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Thirty fires in third night of Stockholm riots

Police arrested eight people on Tuesday night as thirty cars were torched across southern and western Stockholm, in what was the third consecutive night of unrest in the Swedish capital. Read More

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Seven arrested over Stockholm’s Husby riots

Seven people were arrested on Tuesday following the Husby riots in northern Stockholm, with Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt warning that the unrest may continue. Read More

Young people are three times as likely to be unemployed in global economy

By Katie Allen, The Guardian UN agency warns of unrest with global youth unemployment forecast to reach 12.8% by 2018 after falling since 2009 Global youth unemployment has risen to close to its crisis peak and will climb higher as the economic recovery falters, a report by a UN agency has warned….

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U.S. denies Venezuela’s spying charges against filmmaker

The United States denied that a US filmmaker arrested in Venezuela was a spy tasked with sowing civil unrest throughout the country, as claimed by Caracas. The alleged agent, Timothy Tracy, was detained Wednesday at an airport near Caracas as he tried to leave the country, according to Venezuelan…

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Venezuela arrests accused U.S. intelligence agent

Venezuela said Thursday it has arrested a US national whom it accused of being an intelligence agent tasked with sowing chaos and civil unrest throughout the country. The alleged agent, Timothy Hallet Tracy, was detained Wednesday at an airport near Caracas as he tried to leave the country,…

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Inside Story- Is ethnic unrest brewing in southeast Asia?

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Bryan Cranston headed for the stage

With AMC’s hit show “Breaking Bad” comes to an end, show star Bryan Cranston has signed on for a new project — this one off-screen. Cranston, who began his career on the stage, will head to Massachusetts to star as Lyndon B. Johnson in a new production by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.From the L.A. Times:”All The Way” will open the new season at American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts, with performances scheduled to begin Sept. 13. The company said that the play dramatizes Johnson’s first year in the Oval Office as he deals with the conflict in Vietnam and civil-rights unrest at home. Schenkkan wrote the play as a commission for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where it was produced in 2012 with a different cast and directed by Bill Rauch, who is artistic director of the Oregon company. Rauch is returning as director of the new production.Continue Reading… Read More