UK holds emergency meeting after days of far-right riots

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will hold emergency talks today after days of violent protests across the country that he described as “far-right thuggery.” The demonstrations were sparked by the murder of three young girls in a northwest English town last week, and have included attacks on mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers, in part because initial false reports blamed the murders on a Muslim immigrant. More than 150 people have been arrested. The suspected murderer, a British 17-year-old of Rwandan heritage, is in custody. Starmer’s interior minister told the...