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Man guilty of sex assaults that led to protests outside asylum hotel in Epping, UK

Police have closed a section of a Newtownabbey road due to an anti-immigration protest this evening

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he intends to implement a plan to close all refugee hotels by the end of the current parliamentary term.

Macron and Starmer will co-chair in Paris on Thursday morning September 4th a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing for Ukraine, with Président Zelensky present

Three people were detained by police as protesters gathered outside the Bell Hotel in Epping after a temporary injunction to block asylum seekers from staying was overturned

British police officers attempt to stop protesters outside the migrant hotel in Epping.

UK closes embassy in Cairo after security barriers removed

Police are investigating after a car was driven close to a band on parade in Newry

The Irish ambassador to Germany has conveyed her concern to German authorities after an Irish demonstrator was assaulted by police officers during a pro-Palestine protest in Berlin

The Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court ruling requiring asylum seekers to be moved out of the Bell Hotel in Epping. Protesters gather outside migrant hotel in Epping, England, amid tensions following a reported sexual assault by an asylum seeker, leading to clashes with police

Starmer accuses Putin of "sabotaging peace hopes" after Russian strikes on Kyiv

Russia struck a British Council building in Kyiv

A French diplomat tells Al-Arabiya that the upcoming meeting between the E3 (France, Germany, UK) and Iran in Geneva is the "last chance" for Iran before snapback UN sanctions are triggered- which Iran has claimed will devastate their economy

Gardaí investigating aggravated burglaries and criminal damage at properties in Co Limerick have appealed for information about the movements of two cars

The British Foreign Office announces new sanctions against individuals linked to Iran.

Gardai investigating a serious assault in Dublin’s Temple Bar in the early hours of this morning. A man is fighting for his life in hospital

Starmer to Trump: "your indication of security guarantees, of some sort of Article 5 style guarantees, fits with what we've been doing with the coalition of the willing, bringing countries together and showing that we were prepared to step up to the plate"

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived at the White House

Britain is set to station hundreds of British military trainers and engineers on the ground in Ukraine within a week of a ceasefire. Prime Minister Starmed has also approved the use of Royal Air Force fighter jets to help police Ukrainian skies

President of Ukraine Zelensky met with PM of UK Starmer in London

Activists shut down a BAE Systems factory in northwest England to protest its involvement in providing military services to the Israeli army and manufacturing components for F-35 aircraft.

UK, Canada, Australia and their European allies said that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza had reached "unimaginable levels" and called on Israel to allow aid into the Palestinian enclave. "Famine is unfolding before our eyes. Urgent action is needed now to halt and reverse starvation", the foreign ministers of the countries said in a joint statement published by Britain. "We call on the government of Israel to provide authorisation for all international NGO (Non-governmental organisations) aid shipments and to unblock essential humanitarian actors from operating," the statement said.

Protests have taken place in Belfast and Dublin after a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent was killed alongside four colleagues by the Israelis in Gaza City at the weekend

Statement by President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Tusk, Prime Minister Starmer, President von der Leyen and President Stubb on Peace for Ukraine ahead of President Trump's planned meeting with President Putin: We are united as Europeans and determined to jointly promote our interests. And we will continue to cooperate closely with President Trump and with the US, and with President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine, for a peace in Ukraine that protects our vital security interests

London police arrested more than 365 people during a demonstration protesting the ban on the Palestine Action movement.

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak: Together with Rustem Umerov, we held important meetings with European security advisors, the British Foreign Secretary, and the US Vice President

UK police arrest 150 at protest for banned Palestine Action group

Woman (62) arrested in Belfast on suspicion of showing support for banned Palestine Action as police in London crackdown on protestors

Hundreds of Anti-immigration protesters draped in English flags march outside Town Hall in Nuneaton

PM Starmer: The Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza is wrong, and we urge it to reconsider immediately. Every day the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens and hostages taken by Hamas are being held in appalling and inhuman conditions. We need a ceasefire now