LONDON (AP) — It took extra police and earlier closing times, but London’s Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s largest street festival, appeared to give the city what it had hoped for Monday: a chance to regroup and celebrate in the wake of the riots that had occurred in the capital earlier this month and swept across England.
The two-day carnival, launched in 1964, celebrates Caribbean culture and attracts about 1 million people.
 
 
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