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Election 2018 results
Number of councillors After 150 of 150 councils
  1. Labour, 2350 councillors, +77
  2. Conservative, 1332 councillors, -33
  3. Liberal Democrat, 536 councillors, +75
  4. Green, 39 councillors, +8
  5. UKIP, 3 councillors, -123
  6. Others, 144 councillors, -4
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Lebanon holds first election in a decade

Lebanon elects its parliament for the first time since 2009, with a changed voting system.

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Visitors were able to view the gallery after they left their clothes in the cloakroom.

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The Pulitzer prize-winner pulls out of a festival after writer Zinzi Clemmons confronted him.

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