the name "Platform for the basic income and rights", has occupied the headquarters of 'INPS (National Institute of Social Security), to claim an income and new social welfare.








































































