Month: June 2025

Researchers question unrest being far-right protests and say disorder had more in common with 1950s race riots

The riots that swept the UK last summer had more in common with race riots in the 1950s in Nottingham and Notting Hill, west London, than they did with disorder that broke out in 2011, academic researchers have found.

Violence first erupted on the streets of Southport after the murder of three young girls, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Bebe King, six, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside town. The perpetrator, Axel Rudakubana, was later jailed for a minimum of 52 years.

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Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in Khan Younis

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A Palestinian father who had lost nine of his 10 children in an Israeli airstrike has died from wounds sustained in the same attack, local health officials said on Sunday.

Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on May 23, killing nine of his children. He had just returned home after accompanying his wife Alaa, a paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, to work when the building was struck. He had initially survived alongside his son Adam, 11, who is still in hospital.

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