London, Aug.10 (ANI): Governments of several European countries, including Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Finland have issued safety advisories to their citizens to avoid traveling to riot-hit Britain.
According to the Daily Mail, the Der Spiegel magazine of Germany has compared London to Somalia capital Mogadishu.
"The television images dominating screens this week could be right out of Mogadishu," it wrote.
"As difficult to imagine as it might be, the pictures aren't from Somalia, but from London, right in the centre of Europe. And they will never be forgotten," it added.
In newspapers, TZ in Munich asked: "What has gone wrong with Britain? Like the Sex Pistols said, it truly is anarchy in the UK."
The tabloid Bild summed up the feelings of many with the headline: "Chaos reigns in London!"
Countries including Canada and Australia were left stunned that the kind of unrest seen in Greece and France had befallen Britain.
The Dutch newspaper Het Parool and the Argentinian paper Clarin both led on the London riots
In the U.S., cars burning across the English capital featured prominently even as Washington and Wall Street struggled amid the debt crisis.
The New York Times called the riots 'the worst outbreak of social unrest in Britain in 25 years'.
Online, the Huffington Post news website ran the headline 'London's Burning' while one contributor to the venerable Wall Street Journal wrote: "These people are welcome to march and protest, but when they start robbing and destroying others' property then I'm all for declaring them targets for target practice."
An editorial in Le Monde, one of France's leading newspapers, said the UK was asking itself: "How to put an end to the destruction, which has in three days devastated whole neighbourhoods in London and its suburbs, as well as the cities of Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool?"
The riots also led every TV bulletin in Spain, with laSexta describing 'a lawless city'.
Spanish newspaper El Pa¡s and Austrian newspaper Voralberger Nachrichten have both published in-depth coverage of the riots
The David Cameron coalition government has come in for much criticism from British citizens for its delayed response to the crisis.
Cameron had to return from his holiday yesterday and conduct several meetings of the COBRA that looks after security in the United Kingdom.
The British Parliament has been recalled Thursday from its summer recess to review the situation. (ANI)
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