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Pressure mounts on Starmer to quit from Labour lawmakers

LONDON — Dozens of Labour Party lawmakers called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign on Monday, effectively rejecting their leader’s efforts to quell a mutiny in the party ranks and raising the likelihood of a...

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer

UN maritime body kicks off emergency talks

This aerial photo shows stacked shipping containers at Umm Qasr Port in Basra. — AFP

UK's Starmer resists being drawn into wider war

British PM Keir Starmer speaks to the media, at Downing Street in central London. — Reuters

EU to discuss naval mission to Strait of Hormuz

EU High Representative Kaja Kallas addresses the media, in Brussels. — AFP

Starmer says UK will not be drawn into wider Iran war

US President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Pope decries 'atrocious violence', urges ceasefire

Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace, at the Vatican. — Reuters

Macron urges Israel to hold 'direct talks' with Lebanon

UN peacekeepers drive past a destroyed healthcare centre building, in southern Lebanese. — AFP

Spain removes ambassador to Israel

WHO warns of health risks from 'black rain'

A smoke plume rises from an ongoing fire following an overnight airstrike, in Tehran. — AFP

Iran war's effects already a reality in Europe: EU chief

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Explosion at US embassy in Oslo, no injuries: police

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Second Iranian ship heading to Lanka after submarine attack

Injured Iranian sailors walk on Galle National Hospital premises to change ward, where they are receiving treatment, following a submarine attack on the Iranian military ship, IRIS Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka in Galle. — Reuters

UK MP's husband accused of spying released by police

Scottish Labour MP Joani Reid and her husband David Taylor

French policeman to be tried over 2023 killing of teen

Protesters hold banners during a gathering marking two years since the death of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old shot dead at point-blank by police during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, west of Paris. - AFP File

Spain defies Trump's threats over war stance

This combination shows US President Donald Trump (L) and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. — AFP

France, Greece to send anti-drone systems to Cyprus

An aircraft prepares to land in RAF Akrotiri, in Cyprus. — Reuters
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