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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The Charity Commission has launched a new inquiry into a south London church which was found to be selling a coronavirus “plague protection kit”. Bishop Climate Wiseman, head of the Kingdom Church in Camberwell, claimed earlier this year that the £91 small bottle of oil and piece of red yarn would protect people against Covid-19. […]
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Two sisters who sparked a counter-terror probe after they fled from the UK to Syria at the age of 16 are reportedly being detained in a high-security detention centre after trying to escape a refugee camp. Twins Zahra and Salma Halane, 22, disappeared from the family home in Chorlton, Manchester, in 2014 and flew out […]
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a “hostage” in Iran and was on the brink of being freed from jail in Iran almost two-and-a-half years ago until a planned deal collapsed, according to a new documentary. The mother-of-one’s husband Richard Ratcliffe said the family had even been given a date of December 28 2017 for his wife’s return […]
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The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition for similarly turning Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer. A decision by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, published in the country’s Official Gazette, said […]
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The police stop of a car in which Labour MP Dawn Butler was a passenger was “rooted in a biased system that views black people as criminals or drug dealers”, the leader of the National Black Police Association has said in an interview. Inspector Andrew George, the new interim president of the organisation, told the […]
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said a deal to establish full diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates proves his country does not need to retreat from occupied land sought by the Palestinians to achieve peace and normalisation with Arab states. The two countries announced on Thursday they were establishing full diplomatic relations in […]
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Nearly half of the British public do not know what Victory in Japan (VJ) Day is, according to the findings of a poll taken shortly before its 75th anniversary. On Saturday, the country will pay tribute to the sacrifices made by those who fought in the Far East to bring about the end of the […]
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A probationary Metropolitan Police officer will face trial next year for allegedly being a member of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action. Benjamin Hannam, 22, of Enfield, north London, is also accused of lying on his police application and vetting forms. He allegedly claimed he was not a member of National Action, which was outlawed […]
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Two brothers are to face trial in January for their alleged involvement in a terror plot. Sahayb Abu is accused of plotting an extremist attack in the UK, while his brother Mohammed is accused of failing to inform police of his sibling’s intentions. Sahayb, 27, of Doyle Road in South Norwood, south-east London, was arrested […]
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