Portadown, United Kingdom, Sept 27, 2026 (AFP) - Tense standoff over flashpoint N.Ireland parade lasts into night

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2026-09-27

UK leaders called for calm Sunday as a tense standoff with residents seeking to halt a pro-British Protestant march through a Catholic flashpoint area stretched into the night, in one of the worst crises for Northern Ireland in recent years. The tensions were triggered after a Belfast appeal court overturned a High Court injunction in the early hours of Sunday to clear the march by the Orange Order to go ahead for the first time since 1997. The P......

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