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Find out if you can still use Royal Mail first and second-class stamps with Queen Elizabeth II's head on in the UK.
- HuffPost UK
Trevor Phillips Destroys Nigel Farage With One Devastating Question
The Reform UK leader rejected the accusation that his party is a home for racists.
- HuffPost
Trump Throws Middle-Of-The-Night Fit After Nancy Pelosi Called Him Out On Live TV
The former president attacked the former House speaker as a “sick puppy.”
- The Telegraph
What are Marine Le Pen’s plans for France?
After Marine Le Pen’s National Rally walloped Emmanuel Macron in the first round of voting in the French elections, there is a real chance France could be governed by a hard-Right party for the first time since the Second World War.
- HuffPost UK
Rishi Sunak Left Squirming As He's Confronted With Ordinary People's Lives In Tory Britain
The prime minister had insisted life was "better" now than when the party came to power in 2010.
- The Telegraph
Putin’s navy is now a spent force
In 2024, the Russian navy plans to take delivery of 12 new warships plus another 38 small craft, according to state media.
- HuffPost
'Not Fit For Office': Liz Cheney Fires Back At Trump's Brazen 'Treason' Meme
The former GOP lawmaker called the former president's latest move proof he's "not a stable adult."
- Business Insider
Ukraine says it destroyed almost 60 Russian air defense systems in June, the second-highest number of monthly kills since the war began
War experts have suggested that Ukraine may be degrading Russian air defenses, possibly with the coming F-16s in mind.
- The Telegraph
Has Nigel Farage stumbled at the last hurdle? Our writers give their verdicts
One party has transformed the general election race, with Nigel Farage announcing several weeks ago that he would not only stand as a Reform UK candidate but would lead it for the next five years. The polls moved quickly in the days that followed with his party rising up the rankings. Now, however, there is doubt over its state in the final week of campaigning. Have Farage and Reform UK bungled it, allowing a slew of stories regarding candidates to dominate the narrative, or is this an exaggerat
- The Independent
Black journalist removed from Reform UK rally by security
Femi Oluwole was removed by security guards saying they ‘didnt know’ why despite showing them his press card
- CNN
A year ago, she drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban. Today, she has a message for other Afghan girls
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
- The Telegraph
Emmanuel Macron is about to become unbearable
His party faces near-annihilation in the National Assembly, with fewer seats than Rishi Sunak’s Tories can hope for later this week. His prime ministers, past and present, could not find hard enough words in private to describe his “suicidal” snap election decision since he took it three weeks ago. Marine Le Pen was quick to claim an historic victory as her National Rally came first in yesterday’s first round of the legislative elections, with 33 per cent of the vote.
- Business Insider
Fierce competition for Europe's next-generation tanks shapes up
A host of defense contractors are offering alternatives to the pan-European tank envisioned by France and Germany.
- The Telegraph
Eight ways to make the British Army more lethal
The new head of the British Army, General Sir Roly Walker, has declared in an opening salvo to whichever party wins next week’s election that he wants to double the military’s lethality.
- Yahoo Finance
Brexit brings dire warnings for Trumpism
When Britain voted to exit the European Union in 2016, Donald Trump, then the Republican candidate for president, declared himself 'Mr. Brexit.'
- Associated Press
Voters kick all the Republican women out of the South Carolina Senate
The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina Shealy from office during sparsely turned out primaries in June, and by doing so completely vacated the Republican wing of the five-member “Sister Senators," a female contingent that included two Democrats and was joined in their opposition to the abortion ban. For Republicans, the departure of Senn, Gustafson and Shealy likely means there will be no women in the majority party of state Senate when the next session starts in 2025.
- HuffPost
Election Predictor Shuts Down Concerns On Biden Debate Performance: ‘Zero’ Impact
History professor Allan Lichtman pointed to one scenario that shows Democrats’ “only chance to win” in November.
- The Telegraph
Russia ‘studying captured ATACMS’
Russian forces have captured and are studying an intact guidance system from a long-range US-made ATACMS missile, according to reports.
- INSIDER
Changed rules for Ukraine mean its F-16s will arrive when they can make a far bigger impact, military experts say
Ukraine's F-16s are set to arrive when it's allowed to use allied weapons to hit targets in Russia — making the jets far more effective, experts say.
- The Hill
Biden deputy campaign manager after Trump immunity ruling: ‘I’m scared as s‑‑‑’
President Biden’s principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said Monday that he’s “scared as s‑‑‑” after the Supreme Court ruled that former President Trump has presumptive criminal immunity for official acts. “I’m scared as s‑‑‑ and I think Americans are scared and should be scared of what Donald Trump will do, because he has been…