Pro-European liberal Rob Jetten could become youngest and first openly gay Dutch prime minister
Europe • Oct 30, 2025, 2:51 PM
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The Dutch election has ended in an unprecedented cliffhanger - with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders and the pro-European liberals of Rob Jetten. With nearly all ballots counted, both are projected to win 26 seats - a stunning turnaround that could make Jetten the country’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister.
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Netherlands nailbiter as far-right, centrists in election dead-heat
Europe • 9:33 PM
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The Dutch election climaxed in an unprecedented cliffhanger Thursday, with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right party of firebrand Geert Wilders and a pro-European centrist party. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Nicholas Startin, Associate Professor
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'A huge fall from grace': Prince Andrew stripped of title, residence in wake of Epstein scandal
Europe • 9:16 PM
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FRANCE 24's Bénédicte Paviot reports from London as Buckingham Palace announces that Prince Andrew has been stripped of his remaining titles and told to leave his royal residence. She says that the Royal Family is determined to distance itself from the '
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King Charles to strip Andrew of royal titles, residence: Buckingham Palace
Europe • 7:44 PM
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King Charles III will strip his younger brother Andrew of his royal titles and long-term residence, the palace said in a statement on Thursday. "Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor," it said, adding that he would also move out o
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King Charles to remove Prince Andrew's royal titles and honours, Buckingham Palace says
Europe • 7:14 PM
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Britain's King Charles III will revoke the remaining royal titles and honours from his brother Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace said Thursday. The prince had earlier surrendered his use of the title Duke of York under mounting pressure due to his friends
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Who is Rob Jetten, tipped to become the next Dutch prime minister?
Europe • 4:28 PM
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The race between anti-immigration Geert Wilders' far right Party for Freedom and the centrist D66 is still neck and neck. However given all major parties have ruled out forming a coalition Wilders, it is likely the energetic Rob Jetten of D66 will become
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Pokrovsk part of last major defensive arc stopping Russia from seizing Donbas
Europe • 4:00 PM
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Ukraine's army chief said Thursday that Russian troops are intensifying its attacks on the eastern stronghold of Pokrovsk and that they are strengthening its defences to repel the attacks - but that the military's main priority is to save the lives of it
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Pro-European liberal Rob Jetten could become youngest and first openly gay Dutch prime minister
Europe • 2:51 PM
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The Dutch election has ended in an unprecedented cliffhanger - with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders and the pro-European liberals of Rob Jetten. With nearly all ballots counted, both are projected to win
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Has the United States gotten the deal it wanted from China?
Europe • 2:15 PM
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Award-winning Swedish author Linnea Axelsson on the plight of the Sami people
Europe • 2:12 PM
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An award-winning author has spoken of her verse novel which centres around the lives and traditions of her own Sami people. The Sami are indigenous to northern Scandinavia, including Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. Linnea Axelsson's book "Aednan: An
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Tough coalition talks ahead as Dutch centre left and far right tie in election
Europe • 2:11 PM
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The centre-left party D66 and the far-right Party for Freedom are neck-and-neck in the Dutch snap election, but regardless of the winner there will have to be talks to build a coalition. Yet it is likely that the next prime minister will be D66 leader Ro
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A year on, families of Spain's flood victims voice sorrow and rage at memorial ceremony
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Spain commemorated the anniversary of last year’s massive floods that killed over 230 people. A year later, citizens continue to express frustration over what they consider to be a botched government response, saying there could have been less deaths had
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Dutch centrist D66 party wins big in election as far right loses support
Europe • 10:31 AM
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In the Netherlands, the centrist D66 party looks on course to beat the far right in the national election. Exit polls have predicted Rob Jetten's party will claim victory, which could lead him to become the country's youngest ever prime minister. Dutch f
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Ukraine tries to fend off intensifying Russian attacks on strategic eastern city
Europe • 10:23 AM
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Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances around the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Moscow's troops have in recent weeks closed in on the key logistics hub after more than a year of grinding advances, which Kyiv says have come
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Russia batters Ukraine’s energy grid with wave of deadly drone, missile attacks
Europe • 10:11 AM
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Russia on Thursday launched a wave of drone and missile attacks targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, cutting power to thousands of households as winter approaches, Kyiv said. At least two people were killed and several children were wounded in the strikes. “
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