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A comprehensive ground game that Mamdani claimed involved 100,000 volunteers meant his campaign touched every corner of New York

After landslide victory

Five things to know about New York's new mayor

Cristina Kirchner has been under house arrest after being convicted of fraud in a separate case

Dominant and polarizing figure

Argentine ex-president Kirchner goes on trial in new corruption case

Morning Roundup

New medical facility opening at Findel, German nurse gets life sentence for patient murders, and Bettel takes legal action over meme

Jevon McSkimming had been the second-highest ranking police officer in New Zealand

Stored on work devices

New Zealand ex-top cop admits to having material showing child abuse, bestiality

Tony Mokbel -- one of the key figures in Melbourne's years-long gangland war -- was handed a 30-year prison sentence in 2012 after pleading guilty to masterminding an elaborate drug syndicate

Country's most famous gangster

Australian kingpin obtains shorter sentence over drug charge

Smoke rose from the site of the UPS cargo plane crash

Death toll at 12

Engine fell off US cargo plane before deadly crash: officials

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped by a man on the street while greeting wellwishers near the presidential palace

Following distressing experience

Mexican leader calls for tougher sexual harassment laws after attack

Flights resumed at Brussels Airport after drone sightings halted air traffic

Hundreds of passengers left stranded

Belgium probes drone sightings after flights halted overnight

US President Donald Trump is urging Senate Republicans to ditch the so-called 'filibuster' to take away Democrats' leverage in the shutdown fight

Trump blasts Democrats as government shutdown becomes longest ever

Party denies in Parliament

Germany's far-right AfD accused of harbouring Russian 'sleeper cell'

Abigail Spanberger and her fellow victorious Democrats mirrored Barack Obama's playbook -- making inroads with a variety of different demographics

Democrats punch back in US elections - and see hope for 2026

Bolivia's Supreme Court has ordered the release of ex-president Jeanine Anez after annuling her 10-year prison term on charges of illegally taking power in 2019 after the ouster of then president Evo Morales

Controversial sentence annulled

Bolivia Supreme Court orders release of jailed ex-president Jeanine Anez

Kohler and Paris were held for over three years

Facing harsher sanctions and isolation

'Hostage diplomacy': longstanding Iran tactic presenting dilemma for West

In hospital near Aachen

German nurse given life sentence for killing 10 patients

Mamdani's victory came in the face of fierce, attacks on his policies and Muslim heritage from President Donald Trump

Highest voter turnout in decades

NY elects leftist mayor on big election night for Democrats

A resident walks among badly damaged houses in the aftermath of Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines' Cebu province

Worst flooding in recent history

Death toll tops 100 as Philippines digs out after typhoon

Patterson, 51, was handed life in prison with parole this year for serving a beef Wellington laced with poisonous fungi to her estranged husband's parents, aunt and uncle during a lunch at her home in 2023, killing three of them

Court documents made public

In appeal, Australian mushroom murderer alleges 'miscarriage of justice'

No drones detected in Luxembourg airspace

Brussels Airport closed twice in one evening due to drone sightings

Morning Roundup

Belgian airspace closed for drones last night, 14-year-old girl missing, and New York has a new mayor

The ILO celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2019

Concerns at ILO over expected appointment of close Trump advisor

Zohran Mamdani speaks after voting

In opposition to Trump

Young leftist Mamdani on track to win NY vote, shaking up US politics

The Dacian Fall drill in Romania is seen as an 'integration exercise' for NATO allies' various equipment and skills

Belgian, French, Luxembourg troops

NATO tests war preparedness on eastern flank facing Russia

The pair were held in prison for over three years

Charged with espionage

French pair released after 3-year Iran jail ordeal

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Hungary to stop blocking Kyiv's bid to join the EU

Backed by Brussels, Zelensky urges Orban to drop veto on EU bid

US Vice President Dick Cheney takes to the stage on March 18, 2008 to deliver remarks to US troops stationed at Balad Air Base, Iraq

Cheney shaped US like no other VP. Until he didn't.

A Taliban security officer walks past damaged shops following an earthquake in Afghanistan on November 3 that killed at least 27 people

Struggle to find shelter

Reeling from earthquakes, Afghans fear coming winter

Protesters file pass hanging effigies of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as Iran commemorates the 1979 storming of the US embassy

Iran commemorates storming of US embassy with missile replicas, fake coffins

Demirtash, seen here in 2016, was co-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP, which has become DEM

Nine years later

After ECHR ruling, Turkey opposition urges pro-Kurd leader's release

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