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Wikinews attends Animeleague's summer 2023 Birmingham, UK Anime & Gaming Con
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Green Party wins major by-election in northern England city of Manchester
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Russian Justice Ministry designates former Putin advisor Sergey Markov as "foreign agent"
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Resident doctors in England begin five-day strike during flu surge
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UK MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli warns of 'grey zone' warfare in first speech
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Russian "Art Night" in Crimea: Wikinews interviews Traveler Viktor Pinchuk
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Scottish Labour win Scottish Parliament by-election
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Train derails in southwest Germany after landslide, causing deaths
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UK voting age to be lowered to 16, among other reforms
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16 year old Torquay boy arrested after allegedly stealing Lexus in Exeter
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Russia launches record drone, missile attack on Kyiv
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Ukrainian drone strikes target four airfields in Russia
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Quran-burning refugee Salwan Momika fatally shot in Sweden apartment
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Three UK neo-Nazis convicted of multiple terrorism offences
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Drone strike kills civilians in Bilopillia, Ukraine
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Competitive local elections held in England
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Massive power outage hits Spain, Portugal
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Child defaces abstract painting by Mark Rothko worth tens of millions on display in Dutch museum
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NASA revises asteroid 2024 YR4 threat, near-zero chance of Earth impact
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have further lowered the predicted likelihood of asteroid
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CDU/CSU nominates Johann Wadephul as German Foreign Minister
On Monday, the alliance of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU)—CDU/CSU—nominated Johann Wa