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Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is critically ill after being shot in the head, her party says. The Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP) said she was being treated in intensive care after being “brutally attacked” in the early hours of Sunday. The 27-year-old has life-threatening injuries following the shooting on Consort Road, in Peckham, south London. TTIP said Ms. Johnson had undergone an operation and remained in critical care, in recovery post-surgery. A vigil was held in Ruskin Park, close to King’s College Hospital, where Ms. Johnson is being treated. Well-wishers played African drums and prayed for Ms....

Both Israel and Hamas claimed victory in the recent conflict. At the protest, former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: "Yes, a ceasefire has been negotiated and we welcome a ceasefire. "But let's be clear, there will be no ceasefire in our campaign to boycott, disinvest and sanction the Israeli apartheid state. "The message is clear, we will not cease our campaign in solidarity until there is justice. "So let's make it clear, no justice, no peace." It comes as other protests are taking place across the capital, including an anti-racism protest to commemorate George Floyd, who died almost one...

The 27-year-old BLM activist is in critical condition Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is reportedly in critical condition after she was shot in the head. According to The Guardian, Johnson’s affiliated group, Taking the Initiative party, announced the news on social media on Sunday. On the group’s official Facebook page, the party explained that the incident happened early in morning. The statement said: “It is with great sadness that we inform you that our own Sasha Johnson has sustained a gunshot wound to her head. She is currently hospitalized and in critical condition. The incident happened in the early...

Nigel Farage declared that “London in 2021 is not a safe place to be.” London’s Metropolitan Police Service corroborateD footage shared online of a band of Palestinian flag-waving thugs attacking a car that was passing by. The video was shared on social media by Vivian Aisen, director of public diplomacy at the Embassy of Israel in London. Aisen wrote on Twitter : “Crazy people walking free in the streets of London! #Hamas #ISIS #MuslimBrotherhood #Palestinian Islamic Jihad #Hezbollah #Iran: they are all the same. Jihad led ideologies, fighting the Western civilisation and the Judeo-Christian ethics. We need to fight back!”...

A leading British Black Lives Matter activist is fighting for her life after being shot in the head in the early hours of Sunday morning. Sasha Johnson, the self-styled 'Black Panther of Oxford', was 'brutally' attacked after receiving multiple death threats, her political party said. London's Metropolitan Police said they are investigating after a woman in her 20s was shot in Peckham, in the capital's south-east, at 3am. Sky News reported this was understood to be the incident involving Ms Johnson, 26. No arrests have been made. Ms Johnson, a mother-of-two Oxford Brookes graduate who rose to prominence after organising...

* Thousands have taken to the streets in New York, London, Istanbul, Johannesburg and other major cities * Pro-Palestinian supporters are calling on Israel to stop the bombardment which has seen dozens killed * Israel's military responded after over 130 rockets were fired into their territory from Gaza * Tensions throughout Ramadan exploded into a riot on Temple Mount on Monday that left hundreds injured Protests have broken out around the world in support of Palestinians amid the violent clashes with Israel in the Gaza Strip. The disputed area is under the most intense bombardment since 2014, with Israel unleashing...

The situation in Israel tonight with protests and clashes in Jerusalem, demonstrations by Arabs in Haifa and Nazareth as well. The Biden Administration pressuring Israel for calm tomorrow on Jerusalem Day but first... #Gestapo trending in Canada this weekend with the arrest of Christian Pastor Artur Pawlowski in Calgary... Today Pastor Pawlowski interviewed by Rebel News in Canada via phone from jail... New York Orthodox Jewish activist Heshy Tischler getting a ten-day community service sentence after his guilty plea to "inciting a riot" over an anti-coronavirus lockdown protest... The European Union isn't renewing its contract for the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine......

London will have leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan in power for at least three more years after his victory was announced , besting Conservative Party challenger Shaun Bailey. Khan only edged out the relatively unknown London Assembly Member by a margin of 40 per cent to 35.3 per cent in the first round of London’s preferential voting system. Although Khan failed to win an outright majority in the first round, he ultimately prevailed in the second round when second preference votes were counted. The Labour politician won 1,206,034 votes (55.2 per cent) to Bailey’s 977,601 votes, or 44.8 per cent, a...

Muslims attending a mosque in London have been pelted with eggs and stones in a suspected Islamophobic attack. The Met Police have launched an investigation after an incident outside the Ilford Islamic Centre that prompted condemnation from local politicians. Staff at the mosque said the items were thrown from a silver estate car by a white man with a shaved head, and that at least three other people were in the vehicle. Ahmed Nahwaz, director and secretary of the centre, said the incident was "a shame" but that the community remained strong.

Mobile phone footage of Friday’s arrest shows Mr. Sherwood standing on the stepladder with a Bible in his hand outside a Tube station in Uxbridge, west London. Officers can be heard telling him to get off his steps before they appear to grasp his hands and pull him down. Onlookers can be heard shouting, ‘He’s an elderly man – take it easy with him, before officers put Mr. Sherwood in handcuffs and take him to a police car. Mr. Sherwood said officers grilled him over his attitude to gay people. He was even asked what he would do if his...

UK police tried to shutdown a party in the park because of "Covid". It did not go well. https://youtu.be/DPK6gqEEY5w

The Met said demonstrators hurled missiles, including bottles, during the protest in Hyde Park, which were attended by an estimated 10,000 people. Two officers were taken to hospital, although their injuries were not believed to be serious, the Met said. Photographs posted on social media showed a female police officer bleeding from a cut to her head, while another suffered a similar wound on his forehead. Some shoppers in Oxford Street were heckled by the crowd and told to “take your masks off”, according to eyewitnesses. London mayoral candidates Piers Corbyn and Laurence Fox – two of the four anti-lockdown...

Actor turned London Mayoral candidate Laurence Fox has come up with yet another snappy campaign slogan… Don’t tell me what to do. F*** off. The Reclaim Party leader was being interviewed by Breitbart News, appropriately enough over a pint and cigarettes in a pub, while on the campaign trail in Sutton, South London. Woke has effectively cancelled his career as an actor. [He’s best known DS James Hathaway in Lewis]. So now he’s on a political mission to cancel woke. We’ve let the genie out of the bottle and the genie is that people will steadfastly bully people that don’t...

London Mayoral hopeful Laurence Fox today vowed to ban Covid passports in the capital and promised a no “mask mandate” as he launched his manifesto ahead of next month’s election. The outspoken actor said he wanted to “stop the child abuse” and remove compulsory face coverings for pupils in schools, despite the Mayor not having the power to overturn national Covid laws. The candidate has also this week promised six months of free rides on buses and tubes in a bid to boost the capital’s economy after more than a year in lockdown. The plans would cost Transport for London...

A rare black fox has been caught on camera prowling around a garden in west London. It was spotted by Faroz and his daughter Sophia, from Isleworth, who first thought it was a wolf, or a wild dog. The animals are a type of North American red fox with a trait that makes their fur silvery-black. They make up about 0.1% of the UK fox population.

ROME (AP) — A British judge has blasted Vatican prosecutors for making “appalling” misrepresentations to the court about their investigation into the Holy See’s investment in a London real estate deal, determining they don’t have much of a case against their key suspect. In a remarkable ruling made public this week, Judge Tony Baumgartner of Southwark Crown Court reversed another judge’s decision to seize the British-based bank accounts of broker Gianluigi Torzi and awarded Torzi legal fees. The Vatican had requested the seizure as part of its corruption investigation into Torzi and other suspects whom prosecutors accuse of fleecing the...

London has seen zero coronavirus deaths for the first time in six months, according to data released by Public Health England (PHE). Government figures showed that on March 28th, there were no deaths from the Chinese coronavirus in London for people who have received a positive coronavirus test over the previous 28 days.

Sadiq Khan’s “Housing Design Advocate” has denounced traditional architecture as “offensive” and said it “harks back to oppression”. Dinah Bornat made the remarks on social media in response to a post featuring a new house in the Georgian style shared by the Create Streets social enterprise. “The fortress style/display of wealth resonates through time. I wonder is it starting to resonate just a little too much for a lot of us? Imperialism starting to look, well, offensive? Just a thought,” she declared in a now-deleted Twitter tirade. She went on to complain that the alleged “replica approach” taken by the...

Home Secretary Priti Patel urges people not to attend any more Sarah Everard protests due to lockdown - as protesters gather outside parliament Ms Patel orders police inspectorate to review policing of Saturday's vigil in Clapham Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says she will not step down - and is backed by the PM Protesters block Westminster Bridge and stage sit-in outside Scotland Yard as criticism of police grows protesters trying to out-manoeuvre policePolice have moved in on protesters who are campaigning following the death of Sarah Everard. Hundreds of campaigners have marched from Parliament Square and through the...

We must not allow the tragic murder of a young woman turn into attacks on men and attacks on the police. Video...