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- The Labour Party (leader Keir Starmer pictured) wins the United Kingdom general election.
- Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, leaves at least 22 people dead in the Caribbean and Venezuela.
- In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with Dick Schoof serving as the prime minister.
- A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 120 people dead.
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