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- ANC faces bruising defeat in South African local elections with 80% of ballots counted
- Most Europeans want action to tackle climate crisis but not at any cost, poll shows
- ‘An abomination’: Idaho hunters earned thousands of dollars to kill newborn wolf pups, records reveal
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- Kenyan doomsday cult leader given life sentence for murdering 191 people
- ‘Everything is so out of whack’: UK trees experience spring six months early
- ‘Clicky Ponting’ cheating scandal cricketer banned and club relegated
- US midterm elections 2026 live: Democrats exceed 250 House seats as blue wave sweeping Congress grows
- Homes and temples glow across India as Diwali celebrations begin
- Trump wooed Latino voters, but his ICE tactics sent them back to the polls: ‘They’re taking our neighbors’
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- Denmark’s top court to rule on ‘parallel societies’ after ‘non-western’ people evicted
- 'Several victims' after bus crashes in France, officials say
- Tanzanian opposition leader found guilty of incitement
- Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
- Trump signs order to preserve Oval Office as national monument
- Global stocks plunge amid AI slowdown fears after Democrats’ midterm triumph
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- Met police chief urges potential victims of Russell Brand to come forward
- Death a ‘distinct possibility’ in collision running and face-slapping competitions, inquiry hears
- Somalia's top court rejects president's term extension amid political crisis
- UK house prices fall at steepest rate in more than three years
- Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
- Major construction ongoing near Iran missile bases, satellite images suggest
- Macau jails pro-democracy campaigner in city's first national security case
- Friday briefing: After a week of disruption, is living with threats our new normal?
- Wisconsin reports infant measles death, first in more than three decades
- Bondi beach shooting: Eva Geller, 90, shot during massacre dies in hospital year after antisemitic attack
- Did a data centre revolt affect the US mid-term election results?
- A wildfire killed their loved ones in Spain. These British families demand to know why
- Police turn to charities for help with teenagers caught up in online child abuse
- Judge blocks Trump’s arch after federal panel approves it
- 2026 midterm election live updates as Democrats flip over 40 House seats, GOP grapples with stunning losses
- Paraguay Congress rejects President Pena’s resignation after bank collapse
- Republicans rammed through Supreme Court nominees. Now Democrats will have the votes to stop them
- 12 Planes in 12 Days: Pope Begins Major Latin America Tour, Weeks After Surgery