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• De rapper, bekend als Ye, moet een bedrag van zes cijfers betalen aan vier eisers die succesvol hebben aangetoond dat hij auteursrechten heeft geschonden. • Kanye West heeft een rechtszaak verloren waarin werd gesteld dat hij inbreuk maakte op het auteursrecht van andere artiesten door een niet-geclearde sample van hun werk te draaien tijdens een live-evenement. • In juli 2021 draaide de artiest, nu wettelijk bekend als Ye, zijn toen nog niet uitgebrachte album Donda voor 40.000 fans tijdens een luisterfeest in het Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

Gegevens van missies die een kritiek laag sneeuwpakket op bergen in het westen aantonen, slaan alarm bij experts.

Backbencher stelt dat de toespraak van Keir Starmer 'te weinig en te laat' was, maar stelt zich uiteindelijk niet zelf kandidaat.

MP says that unless a cabinet minister comes forward to challenge the PM by tomorrow that she willGood morning. There were many predictions for Labour’s future ahead of the English, Scottish and Welsh elections, which have been terrible for the party, but there is one outcome foreseen by no one: a leadership challenge by Catherine West.West, MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet and a junior Foreign Office minister until she was sacked in the reshuffle last year, announced yesterday afternoon that, unless a cabinet minister comes forward to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership by tomorrow morning, she will do it herself. She would need the support of 81 Labour MPs to trigger a contest; there is no evidence that she has those numbers and (for reasons that are probably a mystery to anyone under the age of 50 – more on that later) she is being described as a stalking horse.I’m not going to walk away from the job I was elected to do in July 2024. I’m not going to plunge the country into chaos. Continue reading...

• Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) achieved a historic win in West Bengal after decades of efforts, secured a third victory in Assam, and made gains in Kerala during 2026 state assembly elections. • With allies, BJP retained Puducherry union territory. • In Tamil Nadu, actor Vijay's TVK party disrupted the long-standing DMK-AIADMK duopoly.

Train operator will become 11th national service returned to public ownership since Labour was elected in 2024Great Western Railway will be nationalised in December, the government has announced.The train service, which has been in private hands for 30 years, mainly run by First Group, will be the 11th train operator on the national railway brought back into public ownership. Continue reading...

• Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, was assassinated in Madhyamgram, North 24 Parganas, hit by three of four bullets while in a moving car. • The killing occurred two days after BJP's historic assembly election win over TMC on May 6, 2026, heightening post-poll tensions. • TMC condemned the murder on Thursday, demanding a CBI probe, while Chandra's mother broke down publicly, calling for life imprisonment for the killers.