Brexit party dominates in the UK

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In the European parliamentary elections, the previously dominant centre-left and centre-right blocs have lost ground to smaller parties. Some far-right groups and the Greens have made gains. Voter turnout was the highest in twenty-five years. In Britain, the outcome of the EU election was polarised between strong supporters and opponents of the country's planned exit from the European Union. The Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, was the biggest single party with more than thirty per cent of the vote, but pro-Europe parties gained a similar percentage between them. General Khalifa Haftar says he will continue his assault on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, until the militias defending the city are beaten. Newsday's Alan Kasujja spoke to a Libyan who recently moved to central Tripoli to escape the onslaught in the south of the city.