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UK leaders call for calm as protests break out after Belfast street stabbing

  • A man in his 40s was seriously injured in a violent stabbing in north Belfast; a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum-seeker has been arrested and charged.
  • The attack sparked violent anti-immigration protests in Belfast (a bus was torched, cars and bins set alight) and demonstrations elsewhere in the U.K.
  • Political leaders urged calm and warned against targeting communities, as the incident adds to a wider, heated national debate about immigration after a recent knife murder in Southampton.
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