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May 16 1200 UTC Brief
In London
London had a heavy police presence as tens of thousands joined rival demonstrations, with the Unite the Kingdom march led by Tommy Robinson taking place alongside a pro-Palestinian protest. The Met said it deployed 4,000 officers, armoured vehicles, drones, horses, and live facial recognition, in a £4.5 million operation designed to keep the two crowds apart. Kemi Badenoch backed the government’s decision to block 11 suspected far-right agitators from entering the UK before the rally.
In Ukraine
Russia launched nearly 300 drones at Ukraine overnight, with Ukrainian officials reporting direct hits in 15 locations. Separately, Ukraine said the bodies of 528 of its soldiers were returned, a day after the two sides exchanged prisoners of war. The war keeps finding new ways to be grimly administrative.
In crime and justice
In the U.S., Ryan Nichols, a pardoned January 6 rioter, has been charged after allegedly threatening a man with a handgun during an argument in a church parking lot. In Europe, Spanish police working with Italian authorities and Europol arrested 12 suspected members of a gang accused of robbing tourists of luxury watches in Marbella, Barcelona, and Ibiza.
In counterterrorism
The U.S. and Nigeria say a senior Islamic State leader, Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, was killed in a joint operation. President Trump called him “the most active terrorist in the world,” which is the sort of line presidents use when they want the headline to do the heavy lifting.
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