Lauren Freyer

Masked men with hit lists and Molotov cocktails have been going door to door in parts of East Belfast, hunting for foreigners or people of colour in what the United Kingdom's Minister for Northern Ireland calls racist thuggery.

Billionaire ex-owner Elon Musk is one of those sharing anti-immigrant material online.

Belfast Police Chief Constable John Boucher urged people to ignore such posts.

Charred homes and torched cars are reminiscent of what rival paramilitaries did to Belfast a generation ago during three decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict known as the Troubles.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.

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State Department accused the U.K.

of having a two-tiered policing system, a symptom, it said, of civilizational decline.

while Vice President J.D.

Vance blamed a mass invasion of migrants and what he called UK self-hatred.

Without naming Vance, the British government condemned efforts to interfere in UK democracy and stir up division on streets.

18-year-old Henry Novak was falsely accused of racial abuse and handcuffed by police as he lay dying of stab wounds.

His killer is now serving a life sentence.

But the far right has seized on this case as proof of anti-white prejudice by police.

Novak's family has said they do not want his death to be used to create division, and data show people of color are twice as likely to get arrested here.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Bath, England.

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Until April, Andrew earned rental income from three Windsor estate cottages he was subletting while he lived for free in another one.

He also charged rent to his staff.

And his daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who are not working royals, were nevertheless living in royal palaces with their rent paid by their uncle, King Charles.