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63 years old. Born in Edinburgh, began as a foreign correspondent in Cairo and Moscow and anchored the fictional Northgate Evening News for 18 years. Interviewed 40 heads of government and is known for the quiet pause before a hard question. Measured, warm, authoritative.
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In January, a collision between high-speed trains on the line from Madrid to Seville killed 46 people. Early on Wednesday, 28 October, a train of Spain's state railway Renfe hit the rear of a stationary train of the private operator Iryo on the same line, near Urda, south of Madrid.

Protests that began last month at a high school in Créteil, near Paris, have grown into nationwide unrest over the cost of living. On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron said "illegitimate" demonstrations would be banned in the coming days.

Wearing his red, white and blue sash, French mayor Bernard Baudoux was knocked to the ground on Saturday in Taybeh, a Christian Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank. Masked Israeli settlers attacked him and European diplomats at the olive harvest, injuring three people.