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Around 2,000 protesters, many carrying signs and bearing trade union logos, marched towards Downing Street, the prime minister’s official residence. Other protests took place in Scotland and Wales. Source link

Families from Syria, Afghanistan, Rwanda and Ukraine were in the Vatican auditorium to meet Pope Francis on Saturday. Source link

Britain’s government has refused to rule out abandoning a European human rights pact after a judge dramatically blocked its plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda, sparking fury among Conservatives. Source link

Britain’s plan to deport asylum seekers to the East African nation was put on pause on human rights grounds. Source link

Some activists banged the outer fence of the immigration centre and people inside the compound sounded like they were chanting back. In unison with protesters, people inside appeared to chant: “No Rwanda.” The plans would see some people who have entered the UK illegally flown to Rwanda to seek asylum …

The 29-year-old Scot, who was born in Rwanda, said he had been keeping the news secret since he was cast in February. Gatwa will play the 14th incarnation of the Time Lord. Source link

Sun Shujun was charged with torture after he was filmed beating a man tethered to a pole on the ground. Source link

Matthew Rycroft, the permanent secretary for the Home Office, said the UK government’s push to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda may not deter enough migrants to make the effort cost effective. Source link

PM Boris Johnson will announce plans to set up a holding centre in Rwanda to process asylum seekers; Last year, more than 28,000 migrants and refugees crossed from mainland Europe to Britain. Source link

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War II then rose to become the first female US secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, her family said.Albright, a …