
Dutch centrist Jetten claims victory in vote where far right lost ground
D66 party says no time to waste as begins challenge of finding three coalition partners on fractious centre-ground.
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D66 party says no time to waste as begins challenge of finding three coalition partners on fractious centre-ground.

Proposition 50 has become a referendum on what steps Democrats are willing to take to counter President Donald Trump.

Immigrants housed in the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, have described overcrowding and unsanitary holding rooms.

Wife of Sami Hamdi describes shock detention at San Francisco airport as lawyers file emergency legal challenge.

The “expansion of European club competitions” has led to there being just one top-flight game on 26 December, says the Premier League.

Aryna Sabalenka is the latest star to ramp up pressure on the Grand Slams over increased prize money and greater player welfare.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says ready to negotiate despite Israeli refusal, as new strikes kill one in the south.
Wet conditions are forecast across the country, with severe thunderstorms, hail, and damaging winds in parts of the North West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal, according to the South African Weather Service (SAWS).

Residents of Jamaica are scrambling for supplies and picking through piles of wreckage from Hurricane Melissa.

Attacks on Palestinians have intensified during the harvesting season as Israel pushes measures to annex the territory.
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Michael Webber admitted sexually assaulting Jaysley Beck, 19, who later took her own life.

Deadly protests have continued to spread across Tanzania since voting began in controversial elections.
NASA hit back on Thursday at reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 Moon landing “didn’t happen,” a theory consistently debunked over decades.

First-known attack in Nigeria by the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin armed group active in Mali and Burkina Faso.

The first edition of the solid gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019.

The language of Buckingham Palace’s statement is “very brutal”, royal historian Kelly Swaby tells the BBC.
The Madlanga Commission heard from Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala for the first time, albeit through comments he allegedly made to an investigator, claiming he had a number of top cops on his payroll. Parliament’s ad hoc commission, meanwhile, heard that the deputy police commissioner has not been assigned responsibilities, after over a year in the job.

Police in Dearborn, Michigan, confirmed FBI operations had been conducted in the area, without offering details.

Why did the King choose now to strip Andrew of his titles?

The US has historically passed laws denying entry or citizenship to people of specific ethnicities or nationalities.