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The opposition in Turkey is celebrating after a convincing win in Istanbul, which ended a quarter of a century rule of President Erdogan's pro-Islamic AK Party. In his victory speech, the new Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said it wasn't his Party, but the whole of Istanbul in Turkey that won the election. Mark Lowen is our correspondent in Turkey.

This was always much more than just a local election, it was a pivotal test for President Erdogan after sixteen years in power. He wanted this re-run, he pushed for it and it has backfired spectacularly. "Whoever wins Istanbul wins Turkey" Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Those words will come back to haunt him and now his crushing loss in this electoral re-run will be seen as possibly hastening torque of the beginning of his end and amplifying torque of the post-Erdogan era.

Jeremy Hunt, one of the two candidates hoping to replace the British Prime Minister Theresa May has called his rival a coward. Mr. Hunt accused the front runner Boris Johnson of trying to avoid a live television debate this week. He said the new Prime Minister needed the legitimacy of having made his arguments publicly.

The way to earn that trust with Conservative Party members and with the country is to subject yourself to scrutiny, to answer questions about what you actually want to do. And it's incredibly disrespectful to Conservative Party members up and down the country to say that you're not prepared to engage in any head to head debate for the next couple of weeks. Because in two weeks' time, those ballot papers are gonna arrive through people's letter boxes and they're gonna vote. One of Mr. Johnson's supporters, Matt Hancock, rejected claims that his avoiding questions.

A senior Facebook executive Nick Clegg says he wants to create a new oversight board for the company with the power to make independent rulings on whether questionable content should be removed. Our media editor Amol Rajan has the details.

So Nick Clegg joins Facebook with three main functions: to explain Europe to Mark Zuckerberg, to improve the reputation of a scandal-stricken tech giant and to guide the company to a new relationship with regulators across the world. As well as a new regulatory framework, he also wants to create a new independent oversight board for the company, analogous to a court which users and Facebook can both ask to adjudicate on whether particular content should be removed. This is a significant departure for a company often accused of hoarding, not just data, but power.

The two candidates bidding to stage the 2026 Winter Olympics are making their final presentations to members of the International Olympic Committee meeting in the Swiss city of Lausanne. The choice is between bid centered on Stockholm in Sweden and Milan in Italy. The IOC will announce the winner later today.

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