New UK lawmakers gather to be sworn in
Hundreds of newly elected lawmakers trooped excitedly into Parliament on Tuesday after the UK’s transformative election brought a Labour government to power. The halls of the labyrinthine building echoed with excited chatter as the 650 members of the House of Commons gathered — 335 of them arriving for the first time....
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Boeing accepts plea deal to avoid criminal trial over 737 Max crashes
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Army to be deployed across Pakistan during Muharram
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Pak will continue to seek IMF bailouts if it fails to boost tax revenue: Finance minister
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Indonesia landslide triggered by heavy rain leaves 12 dead
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New offshoot of banned JuD resume political activities
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Japan, Philippines sign defence agreement
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Kyiv children’s hospital among buildings bombarded; dozens killed
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Beryl makes landfall in Texas
Beryl made landfall on the Texas coast near Matagorda early Monday with a dangerous storm surge and strong winds, knocking out power to more than half a million homes and businesses. The storm’s centre hit land as a Category 1 hurricane around 4 am Central Standard Time about 85 miles southwest...
South Korea to cancel plan to suspend licenses of striking doctors
(): South Korea said Monday it’ll withdraw its earlier plan to suspend licenses of striking doctors as part of its efforts to resolve the country’s months-long medical impasse. It wasn’t immediately known whether and how many of thousands of the striking doctors would return to work in the wake of...
‘It’s time for party drama to end’
(): President Joe Biden, in a letter to congressional Democrats, continued to stand firm against calls for him to drop his candidacy and called for an “end” to the intraparty drama that has torn apart Democrats about whether he should stay in the race. Biden wrote in the two-page letter...
UK’s PM Starmer seeks to improve on ‘botched’ trade deal with EU
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset relations at home and abroad. During a visit on Sunday to Edinburgh, that he billed as an “immediate reset” with the regional governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Starmer said he would also seek to improve the UK’s “botched” trade...
Sunak makes apology calls to ex-MPs
Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak spent the weekend calling the Conservative Party candidates who lost their seats in the general election last week to apologise for the party’s worst performance at the ballot box, with just 121 seats in the House of Commons. Several former members of Parliament told ‘The...
NATO summit hosted by Biden to show strong support for Ukraine
The NATO summit, being hosted by US President Joe Biden here this week, is likely to show a strong demonstration of America and its allies’ support for Ukraine and make significant new announcements to increase military, political and financial support for the war-torn European country, according to administration officials. The three-day...
Leaders express relief mixed with concern about French election result
(): Leaders across Europe reacted with relief but also some concern to the results of the snap election in France which leave a key EU country facing the prospect of a hung parliament and political paralysis. Relief, because the far-right National Rally did not come out as the strongest party,...
