TUNIS, Tunisia — One of the gunmen who killed European tourists and others at a prominent Tunisian museum was known to the intelligence services but no formal links to a particular extremist group have been established, the prime minister said Thursday. The attack on Tunisia's National Bardo Museum left 23 dead, scores wounded and threatens both Tunisia's fledgling democracy and its struggling tourism industry. It was the worst attack at a tourist site in Tunisia in years. 

STOCKHOLM — Gunmen with automatic weapons stormed into a restaurant in Sweden's second largest city, killing two people and wounding about a dozen in a shooting that police said was likely gang-related. Police said the eatery in suburban Goteborg was full when the gunmen opened fire in one of Sweden's most serious shooting incidents in recent years. It wasn't clear who the attackers were targeting or why, but police said there were known gang members inside the restaurant. 

TORSHAVN, Faeroe Islands — For months, even years, accommodation on the remote Faeroe Islands has been booked out by fans who don't want to miss an almost three-minute-long astronomical sensation. Now they just have to hope the clouds will blow away so they can fully experience Friday's brief total solar eclipse. Scores of eclipse chasers and scientists have invaded the archipelago armed with telescopes, cameras and glasses for safe direct solar viewing ahead of the big event. 

FRANCE-SURVEILLANCE POWERS

PARIS — France's government pressed a surveillance bill Thursday that would give French intelligence services legal backing to vacuum up metadata in hopes of preventing an imminent terror attack. The measure has already prompted an outcry from some privacy advocates, human rights groups and the Paris bar association, despite the government's efforts to distance itself from U.S.-style mass surveillance. 

NETHERLANDS-POLITICS

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will have to hunt for new allies in the Senate after voters in provincial elections, angry at years of austerity, weakened his ruling coalition's tenuous grip on Parliament's upper house. "We will have to work hard to find support" in the Senate, Rutte said in a televised debate early Thursday. 

EU-EUROPE-UKRAINE-RUSSIA

BRUSSELS — Ukraine urged the European Union on Thursday to stay united in keeping up sanctions pressure on Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, as EU leaders gathered for a two-day summit. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to divide Europe over Ukraine and that this would be a "disaster for the free world."