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Today fear in a Swedish city where police are hunting a sniper who may have immigrants in his sights.

Resignation and sadness among Chinese farmers who are losing

their homes beneath rising river waters. It's election time in Ivory Coast,

big crowds in every town, but we discover always the same faces and why so many

of France's upcoming rock groups reckon it sounds a whole lot better in

English.

Police and the southern Swedish port city of Malmo are investigating a string of shootings

which may they think be racially motivated.

There have been at least a dozen incidents in the last few months, although so far only one person's been killed.

A police spokesman has denounced as a hoax a widely circulated text message purportedly sent by the police which talked of a murderer

loose on the streets and advised people to stay inside for their own protection.

But Tim Mansall, who's in Malmour, says people are scared and the shootings have revived some

uncomfortable memories.

I was mildly nervous as I approached the little corner shop that serves as both a tailors and a barbe's. TV crews had been in and out for the last two days.

It had been splashed over all the papers and I was worried that the man who ran it might just have had enough of inquisitive journalists.

How wrong I was.

NASA Yasthan Pana couldn't have been more pleased to see me.

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