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    Amsterdam residents sue city over viral Fabel Friet chip shop crowds

    Nineteen residents in Amsterdam have taken the city to court over the operating licence of Fabel Friet, arguing that tourist queues have brought litter and pests to Runstraat.

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Kyiv loses a third bridge

Russia widens pressure as Spain’s housing revolt and OpenAI’s safety fight deepen

The past 12 hours brought a familiar mix: hard power, hard prices and institutional stress. Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges and spillover reached Moldova, while governments elsewhere tried to contain anger over housing, fuel and artificial intelligence.

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Spanish police dismantled Ceuta's largest migrant encampment of ~3,000 people on 4 October, a concrete operational escalation at the EU's African land border.

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