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       Four people died and at least 21 were injured after a fire broke out during the night between Sunday and Monday at a retirement home in western Germany.

       The incident - first reported by the German news agency dpa - took place in Bedburg-Hau in North Rhine-Westphalia.

       It wrote that 46 other residents were evacuated and needed medical examination for possible injuries.

       A firefighter and police officer were also injured and taken to a hospital, according to police.

       A caregiver holds a daffodil in front of a stretcher on which a deceased person is being carried outside a retirement home after a fire broke out during the night. Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP

       The fire has since been put out, but firefighters are still reportedly working at the scene.

       The cause of the fire is being investigated.

       The identity of the victims has not yet been disclosed to the public.

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       A key vote for control of Serbia's capital - a focal point of widespread fraud reports after last December elections - is to be rerun later this year, officials said on Sunday.

       The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vu？i？ rigged the vote for Belgrade's city assembly.

       His right-wing Serbian Progressive Party was declared the winner of the 17 December election. But the main opposition alliance, Serbia Against Violence, have insisted they were robbed of a victory in the capital.

       They say widespread irregularities also marred the parliamentary vote that took place at the same time.

       The dispute has led to large street protests.

       It was not immediately clear when the new vote would be held.

       Sunday marked the formal deadline to form the Belgrade city authorities following the December vote. The outgoing assembly will remain in place until the new election.

       Vu？i？ and his party have denied any wrongdoing, dismissing fraud claims as fabrications aimed at destabilising Serbia.

       International election observers, however, said earlier this week that the December election was held in “unjust conditions,” in part because of the president’s involvement and systemic advantages for the ruling party.

       The report by an office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe also said the ballot was “marred by harsh rhetoric, bias in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources.”

       It listed a set of recommendations for Serbia to fulfil before its next vote.

       Opposition politicians said the announcement of the new vote showed that Vu？i？'s party was defeated in Belgrade after his decade-long tight grip on power.

       “Today they admitted they lost (the election) despite the robbery of enormous proportions,” said Vladimir Obradovic, an opposition candidate for the Belgrade mayor.

       "The citizens of Belgrade have shown they don't want them (the ruling Serbian Progressive Party)."

       The opposition and some local election monitors have claimed that voters from abroad were added to voters’ lists in Belgrade and were bused in on election day to vote for the ruling party.

       Serbia is a candidate for European Union membership, but Vu？i？ has faced accusations of curbing democratic freedoms since taking a firm grip on power in the Balkan country over a decade ago.

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       Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign.

       Her win on Sunday at least temporarily halts Donald Trump’s clean sweep of primary votes, though the former president is likely to pick up several hundred more delegates in this week’s Super Tuesday races.

       Despite her early losses, Haley has said she would remain in the race at least through those contests. She has declined to name any primary she felt confident she would win, however.

       Following her loss in South Carolina - her home state - the former UN Ambassador said that Republican voters deserved an alternative to Trump despite his dominance so far in the campaign.

       The Associated Press declared Haley the winner Sunday night after D.C. Republican Party officials released the results. She won all 19 delegates at stake.

       “It’s not surprising that Republicans closest to Washington dysfunction are rejecting Donald Trump and all his chaos,” Haley spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas said in a statement.

       She noted that Haley was the first woman to win a Republican primary in history.

       Washington is one of the most heavily Democratic jurisdictions in the nation, with only about 23,000 registered Republicans in the city.

       Democrat Joe Biden won the district in the 2020 general election with 92% of the vote.

       Trump's campaign issued a statement shortly after Haley’s victory sarcastically congratulating her on being named “Queen of the Swamp by the lobbyists and DC insiders that want to protect the failed status quo.”