UK officials will remain on alert for further disorder

UK officials will remain on alert for further disorder

UK officials will remain on alert for further disorder, despite Wednesday seeing counter-demonstrators outnumbering expected far right gatherings. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's thanked the thousands of police officers on duty across parts of the UK. Thousands of anti-racism demonstrators were on the streets of English towns and cities despite fears of dozens of flashpoint far right protests. Former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office Chris Phillips believes the […]

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Macron urges French to make ‘right choice’ in poll gamble

By Alice Hackman and Stuart Williams President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he was confident the French would make the "right choice" in snap elections he called after the far right crushed his centrist alliance in Sunday's EU ballot. His surprise move came after mainstream centrist parties kept an overall majority in the European Parliament in Sunday's poll, but the far right notched up a string of […]

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