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Violence erupted in new areas from Manchester in northern England where youths set shops alight, to the industrial cities of Wolverhampton and West Bromwich in central England where people smashed into stores and torched cars, police said.

Police in London were bracing for more trouble after what they said was the worst night of disorder in living memory, and their numbers were ramped up from 6,000 to 16,000 on Tuesday night as Cameron vowed to do “everything necessary to restore order to the streets”.

Widespread unrest across the British capital, and the inability of police to deal swiftly with Monday’s multiple outbreaks of violence, have prompted questions over security plans for next summer’s sports extravaganza.

British Home Secretary Theresa May said officials would “look at what is necessary” to ensure a trouble-free Olympics, where police will be aiming to provide security for some 10,500 athletes.

His trip comes a day after Gulf nations Kuwait and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Damascus, following in the footsteps of Arab kingpin Saudi Arabia in moves that both “encouraged” and “heartened” the United States.

President Bashar al-Assad named a new defence minister on Monday as he faced regional isolation after three of six Gulf Cooperation Council states recalled their envoys and Sunni Islam’s top authority urged an end to the bloodshed.

The village of Majer, 10 kilometres (six miles) south of Zliten in western Libya, was attacked late on Monday to try to help rebel fighters enter the government-held city from the south, government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said.

“After the first three bombs dropped at around 11:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Monday, many residents of the area ran to the bombed houses to try to save their loved ones. Three more bombs struck,” he told reporters on an organised visit.

The country’s consumer price index rose 6.5 percent last month compared to a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement, the highest level since June 2008 when it reached 7.1 percent.

The July reading is likely to fuel concern among policymakers anxious about inflation’s potential to trigger social unrest, and about instability in the Chinese economy at a time of renewed global financial peril.

Wen’s remarks were the first to be made by the government of China, the largest foreign holder of US debt, since an unprecedented downgrade of the United States’ credit rating last week.

They came as stock markets around the world plunged to fresh lows in a massive sell-off driven by fears of a new global recession, before US stocks rebounded strongly in early trade Tuesday, surging well over one percent.

But it offered no successor to the $600 billion “QE2” stimulus program that wound up in June, though it said it was reviewing the tools it has on hand to boost a slowing economy.

Meeting as worries grew of a new US recession, the Fed’s policy board admitted growth so far this year had been “considerably slower” than expected.

In Salford, part of greater Manchester in northwest England, rioters threw bricks at police and set fire to buildings. A BBC cameraman was assaulted.

Television pictures showed flames leaping from shops and cars in Salford and Manchester, and plumes of thick black smoke billowing across roads.

The latest survey of more than 200 economists, published four years to the day that credit markets first started to dry up, showed analysts cutting forecasts for U.S. growth, a reflection of widespread concern the global economy is slowing rapidly.

Punishing losses in world financial markets, culminating in widespread carnage in risky assets this week following Standard & Poor’s downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt, suggest sentiment has soured — and decisively.

The Fed’s policysetting Federal Open Market Committee, in a 7-3 vote, overcame internal discord in the first triple dissent against a policy decision since 1992.

Investors were still unsure whether the Fed’s even stronger promise to maintain rates at rock-bottom lows until mid-2013 would be enough to revive a flagging economic recovery.

Even as Asian equity markets pulled back from another day of staggering losses as they closed, European shares tumbled for an eighth session running, with news of an unexpected drop in British factory output in June highlighting the weakness of the economy.

The worsening market trauma has piled pressure on the U.S. Federal Reserve to announce fresh measures of support for the U.S. economy at a regular policy meeting on Tuesday, but analysts said its options are limited.

Speaking after a regular meeting by the Chinese cabinet, Wen alluded to debt problems in the United States and Europe and called on “relevant” countries to implement responsible monetary policies and rein in fiscal deficits.

This is the first time Beijing has publicly commented on the shakeout unfolding in global markets after the United States lost its top-rated credit rating and as Europe’s debt crisis worsens.

Japanese auto executives have repeatedly warned that the yen had strengthened beyond what domestic exporters could cope with, but Honda Chief Financial Officer Fumihiko Ike’s comment was the first indication so far that any concrete steps are being considered to reduce output in Japan.

“We currently have a three-year plan under which we are assuming a rate of 80 yen to the dollar,” Ike told a small group of reporters at Honda’s headquarters in Tokyo.

They said that message was conveyed directly to Saleh, who emerged Sunday from the Riyadh hospital where he had been receiving treatment since a bomb attack in his palace on June 3 left him with severe burns and other wounds. The sources did not indicate whether Saleh accepted that request.

The latest development in the wrangle over Saleh’s fate came as he renewed a vow to return as soon as his health permits to Yemen, where six months of protests demanding his ouster have seen the impoverished state slide toward the brink of civil war.

Syria “will not relent in pursuing the terrorist groups in order to protect the stability of the country and the security of the citizens,” state news agency SANA quoted Assad as telling Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

“But (Syria) is also determined to continue reforms … and is open to any help offered by friendly and brotherly states.”

So he traded his university sociology and psychology books for a semi-automatic weapon bought with his own money in Libya and joined a group of rebels who believe they have the best chance of reaching Tripoli and toppling Muammar Gaddafi.

“I just had a year left before getting my degree but I dropped out,” said Adam, 22, dressed in camouflage fatigues and a black bullet-proof vest at a training site in Libya’s Western Mountains.

Scenes of ransacked stores, torched cars and blackened buildings frightened and outraged Britons just a year before London is to host the Olympics. London’s Metropolitan Police force said Tuesday it would flood the streets with 16,000 officers over the next 24 hours, but acknowledged they could not guarantee an end to the violence.

“We have lots of information to suggest that there may be similar disturbances tonight,” Cmdr. Simon Foy told the BBC. “That’s exactly the reason why the Met (police force) has chosen to now actually really ‘up the game’ and put a significant number of officers on the streets.”

Speaking to reporters on his return to Turkey, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the talks were cordial but did not say what specific steps they had discussed or whether Assad had agreed to consider them.

“We discussed ways to prevent confrontation between the army and the people and tensions like those in Hama in the most open and clear way,” Davutoglu said, referring to the Syrian city that has become a flashpoint in the 5-month-old uprising against Assad’s autocratic rule.

Fueled by millions of dollars from national labor groups, the challenge to GOP incumbents could shift control of the Wisconsin Senate to Democrats and provide a new gauge of the public mood less than a year after Republicans made sweeping gains in this state and others.

Turnout was strong in the morning and steady in the afternoon in communities like Whitefish Bay, Menomonee Falls and Shorewood, where Sen. Albert Darling was one of six Republicans trying to keep her seat.

Though not widely offered by U.S. doctors, gender-detecting blood tests have been sold online to consumers for the past few years. Their promises of early and accurate results prompted genetics researchers to take a closer look.

They analyzed 57 published studies of gender testing done in rigorous research or academic settings – though not necessarily the same methods or conditions used by direct-to-consumer firms.

The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also received a 20-year sentence for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

He stood quietly Tuesday as the decision of the Texas jury was read, giving him the maximum sentence on both counts. They are to be served consecutively. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said the 55-year-old will be eligible for parole in 35 years.