Protests against Donald Trump erupted in the US on Saturday as people on both coasts took to the streets in frustration about his re-election.

Thousands of people in major cities including New York City and Seattle demonstrated against the former president and now president-elect amid his threats against reproductive rights and pledges to carry out mass deportations at the start of his upcoming presidency.

In New York City on Saturday, demonstrators from advocacy groups focused on workers’ rights and immigrant justice crowded outside Trump International Hotel and Tower on 5th Avenue holding signs that read: “We protect us” and “Mr President, how long must women wait for liberty?” Others held signs that read: “We won’t back down” while chanting: “Here we are and we’re not leaving!”

Similar protests took place in Washington DC, where Women’s March participants demonstrated outside the Heritage Foundation, the rightwing thinktank behind Project 2025. Pictures posted on social media on Saturday showed demonstrators holding signs that read: “Well-behaved women don’t make history” and “You are never alone”. Demonstrators also chanted: “We believe that we will win!” and held other signs that read: “Where’s my liberty when I have no choice?”

Crowds of demonstrators also gathered outside Seattle’s Space Needle on Saturday. “March and rally to protest Trump and the two-party war machine,” posters for the protests said, adding: “Build the people’s movement and fight war, repression and genocide!” Speaking to a crowd of demonstrators, some of whom dressed in raincoats while others wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, one demonstrator said: “Any president that has come to power has also let workers down.”

On Friday, protesters gathered outside city hall in Portland, Oregon, in a similar demonstration against Trump. Signs carried by demonstrators included messages that read: “Fight fascism” and “Turn fear into fight”.

“We’re here because we’ve been fighting for years for health, housing and education. And whether it was Trump, or [Joe] Biden before this, we have not been getting it and we are wanting to push to actually get that realized,” Cody Urban, a chair for US chapter of the International League of People’s Struggle, said, KGW reported.

Also on Friday, dozens of demonstrators in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gathered in Point Start park to protest Trump’s election victory. People carried signs reading: “We are not going back” and “My body, my choice”.

“We are afraid of what’s coming, but we are not going to back down,” Steve Capri, an organizer with Socialist Alternative, told WPXI TV. “Trump is an attack on all of us so we need to unite, we need to get organized, join movements, study and learn together.”

Donald Trump has won the presidential election in Arizona, the Associated Press declared on Saturday, completing a clean sweep of all seven battleground states and locking in a decisive electoral college victory over the Democratic vice-president, Kamala Harris.

Trump, who had secured the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House by early Wednesday, now has what is expected to be a final total of 312 votes to Harris’ 226.

The win returned the state to the Republican column after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and marked Trump’s second victory in Arizona since 2016. Trump had campaigned on border security and the economy, tying Harris to inflation and record illegal border crossings during Biden’s administration.

Trump has also won the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump by winning six of the seven swing states – he narrowly lost North Carolina – and won 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232.

Trump also won 306 in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton.

The Associated Press said Trump has won 74.6m votes nationwide, or 50.5%, to Harris’ 70.9m, or 48%.

In the key US Senate race in Arizona between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Ruben Gallego, Lake, who always denied that Biden won the White House fairly in 2020, was trailing the Democrat 48.5% to 49.5%, or by about 33,000 votes, as of mid-morning on Saturday.

Other Arizona races remain close, including the sixth congressional district battle between incumbent Republican Juan Ciscomani and Democratic challenger Kirsten Engel.

However Republicans appear close to clinching control of the US House of Representatives, in addition to control of the Senate, which they have already won, meaning Republicans will have sweeping powers to potentially ram through a broad agenda of tax and spending cuts, energy deregulation and border security controls.

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Republicans on Saturday appeared close to clinching control of the US House of Representatives, a critical element for Donald Trump to advance his agenda when the president-elect returns to the White House in January.

With votes still being counted from the 5 November general election, Republicans had won 212 seats in the 435-member House, according to Edison Research, which projected on Friday night that Republican Jeff Hurd had enough votes to keep Republican control of Colorado’s third congressional district.

Democratic Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won re-election to a US House seat representing Washington state on Saturday, the Associated Press reported, defeating Republican Joe Kent in a rematch of one of the closest races of 2022.

Gluesenkamp Perez won the seat by just more than 2,600 votes two years ago. Prior to her election, Gluesenkamp Perez ran an auto shop in a rural part of the district, which featured heavily in her campaign.

The Republican-leaning district, which Donald Trump carried in 2020, includes the south-western portion of the state and some Portland, Oregon, suburbs that spill into Washington state.

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Republicans need to win six more seats to keep control of the House and they already have enough victories to wrest control of the US Senate from Democrats, though Edison Research projected late on Friday that Democratic US Senator Jacky Rosen had won re-election in Nevada.

A first-term moderate in a presidential battleground state, Rosen was among the GOP’s top targets. She campaigned on lowering costs for the middle class, defending abortion rights and tackling the climate crisis. Over the summer, she introduced legislation that would allow extreme heat to qualify as a disaster under federal law, pointing to heatwaves that have devastated the west.

With Trump’s victory in the presidential election and Republican control of the Senate already decided, keeping hold of the House would give Republicans sweeping powers to potentially ram through a broad agenda of tax and spending cuts, energy deregulation and border security controls.

Results of 19 House races remain unclear, mostly in competitive districts in western states where the pace of vote counting is typically slower than in the rest of the country.

Ten of the seats are currently held by Republicans and nine by Democrats. Fourteen seats had widely been seen as competitive before the election.

Republican senators will decide next week who will serve as the party’s leader in the Senate in 2025, with John Thune, John Cornyn and Rick Scott vying for the job. On Saturday, Senators Bill Hagerty and Rand Paul endorsed Scott over the more senior Thune and Cornyn, who have been viewed as favorites.

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• Ukraine faces increasing difficulties in its fight against Moscow’s invasion, the country’s top military commander, Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Saturday, as Russian forces advance and North Korean troops prepare to join the Kremlin’s campaign. Writing on Facebook, Syrskyi said he told the head of the US European command, Gen Christopher Cavoli: “The situation remains challenging and shows signs of escalation. The enemy, leveraging its numerical advantage, is continuing offensive actions and is focusing its main efforts on the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove directions.”

• Ukraine’s general staff, in a late evening report on Saturday, said 40 armed clashes had occurred around villages near Kurakhove. Both Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers on Friday said Russian forces sought to encircle the city. “We have numerous reports of North Korean soldiers preparing to participate in combat operations alongside Russian Forces,” Syrskyi said.

• The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has pledged “unwavering” support for Ukraine in Kyiv on Saturday. He said “the clear purpose” of his visit to Ukraine is to “express European Union support to Ukraine – this support remains unwavering”. “This support is absolutely needed for you to continue defending yourself against Russia aggression.”

• The Trump administration’s priority in Ukraine would be establishing peace and not restoring lost territory, including Crimea, a senior aide to the US president-elect has said. Bryan Lanza, a longtime Republican party strategist, told the BBC that Donald Trump’s administration would be asking the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for a “realistic vision for peace”. “And if President Zelenskyy comes to the table and says, ‘well we can only have peace if we have Crimea’, he shows to us that he’s not serious. Crimea is gone,” Lanza said.

• Trump’s transition team has distanced the incoming president from Lanza. “Bryan Lanza was a contractor for the campaign,” said a spokesperson. “He does not work for President Trump and does not speak for him.”

• Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, has said Kyiv is ready to work with the Trump administration. “Remember that President Zelenskyy was one of the first world leaders … to greet President Trump,” Sybiha told reporters. “It was a sincere conversation [and] an exchange of thoughts regarding further cooperation. Also during the telephone conversation, further steps to establish communication between teams were discussed and this work has also begun. Therefore, we are open for further cooperation and I’m sure that a unified goal of reaching just peace unites all of us.”

• The Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said Moscow and Washington were “exchanging signals” on Ukraine via “closed channels”, without specifying whether the communication was with the current administration or Donald Trump’s incoming administration. Russia is ready to listen to Trump’s proposals on Ukraine provided these were “ideas on how to move forward in the area of ​​settlement, and not in the area of ​​further pumping the Kyiv regime with all kinds of aid”, Ryabkov said on Saturday in an interview with Russian state news agency Interfax.

• Sergei Ryabkov has said Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine would make it possible “to turn to the nuclear option” if there was an acute crisis in relations with the west and the situation in Ukraine, Interfax reported. “This process will be finalised,” Russia’s deputy foreign minister said. “The president of the Russian Federation as supreme commander-in-chief will undoubtedly make decisions that will mean the improvement of the conceptual foundations of our activities in this sphere.”

• A possible agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine poses “a serious challenge for everyone”, the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has warned. “There is no doubt that this new political landscape is a serious challenge for everyone, especially in the context of a possible end to the Russian-Ukrainian war as a result of an agreement between, for example, the president of Russia and the new president of the United States,” Tusk said as he prepared to meet with the Nato head, Mark Rutte, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer.

• Ukrainian drones struck a munitions factory in central Russia in an overnight attack, a source in Ukraine’s SBU security service told Reuters on Saturday. The attack on the Aleksinsky chemical plant, which produces gunpowder, ammunition and weapons in the Tula region about 200km (120 miles) south of Moscow, was part of a strategy to target factories that support Moscow’s war against Ukraine, the source said. “Attacks on weapons warehouses, military airfields, and enterprises, which are part of the Russian military-industrial complex, reduce Russia’s ability to terrorise our country,” the SBU source said.

A senior adviser to Donald Trump said that the incoming US administration’s priority for Ukraine will be achieving peace rather than helping it regain territory captured by Russia in the almost three years of the war.

In an interview with the BBC, broadcast on Saturday, Bryan Lanza, who has been a political adviser to Trump since his 2016 presidential campaign, began to elaborate on the strong signals the now president-elect had been sending to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the campaign trail.

Lanza said: “When Zelenskyy says we will only stop this fighting, there will only be peace, once Crimea is returned, we’ve got news for President Zelenskyy: Crimea is gone.”

A spokesperson for Trump’s presidential transition effort said later on Saturday that Lanza had not been speaking on behalf of the president-elect.

Trump’s transition effort is currently vetting personnel and drafting the policies that Trump could adopt during his second term.

“Bryan Lanza was a contractor for the campaign. He does not work for President Trump and does not speak for him,” said the spokesperson, who declined to be named.

During the election campaign, Trump said he would find a solution to end the war “within a day”, but did not explain how he would do so.

Russia is open to hearing Donald Trump’s proposals on ending the war, an official said on Saturday. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said Moscow and Washington were “exchanging signals” on Ukraine via “closed channels”, according to the AP. He did not specify whether the communication was with the current administration or Trump and members of his incoming administration.

Russia’s readiness depends on whether Trump’s proposals are “ideas on how to move forward in the area of settlement, and not in the area of further pumping the Kyiv regime with all kinds of aid”, Ryabkov said on Saturday in an interview with Russian state news agency Interfax.

In Kyiv, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, told reporters that Ukraine is ready to work with the Trump administration.

The comments came as Russia advanced across the eastern Ukrainian battlefield at the quickest rate since its February 2022 invasion of its neighbor, while also attacking cities including the capital, Kyiv, with munitions carried by drones. In 2022, Russia built on the assault it made on the south-eastern Ukrainian Crimean peninsula that juts into the Black Sea – which it launched in 2014 – and now holds control there.

Lanza had also said: “And if that is your priority, of getting Crimea back and having American soldiers fight to get Crimea back, you’re on your own.”

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Zelenskyy came to the United Nations general assembly gathering in New York and to the White House in September touting what seemed like a last-ditch “victory plan” that involved winning permission to use long-range US weapons to fire deep into Russia. But he was rebuffed, with the US and its Nato allies wary, as they have been since 2022, of the conflict escalating into a war between Russia and the west.

Lanza added: “What we’re going to say to Ukraine is, you know, what do you see? What do you see as a realistic vision for peace? It’s not a vision for winning, but it’s a vision for peace. And let’s start having the honest conversation.”

There are fears that Trump’s boasts that he would very quickly end the war in Ukraine mean no more than essentially forcing Ukraine to give up by withdrawing support, handing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, victory and further emboldening him.

Following Trump’s latest election victory, Zelenskyy congratulated him, saying: “I recall our great meeting with President Trump back in September, when we discussed in detail the Ukraine-US strategic partnership, the victory plan, and ways to put an end to Russian aggression against Ukraine.”

On Wednesday, Axios reported that Trump and Zelenskyy had had a call with each other. The call, which Zelenskyy described as “excellent”, also featured a surprise appearance from staunch Trump ally Elon Musk, who initially provided Starlink satellites to Ukraine for free in 2022. In 2023, Musk’s SpaceX prevented the satellite from controlling Ukraine’s surveillance drones, triggering outrage among Ukrainian officials.

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly attacked Zelenskyy, accusing him of making “nasty aspersions toward your favorite president, me”. Trump added: “We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal: Zelenskyy.’”

In September, Zelenskyy gave an interview to the New Yorker in which he cast doubt on Trump’s ability to end the war while describing JD Vance as “too radical”.

A few weeks later, Trump called Zelenskyy “one of the greatest salesmen I’ve ever met”, telling a conservative podcast: “Every time he comes in, we give him $100bn. Who else got that kind of money in history? There’s never been. And that doesn’t mean I don’t want to help him, because I feel very badly for those people. But he should never have let that war start. That war is a loser.”

Trump was impeached in 2019 during his first term for essentially trying to extort Zelenskyy over weapons supplies. He was acquitted by the US Senate.

Family members of a 31-year-old American tourist who was killed while on vacation in Hungary’s capital mourned their loss while a 37-year-old suspect was in custody Saturday.

The victim, Mackenzie Michalski from Portland, Oregon, was reported missing on 5 November after she was last seen at a nightclub in central Budapest. Police launched a missing person investigation and reviewed security footage from local nightclubs, where they observed Michalski with a man later identified as the suspect in several of the clubs the night of her disappearance.

The man was detained on 7 November and questioned by police, and later confessed to the killing.

Before the confession, Michalski’s family and friends had launched an effort to find her, starting a Facebook group to gather tips on her whereabouts. Her parents traveled to Hungary to assist in the search, but while en route learned that she had been killed.

At a candlelight vigil in Budapest on Saturday night, the victim’s father, Bill Michalski, told the Associated Press that he was “still overcome with emotion” at the death of his daughter.

“There was no reason for this to happen,” he said. “I’m still trying to wrap my arms around what happened … I don’t know that I ever will.”

Police detained the suspect, an Irish citizen, on the evening of 7 November. Investigators said that Michalski and the suspect had met at a nightclub and danced before leaving for the man’s rented apartment. The man killed Michalski while they were engaged in an “intimate encounter”, police said.

The suspect, whom police identified by the initials LTM, confessed to the killing, but said it had been an accident. Police said that he had attempted to cover up his crime by cleaning the apartment and hiding Michalski’s body in a wardrobe before purchasing a suitcase and placing her body inside.

He then rented a car and drove to Lake Balaton, around 90 miles (150 km) south-west of Budapest, where he disposed of the body in a wooden area outside the town of Szigliget.

Video released by police showed the suspect guiding authorities to the location where he had left the body. Police said the suspect had made internet searches before being apprehended on how to dispose of a body, police procedures in missing person cases, whether pigs really eat dead bodies and the presence of wild boars in the Lake Balaton area.

He also made an internet search inquiring on the competence of Budapest police.

Crime scene photographs released by police showed a rolling suitcase, several articles of clothing including a pair of fleece-lined boots and a small handbag next to a credit card bearing Michalski’s name.

According to a post by an administrator of a Facebook group called Find Mackenzie Michalski, which was created on 7 November, Michalski, who went by “Kenzie”, was a nurse practitioner who “will forever be remembered as a beautiful and compassionate young woman”.

At the candlelight vigil in Budapest on Saturday, Michalski’s father gave brief comments to those who had gathered, and wore a baseball cap he said he had received as a gift from his daughter.

Michalski had visited Budapest before, and called it her “happy place”, her father told the AP.

“The history, she just loved it and she was just so relaxed here,” he said. “This was her city.”

The Qatari government has informed the US and Israel it will stop mediation efforts to halt the conflict in Gaza because it no longer thinks the parties are negotiating in good faith.

The Gulf state has concluded that talks have become a political football, and its efforts to facilitate them were generating criticism towards it, according to a diplomatic source briefed on the situation.

“As long as there is a refusal to negotiate a deal in good faith, they cannot continue to mediate,” the source said.

Qatar’s move is the latest major blow to a faltering effort to end fighting in Gaza which has not produced significant results since a temporary ceasefire and hostage release deal nearly a year ago.

But with a new US administration taking power in just over two months, the Qataris have also made clear to US contacts that they would be willing to resume mediation if both sides showed a “sincere willingness” to reach a deal.

Qatar informed Israel, Hamas officials, the US and Egypt of the decision after a US delegation including the CIA director, Bill Burns, visited Doha for inconclusive meetings in late October.

Its government had concluded that the warring parties were focused on “political optics” rather than genuine security concerns, the diplomatic source said, and had tried to undermine the process “by backing out from some of the commitments”.

This is the second time that Qatar has warned publicly that it is not prepared to play host to dead-end talks indefinitely.

In a statement released on Saturday afternoon, Qatar said that widespread media reporting of a planned closure of the Hamas political office in Doha were wrong.

The office was a useful channel of communication between “concerned parties”, Qatar said.

In April Doha had briefly asked Hamas commanders to leave the country, after the prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, announced Qatar was going to review its mediation role.

They headed to Turkey but within weeks Israel and the US government had asked Qatar to bring them back in order to intensify negotiations. The Qataris are trusted by senior figures on both sides and have a long track record in mediation.

The Hamas office in Doha was opened in 2012, at the request of the Obama administration. For over a decade it has provided a key channel of communication to the group, including during talks last year to agree a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of evermore than 100 hostages.

However, since that agreement in November 2023, talks aimed at reaching a second deal have repeatedly collapsed, and Qatar has come under increasing criticism in Israel and from parts of the US political establishment for hosting Hamas.

A group of Republican US senators on Friday asked Washington to seek the extradition of Hamas officials in Qatar and freeze their assets.

These attacks, on an initiative launched at the US’s request, rankled in Doha and contributed to Qatar’s decision to distance itself from Hamas and peace talks.

“Qatar also advised the US administration and both parties that it would not accept being subjected to political exploitation aimed at gaining political leverage at Qatar’s expense while misleading public perception,” the source said.

US officials have briefed American media outlets that Washington had requested the closure of the Hamas office, but the Biden administration has not commented publicly.

The Qataris told Washington that they would be willing to pick up their mediation role again “when both sides reach an impasse and demonstrate a sincere willingness to return to the negotiating table with the objective of putting an end to the war and the suffering of civilians”.

Qatar is a close US ally, hosts a major military base, and its diplomats had a good relationship with Donald Trump during his first presidential term.

The state also hosted a political office for the Taliban, then an insurgent movement, and facilitated talks with Trump’s administration on a deal to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

Hamas leaders have been preparing for many months to leave Doha, and Turkey and Iraq have been suggested as possible alternatives. The group recently opened a political office in Baghdad.

Western and regional politicians and diplomats who favour allowing Hamas to stay in Qatar warned that if it is pushed out, it will hinder engagement with Hamas figures potentially more inclined to compromise, and could allow more hostile states such as Iran to boost their hold over the group.

The request to Qatar comes amid a flurry of activity as the Biden administration prepares a final effort to end Israeli assaults in Gaza and Lebanon before handing over power to Donald Trump, who has said he too wants to see an end to the conflict. However, there is no immediate sign that any breakthrough is possible.

Amsterdam police expect to make more arrests after what authorities called “hateful antisemitic violence” against Israeli football fans, prosecutors said on Saturday.

Four suspects remained detained on Saturday on suspicion of violent acts, including two minors, and 40 people had been fined for public disturbance and 10 for offences including vandalism, prosecutors said.

Police said on Friday they had launched “a major investigation into multiple violent incidents” and that five were taken to hospital and 62 arrested. There was no evidence of “kidnappings or hostage takings”, but police were “probing reports”, they said.

Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Halsema, said: “Men on scooters crisscrossed the city looking for Israeli football fans. It was a hit-and-run. I can easily understand that this brings back memories of pogroms.”

She added: “Our city has been deeply damaged. Jewish culture has been deeply threatened. This is an outburst of antisemitism that I hope to never see again.”

The Dutch prime minister announced he had cancelled his trip to the Cop29 climate summit due to the events.

“I will not be going to Azerbaijan next week for the UN Climate Conference COP29. Due to the major social impact of the events of last Thursday night in Amsterdam, I will remain in the Netherlands,” Dick Schoof said on X on Saturday.

The Dutch climate minister, Sophie Hermans, will still attend the 11-22 November environment meeting while a climate envoy will replace Schoof, the premier added, saying Thursday night’s violence in Amsterdam would be discussed at Monday’s cabinet meeting.

Antisemitic incidents have increased in the Netherlands since Israel launched its latest attack on Gaza in response to Hamas’s surprise attack on 7 October. Several Jewish organisations and schools have reported threats and hate mail.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s office described a “planned antisemitic attack against Israeli citizens” and asked that protection for the Dutch Jewish community increased. He even compared the incident to Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” a Nazi terror campaign perpetrated on Germany’s Jewish population in 1938 in which an estimated 91 Jews were murdered.

“Tomorrow, 86 years ago, was Kristallnacht – an attack on Jews, whatever Jews they are, on European soil. It’s back now – yesterday, we celebrated it on the streets of Amsterdam.”

The Amsterdam police chief, Peter Holla, said there had been “incidents on both sides”. A video on social media showed Maccabi fans setting off flares and chanting, “Olé, olé, let the IDF win, we will fuck the Arabs.” The police chief said a large crowd of Maccabi fans then gathered on Dam Square on Thursday lunchtime, where there were “fights on both sides”.

On Wednesday night, Maccabi fans stole a Palestinian flag from a building in the city centre and shouted, “fuck you, Palestine”. Holla said Maccabi supporters then vandalised a taxi.

The US president, Joe Biden, condemned the attacks on Thursday as “despicable” and said they “echo dark moments in history when Jews were persecuted”. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, was shocked by the violence in Amsterdam, a UN spokesperson said.

Amsterdam police expect to make more arrests after what authorities called “hateful antisemitic violence” against Israeli football fans, prosecutors said on Saturday.

Four suspects remained detained on Saturday on suspicion of violent acts, including two minors, and 40 people had been fined for public disturbance and 10 for offences including vandalism, prosecutors said.

Police said on Friday they had launched “a major investigation into multiple violent incidents” and that five were taken to hospital and 62 arrested. There was no evidence of “kidnappings or hostage takings”, but police were “probing reports”, they said.

Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Halsema, said: “Men on scooters crisscrossed the city looking for Israeli football fans. It was a hit-and-run. I can easily understand that this brings back memories of pogroms.”

She added: “Our city has been deeply damaged. Jewish culture has been deeply threatened. This is an outburst of antisemitism that I hope to never see again.”

The Dutch prime minister announced he had cancelled his trip to the Cop29 climate summit due to the events.

“I will not be going to Azerbaijan next week for the UN Climate Conference COP29. Due to the major social impact of the events of last Thursday night in Amsterdam, I will remain in the Netherlands,” Dick Schoof said on X on Saturday.

The Dutch climate minister, Sophie Hermans, will still attend the 11-22 November environment meeting while a climate envoy will replace Schoof, the premier added, saying Thursday night’s violence in Amsterdam would be discussed at Monday’s cabinet meeting.

Antisemitic incidents have increased in the Netherlands since Israel launched its latest attack on Gaza in response to Hamas’s surprise attack on 7 October. Several Jewish organisations and schools have reported threats and hate mail.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s office described a “planned antisemitic attack against Israeli citizens” and asked that protection for the Dutch Jewish community increased. He even compared the incident to Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” a Nazi terror campaign perpetrated on Germany’s Jewish population in 1938 in which an estimated 91 Jews were murdered.

“Tomorrow, 86 years ago, was Kristallnacht – an attack on Jews, whatever Jews they are, on European soil. It’s back now – yesterday, we celebrated it on the streets of Amsterdam.”

The Amsterdam police chief, Peter Holla, said there had been “incidents on both sides”. A video on social media showed Maccabi fans setting off flares and chanting, “Olé, olé, let the IDF win, we will fuck the Arabs.” The police chief said a large crowd of Maccabi fans then gathered on Dam Square on Thursday lunchtime, where there were “fights on both sides”.

On Wednesday night, Maccabi fans stole a Palestinian flag from a building in the city centre and shouted, “fuck you, Palestine”. Holla said Maccabi supporters then vandalised a taxi.

The US president, Joe Biden, condemned the attacks on Thursday as “despicable” and said they “echo dark moments in history when Jews were persecuted”. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, was shocked by the violence in Amsterdam, a UN spokesperson said.

The Pentagon will appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea agreements struck to avoid the death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US, and two of his co-defendants are valid, a defense official said on Saturday.

The ruling voids defense secretary Lloyd Austin’s order to revoke the deals and concluded that the plea agreements were valid. The judge granted the three motions to enter guilty pleas and said he would schedule them for a future date to be determined by the military commission.

The plea agreements would spare Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi the risk of the death penalty in exchange for guilty pleas in the long-running 9/11 case and would be a key step toward closing out prosecutions related to the attacks by al-Qaida that killed nearly 3,000 people in the US.

The defense department will also seek a postponement of any hearing on the pleas, according to the official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss legal matters and spoke on condition of anonymity.

R Adm Aaron Rugh, the chief prosecutor, sent a letter on Friday to the families of 9/11 victims informing them of the decision.

The ruling by the judge, Col Matthew McCall of the air force, allowed the three 9/11 defendants to enter guilty pleas in the US military courtroom at Guantánamo Bay, the US base in Cuba.

Government prosecutors had negotiated the deals with defense lawyers under government auspices, and the top official for the military commission at Guantánamo had approved the agreements. But the deals were immediately criticized by Republican lawmakers and others when they were made public this summer.

Families of 9/11 victims said the plea deals destroyed any chance of a full trial that could have ended in death sentences and given people the opportunity to address the men accused of killing their loved ones.

“I would have liked a trial of men who hadn’t been tortured, but we got handed a really poor opportunity for justice, and this is a way to verdicts and finality,” Terry Kay Rockefeller, 74, whose sister Laura was killed on 9/11, told the Washington Post.

Within days, Austin had issued an order saying he was nullifying the plea bargains, but the judge had ruled that Austin lacked the legal authority to toss them.

Antigua police have charged a man over the fatal stabbing of a member of parliament in his seaside home.

Police on the Caribbean island charged Alexta Francis, 26, two days after the landscaper was arrested and questioned about the killing of Asot Michael. Francis was due to make his first appearance in court on Monday.

It wasn’t immediately clear where Francis was being held on Saturday.

Atlee Rodney, the police commissioner, commended investigators “for their diligence and professionalism in handling the matter”. He later told the Associated Press that the police had no plans to disclose the motive but would instead allow it to be revealed in court.

Michael, 54, was an independent member of parliament and a wealthy businessman who ascended through the ranks of the governing Antigua and Barbuda Labour party to serve as a minister. Although he was well known for being a philanthropist among his constituency, he was also barred from running on the party’s ticket after various controversies, including an international bribery scandal over which he had denied wrongdoing.

He successfully ran as an independent in the 2023 election to retain his seat in parliament.

Michael was found dead on Tuesday in his home on Antigua’s west coast when a housekeeper reported to work and discovered his body with multiple stab wounds.

It was the first time such a crime had been committed against a parliamentarian in the twin island state of Antigua and Barbuda.

On Thursday, the government announced it would seek assistance from the London Metropolitan police with the investigation but police said assistance would no longer be needed. As a former British colony, the nation still has strong ties to Britain and in the past has requested help from London police in high-profile cases.

Spaniards have taken to the streets of Valencia to demand the resignation of the regional president who led the emergency response to the recent catastrophic floods that killed more than 200 people.

Floods that began on the night of 29 October have left 220 dead and nearly 80 people still missing.

Residents are protesting over the way the incident was handled, with regional leader Carlos Mazón under immense pressure after his administration failed to issue alerts to citizens’ mobile phones until hours after the flooding started.

The Valencian government has been criticised for not adequately preparing despite the State Meteorological Agency warning five days before the floods that there could be an unprecedented rainstorm.

Tens of thousands of people made their dismay known by marching in the city on Saturday. The official attendance was estimated to be about 130,000.

Some protesters clashed with riot police in front of Valencia’s city hall at the start of their march to the seat of the regional government, with police using batons to push them back.

Many marchers held up homemade signs or chanted “Mazón resign” Others carried signs with messages such as “You killed us”. One banner read: “Our hands are stained with mud, yours with blood.”

Some demonstrators dumped muddy boots outside the council building in protest.

Earlier on Saturday, Mazón told regional broadcaster À Punt that “there will be time to hold officials accountable” but that now “is time to keep cleaning our streets, helping people and rebuilding”.

He said that he “respected” the march. Mazón, of the conservative Popular party, is also being criticised for what people perceive as the slow and chaotic response to the floods.

Thousands of volunteers were the first boots on the ground in many of the hardest-hit areas on Valencia’s southern outskirts. It took days for officials to mobilise the thousands of police reinforcements and soldiers that the regional government asked central authorities to send.

Concern about the risk of flooding in the region is not new. Members of Compromís, a leftwing alliance in the Valencian regional parliament, presented a proposal designed to tackle the issue in September 2023, but it was voted down by the government.

Eva Saldaña of Greenpeace Spain has suggested that oil and gas companies “foot the bill” for this natural disaster, arguing that those industries have known about the climate crisis for more than six decades.

Prince William has said he wants the monarchy to evolve and for him to carry out his duties with a “smaller r in the royal”.

Speaking at end of a major visit to South Africa where he mixed the informal with traditional elements of the monarchy, the Prince of Wales said he was trying to do things differently.

While in Cape Town, Prince William had talks with South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, but also took part in informal events and dressed casually.

Asked about whether he was trying to do royal engagements in a different way, he said: “I can only describe what I’m trying to do and that’s trying to do it differently and I’m trying to do it for my generation.

“I’m doing it with maybe a smaller r in the royal, if you like, that’s maybe a better way of saying it.”

Prince William said his approached focused on “impact philanthropy, collaboration, convening and helping people”.

“I’m also going to throw empathy in there as well, because I really care about what I do. It helps impact people’s lives … and I think we could do with some more empathetic leadership around the world.”

The Prince of Wales has long spoken about fighting homelessness, recently starring in a two-part ITV documentary devoted to the subject.

Earlier this week the prince opened up about what had “probably been the hardest year in my life”, having seen his wife and father, King Charles, being treated for cancer.

While in South Africa he sounded optimistic about possible joint overseas engagements with the Princess of Wales, who was declared cancer-free in September.

“I think hopefully Catherine will be doing a bit more next year, so we’ll have some more trips maybe lined up.”

Catherine attended a Remembrance Day event in London with William on Saturday, in her latest public engagement after going through cancer treatment.

Her last public appearance was in October when she met the bereaved families of three young girls who were murdered at a dance class in north-west England.

Jamie Oliver has pulled his children’s book from sale after condemnation from First Nations communities that the fantasy novel is offensive and harmful.

Penguin Random House UK on Sunday notified the Guardian that Billy and the Epic Escape would be withdrawn from sale in all countries where it holds rights, including the UK and Australia.

Oliver, who is now in Australia promoting his latest cookbook, has issued a second apology.

“I am devastated to have caused offence and apologise wholeheartedly,” the British celebrity chef said in a statement.

“It was never my intention to misinterpret this deeply painful issue. Together with my publishers we have decided to withdraw the book from sale.”

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Oliver’s publisher said it took full responsibility for the misjudgment.

“Our mission at Penguin Random House UK is to make books for everyone and with that commitment comes a deep sense of responsibility,” the publisher’s statement said.

“It is clear that our publishing standards fell short on this occasion, and we must learn from that and take decisive action. With that in mind, we have agreed with our author, Jamie Oliver, that we will be withdrawing the book from sale.”

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Commission (Natsiec) led the call to withdraw the book. Support came from prominent Indigenous literary figures, including the Wiradjuri author and publisher Dr Anita Heiss, and the Kooma and Nguri children’s book author Cheryl Leavy.

Natsiec condemned the UK-published book as “damaging” and “disrespectful” and accused Oliver of contributing to “the “erasure, trivialisation, and stereotyping of First Nations peoples and experiences”.

Billy and the Epic Escape is set in England but takes a brief sojourn to Alice Springs where the novel’s villain abducts a young First Nations girl living in foster care in an Indigenous community.

The book has been condemned in Australia for perpetuating harmful stereotypes and “trivialising complex and painful histories”.

The Natsiec chief executive, Sharon Davis, criticised implications in a chapter titled To Steal a Child that First Nations families “are easily swayed by money and neglect the safety of their children”.

“[It] perpetuates a racist stereotype that has been used to justify child removals for over a century,” Davis said.

“This portrayal is not only offensive but also reinforces damaging biases.”

The book also contained errors in Oliver’s attempt to use Indigenous words drawn from the Arrernte language of Alice Springs and the Gamilaraay people of NSW and Queensland.

Oliver and his publisher told Guardian Australia that no consultation with any Indigenous organisation, community or individual took place before the book was published.

Leavy, whose first children’s book, Yanga Mother, confronts the history of the stolen generations, said the decision to pull the book was the right one.

“It makes it possible for Penguin Random House to build relationships with First Nations communities and tell better stories,” she said.

“It’s time now for Penguin Random House to work with First Nations advisers to put structural measures in place that prevent this from ever happening again.”