Officer and three assailants killed in Tunisia resort attack

September 7, 2020 Article

Tunisian forces have shot dead three suspected Islamic militants who rammed their vehicle into security officers and attacked them with knives, killing one and injuring another in the coastal resort town of Sousse. Sousse was the site of Tunisia’s deadliest extremist attack in 2015, when a massacre killed 38 people, most of them British tourists. […]

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Clergyman’s ex-wife fails in appeal bid after judge’s ‘vendetta’ ruling

September 4, 2020 Article

A woman who could lose her home as a result of a judge concluding that she conducted an “obsessive campaign” against her clergyman ex-husband has lost a Court of Appeal fight. Mrs Justice Lieven last month decided that Jean Gibbs, who is in her 60s and lives in Attleborough, Norfolk, had breached orders barring her […]

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Russian opposition leader Navalny poisoned with Novichok, says Germany

September 2, 2020 Article

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the same type of Soviet-era nerve agent that British authorities identified in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, the German government has said. The findings – which experts say point strongly to Russian state involvement – are likely to increase tensions between Russia and the […]

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Saudi Arabia to allow ‘all countries’ to fly over its skies

September 2, 2020 Article

Saudi Arabia has announced that it will now allow flights “from all countries” to cross its skies to reach the United Arab Emirates. The historic first comes just days after the kingdom let the first direct Israeli commercial passenger flight use its airspace to reach the UAE. The statement makes no mention of the kingdom’s […]

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Muslim woman called a ‘f****** P*ki’ by teenage boys when sat waiting in her car

September 1, 2020 Article

A Muslim woman spoke of her shock and dismay after a group of teenage boys...

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Nadiya Hussain: Why I’m scared of calling out racism

August 31, 2020 Article

Nadiya Hussain says she has experienced more racism in the last five years than in her entire life and is “scared” to call it out. The Great British Bake Off winner worries that her TV work will dry up if she is seen to be “complaining” about anything. Hussain, 35, who is back on screen […]

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Man shot dead in Portland ‘was Patriot Prayer supporter’

August 30, 2020 Article

The man shot and killed in Portland on Saturday was a supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer whose supporters have frequently clashed with left-wing protesters in Oregon’s largest city, according to the organisation’s founder. Joey Gibson, head of the group based in Washington state, said he was also in Portland on Saturday night when […]

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Man shot dead in Portland ‘was Patriot Prayer supporter’

August 30, 2020 Article

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Statement: Life sentence for the white supremacist terrorist who murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch

August 27, 2020 Article

We welcome the whole life sentence without parole given to the white supremacist terrorist who...

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600 attacks on places of worship in Northern Ireland in five years

August 27, 2020 Article

Concern has been expressed after figures showed there have been more than 600 attacks on places of worship in Northern Ireland in the last five years. According to police statistics, there have been 601 incidents of criminal damage to religious buildings, churchyards or cemeteries since 2014/15. The number of attacks has remained relatively consistent each […]

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