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Putin claims landslide victory as thousands protest against “rigged election” | BBC News
Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in Russia’s presidential election as exit polls declared that he had won more than 87% of the vote.
Speaking at his campaign headquarters, Mr Putin thanked voters and “our warriors”, a reference to soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The result will secure Mr Putin another six years as Russian President.
Thousands of people took part in protests as the United States declared that the election was neither free nor fair. Dozens of protesters were arrested in Russia as they joined queues outside polling stations at noon on the last day of voting, in a show of defiance called for by the widow of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died suddenly last month in an Arctic penal colony.
If the 87% share of the vote for Mr Putin is confirmed it will be the biggest claimed victory for a candidate since the fall of the Soviet Union. It will also mean that Vladimir Putin overtakes Joseph Stalin to become the longest-serving Russian leader in more than 200 years.
The result is expected to strengthen Mr Putin’s grip on power. It comes two years after the invasion of Ukraine and at a time of sweeping political repression in Russia, with Mr Putin condemned as an international pariah by many nations.
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
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After standing down as UK Prime Minister earlier this summer, Keir Starmer has decided to announce his resignation as MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
It comes on Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first day addressing MPs in the House of Commons. Was the timing deliberate, or coincidental?
Prime Minister Burnham has returned to the House of Commons after Summer Recess promising to ‘unlock a feeling of positivity and possibility’ – but what issues are awaiting the new-ish prime minister?
Plus, James Cleverly has announced plans to run for London Mayor, and Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has done a surprise shadow cabinet reshuffle.
Adam Fleming and Chris Mason are back together on Newscast to unpack it all.
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Playboy has for the first time featured a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. The BBC’s Hanan Razek met Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri to find out why she wanted to pose for the magazine, which stopped publishing fully nude photos in 2015.
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Nepal death toll crosses 1,000 as rescuers find workers trapped in mud-filled tunnels | BBC News
The death toll in Nepal from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000, according to the country’s disaster agency.
More than 3,900 people remain missing – of whom more than 600 are workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along Trishuli River.
Engineers have been pumping air into the tunnels – and while a team did manage to gain entry to one of them, it withdrew after finding no-one there.
The rescue operation is being spearheaded by an international team made up of Chinese and Nepalese military personnel, while experts from India, Korea and Australia are also involved.
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Why have two Reform UK officials stood down after an undercover investigation? | BBC Newscast
Two senior officials stood down from Reform UK after a Channel 4 News report prompted the party to investigate claims about funding.
Nigel Farage’s senior aide Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy James Orr have both stood down pending the outcome of the internal probe. The undercover filming was done by Verbatim Investigations and broadcast by Channel 4 News. Reform UK has denied wrongdoing and Nigel Farage describes the operation as entrapment.
The footage appears to show an attempt to secure funding from someone they believed to be a foreign donor. Electoral law prohibits UK political parties from receiving financial contributions from people who can’t vote here. Reform denies any wrongdoing and says it has “been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign-funded climate change activists”. Adam and Chris discuss.
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Londoners are able to hail the UK’s first robotaxis – as Uber today becomes the first company to launch a self-driving minicab.
Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready to take control if anything goes wrong.
Uber said it surveyed London-based customers via the app and more than 100,000 said they would choose a self-driving taxi if one was available, despite incidents of driverless rides malfunctioning in US cities where they already operate.
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