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[REGNUM] The past weekend has demonstrated how deeply the migrant crisis is dividing British society – and how clumsily the state is trying to cope with it.
In just two days, two major protests against illegal immigration took place across the country—in Dover and Portsmouth. Both were accompanied by clashes with police and received widespread media attention.
SIEGE OF DOVER
On the morning of September 5, hundreds of people in black clothes and balaclavas blocked access roads to the port of Dover, the UK's largest ferry hub, linking southern England with France.
Protesters linked arms, blocking the A20 and chanting, "Stop the boats," and "Whose streets? Our streets!" According to National Highways, the closure created a 4-mile-long traffic jam, with delays reaching 45 minutes.
Port officials said traffic was "stopped due to ongoing public disorder" and Kent police described the protest as "spontaneous".
The Patriot Platform network group, which formed in July and united activists from various anti-migrant movements, claimed responsibility for organizing the blockade.
Despite the scale of the protest, no arrests were made: police escorted the crowd to the train station, and service was restored by midday. Ferry operators promised to transfer late passengers to the next service.
The protest took place without a single poster or banner – Dover County Council Conservative leader Chris Vinson stated that the anti-immigrant nature of the protest could only be judged by “slogans and indirect signs.”
To be fair, they aren’t getting donations from billionaires or China, nor help organizing from protest professionals.
BROKEN GLASS
The next day, the conflict moved to Portsmouth. A rubber dinghy carrying approximately 140 migrants was intercepted off the coast after it had drifted into British waters following an operation involving two Royal National Lifesaving Society boats.
The Home Office plan was for arrivals to be bused to the reception centre in Manston, the standard processing point for those crossing the channel on small boats.
However, the convoy of buses was blocked by hundreds of protesters who had descended on the city following calls from activist Daniel Thomas, an associate of anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson.
On air, Thomas declared, "All the roads are blocked; they'll never be able to leave here." The situation escalated to the point that the police were called in. As a result, the windshields of two police cars were smashed, and at one point, the protesters managed to break through the police cordon.
The demonstrators had declared their readiness to remain there all night, but around 3:00 a.m. on Monday, police imposed an Article 14 restriction, allowing them to disperse the crowd. Article 14 is a section of the UK's Public Order Act 1986 that gives police the power to impose conditions on public gatherings, including restrictions on the location, duration, and number of participants.
Police may impose such requirements if a senior officer determines that an assembly could lead to serious public disorder or property damage. Another reason arises when participants attempt to intimidate someone or violate their rights.
So law enforcement officers demanded that the protesters disperse and clear the area around the police cordon and the buses carrying migrants.
The link between the actions in Dover and Portsmouth was Thomas, who had previously travelled to France as part of the Stop the Boats campaign and damaged boats abandoned by migrants.
A Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police spokesman said several officers were injured and required medical attention during the overnight standoff on September 6-7, while police and coastguard vehicles were damaged.
In addition, police used pepper spray and water cannons. An investigation has been launched to identify the attackers and those responsible for damaging the equipment.
GEOGRAPHY IS EXPANDING
The events in Dover and Portsmouth are far from a random outburst.
A similar, but far more destructive, scenario unfolded in the summer of 2025 at the Bell Hotel in Epping, where the arrest of a migrant on charges of sexually assaulting a teenager sparked weekly protests that escalated into a protracted standoff with police.
Over the course of several months, dozens of police officers and hotel security guards were injured, more than 30 arrests were made, and policing costs reached £1.7 million.
Several participants in those events later received prison sentences for assaulting police and damaging vehicles, including breaking windows and flattening the tires of patrol cars.
In the summer of 2026, a similar wave swept through Thetford and the village of Barnham in Norfolk, where protests against the accommodation of migrants at RAF Barnham escalated into full-blown riots: activists threw stones and bottles at buildings and smashed windows. Police officers were injured by flying glass.
More than 20 people were arrested on charges including racially motivated offenses and planning to commit aggravated robbery.
So the conflict between protesters and security forces in Britain is a systemic trend of the last year and a half.
WHO BENEFITS?
Not only is the wave of discontent with immigration policy itself indicative, but also the way the authorities and major media outlets are responding to it. Instead of discussing the causes of the tension, public anger is methodically directed at the protesters themselves.
Any inconvenience to passengers, drivers, and businesses is presented primarily as a consequence of activists' actions, rather than as the result of the authorities' long-standing failure to address the problem that brought people onto the streets.
Meanwhile, official statistics show a nearly 43% decline in the number of Channel crossings over the past year. This, for some reason, hasn't stopped tensions from rising. Therefore, these data are highly questionable.
The British political system effectively pits different groups of society against each other: local residents against migrants, those dissatisfied with the protests against the protesters.
The ruling apparatus benefits by not having to answer for its own decisions. A powerful media outlet is used to create a convenient image—condemning "troublemakers" while simultaneously declaring the "right to peaceful protest." This is a commonplace formula that absolves the authorities themselves of responsibility.
The chain of conflicts that began in Epping in 2025 has now engulfed several regions of Britain and continued in Dover and Portsmouth.
Each new episode demonstrates the same pattern: the mobilization of disgruntled citizens, violent confrontations with the police, dozens of damaged cars and broken windows—and the same official rhetoric condemning the unrest without a substantive answer to the question of why the problem has not been resolved after years of promises.
As long as the government prefers to manage public irritation rather than eliminate its cause, the degree of mutual hatred in the country will only increase.
[IsraelTimes] Students who fail to comply can be charged up to $930; Muslim community group vows to fight ban in the court, which struck down a similar law in 2020 as discriminatory
Austria’s ban on headscarves for girls under 14 in schools took effect Monday, the first day of the school year in part of the country, as Moslem citizens vowed to challenge the law, a version of which was struck down in court in 2020.
The government-backed legislation stipulates a school must hold discussions with any pupil defying the ban, after which a fine of between €150 and €800 ($175-$930) can be imposed.
Two sisters and their mother already filed suit against the new ban in Austria’s Constitutional Court on Monday, the Austrian Press Agency reported. The Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGO), the community’s official representative, has also pledged to fight the ban in court, arguing the law infringes on fundamental rights.
Left-wing pupils’ organizations have called for protests against the ban, and local media in Vienna reported that a small group of students, including girls in headscarves, demonstrated outside the Austrian Chancellery on Sunday, and accused the ban’s advocates of racism.
On Monday, students returned to school in three of Austria’s nine states — Vienna, the surrounding state of Lower Austria, and Burgenland, all in the east — with the rest following next week.
Despite the controversy about the headscarf ban, teachers’ union representatives who spoke with the APA described a largely peaceful start to the school year, with few violations of the new law.
Austria’s ruling coalition of three centrist parties had proposed the ban, arguing it would protect girls’ freedom. The legislation passed in parliament in December with the support of the far-right Freedom Party. Only the smallest party in parliament, the left-wing Greens, opposed it.
The Constitutional Court in July rejected challenges against the ban because the legislation had not yet gone into force.
The court had ruled in 2020 that a previous ban, which applied to under-10s in schools, was illegal because it discriminated against Moslems and the state had a duty to be religiously neutral. Going against that principle requires special justification, the court held.
Asked by national broadcaster ORF if the court would overturn the new ban, Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr said: "You can never be completely certain."
"We in the government carried out very intensive consultations and we in the education ministry tried very hard to write a law that complies with the constitution," Wiederkehr said in the interview broadcast on Monday.
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors accuse Chinese tech giant of bank fraud, sanctions violations and conspiring to steal trade secrets; Huawei pleads not guilty
Eight years after US prosecutors secretly charged China’s Huawei Technologies with defrauding HSBC and other banks over its business with Iran, the case is finally heading for trial.
Huawei also faces charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets from five US technology companies, and is accused of lying about its dealings in North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... and supplying surveillance equipment to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to track protesters during 2009 anti-government demonstrations in Tehran. Jury selection began on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
The trial will bring to a close one of the US government’s earliest and most closely watched battles against a Chinese company. The case will play out as tech competition heats up between the two countries and Washington seeks to prevent American technology from aiding Beijing’s military. The US-China tech war has now spread across multiple technology sectors, including artificial intelligence.
The saga began in 2018 with the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver, which sparked a diplomatic crisis involving the US, China and Canada.
Convictions on the Iran-related charges would bolster Washington’s case for having placed Huawei, one of China’s leading technology companies, on a US trade blacklist in 2019, citing alleged criminal conduct that threatened national security.
The trial before US District Judge Ann Donnelly in Brooklyn, New York, is expected to last about three months and overlap with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s September 24 meeting with President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... in Washington. Potential jurors have filled out 27-page questionnaires, including about their views on China’s and Iran’s governments.
Other charges include violating US sanctions against Iran, money laundering, racketeering, wire fraud and obstruction. Huawei has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to all charges and denied any wrongdoing.
The criminal case is based in part on reporting by Rooters in 2012 and 2013 about close ties between Huawei and Skycom, a firm that operated in Iran.
Rooters reported that Skycom had offered to sell at least €1.3 million ($1.5 million) worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran’s largest mobile-phone operator in 2010. Rooters also reported that Meng had served on Skycom’s board of directors between February 2008 and April 2009.
BEIJING SAYS CASE AIMS TO UNDERMINE CHINESE TECH
Beijing has long criticized the case, saying it was part of a bigger campaign against China’s technological rise. A Huawei spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday, "The government’s overarching narrative is demonstrably false."
Today, Huawei is a centerpiece of China’s AI chip ambitions, and has diversified beyond network gear and smartphones. It has described the criminal case as an effort to undermine its competitiveness and the theft accusations as a repackaging of long-resolved commercial disputes.
If Huawei is convicted, prosecutors will seek the forfeiture of property or proceeds obtained from its illegal activity. Should the company be found guilty on all counts, experts said it could face a significant financial penalty.
"The penalty is going to be determined by the benefit to the company and then multiplied by how serious the wrongdoing is — and that could range from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars," said Todd Haugh, a professor of business law at Indiana University Kelley School of Business.
If there’s a guilty verdict, he added, "a big fight is going to be proving how much Huawei benefited from their criminal behavior."
The case against the company was brought during the first Trump administration, which also took actions to curb the use of Huawei equipment in the US and pressed other countries to drop Huawei from their telecommunications networks, saying China could use its equipment for espionage.
The indictment covers alleged wrongdoing between about 1999 and 2020.
It accuses Huawei of using Skycom to obtain embargoed US goods, technology and services for Huawei’s Iran-based business, and to move money out of that country through the international banking system.
The US said one bank, which was not named in the indictment but which sources and documents reviewed by Rooters identified as HSBC, cleared more than $100 million worth of US-dollar transactions related to Skycom.
Prosecutors accused Meng of misrepresenting Huawei’s ownership and control of Skycom in a presentation to an HSBC executive. She later admitted the statements were false, as part of an agreement with prosecutors to drop the charges against her.
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[Regnum] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in advance of an impending attack by the Palestinian radical movement Hamas on October 7, 2023, but the office of the Israeli Prime Minister ignored it, Haaretz reported on September 8, based on the book "Abducted: 843 Days of Solitude" by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval. There were lots of warnings. But Hamas had worked very hard to desensitize the Israelis against thinking that the signs were anything but a feint, and it worked.
According to the publication, in late September 2023, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan warned Netanyahu by phone of Hamas's plans to invade Israel. Netanyahu responded calmly to the information and assured that Israel was prepared for any scenario. Netanyahu's office responded by stating that the prime minister had not spoken to the UAE leader during the period in question and had not received any warnings, calling the investigation "a lie."
According to an adviser to the UAE president, the Israeli prime minister did not inform the Israeli Defense Ministry leadership about the warning and did nothing with the information he received.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalated on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a massive rocket attack on Israel and captured several towns. During the attack, militants targeted a music festival in southern Israel. The Guardian reported that at least 260 bodies were found after the attack. Israel retaliated by launching missile strikes on the Gaza Strip and regained control.
On October 8, 2023, Israeli authorities declared the country in a state of war. This was followed by a large-scale IDF ground operation in the Gaza Strip. However, the IDF also began targeting civilian targets. On October 31, 2023, the army struck the Jabaliya refugee camp. According to the Gaza Strip Ministry of the Interior, the strike killed and injured approximately 400 people. In the first six months alone, more than 34,000 people, including approximately 13,000 children, were killed in the war in the Gaza Strip.
Shortly after Algeria's announcement, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said on X that diplomatic relations should be based on "rationality, communication and clarity of interests", rather than "riddles and signals that require decoding".
[IsraelTimes] 16,500 of 283,000 applicants approved to serve on new technocratic government’s police force still need to be let out for training in Egypt, Board of Peace officials tell ToI
Roughly 16,500 Paleostinians have successfully undergone Israeli vetting to serve on the Board of Peace’s new Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... police force, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is blocking them from leaving the Strip to begin training, two officials from the US-controlled panel told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.
The figure constitutes roughly five percent of the 283,000 applications submitted since February to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), which is tasked with replacing Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in governing the Strip, under the auspices of the Board of Peace.
The Board of Peace officials said that applications were vetted by Israel and the NCAG along with countries represented at the International Gaza Support Center, a US-controlled base in southern Israel that monitors the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.
"The number of applications reflects the tremendous demand among Gazooks to support the NCAG in this capacity," one of the officials said on the sidelines of the MEAD conference in Washington. "The vetting shows the seriousness that was applied over a lengthy period of time to select strong candidates without linkages to any terrorist activity."
Still, the officials acknowledged that Israel was holding up the training of the police force key for helping to replace Hamas, even after playing a major role in vetting the candidates.
In addition to allowing the police recruits to leave Gaza, the Board of Peace is seeking assurances from Israel that those who exit will be permitted to return once they complete their training in Egypt, the officials said.
The Board of Peace has pressed Israel for months on the issue, but has yet to receive final approval.
US special envoy Jared Kushner said on Sunday that the October 27 election has made Netanyahu’s government act "a little irrational" when it comes to Gaza.
Kushner fumed at Netanyahu during a meeting in Jerusalem last month over the premier’s opposition to the Board of Peace’s plan to disarm Hamas.
The Board of Peace took eight months to coax the terror group into agreeing to the proposal on July 30, but the effort has stalled amid Israeli opposition.
Despite his frustration with Netanyahu, Kushner told Fox News on August 17 that he expected Hamas to begin handing over its weapons in as few as 30 days.
But three diplomats from mediating countries told The Times of Israel last week that they don’t expect the disarmament proposal to hold due to fervent Israeli opposition.
The US is resigned to waiting until after the Knesset election before it renews its push to advance the Board of Peace’s disarmament plan, one of the diplomats said.
[North Press] Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that Israel would maintain its presence in Syria’s security zone and continue monitoring threats along its northern border.
Katz made the remarks in a video filmed from the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, where he visited an Israeli military position alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We will not move from the security zone we control in Syria,” Katz said, adding that Israel would continue defending the occupied Golan Heights.
Katz said the visit was intended to send a “strong and clear” message to Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, whom he said was about 35 kilometers away in Damascus. He reiterated that Israeli forces would remain at Mount Hermon and in the security zone.
“We will not move from here,” Katz said, citing the need to protect Israel from what he described as jihadist threats from across the border and from armed groups operating inside Syria.
He added that Israeli forces were operating nightly to prevent what he described as the establishment of “jihadist infrastructure,” saying the operations were intended to protect communities in the Golan Heights and Galilee.
Netanyahu, who visited the same position with Katz, said Israel controlled the area from the summit of Mount Hermon to the Yarmouk River and vowed not to allow what he called a “terror army” to establish itself along Israel’s border.
Israel has maintained troops inside and beyond the former U.N.-patrolled buffer zone in southern Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024. Israel has described the deployment as a temporary security measure, while Damascus has condemned it as a violation of Syrian sovereignty and the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.
The statements came a day after a U.N. Commission of Inquiry warned that Israel’s increasingly sustained military activity in southern Syria, including ground incursions, patrols, raids and the construction of military infrastructure, could amount to violations of international law. The commission also said it had identified 49 Syrians detained by Israeli forces on Syrian territory, including two children.
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[IsraelTimes] Targets include nine companies based outside of Islamic Republic, but unclear if Chinese firms to face sanctions, as US seeks to up economic pain on Tehran after 6 months of war
The United States imposed sanctions Tuesday on "all remaining Iranian airlines" that have yet to face such penalties, as Washington pushes to step up economic pressure in its war with Tehran.
The US Treasury Department said its latest action takes aim at "36 targets for supporting Iran’s aviation sector, which the regime uses to move weapons, personnel, and illicit cargo."
These include 27 Iranian airlines, alongside firms based in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , Malaysia and Kazakhstan.
"Essentially, we’re taking the entire aviation sector of the Iranian economy out of the market," a US Treasury official told news hounds on condition of anonymity.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has been at war with the United States since late February, when US-Israeli strikes killed the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s supreme leader and senior military officials at the start of a vast offensive that sought to destabilize the regime and destroy its nuclear program.
The strikes sparked Tehran’s retaliation in blocking the Strait of Hormuz — causing global oil prices to surge — as the conflict spread in the Middle East.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has vowed to bring "economic D-Day" on Iran and choke Tehran off financially.
"Under Operation Economic Outcast, we promised severe consequences for those providing financial lifelines to the Iranian regime," Bessent said Tuesday in a statement.
He warned that anyone doing business with Iran’s remaining airlines risks being cut off from the global financial system.
Besides Iranian airlines, the Treasury Department said its latest actions target third-country firms that "facilitate US-sanctioned Mahan Air’s proliferation activity, terrorist-linked flight operations, and illicit procurement of US-origin aircraft."
It is also taking aim at "cargo service providers and general sales agents that have serviced Mahan Air’s international flights."
Mahan Air is an Iranian airline accused of facilitating activities by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The US Treasury official did not specify if firms in countries like China might face secondary sanctions for supporting the Iranian aviation sector, but said there are various actions Washington can take on service providers.
The Treasury Department slapped sanctions in July on individuals and companies it said were also aiding Mahan Air.
Iran’s aviation sector has long struggled under sanctions, which have severely restricted its ability to acquire aircraft, spare parts and maintenance services.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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