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The Home Office says it is drawing up contingency plans to cope with a possible influx of immigration from Greece if the eurozone collapses.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP):There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP):A violent scuffle erupted in Ukraine's Parliament yesterday evening over a bill that would allow the use of the Russian language in courts, hospitals, and other institutions in the Russian-speaking regions of the country....

KIEV, Ukraine (AP):Ukraine's parliament has banned smoking in most public places ahead of the Euro 2012 football championship in June.Lawmakers yesterday approved a law to make smoking in schools, colleges, hospitals, restaurants, museums, and public...

STOCKHOLM (AP):Princess Estelle, the heir to the Swedish throne, was baptised yesterday amid pomp and pageantry in the chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm.Some 550 guests, including royals from Scandinavian countries and The Netherlands, witnessed...

Interim Mali President Dioncounda Traore was yesterday taken to hospital with a head wound after being attacked by demonstrators.

HARARE, (AP)Zimbabwe's justice minister rejected allegations that the country has state-sponsored violence and he vowed not to recognise gay rights after meeting with the United Nations (UN) human rights chief yesterday.Patrick Chinamasa said he told UN...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP): Hundreds of opposition protesters rallied yesterday in Bangladesh's capital to demand that authorities release 33 of their leaders and find a missing opposition official. Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP):Two Americans jailed in Haiti were charged with conspiracy for participating in a street march that pressed for the return of the country's disbanded army, a Haitian government official disclosed yesterday.Reginald Delva...

BEIRUT (AP):A suicide vehicle bomb tore through the parking lot of a military compound in an eastern Syrian city yesterday killing nine people in the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security installations, the country's state...

ROME (AP):A bomb exploded outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as students arrived for class yesterday, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said.The device went off a few...

WASHINGTON (AP):The NATO meeting in Chicago is a chance for alliance leaders to proclaim solidarity and promise success.