Billionaire ex-PM offers £8.4m gift to Georgia squad

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Xi warns of 'rough seas' as China celebrates 75 years of communist rule

Commemorations were also held in the former UK colony of Hong Kong and Portugal’s former territory of Macao, both of which returned to Chinese sovereignty in the late 1990s.

Thousands in Portugal march against immigration in rally called by far-right party

Demonstrators marched through the capital Lisbon with the Portuguese national flag and carried banners bearing slogans like, 'Expulsion of immigrants who commit crimes'.

Thousands protest across Portugal against unaffordable house prices and rents

The housing crisis has its roots in a chronic shortage of affordable and social housing, a situation worsened by wealthy foreigners moving to Portugal on the promise of tax breaks.