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JOHANNESBURG — South African police said more than 900 people were arrested on Tuesday, when ​there were nationwide anti-migrant protests which were mostly ​peaceful but occasionally descended into violence and looting. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. Tebello ⁠Mosikili, a deputy national police commissioner, told ​a press…

At an informal settlement near a disused landfill, a group of migrants anxiously await the outcome of Chile's presidential election, in which many voters are baying for them to be thrown out. Illegal migration, which many Chileans link to a crime surge, is a hot topic in the election. Two hard-right candidates are threatening to deport all of the 330,000 people living illegally in the country. Far-right lawyer Jose Antonio Kast has called on them to sell up and leave of their own volition or be thrown out and lose everything if he becomes president. Some 2,000 families, mostly Haitians, Peruvians, Venezuelans and Colombians, live crammed in a sea of modest brick homes with tin roofs in Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn), a settlement west of Santiago. Like Suhey Garcia, her husband and three children, many were smuggled into Chile on foot after crossing the Andean high plains from Bolivia. "If they're going to kick me out, well, there's nothing I can do. But making that decision myself? No," said 30-year-old Garcia. She and her family fled the economic meltdown of their native Venezuela in 2020.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned “dangerous” comments by Elon Musk on Monday, after the X and Tesla owner told an anti-immigration rally in London that “violence is coming” to the UK and they must fight or die. Addressing the demonstration by video link, Musk called for the dissolution of UK Parliament and an early election to remove Starmer’s centre-left government. He told protesters,…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned “dangerous” comments by Elon Musk after the X and Tesla owner told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die. But the U.K. government resisted opposition calls to sanction Musk for the remarks.

Bitter debate about immigration in the United Kingdom has triggered a new trend of flying English and British flags in a vivid show of patriotism spearheaded in part by far-right figures. Usually flown only for royal celebrations or at sporting tournaments, the flags have been appearing on motorway bridges, lampposts and other spots in villages, towns and cities across England. Some behind the campaign claim hundreds of thousands of St George's and Union Jacks have gone up, while roundabouts and road crossings have even been painted with the red and white colours of England's national flag. “We didn't expect it to go so big, but it's really happening,” Carla Kennedy, from Worcester in Western England, told AFP. The 42-year-old is part of a group, Worcester Patriots, that has erected hundreds of St George's flags.

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