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Masked men chanting “stop the boats” at Port of DoverPolice were slow to react to an “exceptionally well organised” protest that ground the Port of Dover to a halt for hours, a council boss has said.Kevin Mills, who leads Dover District Council, told the BBC that demonstrators “caught several agencies on the hoof” when they arrived on Saturday.Hundreds of masked men chanting “stop the boats” blocked roads, causing miles of tailbacks and preventing access to the port.Kent Police is yet to comment, but cabinet minister Jonathan Reynolds said officers “did deal with it swiftly”.”The protesters knew what they were doing,…
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Watch: US envoys Witkoff and Kushner say they are “encouraged” by Ukraine talksUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he expects the war with Russia to continue into the winter, following a round of talks with Donald Trump’s top envoys in Kyiv.The discussions finished without an announcement of a major breakthrough, after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to Ukraine for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The previous day, the pair had held talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.Witkoff said he was “encouraged” by what he called “substantive” and important talks in Kyiv. Zelensky stressed that he wanted a…
US Central Command released footage on Saturday showing strikes on Iran-linked tankers Iran’s top negotiator has warned of “a faster, heavier, and more painful response” to US attacks, as hostilities between the two sides escalate.Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that Americans must understand “before it is too late” that the “rules of the game have changed”, according to a translation of his comments on state media. His comments come nearly a week into renewed fighting between Iran and the US, and a day after Washington said it struck Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran attacking American…
ReutersAfD leaders were overjoyed as exit polls projected a big lead in the Saxony-Anhalt voteGermany’s AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream rivals, according to initial projections. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern.The far-right party is set to win more than 44% of the vote, well ahead of the conservative CDU on 18.4%.The AfD has hailed the result as a “historic outcome” and the charismatic leader in the…
Getty ImagesOlivia Grange, Jamaica’s culture minister, will be leading the delegation to the UKThe Jamaican government will hand a petition to King Charles over slavery reparations on Monday, the country’s culture minister Olivia Grange has said.It will ask the King, who serves as Jamaica’s head of state, to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the country’s highest court, over the legality of the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica.Grange said it could pave the way for a “long outstanding settlement for the hundreds of years of the most horrific abuse that our African ancestors endured”.She will…
Rescuers race to free people trapped after building collapse in DelhiA residential building in the Indian capital Delhi has collapsed with dozens of students feared trapped inside. Eyewitnesses told local media that as many as 50 people were inside the five-storey building in the Satya Niketan neighbourhood of south-west Delhi when it came down around 13:30 local time (08:00 GMT) on Sunday.At least one person was killed and two others are in a critical condition, NDTV reports, citing local police. Six people were said to have been rescued so far.There had been construction work going on in the basement of…
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