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ReutersAfD leaders were overjoyed as exit polls projected a big lead in the Saxony-Anhalt voteGermany’s AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream rivals, according to initial projections. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern.The far-right party is set to win more than 44% of the vote, well ahead of the conservative CDU on 18.4%.The AfD has hailed the result as a “historic outcome” and the charismatic leader in the…
Getty ImagesOlivia Grange, Jamaica’s culture minister, will be leading the delegation to the UKThe Jamaican government will hand a petition to King Charles over slavery reparations on Monday, the country’s culture minister Olivia Grange has said.It will ask the King, who serves as Jamaica’s head of state, to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the country’s highest court, over the legality of the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica.Grange said it could pave the way for a “long outstanding settlement for the hundreds of years of the most horrific abuse that our African ancestors endured”.She will…
Rescuers race to free people trapped after building collapse in DelhiA residential building in the Indian capital Delhi has collapsed with dozens of students feared trapped inside. Eyewitnesses told local media that as many as 50 people were inside the five-storey building in the Satya Niketan neighbourhood of south-west Delhi when it came down around 13:30 local time (08:00 GMT) on Sunday.At least one person was killed and two others are in a critical condition, NDTV reports, citing local police. Six people were said to have been rescued so far.There had been construction work going on in the basement of…
Taylor’s place among greats set in stone after extraordinary swansongFairytale endings in boxing are a rarity, but Irish icon Katie Taylor sails off into the sunset after the most perfect of farewells at Dublin’s towering Croke Park.7 hrs agoBoxing
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Getty ImagesWhen the central bank of the Netherlands confirmed this week that it had moved tonnes of the country’s gold out of North America, it said the relocation would make it “better prepared for severe crises”.Some 86 tonnes from the combined total of about 313 tonnes held in the US and Canada were relocated to London “in view of increasing geopolitical unrest”, it said, so the shiny stuff could be “readily available for use in a crisis situation”.Questions were bound to follow. Why were the Dutch doing this? Were they anticipating some major economic shock on the horizon?It seems not,…
Watch: The Reform UK leader says he “frankly wasn’t even listening” during a conversation about foreign money being donated to his partyNigel Farage has said he “frankly wasn’t listening” during a conversation with his former chief of staff and an undercover reporter discussing what appears to have been a scheme to funnel foreign money to Reform UK.His former chief of staff Dan Jukes and ex-head of policy James Orr have both been removed from their jobs after an investigation recorded them talking about how to get money to the party from an American donor and asking a fake company to…
RankinNatalie Imbruglia is releasing her seventh album, Algorithm, on her own record label, LandgirlWhen it comes to writing music, Natalie Imbruglia needs constant motion.”I walk around in circles to get the melodies, to catch them,” the Australian singer says.”If I’m sat in a chair, I get nothing.”So if I go and work with someone new and they have a shoebox-sized studio, I’m like, ‘How am I going to do my circles?'”Inspired by Talking Heads and Grace Jones, it’s a record whose shimmering surfaces disguise lyrics of deep emotional complexity.On Who Dimmed The Lights, the 51-year-old addresses how her mental health…