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Tech companies will be forced to ban fake news from their platforms under plans being considered by the Government in the wake of the riots. Sir Keir Starmer suggested on Friday that the Government would review social media laws as part of efforts to prevent further disorder. The Telegraph understands that ministers are looking at introducing a duty on social media companies to restrict “legal but harmful” content. It could mean that firms are required to remove or suppress posts spreading fake news about asylum seekers or other topics such as self-harm, even if they do not meet the threshold...

The King has spoken of how he has been "greatly encouraged by the many examples of community spirit that had countered the aggression and criminality from a few" - as he reflected on the recent violent disorder seen across the country. On Friday evening, the monarch held a phone audience with the prime minister and leading police chiefs after the palace confirmed earlier in the week that he has been receiving daily updates on the situation. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said the King spoke to Sir Keir Starmer, along with holding a joint call with the chair of the National...

A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”. District Judge Francis Rafferty said that someone’s presence at a riot made them involved in the riot as he refused two bail applications. The judge spoke as four men appeared in Belfast magistrates’ court charged in relation to disorder in the city. Cameron Armstrong, 18, from Belfast, was charged with rioting in the Connswater area of east Belfast, which saw “violent disorder, petrol bombs, fireworks and different projectiles thrown at police and extensive damage caused to property”,...

Judge Guy Kearl KC sums up the crimes committed by Jordan Plain, the laws he broke, sentencing him to 8 months in prison "You joined with a pro EDL group chanting and gesticulating in the direction of a counter protest demonstrating against racism" "Your actions were captured on CCTV.. Climbing on a barrier.. Making monkey noises and gestures towards the counter protesters.. You said they looked like monkeys.. You rubbed your lips and shouted rubber lips.. You were standing alongside and others making similar comments" "You then got down from the barrier and imitated the way Muslim people pray, in...

The Defendant Allegedly Traveled to New York City to Hire Hitmen to Murder a Politician or U.S. Government Official on U.S. SoilEarlier today, a complaint was unsealed in Brooklyn charging Asif Merchant, also known as Asif Raza Merchant, 46, with murder-for-hire as part of an alleged scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. government official on U.S. soil. Law enforcement foiled the charged plot before any attack could be carried out. Merchant is in federal custody.“For years, the Justice Department has been working aggressively to counter Iran’s brazen and unrelenting efforts to retaliate against American public officials for the killing...

Organizers are predicting “tens of thousands” of marchers. They say it will be family friendly and safe. ome critics of Israeli actions in Gaza are worried about a pro-Palestinian march planned for the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this month, saying a large protest could play into former President Donald Trump’s hands. The critics say the protest could lead to clashes with police or counter protesters that would allow Republicans to blame the chaos on Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and paint the GOP as the party of law and order.

US Central Command reports destruction of seven drones. drone boats or ballistic missiles in and around... A federal judge in the US ruling that Google illegally monopolizes online searches... US military personnel hurt in a rocket attack on a US military base in Iraq...five military members hurt one seriously... Rioting on the Dutch island of St. Martin in the Carribean. A Dutch soldier hurt... Russian security official Sergei Shoigu visiting Iran amid tensions... Military forces from the US and Romania in the nation of Moldova.... Tonight video said to be of armed mobs of Muslims roaming the streets of Plymouth,...

'We will find you,' police officer warns rioters Rounding off the brief update, Lindsey Butterfield describes violence that occurred at a hotel in Wath upon Dearne, near Rotherham. She says there was a "particularly sickening moment" when a wheelie bin was pushed against a hotel and set on fire with "the clear intent to cause serious harm to the residents and staff". The police worked through the night to identify those who attended the unrest, she says, issuing a warning to those who took part, saying "we will find you".

England has fallen. It is for all intents and purposes an Islamic state. Three young girls -Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and 9-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar were stabbed to death in the English town of Southport on Monday July 29. The alleged killer is one 17 year old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana. He was born in Cardiff to Rwandan immigrants. HIs parents are said to be Christian but much confusion remains. The murders ignited outrage among British citizens protesting mass immigration which then led to England PM Keir Starmer to crush that outrage. We can debate about why this...

The pro-Palestinian activists who disrupted campuses across the nation are plotting their return for the new academic year. Demonstrators say all forms of protest are still on the table, despite the more than 2,000 arrests so far, as students try to figure out a new strategy to demand their schools divest from Israel, among other goals. “What we will see [is] the students will continue their activism, will continue doing what they’ve done in conventional and unconventional ways. So not only protests, not only encampments, kind of any — any available means necessary to push Columbia to divest from from...

A Home Office minister has warned those planning far-right protests this weekend that police are watching them. Demonstrations are expected in cities across the country, from Glasgow to Dover, following violent unrest around the Southport stabbing attack. Hundreds of mosques are strengthening security amid concern Islamic places of worship could be targeted. Lord David Hanson said police are monitoring organisers and would be using facial recognition technology to identify people. More than 100 people have been arrested at demonstrations after violent disorder was sparked by the murder of three primary school age girls at a dance studio on Monday. The...

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu nailed it when today he said“When the tyrants of Tehran who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are praising and promoting and funding you, you have officially become Iran's useful idiots.” Those scumbag useful idiots were on full display this afternoon causing chaos at the Capitol and at Union Station in DC. Currently, absolute chaos is unfolding as thousands of Pro-Palestine protesters have gathered at Union Station in Washington, DC. Moments ago, they took down three American flags and replaced them with Palestinian flags, with crowds of thousands cheering....

An anti-Israel demonstration shut down Grand Central Terminal’s iconic main concourse to rush-hour travelers Thursday evening over security concerns before hundreds of angry protesters marched downtown. Several protesters were arrested in the demonstration, dubbed “Flood New York for Gaza,” which was organized by the Palestinian activist group Within in Our Lifetime. Protesters converged on Pershing Square outside of Grand Central Terminal around 5:30 p.m., where they briefly clashed with about 50 pro-Israel counter-protesters. The crowd quickly ballooned to hundreds strong — many of them masked — as they took to the streets and headed down Park Avenue, waving Palestinian flags...

WATERTOWN, Wis. — The list of protesting individuals and organizations signed up to take part in a parade or speaker platform during next week’s Republican National Convention includes the “Chinese Communist Party” and “Former President, Donald J. Trump” — as the city of Milwaukee approved everyone who applied, without vetting or checking identities. Trump’s contact person is listed as “Joe Biden,” and the CCP’s address is “Beijing, China.” The CCP would like to be in both a parade and a speaker platform every day of the convention in the early afternoon if the entry is to be believed. Registrants had...

Is attacking synagogues, calling for the genocide of Jews, and calling for the destruction of the United States of America the sign of a person who has their priorities straight? US Vice President Kamala Harris seems to think so. In an interview with The Nation that was published on Monday, Harris had words of praise for the protest movement that has created a historic outbreak of antisemitism throughout the country since October 7. According to Harris, the protesters "are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza.” This is an outrageous statement coming from the...

Vice President Kamala Harris told left-wing The Nation magazine that she applauds the “emotion” behind anti-Israel protests on campus — even as the government revealed that Iran provides funding for the demonstrations. In an interview Monday with Joan Walsh, Harris said that the protests — which have disrupted life on campuses and in major cities, and which have targeted Jews — are displaying the correct “emotion” with regard to the ongoing war in Gaza: The young people who have mobilized against the destruction of Gaza are unlikely to be mollified by these answers. What does she say to them? “They...

“Billions of us will come and kill you.” Thirty minutes after Hamas supporters first set up their operation outside a Los Angeles synagogue, they maced their first Jew. And the Los Angeles police did nothing.Not until an hour into the terrorist rally outside a synagogue, did the LAPD finally step in, pushing back masked Jihad supporters in keffiyeh terror scarves from the entrance of Congregation Adas Torah (Congregation of the Bible) which they had occupied.And then the mob, chanting calls for “intifada” and the destruction of Israel, moved outward to target two smaller synagogues attended by Persian Jewish refugees from...

Lebanon Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad is advocating for penetrating “the heart” of Western societies through “investing” in Western university students protesting against Israel in order to subvert American college campuses and increase support for the Palestinians. In an interview with Russia Today TV earlier this month, Raad, who heads Hezbollah’s Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese parliament, highlighted the strategic importance of engaging with Western university students participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. According to a translation of his remarks reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), he stressed that the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah should capitalize...

Every day is a Charlottesville now, but hardly anyone notices. The small central Virginia city is a metonymy for the 2017 white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally that created national shock waves and rocked the presidency of Donald J. Trump. The antisemitic rhetoric and menacing nature of that event — in a different, left-wing form — are being replicated all over the country in openly hateful pro-Hamas protests. Outside the White House last weekend, anti-Israel protesters wore terrorist headbands; chanted for Hamas and Hezbollah to “kill another solider now” and “kill another Zionist now”; held up signs urging another “intifada,”...

The Biden administration’s massive program of “environmental justice” grants appears designed to empower extremist groups.