British Foreign Secretary: Israel and Lebanon are on the brink of war, and if we do not exercise restraint, we will see disastrous results
British Government: 6,000 members of the police force are in a state of readiness to deal with riots led by the extreme right
3 month ago Disorder has broken out in the Sandy Row area of south Belfast. Riot police have been deployed @BelTel
3 month ago New G7 member countries urge Iran and all the involved parties in the region to refrain from escalating the situation. “We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the EU, express our deep concern at the aerated level of tension in the Middle East which threatens to ignite a broader conflict in the region. We urge all involved parties once again to refrain from perpetuating the current destructive cycle of retaliatory violence, to lower tensions and engage constructively toward de-escalation. No country or nation stands to gain from a further escalation in the Middle East.” Statement reads
British Police: More than 370 people have been arrested since the protests began
3 month ago Confirmation that an emergency Belfast City Council meeting will go ahead tonight. It is in response to the disorder in the city over the weekend
PM has held COBR with senior ministers, police, prison chiefs: - police working with National Crime Agency to tackle criminality, bot activity online, No10 says it may involve state actors; - PM spox condemns Elon Musk 'civil war' post: "No justification for comments like that"- says social media firms need immediate response, govt will consider wider framework in due course- Justice Sec, prisons service confident they have capacity to lock up rioters- police deploying additional resources at strategic locations- 70 extra prosecutors on hand at weekend to charge, 60 remand courts made available- condemns racist, Islamophobic targeting of Muslims- no discussion about army- spox says the UK does not have two-tier policing
3 month ago Rioters are stoking up another bonfire on the main road to the Rotherham migrant hotel. It's Manvers Way, the A633, and it's flanked by homes on both sides
3 month ago Arrests continuing in Middlesbrough
3 month ago Mobs of Asian men attacking white men now - Middlesbrough
UK Foreign Office: Britain has temporarily withdrawn the families of officials working at the British embassy in Beirut due to a highly volatile security situation in Lebanon @Reuters
UK Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper said £29.4M of funding is being offered to provide greater protection for Mosques amid far right attacks
3 month ago “I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder”, UK PM Starmer says Anti-Muslim / immigration riots engulfed UK this weekend following murders falsely attributed to the Muslims
3 month ago Rioters have now set fire to the hotel housing migrants in Rotherham
3 month ago It took police ten minutes to arrive to clear brawlers from the square in front of Blackpool Church. One elderly punk says to police “what took you so long to arrive”
3 month ago Statement from Secretary of State @hilarybennmp on the disorder in Belfast today
3 month ago Twenty minutes ago in Blackpool dogs and horses were used to clear the far-right rally out of a shopping centre/street into more open ground near the seafront.
3 month ago Football chants from Tommy Robinson supporters in Blackpool rally. Crowd members calling male police officers being called “nonces” and slurring female ones as infertile “d*** b****es”
Anger in the crowd at the planned rally in Preston as a woman is arrested - chants of “let her go”. Until this point there was peaceful protest by about 20 protesters, and 40 counter-protesters
3 month ago Chaos on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent as hundreds of masked far-right supporters and counter-protesters descend with batons, wooden sticks and fireworks in Hanley. Riot police cordoning off roads to stop the clashes
3 month ago Protest forming at Carlisle Circus, Belfast, part of a series of Loyalist-led demonstrations aimed to block traffic into the city centre ahead of a larger protest at City Hall and an Islamic cultural centre
3 month ago Police have charged seven people following violence and disorder on the Southend seafront earlier this week. Eight people were arrested and seven had now been charged, all aged from 14 to 18. All seven are due to appear at Chelmsford magistrates court on Saturday
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The Israeli Defense Minister discusses with his British counterpart ways to strengthen security relations between the two countries and maintain intelligence cooperation
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati meets with the British Foreign and Defense Ministers at the Government Palace
Confrontation between demonstrators and police at a planned far-right march in Southport. They’re now attacking a police van
British Foreign Minister: We will seek to prevent escalation between Israel and Hezbollah
New toll in Southport, UK stabbing attack at dance school at Taylor Swift-themed event:2 children dead; 9 injured (6 in critical condition); 2 adults also in critical condition; 17-year-old from Banks (UK), originally from Cardiff (UK), has been arrested(from press conference)
3 month ago At least eight people have been attacked with stab injuries and some have been taken to a children's hospital in Southport
8 injured in a stabbing incident in Southport, northern England, and a suspect arrested