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Six thousand riot police are deployed nationwide this weekend after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that UK authorities must "stay on high alert" for more far-right riots. While England has had consecutive nights of relative quiet, disturbances have continued unabated in Northern Ireland where police have blamed pro-UK loyalist paramilitaries for fuelling nightly violence in Belfast. Meanwhile More than 1,000 anti-racism protesters massed in the Northern Irish capital on Friday amid a large police presence.