The Papers: 'Second night of unrest' and 'Yes we Kansas'

A second night of unrest in Northern Ireland following the knife attack in Belfast continues to dominate Thursday's papers.

Police warned for months about addresses targeted in Belfast riots

Exclusive: PSNI repeatedly warned by monitoring group for eight months after a so-called hitlist of addresses began circulating in far-right networks A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots. The Accountability Project Northern Ireland, a volunteer group formed last summer to monitor anti-immigration a...

By Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent

Belfast stabbing victim ‘improving’ and may soon wake from coma

The condition of the Belfast stabbing victim is “improving” and he could be awoken from a coma within the next 48 hours, pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Gavin Robinson said on Thursday. Stephen Ogilvie lost his left eye and suffered deep cuts to his head, face and back in a stabbing attack on Monday night which preceded two nights of disorder in Northern Ireland. Twelve police officers were injured, 16 arrests were made and two people were charged following Wednesday night’...

By dpa

Police blast water cannons at Belfast protesters as unrest flares again

Police blasted water cannons Wednesday at protesters in Northern Ireland who set small fires and hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at them during a second night of violence over a brutal stabbing on a Belfast street. Demonstrators wearing masks tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed sidewalks with sledgehammers to toss at riot police. In one place, the unruly crowd used sections of a dismantled picket fence to take cover on the street. The clashes with police came several hours a...

By FRANCE24

They were driven from their homelands by violence – now Belfast riots have placed refugees under fresh attack

Women and children are in hiding in fear of waves of racist attacks fuelled by hatred spread on social media, as Sam Kiley reports from Belfast

By Sam Kiley

How the far right stirs up protests against immigration in Britain

Flashpoints like the murder of Henry Nowak or the attempted beheading of Stephen Ogilvy in Belfast mobilize extremist groups

By Rafa De Miguel

What to know about the stabbing that set off fiery riots in Northern Ireland

Water cannons, fires: Belfast protest against immigrants turns violent - watch

Violent clashes erupted in Belfast for a second consecutive night as masked rioters attacked police with projectiles, prompting authorities to deploy additional officers and water cannon.

By TOI WORLD DESK

British politicians are racing to the hard right

Amid riots in Belfast, Restore promises to put “murderous third-world savages to death”

Belfast riots: Why Elon Musk’s X won’t face immediate action over violent posts

UK minister says violence in Northern Ireland is racist thuggery

Two days of anti-immigration violence in Northern Ireland is nothing but racist thuggery, Britain’s minister for the province said on Thursday, after police deployed water cannon to tackle rioters for a second night. Hilary Benn said there was less disorder on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday night as opposed to Tuesday, when rioters torched […]

"Stay Safe": UK Cops Warn Of Unrest In Belfast Over "Hit List" Of Migrants

Police warned that those creating or sharing the list could be committing a criminal offence and deployed 200 additional officers to help prevent further violence.

'No place for thuggery, racism' in NI - Little-Pengelly

Follow the latest updates after two nights of violence in Northern Ireland after Monday's stabbing incident.

Why Britain thinks Uygur and Piker are bigger threats than riots

Earlier this week, a man was brutally stabbed by a Sudanese refugee in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was a truly heinous act, and the news was widely received with justified contem...

Homes of three Romanian families vandalized during anti-immigration protests in Northern Ireland

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