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France: high school students call for an "act 3" on October 6 as the government promises replacement teachers and targets parents over damage
After a week of blockades and clashes, French high school organisations are calling for further protests on October 6. The education minister announced a plan to replace absent teachers, while the justice minister wants parents of minors involved to pay for the damage.
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Aleksandar Vučić resigns as Serbia's president to run for prime minister in the snap election of 25 October
Barred from a third presidential term, Aleksandar Vučić resigned to lead his party's list in the 25 October snap election and seek the head of government. He faces the student movement born of the Novi Sad station disaster, which killed 16 people in 2024 and has been protesting against corruption for nearly two years. Ana Brnabić is acting president.
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Five men arrested near RAF Fairford, a base used by US forces against Iran, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act
British police arrested five men near RAF Fairford after three suspicious vans were reported; army bomb-disposal experts examined the vehicles and 85 households were evacuated. London allows Washington to strike Iran from the base. According to the Daily Telegraph, an Iranian lead is among those being examined; police have not named anyone behind the plot.
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The AfD comes first in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Friedrich Merz's CDU misses the 5% threshold for the first time in its history
Two German states voted on Sunday. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the AfD came first with about 38.2% of the vote while the CDU fell to 4.9%, below the 5% threshold, leaving it out of a state parliament for the first time in its history. In Berlin, Die Linke came first with 25.3%, ahead of the CDU. Friedrich Merz called the result a disaster for his party and said he would stay on as chancellor.
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Nepal glacier collapse: the missing rise to 6,150 as a study attributes the disaster to warming
Nepal's disaster authority raised the number of people missing in the 26 August floods to 6,150 from 5,179 after district-by-district verification; ten bodies were recovered at two hydropower sites in Rasuwa. A World Weather Attribution study concludes that warming very likely contributed to the Langtang Lirung collapse: August temperatures in the Himalayan region ran about 5°C above normal, 1.5°C of that attributable to climate change.
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Traffic collapses in the Strait of Hormuz as the Houthis strike three Saudi cities and the Gulf meeting is postponed
The Saudi-led coalition says thirteen civilians were wounded and seven houses damaged by Houthi missile and drone fire on Khamis Mushait, Abha and Taif; its spokesman, Major General Turki Al-Malki, invokes Article 51 of the UN Charter. At the same time shipping traffic is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz, and the meeting due between Iran and Gulf states on navigation arrangements was postponed at Riyadh's request. In Yemen, the Houthis have taken the port of Mokha and then Mayyoun island.
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Seven weeks from the midterms, the Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail-in voting restrictions
The Supreme Court on Monday evening turned down the Trump administration's emergency request to impose new mail-in voting rules on the Postal Service, leaving a federal judge's order in place for the 3 November election. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence; Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. The challenge was brought by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his counterparts in twenty-two other states; the administration says it can put forward new rules for 2028.
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Swedish election: the left-wing opposition edges ahead of the outgoing majority as the far right falls back for the first time
Swedes voted on Sunday, September 13, in a dead heat: the left-wing opposition is projected to win 176 of 349 seats, against 173 for Ulf Kristersson's outgoing majority. The Sweden Democrats fall back for the first time, to around 17.5% of the vote. The final result awaits the count of overseas ballots on September 16. Twenty-one countries, from Oslo to Beijing, read the vote.
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A British air traffic control failure cancels over a thousand flights, and NATS chief Martin Rolfe is summoned by the transport secretary
A failure in NATS's flight data processing system disrupted UK air traffic on 8 September: more than a thousand flights cancelled, Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted hit, Dublin affected. A further 177 flights were cancelled the next day. Ryanair and Wizz Air are demanding answers; Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander rules out a cyberattack.
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The CDU's "heaviest defeat": Merz holds his ground as the succession fight opens in Saxony-Anhalt
The day after the AfD's victory, Friedrich Merz told reporters at the CDU headquarters in Berlin that he was "deeply shocked", calling the result the party's heaviest defeat in decades. He is holding his position for now, but the internal fight has begun: Sepp Müller is running for the CDU chairmanship in Saxony-Anhalt, and the coalition's reform agenda looks harder to carry.
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AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8% and falls three seats short of an absolute majority
The AfD won Sunday's regional election in Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8% of the vote, 23 points more than in 2021, on a record turnout of 77.8%. It takes 39 of the Landtag's 83 seats and falls three short of an absolute majority. Sahra Wagenknecht's BSW scraping in at 5.3% makes both an AfD majority and a cordon-sanitaire coalition of all the other parties impossible at once.
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