Netherlands: Violence erupts at anti-immigration protest – DW

  1. Netherlands: Violence erupts at anti-immigration protest  DW
  2. Dutch police clash with anti-immigration protesters  BBC
  3. Violence erupts at right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands ahead of election  CNN
  4. Anti-immigration demonstration in The Hague turns violent, weeks before general election  Euronews.com
  5. Dutch police use water cannon to disperse anti-immigration protesters  Al Jazeera
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Sussan Ley fights for conservative airtime as she struggles to hold together a fractured opposition | Josh Butler

Strip away the pinball machines and photo booth props at Cpac, and the scale of Ley’s challenge in simply keeping the Coalition alive, let alone making it competitive again, becomes clear

Aside from one crude caricature distributed in the crowd, Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s name was almost entirely absent from the rightwing Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane.

But stripping away the sideshow attractions – Pauline Hanson’s pinball machine, George Christensen’s photo booth props – the thread running through the two-day event was the challenge Ley has to simply hold her party together amid a volatile fracturing of the conservative landscape, let alone for the Coalition to be competitive again.

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Transcript: French President Emmanuel Macron on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 21, 2025 – CBS News

  1. Transcript: French President Emmanuel Macron on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Sept. 21, 2025  CBS News
  2. Can France’s Palestinian Proposal Change 75 Years of Failed Diplomacy?  The New York Times
  3. France's Macron defends decision to recognize Palestinian statehood  Politico
  4. French towns fly Palestinian flag despite government orders ahead of state recognition  AP News
  5. Naftali Bennett condemns rewarding Hamas, Gaza for Oct. 7  The Jerusalem Post
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Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man

LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’

Europe’s richest man, the luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault, has said that a wealth tax that could cost him more than €1bn (£817m) would be deadly for France’s economy.

The French founder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton said in a statement to the Sunday Times that calls for a 2% wealth tax on all assets “aims to destroy the liberal economy, the only one that works for the good of all”.

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British couple released after detention in Afghanistan say they feared being executed

Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, said it was never explained to them why they were imprisoned

A British couple who were reunited with their family in the UK after being released from almost eight months in detention in Afghanistan have said they feared being executed by the Taliban.

Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife, Barbie, 76, who arrived at Heathrow on Saturday, said it was never explained to them why they were imprisoned in Afghanistan after their arrest in February.

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EU Set to Pull the Plug on Russia’s Druzhba Pipeline, Cutting Off Hungary and Slovakia – UNITED24 Media

  1. EU Set to Pull the Plug on Russia’s Druzhba Pipeline, Cutting Off Hungary and Slovakia  UNITED24 Media
  2. Russia's LNG exports by destinations and volumes  Reuters
  3. Ukraine updates: EU proposes new set of Russia sanctions  DW
  4. EU Seeks Faster Russian Gas Phase-Out After Trump Push  The Moscow Times
  5. Europe Announces New Sanctions to Ramp Up Pressure on Russia  The New York Times
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