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Michael D Higgins described the ongoing conflict as a ‘tragic period’ in the world’s history.

Firefighters rescued five people from the restaurant in Ilford, east London.

Both sides met near the Four Points By Sheraton hotel in Horley, which is used to house asylum seekers, and were separated by police.

Sam Nicoresti’s Baby Doomer show won the Taffner Family best comedy show prize.

Jeremy Corbyn said Francesca Albanese is ‘very keen to support it and get involved’.

Irish band The Mary Wallopers had their sound cut over an onstage pro-Palestinian protest.

Protests against the use of asylum hotels and counter-demonstrations have taken place, with police trying to keep the groups apart.

Rival groups called Abolish Asylum System and Perth Against Racism held protests outside the Radisson Blu.

The RNLI is urging people to go to a lifeguarded beach where possible.

Annie Lewis Marffy was taking aid supplies to Kramatorsk in the contested Donbas region.

Firefighters rescued five people from the restaurant in Ilford, east London.

Police, paramedics and firefighters were called to the blaze on Woodford Avenue in Gants Hill at about 9pm on Friday.

Takayo Nembhard, 21, was stabbed to death surrounded by several hundred people on Monday August 29 2022, under the Westway flyover in west London.

The remains found in Lytham have been confirmed to be human, police said.

The Conservative leader said the flying of English flags should be ‘welcomed’, rather than ‘seen as an act of rebellion’.

Demonstrations under the Abolish Asylum System slogan will be held in major towns and cities.

The wife of a Tory councillor – who was was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers – was released from prison on Thursday.

The transcripts, published on Friday, show the convicted sex trafficker insisted she did not introduce the Duke of York to Jeffrey Epstein.

Deals with third countries could also include reviving the Conservatives’ Rwanda link-up.

The former South Belfast MP has died at the age of 94.