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Lisa Smart

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    Farage wins Clacton by-election against Count Binface as donation probe restarts

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regained his Clacton-on-Sea seat on 14 August 2026 in a by-election he triggered, winning between 62.8% and 63.3% of the vote against satirical candidate Count Binface, while a parliamentary probe into a £5 million undeclared donation restarts.

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Drones over Latvia, reactors offline

NATO shoots down drone as heat and drought expose Europe's brittle systems

The past half-day brought a familiar mix of hard security and hard weather. NATO scrambled jets over Latvia, while Europe's heatwave pushed fires, rivers, power grids and courts into decisions that governments would rather have postponed.

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Italy's refusal to accept Dublin transfers from Germany challenges a core principle of the new Migration and Asylum Pact, creating a significant test for its implementation and inter-state cooperation.

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