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A series of CCTV images have been issued of suspects being hunted after protests turned violent in Bristol.
Police made 30 arrests following the clashes in the Stokes Croft area in the early hours of Friday.
Officers and protesters were injured during a second demonstration in a week against the opening of a Tesco store in the area.
Images of more than 80 people have been issued by Avon and Somerset Police following the violence.
Rocks, bottles and other missiles were thrown during the protests, which had started peacefully in Cheltenham Road, at about 2000 BST on Thursday.
Police said they were determined to identify as many people involved as possible and bring them to justice.
Assistant Chief Constable Rod Hansen said “we cannot do it all alone”.
“So I am appealing to the community, to all the residents, and traders and other people whose lives have been severely disrupted, whose property may have been damaged and whose personal safety may have been put at risk by the violence: help us bring those responsible to justice.
“”I would urge people to study these photographs, and if you think you know who any of these people are, and where they might be, please contact us.”
On Friday morning, police raided a property in the road which led to a roof-top stand-off with protesters.
The road was closed while the raid took place, before being re-opened.
A week ago, the Tesco Express store in the street was damaged during an earlier protest after another raid on a squat.
Police said last week’s operation was carried out because they feared the newly-opened branch was to be petrol bombed.
The store has been at the centre of a campaign against its opening, but Tesco insists the majority of locals have condemned the violence and said there was strong support for the store.
Thursday night’s demonstration began as a “good-spirited event” attended by about eight neighbourhood beat officers determined to keep things peaceful, police said, .
“But the crowd grew, from around 250 or so protesters earlier in the evening to more than 400,” a spokesman said.
But there were claims officers contributed to the problems.
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On Friday morning, officers raided a property believed to be “directly connected” to the disorder
One protester, 39-year-old Richard Ayres, said: “I received three blows to my legs and a blow to my head for which I have received hospital treatment.”
He said he was “flabbergasted” about the way officers had conducted themselves.
Chris D’Agorne, who lives in Bristol and works for the BBC, said: “I got trapped between the police and the protesters who were throwing bins, glass bottles and bricks.
“Occasionally police officers would come out of the line to strike protesters, but they were targeted and would then have to fall back.”
A spokesman said a number of officers had sustained injuries during the violence.
A Tesco spokesperson said: “It’s very sad that a handful of individuals have once again turned against police and the local community.
“[The violence] in Stokes Croft and beyond underlines that this is not an anti-Tesco protest – our store is not even open.”
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Relegation battlers Blackburn, Blackpool and Wigan are all involved in the Premier League ahead of Chelsea v Tottenham in the late action at Stamford Bridge at 1730 BST.
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The scene of the murder at Rooney Park in Kilkeel
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Police in Dublin have arrested two men in connection with the murder of a man in Kilkeel, County Down.
A man in his twenties was arrested after he made enquires about applying for a passport in the city.
Gardai arrested a second man, also in his twenties, in a follow-up search in north Dublin.
Ukrainian born, Dmytro Grysunov, 29, was shot dead during a clash between two groups of foreign nationals at Rooney Park in Kilkeel last Saturday.
A 32-year-old woman appeared in court in Newry on Friday charged in connection with the murder.
Lineta Kundrotiene of Ronney Park, Kilkeel is charged with assisting an offender, perverting the course of justice and withholding information.
Newry Magistrates Court heard she had been living with Devidas Paliutis, who is wanted for questioning about the murder of Mr Grysunov.
Mr Paliutis was freed in error from Maghaberry Prison last autumn and has been on the run since.
The court heard that the accused had been living openly in Kilkeel with him for four months.
Ms Kundrotiene’s solicitor said she was not a threat to the public, but may be of significant assistance to police.
She was released on bail.
Three men aged 31, 36 and 26 have also been released on police bail pending further enquiries.
It is believed a dispute between the two groups started when a house was attacked at Haywood Way at 2100 BST on 23 April.
The trouble then moved to Rooney Park, where at least two shots were fired in the street.
The attackers then fled the scene on foot.
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The Taliban have claimed a number of deadly attacks on foreign and Afghan troops in recent weeks
The Taliban have announced the start of a spring offensive across Afghanistan.
In a statement, the group said the fighting would start on Sunday, targeting foreign troops as well as Afghan security forces and officials.
It warned civilians to stay away from public gatherings, military bases, government buildings and convoys.
Meanwhile initial findings from a Nato inquiry into a deadly attack at Kabul airport on Wednesday suggest the gunman was not connected to the Taliban.
The man, an Afghan pilot, killed eight US troops and a contractor. He was later found dead.
The Taliban claimed the attack, but the coalition said there was no evidence for this and the gunman appeared to have acted alone.
Saturday’s statement by the Taliban said the group would attack “foreign invading forces, members of their spy networks and other spies, high-ranking officials of the Kabul puppet administration”.
It said the war would continue “until the foreign invading forces pull out of Afghanistan”.
The Taliban have claimed a series of attacks in recent weeks – including the killing of Kandahar police chief Khan Mohammed Mujahid and a suicide bombing at an Afghan base near Jalalabad that killed five foreign and five Afghan troops.
However on Friday, a Pentagon report said the insurgents’ momentum had been “broadly arrested” following a US troop surge last year.
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Much of Tuscaloosa was ravaged by a mile-wide tornado on Wednesday
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The death toll from the tornadoes that hit the southern US this week has risen to 340, in one of the worst twister outbreaks in the country’s history.
Soldiers and emergency teams are still searching for bodies and survivors.
More than 200 tornadoes were reported across six southern US states on Tuesday and Wednesday.
During a visit to Alabama, which bore the brunt of the storms, President Barack Obama said he had “never seen devastation like this”.
Mr Obama was speaking in Tuscaloosa, an Alabama town hit by a mile-wide (1.6km) tornado on Wednesday.
“We are going to do everything we can to help these communities rebuild,” Obama said. “We’re going to make sure you’re not forgotten.”
President Barack Obama has visited storm-ravaged communities in Alabama as south-eastern US states face up to the aftermath of devastating storms
At least 246 people died in Alabama – mostly on Wednesday.
As many as a million homes and businesses in the state are still without power.
The overall death toll across the southern US makes it the second-deadliest tornado outbreak in US history, the Associated Press news agency reports.
It says the largest death toll ever was in March 1925, when 747 people were killed in storms that raged through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley said he expected more bodies to be found in the coming days.
The mayor of Birmingham, the largest city in the state, told reporters on Friday: “Whole neighbourhoods of housing, just completely gone. Churches, gone. Businesses, gone… [it] seems like a bomb has been dropped.”
Tornadoes and storms have also caused deaths in Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia and in Virginia.
A state of emergency remains in place in those states.
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Sir Patrick recorded the lyrics in one take
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Veteran Sky At Night presenter Sir Patrick Moore has lent his voice to a “cosmic rock song” written by a Northumberland musician and composer.
Carl Cape, 26, wrote Glittering Sky after being inspired by the night skies above his Morpeth home.
He asked the 88-year-old presenter to add his voice to the song when he interviewed him for community radio.
Mr Cape said Sir Patrick was a “true professional” and recorded the lyrics in a single take.
Mr Cape, who works in public relations, said: “Sir Patrick has inspired me over the years since I started watching the Sky At Night as a kid.
“When i decided to write something to reflect what I could see every night in the skies above Northumberland I came up with the line ‘I can see a million stars’ and thought straight away about Sir Patrick.
“When I had a chance to interview him for my local community radio station I asked him to do the words and he was just great.
“Although he did tell me he wasn’t too keen on some of the loud drums I will have on the finished track.
“He was as sharp as a button and I was just in awe of him.”
Sir Patrick, who began presenting The Sky At Night in 1957, said: “When Carl asked me to contribute some words to his music I was delighted to oblige.”
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Rangers hammer Motherwell in the early kick-off, with three more Scottish Premier League games now underway.
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A handwritten pamphlet from 1858 on the rules of club football is to be put up for sale by Sheffield FC.
The document is believed to be one of the earliest instructions on the sport, and will be auctioned as part of an archive belonging to the club.
The archive is expected to fetch up to £1.2m when auctioned in July, and was called an important historical document by auctioneers Sotheby’s, the FT said.
Sheffield FC is the world’s oldest football club, formed in 1857.
The archive is being taken to Paris, New York and Doha before auction.
“It reflects the fact that football is now truly a global game,” said Gabriel Heaton, senior specialist in Sotheby’s books department, the FT reported.
The pamphlet introduces laws of the game that still exist, such as the indirect free kick, the corner kick and the use of a crossbar.
Another rule states: “Pushing with the hands is allowed but no hacking or tripping is fair under any circumstances whatsoever.”
Dr Heaton said although the game was already being played in private schools and Cambridge university, under a variety of different rules, the Sheffield document introduced innovations and removed the game from the elite educational establishment for the first time.
Sheffield FC chairman Richard Tims said the decision to sell the archive was a “tough” one, but had been taken to secure the club’s future, the FT reported.
Mr Tims said the decision to sell the archive was sparked by the sale at Sotheby’s New York last December of an 1891 document spelling out the rules of basketball for $4.3m, more than double its pre-sale estimate.
“If you are looking for a piece of footballing history, this is the ultimate prize,” he said.
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The US stopped food aid to North Korea in 2009 when Pyongyang said it was no longer wanted
US officials have denied an accusation from former President Jimmy Carter that the US is withholding food aid from North Korea.
A state department official said the North Korean government was responsible for the plight of its people.
US food aid was suspended two years ago after the North said it was not wanted.
North Korea has warned of severe food shortages this year as a result of the harsh winter. The UN has announced plans to distribute emergency food aid.
The UN’s World Food Programme said 3.5m people in the North who were suffering from malnutrition would be fed.
The WFP said the operation “will include the highest standards of monitoring and control to ensure that food gets to where it is needed”.
A regular concern of donors to North Korea is that aid gets siphoned off to the large armed forces and does not reach those most in need.
US and South Korean officials have blamed North Korea’s autocratic government for the chronic food shortages the country faces.
North Korea has been dependent on food aid since famine in the mid-1990s.
After a three-day trip to North Korea last week Mr Carter accused the US and South Korea of human rights violations against North Koreans by withholding food aid.
“One of the most important human rights is to have food to eat, and for South Korea and the US and others to deliberately withhold food aid to the North Korean people is really a human rights violation,” he said.
“As you know well, the North Koreans were the ones who abruptly suspended the aid program in 2009, ordering our humanitarian personnel to leave the country and leave behind 20,000 metric tons of US food,” the state department’s director of policy planning, Jacob Sullivan, said.
“Everyone should remember who is responsible for the plight of the North Korean people, and that is the North Korean government itself,” he said.
State department spokesperson Darragh Paradiso said on Thursday that US policy towards North Korea was “consistent with our long-standing goal of providing emergency humanitarian assistance to the people of countries around the world where there are legitimate humanitarian needs”.
The US remained “concerned about the well being of the North Korean people,” she said.
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Rebels have made some gains in Misrata
Libya says it will not allow any more sea deliveries to the besieged city of Misrata, and that aid agencies should preferably use land routes instead.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim also said rebels in the city would be given four days to lay down their arms in return for an amnesty.
If they continued to fight they would face “total fire” he said.
His comments came after Nato said forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi had been trying to lay mines off Misrata.
Mr Ibrahim said he knew nothing of any mine-laying.
Misrata, the only significant rebel holding in the west of the country, has been under siege from pro-Gaddafi forces for several weeks.
They have recently retreated from the city centre, but rebels say pro-Gaddafi forces have continued to bombard civilian areas from a distance.
Rebels said several government tanks had tried to re-enter the city on Friday.
The BBC’s Ian Pannell reports from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that despite claims that loyalist forces are now in control of almost all of Misrata, it seems that the government is on the back foot, under pressure from Nato and desperate to reverse recent losses.
Mr Ibrahim said the government had proved that rebels had received shipments of weapons to Misrata from the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
“We will not allow weapons and supplies to come through the sea port to the rebels,” he said.
Libyan state TV announced: “Any attempt to enter the port will be attacked, regardless of the justifications.”
Brigadier Rob Weighill: Warships stationed in the Mediterranean stopped the mine-laying
Human rights groups say more than 1,000 people have been killed in the fighting in Misrata and many more have been wounded.
The port is a lifeline for rebels and citizens in the city, allowing them to receive supplies of food and medicine, and enabling the evacuation of the wounded and of stranded migrant workers.
Earlier, Nato’s director of operations in Libya, Brig Rob Weighill, said the alliance had intercepted pro-Gaddafi forces trying to lay mines about 2-3km out from Misrata’s port.
He said the mining showed Col Gaddafi’s “complete disregard for international law and his willingness to attack humanitarian delivery efforts”.
Crews were disposing of the mines, he added.
Brig Weighill added that rebels in Misrata had made advances in recent days.
“The rebels have expanded their perimeter significantly over the past week. To suggest they are winning would be overly optimistic,” he said. “They are putting up a very spirited fight.”
Nato is enforcing a UN resolution to protect civilians in Libya amid a two-month revolt inspired by other uprisings in the Arab world.
In the past week fighting has escalated on Libya’s western border, spilling over into Tunisia.
The border post of Zintan has changed hands repeatedly, and Libyan military vehicles were seen in the town of Dahiba on the Tunisian side of the border on Friday.
Tunisia has condemned the incursion of forces from Libya and summoned the Tunisian ambassador to express its “most vigorous protests”.
Thousands of people have fled across Libya’s borders to escape the violence of recent weeks.
Mr Ibrahim, the government spokesman, blamed rebels for unrest at the border crossing, and said Libya would respect Tunisian sovereignty.
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