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Dutch elections
Jetten: “My victory shows that populists can be defeated”

Rob Jetten, leader of the left-liberal center-left party D66, told AFP that his victory over far-right populist Geert Wilders’ PVV in the Dutch elections sends a message to Europe and the rest of the world.

“It is possible to defeat the populist movement if you campaign with a message that is positive for your country.”

The election was a close one. With only international postal votes left to count, D66 leads the PVV by 15,155 votes. Jetten and his party have declared victory and are believed to have a better chance of forming a government, as several other parties have rejected governing with Wilders.

If 38-year-old Rob Jetten succeeds in forming a government, he will become the country’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister ever.

Russian invasion Negotiations
Sources: Pentagon has Tomahawks for Ukraine

After reviewing its stockpile, the Pentagon has determined that the United States can provide the long-range Tomahawk missile to Ukraine, American and European sources tell CNN.

The announcement does not mean that Kyiv will receive the missile, but that the defense headquarters is handing over the decision to President Donald Trump.

When Trump's Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyj was in the United States in early October, Trump said that he could not give away what they need to protect themselves, and was referring to the Tomahawk missiles.

The missile is at the top of Kyiv's wish list, but neither Biden nor the Trump administration has fulfilled the wish. Russia has, as with many other things, threatened that they would view Ukrainian attacks with the missile as a provocation of war.

Security around the Baltic Sea
Poland intercepts Russian plane over the Baltic Sea – again

For the third day this week, Poland has sent fighter jets to intercept a Russian reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea, the Polish Armed Forces write on X.

During Friday morning's incident, the Russian plane flew without its transponders on. It never violated Polish airspace but was escorted away according to NATO procedures.

"This is the third similar incident this week, which confirms the increasing activity within the Russian aviation industry in the Baltic Sea area," writes the Polish Armed Forces.
Paint attack on the Swedish embassy in Moscow

The Swedish embassy in Moscow has been subjected to a paint attack, reports SVT Nyheter. It was during the night of October 24 that the incident occurred and the embassy suspects that a drone was involved.

The paint was discovered in the morning and no one was injured.

"In the middle of the paint stain lies a plastic bag and shards of hard plastic, probably a bottle or can. I consider it unlikely that someone would have managed to throw or hurl the container so far into the area (approximately 50 meters)," the embassy writes in a report to the Swedish Foreign Ministry.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes to the channel that the embassy in Moscow is in contact with Russian authorities.

Elections in Tanzania
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises against travel to Tanzania

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises against all non-essential travel to Tanzania. The decision was made on Friday and is valid until further notice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a press release.

An undemocratic election was held in the country on Wednesday in which President Samia Suluhu Hassan was the only candidate. Extensive protests broke out and received a violent response from the government.

According to the opposition party, as many as 700 people have been killed.

Climate Threat COP30 Climate Summit
Trump Will Not Send Anyone to Climate Summit

Donald Trump will not send a high-ranking representative to the UN climate summit COP30 in Brazil next month, The Guardian reports.

The newspaper writes that the US has always had official representatives there, even during Trump's previous term, but that this year's meeting may be the first where they will not be present.

Trump has repeatedly called climate change a "hoax" and a "fraud" and has actively cut back on climate action since taking office.