DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers in the murder trial of Karen Read gave their closing arguments Friday after weeks of testimony in a highly divisive case in which the prosecution’s theory of jaded love turned deadly is countered by a defense claim that a cast of tight-knit Boston area law enforcement killed a fellow police officer.

Lawyers in Karen Read’s murder retrial to give closing arguments Read, 45, is accused of fatally striking her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, 46, with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow outside a house party where other local police and a federal agent were closing out a night of drinking in 2022.

Riot police were seen on the streets of Portadown in Northern Ireland on Thursday (June 12) as anti-immigrant violence moved to a different part of the British-run province. Rioters attacked police in Portadown with petrol bombs,

Disorder began on Monday after a peaceful protest over alleged sexual assault in Ballymena

There will be a large policing operation across Northern Ireland this weekend following days of serious violence which saw homes, police officers and a leisure centre targeted during anti-immigration protests.