Hundreds of Tommy Robinson supporters marched through the streets of Leeds and Manchester in protest over the jailing of Robinson.

Over 400 people gathered outside Leeds Crown Court over the weekend, where Robinson was taken away by police last Friday, before taking part in a one-hour march through the city centre.

Over 1,000 people filled the streets of Manchester, UK to demonstrate.

The Austrian government will shut down seven mosques and is checking whether to expel up to 60 imams as part of the crackdown operation "against political Islam" and hate preaching.

"Parallel societies, political Islam and radicalization tendencies have no place in our country," Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said at a Friday joint press conference with his vice chancellor, and interior and EU ministers. The government proceeded with the closures of seven mosques throughout the country, three of which are located in Vienna.

Some of mosques are suspected by authorities to have been influenced by a Turkish right-wing organization called the 'Grey Wolves.' Austrian authorities highlighted that, along with the closures of the mosques, they had also been closely investigating the dubious financial flows "under the disguise of religion."

Days after it was reported that the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is seeking US support to recapture the port city of Hodeidah from Houthi rebels, a UN official in the country says such an attack could claim up to 250,000 lives.

"A military attack or siege on Hodeidah will impact hundreds of thousands of innocent lives," Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, said in a Friday statement.

"In a prolonged worst case, we fear that as many as 250,000 people may lose everything - even their lives."

US president Donald Trump has personally congratulated Washington Capitals' captain Alexander Ovechkin after the Russian led the caps to a historic first Stanley Cup win, branding 'Ovi' a "superstar".


Trump tweeted: "Congratulations to the Washington Capitals on their GREAT play and winning the Stanley Cup Championship. Alex Ovechkin, the team captain, was spectacular - a true Superstar! D.C. is popping, in many ways. What a time!"

The Caps defeated the Las Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 in game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals on Thursday. In doing so, Ovechkin became the first Russian-born player to captain a team to the most coveted prize in hockey.

A Melbourne woman who told how she felt like an "animal" and a "slave" while practising Islam says she hopes she'll inspire other female Muslims to "free themselves" from the religion.

Nadia (last name with held) and her eldest daughter Allawea are now in hiding, after their family turned against them when the pair denounced Islam.

"It is in an honour for them to kill somebody whose turned away from Islam, and their own mother has turned away from Islam so I mean nothing to them," the 40-year-old told A Current Affair.

Things escalated in October last year, when Nadia's two eldest sons turned up at her former home in Melbourne's western suburbs, brutally bashing her new husband.

The young men fled when police arrived, with officers later allegedly finding several rifles in their possession.

Weapons charges were laid but the boys' whereabouts are unknown.

Three Arizona police officers and one sergeant are on administrative leave after CCTV footage emerged allegedly showing them punching and kneeing an unarmed man.

Mesa police were called to a domestic dispute at an apartment complex just before midnight on May 23. A woman had reported that her ex-boyfriend was trying to break into her apartment and officers met two men exiting the building when they arrived.

One of the men was Erik Reyes, the caller's 20-year-old ex-boyfriend, who can be seen in the footage complying with officer's orders to sit on the floor. His friend, 33-year-old Robert Johnson, chooses not to sit down.

The three officers then appear to begin punching Johnson repeatedly in the face and head, even after he had been knocked unconscious.


At another point in the 15-minute footage an officer appears to be shoving Johnson's head into an elevator door after he was handcuffed and had his feet zip-tied. Near the end of the video one cop wraps a cloth around Johnson's face, covering his eyes, before three officers pick him up and carry him to the elevator.

It's the type of unsexy story that just glides past without much notice these days -- especially with so much excitement and speculation over historic summits, presidential self-pardons, and dramatic culture war skirmishes dominating headlines. But the federal government has dug our national finances into a frighteningly deep hole, having made tens of trillions of dollars' worth in unpaid-for promises (i.e. "unfunded liabilities"), on which tens of millions of people are relying. We've been sounding the alarm on this for years, over the course of two presidential administrations. The looming debt bomb is a predictable crisis, and yet virtually nothing is being done about it.

Republicans passed a number of budget resolutions during the Obama years that called for the implementation of Paul Ryan's desperately-needed Medicare reforms, but those had zero chance of becoming law. The Obama administration was committed to fiscal denialism and demagoguery, infamously responding to the bleak math with literally no plan to corral it. Then Donald Trump secured the GOP nomination and the presidency while pledging -- for political reasons -- not to touch the two biggest drivers of our long-term debt, discarding years of hard work Paul Ryan and his allies had undertaken to prove that pursuing entitlement reform was not a lethal third rail. Then, in February, both parties teamed up to pass an awful omnibus spending bill that blew through even the modest constraints the GOP opposition had secured during the Obama era. The US government's spending trajectory remains pointed inexorably and recklessly northward, with no fiscal responsibility in sight. And as of yesterday, we know that the unfunded liabilities problem is worse than ever:

Western countries speak of the need for democracy and free speech around the world while restricting citizens' access to information and silencing the messengers.

Nowadays the media is a form of education for many, especially when it comes to understanding politics. Therefore, people believe what they see and hear even if it's only half the truth. I have always stated that the media is the fourth branch of government because it moves public opinion and every day we see more proof of that. US society, as well as British society, has made choices about which kinds of speech to permit and which to forbid in an attempt to silence discussion on specific topics.

In 2010 Hillary Clinton cited President Obama during her speech stating that "the more freely information flows, the stronger societies become". She then went on to say that "information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable."

What she didn't expect was that information networks such as WikiLeaks would uncover incriminating information that not only compromised her credibility but also that of many others. First Amendment to the US constitution guarantees the rights of free expression and action that are fundamental to democratic government. These rights include freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.

The First Amendment prohibits Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. The First Amendment should be able to protect a right to publish information on unlawful government programs especially when the existence of a particular program is a matter of significant public concern. Because of the Espionage Act, there's no way for third party to "lawfully" acquire classified national security information that they are unauthorized to possess.

Doug Ford - the brother of controversial former Toronto mayor Rob Ford - is the new leader of Canada's most populous province, winning a majority government in a local show of strength for the divisive wedge politics that have rattled much of the world.

Ontario's Conservatives, led by Ford, won 76 of the 124 seats in the province, with 99% of the polls reporting. Buoyed by promises that included slashing income taxes, reducing the price of gasoline, boosting spending on healthcare and transit and repealing carbon pricing, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, bringing an end to 15 years of Liberal rule in the province.

"This victory belongs to the people," Ford told supporters on Thursday. "Together we made history. We have taken back Ontario, we have delivered a government that is for the people."

Ford - a businessman who rails against the elite and regularly peppers his speeches and interviews with boasts and falsehoods - is the brother of the late Rob Ford, the former Toronto mayor who made headlines around the world after he admitted to smoking crack cocaine while in office.

In his victory speech, Ford thanked his brother. "I know my brother Rob is looking down from heaven. I'm just getting chills talking about him right now," he said. "I know Rob is celebrating with us tonight. We owe so much to Rob's legacy."

China will host the first-ever China-Africa security and defense forum later this month, a Chinese military spokesperson said last Thursday. The move signals deepening ties between the world's most rapidly developing country and a number of nations in the developing world.

Ren Guoqiang, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, said at a press briefing Thursday that the African participants will visit the Chinese armed forces, including the army, navy and air force. The forum itself will focus on regional security issues and the development of Africa's own security capacities, in addition to mutual cooperation, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The inaugural summit comes at a time of increasing political and economic cooperation between China and a number of African nations, marked by growing diplomatic relations and broadening infrastructure investments.