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Improvements to Oxford Street may not happen for a number of years because of the way Sadiq Khan is attempting to seize control of the nation’s most famous high street, according to local campaigners. A total of 22 residents’ groups and amenity societies in Westminster have written to the mayor asking him to think again about his intervention on Oxford Street.more

The Norwegian parliament has adopted a report documenting decades of denationalization of ethnic minorities living in the north of the country. The authorities in Oslo have apologized to the Sami, Kwen and Forest Finns for years of suffering, harassment and destruction of their cultures and languages.more

President-elect Donald Trump's advisers are exerting pressure to ‘freeze’ the Ukrainian-Russian conflict and create a more than 1,200-kilometre demilitarised zone, US 'Newsweek' reported yesterday. According to the 'Wall Street Journal', the zone would be overseen by European forces, including Polish forces.more

The defence ministers of Romania and the UK signed an agreement on defence cooperation yesterday, the Romanian Ministry of National Defence said in a press release.more

US President Joe Biden welcomed his successor Donald Trump to the White House yesterday, expressing hope for a smooth transition of power. Trump thanked Biden, acknowledging that ‘politics is tough in many cases’.more

Russia has brought the war back to Europe, and even troops from North Korea. The threat of an armed attack on an EU member state is higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War, said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, speaking yesterday at the Finnish-Swedish cooperation forum in Espoo.more

Billionaire Elon Musk has been meeting with Trump every day since November 5, the day President-elect Donald Trump was elected, influencing personnel decisions in the new administration, ABC News reports. The New York Times reports that he suggested hiring SpaceX employees in the Defense Department.more

Copenhagen authorities yesterday announced the launch of a campaign to attract educated Americans who are disappointed by Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election.more

A Home Office artificial intelligence tool which proposes enforcement action against adult and child migrants could make it too easy for officials to rubberstamp automated life-changing decisions, campaigners have said.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet with the country's President Emmanuel Macron in France today. They will discuss plans to strengthen Ukraine ahead of US President Donald Trump taking office, British media reported.more

A former adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling the country to gain back territory occupied by Russia. Bryan Lanza, who worked on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, told the BBC the incoming administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a realistic vision for peace.more

Millionaires sympathetic to the Democratic Party are ‘lining up’ to leave the US after Donald Trump's presidential election victory, the UK's ‘Daily Telegraph’ reported yesterday, quoting data from a firm that advises wealthy investors.more

The foreign secretary has dismissed his previous criticism of Donald Trump as "old news" and insisted he would be able to find "common ground" with the president-elect. When he was a backbench MP in 2018, David Lammy described Trump as a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath".more

After Donald Trump's election as president, Great Britain must find a new link to the White House who will get in the good graces of the new leader of the free world, Politico wrote yesterday. The portal noted that despite the bad relations with Trump, Keir Starmer's government must find some solution.more

Ireland will hold a general election on November 29, Prime Minister Simon Harris has announced, according to AFP. His centre-right Fine Gael (FG) party has a good chance of retaining power for a fourth consecutive term.more

Criticism of Donald Trump expressed in the past by Labour politicians will not damage current British-American relations, said Pat McFadden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister responsible for coordinating the work of the British government, in an interview with Sky News.more

"The Economist" writes today, commenting on the results of the US elections, that Donald Trump's victory will shake the world and may induce aggression from Russia and China. The rule of the Republican candidate will be costly for Washington's allies, and especially for Europe - the weekly predicts.more

More than 50 new sanctions against Russia have been announced by the Foreign Office on Thursday, in the UK's largest package since 2023. The Foreign Office said these sanctions will directly target the supply of goods to Russia’s military and constrain resources that enable Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.more

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Donald Trump has won the election and will become the 47th president of the United States, according to partial election results and analysis. The celebrity billionaire has become an era-defining figure ran for president as the candidate of the “forgotten people".more

Donald Trump wins the presidential election in the United States - the AP reported today, citing its own calculations. The Republican candidate won 277 electoral votes, or seven more than the minimum required. Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris currently has 224 electoral votes, according to AP.more

The polls have closed in Hawaii, the last of the 50 US states, which means that voting in this year's US presidential election has ended, AP reported today. Most US news agencies and media predict that Donald Trump will win.more

Shoplifting is at "unacceptable" levels and not being tackled properly, a Lords inquiry has found. The crime is seriously underreported and the problem is so urgent police forces need to take "immediate action", according to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced an extra £75 million for border security, saying the government will deploy counter-terrorism strategies to crack down on people-smuggling gangs, the BBC reported today.more

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris' projected electoral votes (226) give her an advantage over Republican candidate Donald Trump (219), according to a CNN poll Monday. Winning the election requires at least 270 electoral votes.more