Some Central Asian countries have warned their citizens to avoid cities in the United Kingdom where anti-immigrant riots have erupted since late last month. It listed +44 7341 185777 as an emergency telephone number, accessible via WhatsApp, for Kyrgyz citizens. Kazakhstan’s embassy has issued similar advice, saying there are emergency contact lines for Kazakh citizens in the United Kingdom as well as their relatives in Kazakhstan. Hundreds of people have been arrested in violence that police say was stirred by agitators promoting anti-immigrant sentiment. Despite fears of more unrest, Wednesday night was relatively peaceful as thousands of police officers and anti-racism protesters mobilized to head off the threat.

An ongoing European Commission investigation into social media platform X could take its handling of harmful content related to the recent UK riots into account, a spokesperson said.Last month, European Union officials issued charges against X, owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires very large online platforms to do more to tackle illegal content and risks to public security.While Britain has not been a member of the EU since 2020, harmful content in breach of DSA rules shared in Britain may have been seen by users in Europe, constituting a potential breach of the law.Disinformation and calls to violence spread on social media in Britain in recent days, after far-right and anti-Muslim groups seized on the fatal stabbing of three young girls. "What happens outside of the EU is not covered by the DSA, but what happens in the UK is visible here. If there are examples of hate speech or incitements to violence, they could be taken into account as part of our proceedings against X," a Commission spokesperson told Reuters.X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"It's important that we don't let up here," Starmer told media outlets as he visited a mosque and met community leaders in Solihull, western England.Starmer credited "police deployed in numbers in the right places, giving reassurance to communities" with helping to ease the unrest overnight.Wednesday evening turned out to be largely peaceful.Instead of the far-right gatherings at dozens of sites linked to immigrant support services for which police had been preparing, thousands of anti-racism and anti-fascism protesters staged peaceful demonstrations.They massed in cities including London , Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and Newcastle. "Whose streets? Our streets!" "They're thugs and criminals," he noted, adding most had previous convictions for weapon possession, violence, drugs and other serious offences.After courts began handing down jail terms Wednesday for offenders tied to the unrest, more people charged appeared in the dock for a second day nationwide.The riots flared after three girls -- aged nine, seven and six -- were killed and five more children critically injured during a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, northwest England.False online reports had suggested that the suspect was an illegal immigrant and a Muslim.The suspect was later identified as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, born in Wales. UK media report that his parents are from Rwanda, which is overwhelmingly Christian.The unrest, Britain's worst since the 2011 London riots, has led several countries to issue travel warnings for the UK.

Australia's Moesha Johnson was leading the Olympic women’s 10km marathon swim before Dutch iron-woman Sharon van Rouwendaal snatched the lead late in the race. 'I knew coming under that bridge as well, no matter which way I took, Sharon might have taken the other option,' Johnson says. 'I think we've just been together in training through some tough times, and to be there together on the podium just means so much'

The bulk of matches was at Real Madrid though. where Pepe played 334 times in total, scoring 15 times and winning the Champions League on three occasions. Real Madrid would like to wish him and his family the best of luck in this new stage of his life." Ronaldo himself is 39 but continues to play for club and country, now running out for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia. Pepe ended his club career at Porto, where he started out as a boy.

There was a moment of beauty in this terrible anti-Muslim pogrom, and that was the counter protest by many, many, many good British people who stood and stared the right wing fascism down! The collision of social media hate algorithms, loneliness, social isolation, white fragility, and white supremacy has spawned an ugly violence that Muslims have had to face. The frustration many British feel towards refugees when these refugees have had to cross Europe to get to them is understandable, how can you seriously claim to be fleeing persecution and still argue Greece isn’t safe enough? The moribund response from Government has allowed these frictions to explode, but understanding the fictions doesn’t lead to any justification of what has happened here. This spastic eruption of violence of ignorance must face a tempered response, not anything that generates righteous grievance.

Wrexham will enjoy being underdogs in League One this season insists manager Phil Parkinson. The Welsh club are back in English football’s third tier after an absence of 19 years following back-to-back automatic promotions. “We’ve got more of an underdog feel because you're competing against your Birminghams and your Boltons and teams like that who have got huge spending power,” Parkinson said. “We’ll enjoy playing that underdog card at times because it’s one we can use to our benefit. “I think also there’s a sense of realism as well, that the supporters know we are going into a tough division with a lot of big-spending clubs.”

Now they are hoping to add to their women's football record haul of four golds and win the title for the first time since London 2012. However, Spain missed out in their bid to add Olympic gold to that title and the UEFA Nations League after they were surprisingly beaten 4-2 by Brazil in Tuesday's semi-final in Marseille. Now 38, she is appearing at her sixth and likely last Olympics, and is hoping to sign off with gold to go with her two silver medals. "Now she will be able to finish her Olympics playing in a final, where she deserves to be. I hope she manages to come away with the gold medal," said Gabi Portilho, who scored in both the quarter-final and semi-final.

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Dozens have already been sentenced with cases fast-tracked through the justice system. Rowley dismissed suggestions the riots were political. “Any suggestion they’re patriots, or they’ve got a cause... is nonsense,” Rowley said. “They’re criminals.”Several thousand people from anti-racism groups gathered in Walthamstow, north London, on Wednesday following threats to an immigration advice centre there. Others protected mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers that were among other targets.

LONDON: The regional office of a Catholic relief organisation in Bangladesh has been stormed and ransacked by a mob which is now illegally trespassing in its compound. The Khulna office of Caritas Bangladesh was stormed on Tuesday amid the breakdown of law and order that gripped Bangladesh following the resignation of former PM Sheikh Hasina. Catholic aid agency , Catholic Agency For Overseas Development, partners with Caritas Bangladesh to deliver agricultural projects.Phil Talman, programme coordinator for Bangladesh at London-based CAFOD, told TOI: “About 40 to 50 people attacked the compound and the office. They wrecked and looted the place and some stayed, occupying the land looking like they are not going to move. None of the staff was hurt.”He said no police came and the staff, many of whom are Christian, had a narrow escape.

Does the Church seek to keep Christ inside, or do we allow him to get out into the world? If you have heard the term “the Westminster village”, you will know just how insular the political class can be. In short, it is the groups who do not feel served by electoral politics who seem least incentivised to turn out. The distinctive function of the Church — seeking justice and peace and sharing the good news of Christ — is inherently political. To heal division, to pursue peace, to seek justice: that, to me, is a just politics, and not “just politics”.

There are, of course, bishops with plenty to say about them, but there is nothing that any of them can do. But there has, none the less, been a reconfiguring of the religious landscape. The riots have made clear the way in which “Muslim” now codes “unwanted unwhite immigrant”. It could be used to illustrate the meaning of “dumbfounded”:“‘I think Obama hurt race relations in this country,’ Graham says. He tells small prophecies: This one will soon buy a car, that one will travel abroad to find greener pastures.

Rod Stewart, seen in a 2018 photo, canceled the planned 200th show of his Las Vegas residency, citing strep throat. The British rock icon Rod Stewart canceled the planned 200th show of his long-running Las Vegas residency, citing strep throat. “I’m desperately sorry to miss this 200th show celebration,” the 79-year-old Stewart wrote on Instagram on Wednesday. “I didn’t know he was orange until a number of years ago, when he happened to turn orange,” Stewart said. You’ve got to watch your step.”)Stewart plans to revisit the Caesar’s residency next year.

Ilkay Gundogan could reportedly leave Barcelona after just one season in SpainIlkay Gundogan is one of 10 players who could leave Barcelona FC this summer with Hansi Flick reportedly looking to shake up his squad. It seems likely that Barcelona will oversee a high turnover of players before the window slams shut as Flick looks to reshape the squad in his image. More players will be sold over the coming weeks, with Sport reporting that Gundogan is one of several names to have been placed on the chopping block. Hansi Flick is reportedly looking to shake up his squad for the new seasonGalatasaray and Fenerbahce have recently been linked with a move for Gundogan, who joined Barcelona from Manchester City last summer. The report adds that nine other players could leave Barcelona as part of a mass exodus in the final weeks of the transfer window.