Sir Keir Starmer has been elected the prime minister after achieving a landslide victory for the Labour Party at the general election. After a meeting with King Charles, the Labour leader gave his first speech as PM, promising to "restore service and respect" to politics with his government. Here are the key events from a dramatic general election.
Pensions minister Emma Reynolds will lead a review of the pensions landscape.
Former MPs plan to return swiftly to parliament amid fears of a lurch to the right if Conservatives fail to explore reasons for defeat
Other tech leaders like Elon Musk have officially backed Trump
Joe Biden has always been a gaffe-prone politician.
Downing Street has said it will press ahead with plans to give workers a “right to switch off” despite the proposal not being mentioned in the King’s Speech.
"It makes me pretty angry that they've left the country in this sort of state," Rachel Reeves said.
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Incident comes at time of acute tension with Ukraine
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins speaks with former Trump national security adviser John Bolton regarding Trump’s phone call with Zelensky and the potential consequences of another presidency on Ukraine.
Eka Gigauri is used to harsh words from officials about the anti-corruption work she does in Georgia. Gigauri, who leads one of Georgia’s main anti-corruption campaign groups, says she and many others have been targeted in connection with a new law, pushed through parliament by the government. The “foreign influence” law requires media, civil society groups and nonprofit organizations to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
The Transportation Department secretary ripped the Ohio senator over the "way he gets ahead" in his political career.
When Nancy Pelosi rang Joe Biden to warn him of dire opinion polling, suggesting he could not win the next election to Donald Trump, the president insisted he had data saying the opposite.
Former President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke over the phone on Friday, the two leaders said. Zelenskyy reached out to Trump, according to a source close to the Ukrainian leader and Trump, who said the two had a "very good phone call." Zelenskyy said in a statement on social media that he spoke with Trump to "congratulate him on the Republican nomination and condemn the shocking assassination attempt in Pennsylvania."
Before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many, including Kyiv, were skeptical that a major war could return to Europe. More than two years on, another shift once unthinkable is underway on conscription.
Border Force officials have intercepted a suspected stolen yacht as migrants continue to cross the Channel in small boats.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev pledged on Saturday to help France's overseas territories secure independence, the latest in a series of incidents pitting his ex-Soviet state against Paris over long-running conflicts in the Caucasus region. Aliyev accuses France of interfering in its affairs over its contacts with Armenia, against which it has waged two wars in 30 years linked to disputes over Baku's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In recent months, Azerbaijani leaders have focused on France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia, gripped by weeks of violence over the objections of Indigenous Kanak activists to a contentious electoral reform.
A Ukrainian nationalist politician who opposed Russian-speaking soldiers being allowed to join the country’s army has been shot dead outside her home.
STORY: :: This deserted airport in Cyprus is frozen in time:: Nicosia, Cyprus:: The Nicosia International Airport has been shutsince Turkey's invasion of Cyprus 50 years ago:: in response to a military coup by Greece:: Aleem Siddique, U.N. spokesperson"This airport has been closed since 1974, when we saw some of the most heaviest fighting between the sides, and it was in 1974 that the United Nations force commander at the time declared the area around the airport a U.N. protected area and it has remained under the control of the United Nations ever since."Built in 1968, this airport was the theatre of some of the fiercest battles between Greek Cypriot troops and an invading Turkish army in 1974, prompting the United Nations to take control of the area in a ceasefire.July 20 marks 50 years since Turkey invaded Cyprus in response to a brief coup orchestrated by the military then ruling Greece. Greek Cypriots live in Cyprus' south, and Turkish Cypriots in its north, separated by a U.N. controlled ceasefire line cleaving the island east to west. Reunification talks have failed to yield any result.Nicosia airport, a so-called United Nations protected area that falls within a U.N. buffer zone, is also off bounds for safety reasons and the air terminal has been bolted shut for decades.
More migrants were brought into Dover on Saturday.
One youth organization, the "Fraternity of the Academics," opposes Ukrainian statehood and views Russia as a "third Rome."
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