3 h. ago 'Not a time to stoke tension': PM issues warning over Palestine protest in wake of Manchester terror attack

It comes after Met chief Sir Mark Rowley demanded a pro-Palestine protest planned for Saturday in central London be cancelled

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6 h. ago Met chief demands ‘insensitive’ Palestine Action protest called off in wake of Manchester terror attack

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood slammed the demonstration and Nigel Farage called it a ‘celebration of murder’

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11 h. ago Met Police demand huge Palestine Action protest is cancelled in wake of Manchester terror attack

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has also slammed demonstration going ahead in central London after synagogue attack

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23 h. ago London residents considering legal action against nearby distillery

London residents considering legal action against nearby distillery  WYMT

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24 h. ago London Palestine Action protest to go ahead despite Manchester synagogue terror attack

Scotland Yard asked for the demonstration to be postponed after two people killed on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar

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34 h. ago 20 people charged in connection with Palestine Action protests in London

20 people charged in connection with Palestine Action protests in London  Essex Live

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54 h. ago More than 130 people now charged over Palestine Action protests in London

The Metropolitan Police said 20 people arrested in the capital on August 9 had now been charged under the Terrorism Act.

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55 h. ago 20 new terror charges over mass protests in support of Palestine Action

Twenty new charges have been brought over Palestine Action protests

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59 h. ago Palestine Action protest in London could set arrest record, say organisers

Palestine Action protest in London could set arrest record, say organisers  The Guardian

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59 h. ago Biggest ever Palestine Action protest to take place this weekend with 1,500 expected to descend on London

Saturday's demonstration is part of a week of mass protests that has seen 66 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool for supporting the group

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59 h. ago Mass protest to defy Palestine Action ban set for London this weekend

Defend Our Juries say 1,500 people so far have pledged to take part in `biggest act of mass civil disobedience in Trafalgar Square’

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59 h. ago Palestine Action protest in London could set record for number of arrests, say organisers

Palestine Action protest in London could set record for number of arrests, say organisers  The Guardian

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3 d. ago Gandhi statue is vandalised with 'terrorist' graffiti in London

India has demanded 'immediate action' after  statue of Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi was vandalised in central London.

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3 d. ago Mahatma Gandhi statue in London's Tavistock Square defaced by 'shameful' vandals as India demands action

The Indian High Commission said it was ‘deeply saddened’ by the ‘shameful act of vandalism’

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3 d. ago World’s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s

Capitals from London to Tokyo need urgent action to protect people from deadly high temperatures, analysts sayThe world’s biggest capital cities are now sweltering under 25% more extremely hot days each year than in the 1990s, an analysis has found. Without urgent action to protect millions of people from high temperatures, more and more will suffer in the dangerous conditions, analysts said.From Washington DC and Madrid to Tokyo and Beijing, the analysis shows a marked rise in hot days as the climate crisis intensifies. Overall, the assessment by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), found the number of days above 35C in 43 of the world’s most populous capital cities rose from an average of 1,062 a year from 1994-2003 to 1,335 from 2015-2024. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Over 350 bus workers striking while many Tube lines face delays

Commuters can expect little or no service on at least seven bus routes due to workers for First Bus taking industrial action across London

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4 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Over 350 bus workers striking while M25 traffic delayed until 9.45am

Commuters can expect little or no service on at least seven bus routes due to workers for First Bus taking industrial action across London

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5 d. ago ‘Dozens’ arrested at Palestine Action protest outside Labour party conference

Defend Our Juries says about 100 people had gathered holding signs outside conference venue in LiverpoolPolice have arrested protesters on suspicion of supporting the banned group Palestine Action outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool.About 100 people gathered silently on Sunday to hold signs reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”, according to protest organisation Defend Our Juries, who said there were dozens of arrests. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Palestine Action supporters are arrested after staging protest outside Labour conference

Around 100 people have gathered silently to hold signs reading: 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action', protest group Defend Our Juries said.

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7 d. ago If Starmer wants to beat Reform, he’ll need more than ‘patriotic renewal’ – whatever that is | Zoe Williams

Today’s big ‘fightback’ speech continued with the prime minister’s curious strategy of ceding ground to his enemiesKeir Starmer was at his most clear today not in his speech to the Global Progress Action Summit in London, trailed as a fightback against the politics of hate and division, but in the panel afterwards. That’s when he said he wanted the next election to be an “open fight” between “Labour and Reform”. In the speech itself, however, he identified his enemies in the abstract. He was against the “politics of predatory grievance”, which used the “infrastructure of division”. He also made a lovely case for London at the start, with its plentiful pubs and pleasant parks, remarking wryly that it was nothing like “the wasteland of anarchy that some would have you believe”.The problem is he needs to pick a lane. Either he was referring to Donald Trump’s comments at the UN earlier this week, when the leader of the free world said Britain’s capital had a “terrible mayor, terrible, t...

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