Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister in two months on Tuesday, tasked with tackling a mounting economic crisis, a warring political party and a deeply divided country in one of the greatest challenges to confront any new leader. The 42-year-old former hedge fund boss was asked to form a government by King Charles, and… Read More Rishi Sunak becomes new UK prime minister following meeting with King Charles
Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to leave millions of people poorer. One of the wealthiest politicians in Westminster, Sunak will become the country’s first leader of colour –… Read More Rishi Sunak to become next UK prime minister following election as Conservative Party leader
Liz Truss took over as British prime minister on Tuesday, facing one of the most daunting set of challenges for an incoming leader in post-War history led by soaring energy bills, a looming recession and industrial strife. Truss, the fourth Conservative prime minister in six years, flew to the royal family’s Scottish home to be… Read More Britain’s Queen Elizabeth assents Liz Truss’ appointment as prime minister
Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party on Monday, vowing to press ahead with promises of tax cuts and to deal with a growing energy crisis. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest, Truss, currently the foreign minister, defeated former finance… Read More Britain announces Liz Truss as new prime minister
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain… Read More Last Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91
Gibraltar finally joined the official list of British cities on Monday, after 180 years in which its status, granted by Queen Victoria, had been overlooked due to an administrative error. The British overseas territory bid to become a city earlier this year as part of the celebrations for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, but research in… Read More Britain officially grants Gibraltar city-status
At least 25 people were killed and dozens wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as his nation marked the anniversary of its independence from Moscow-dominated Soviet rule. Zelenskiy had warned on Tuesday of the risk of “repugnant Russian provocations” on Independence Day, which by… Read More At least twenty-five dead, dozens injured following Russian rocket attack on train station in Ukraine
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv banned public celebrations this week to commemorate independence from Russian-dominated Soviet rule, citing a heightened threat of Russian attack in a war that the United Nations said on Monday has killed more than 5,500 civilians. Near frontlines in the south of the country, Ukraine said Russia fired rockets into several southern Ukrainian… Read More Ukraine bans Independence Day rallies due to fear of Russian rocket attacks
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