LONDON: UK authorities faced growing pressure Sunday to put an end to England’s worst rioting in 13 years after disturbances linked to child murders and involving far-riot agitators flared across the country. Unrest related to misinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three young girls last week spread to multiple towns and cities on Saturday...
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Paris Olympics 2024: India beat Great Britain 4-2 to qualify for semifinals of men’s hockey | Mint
High on confidence after the historic win over Australia—the Tokyo Games silver medalist—in their final pool match, Team India carried out their momentum on Sunday and defeated world no.2 Great Britain 4-2 in a shoot-out to qualify for the semifinals of the men’s hockey event at the Paris Olympics. Despite going one man down in...
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UK’s Muslim Community ‘Deeply Anxious’ As Mosques On Alert Amid Violent Protests Over Southport
Ever since the rumours spread online that the 17-year-old suspect behind the mass stabbing that killed three girls in northwest England was a Muslim, anti-immigrant demonstrators have been targeting Islamic places of worship, making the Muslim community in the UK “deeply anxious”. On Tuesday night, the demonstrators threw bricks at a mosque in Southport, the...
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‘A polarisation engine’: how social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots
The 1996 Dunblane massacre and the outcry that followed are held up in the US as a textbook example of how an act of terror mobilised a country to demand effective gun regulation. The atrocity, in which 16 children and their teacher were killed, provoked a wave of national revulsion that, within weeks, led to...
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Bol sprints Netherlands to Olympic comeback and 4x400m mixed relay gold in Paris | News | Paris 24 | Olympic Games
Behind a stunning final leg, Femke Bol led a Netherlands comeback that ended in a gold medal in the mixed 4x400m relay at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and upset a United States team that had set the world record just one night earlier. Bol’s final lap in 47.93 seconds overcame a lead that the...
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Paris Olympics: Saturday’s top stories from day eight of Games
Team GB added six more medals, including one gold, on day eight of the Olympics to take their total medal haul up to 33. The 10th British gold of Paris 2024 was won in the men’s rowing eights on Saturday, and put GB fifth in the medal table. The women’s eights won a hard-earned bronze,...
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Protests turn violent in Sunderland as U.K. unrest spreads after Southport killings
Protesters attacked police and started fires in the northeast English city of Sunderland on Friday as violence spread to another northern city following Monday’s killing of three children in Southport. Anti-immigrant demonstrators threw stones at police in riot gear near a mosque in the city before overturning vehicles, setting a car alight and starting a...
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“Shocking Scenes”: Riots In UK Over Mass Stabbing That Killed Three Girls
Two officers remained in hospital early Saturday. London: Rioting erupted Friday evening in Sunderland, northeast England, where police said officers faced “serious and sustained levels of violence”, the latest unrest linked to a mass stabbing earlier this week that killed three young girls. Eight people were arrested and three officers required hospital treatment following hours...
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Loughborough take stunning double bronze on exhilarating night in Paris
Great Britain’s Samuel Reardon, Laviai Nielsen, Alex Haydock-Wilson and Amber Anning celebrate after winning a bronze medal in the 4 x 400m Relay Mixed Final at the Stade de France. Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Loughborough take stunning double bronze on exhilarating night in Paris 3 August 2024 Loughborough athletes added another...
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UK government warns of tough response to far-right protests as police prepare for more unrest
LONDON (AP) — Several suspects arrested in violent protests that erupted after the fatal stabbing of three children in northwest England were due in court Friday as officials braced for more clashes that Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned and blamed on “far-right hatred.” Starmer vowed to end the mayhem and said police across the U.K....
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Team GB in Olympic gold rush with third of the day – including historic trampoline victory
Team GB have enjoyed a gold rush on day seven of the Paris Olympics with three gold medals – including a historic win in the women’s trampoline event. Rowers Imogen Grant and Emily Craig got the day off to a perfect start with an emotional win in the lightweight women’s double sculls. The win was...
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Olympics 2024 LIVE! Ugly scenes after France win Argentina grudge match
Another British medal landed at lunchtime, as Bryony Page completed her Olympic set with a sensational trampolining gold, before Great Britain also took victory in the team jumping final. The athletics are finally underway at the Stade de France, with Keely Hodgkinson safely into the women’s 800m semi-finals along with Jemma Reekie and Phoebe Gill....