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3 officers shot during Belfast riots

About 200 people threw petrol bombs, stones and bottles at police during trouble in Belfast Three police officers have been shot during violence in north Belfast on the eve of the annual Twelfth parades. The officers, one a woman, were injured by a masked man firing a shotgun at North Queen Street. One male officer [...]

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Minister brands met Police anti-terror chief as alarmist

Britain’s most senior anti-terror officer John Yates has sparked a political row after he warned spending cuts would increase the risk of attack. Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude reacted angrily to Assistant Commissioner Yates’s comments, accusing him of “shroud-waving” and “alarmism”. But Labour’s Alan Johnson warned “we will all be in greater peril” if anti-terror [...]

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