Gordon Brown and Baroness Harman leave No10 after meeting with Keir Starmer Sir Keir Starmer has brought former prime minister Gordon Brown back into government following a disastrous local election defeat. The prime minister said on Saturday Mr Brown will serve as a special envoy on global finance, while ex-deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to carry on as leader on Friday (8 May) after his ruling Labour Party suffered heavy losses in local elections. Labour lost hundreds of councillors across the country, as some figures in the party said he should stand down. Labour’s election bloodbath Right-wing populists Reform UK gained…
Keir Starmer vowed Friday to remain as Britain’s prime minister after disastrous local elections saw his centre-left Labour party humiliated across the UK, with disillusioned voters backing hard-right and nationalist parties. Issued on: 09/05/2026 – 08:02 2 min Reading time Thursday’s ballots — Starmer’s biggest electoral test since Labour ousted the Conservatives in 2024 —…
Port of Spain, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar sampled Trinidad and Tobago’s popular street food ‘doubles’ during his visit to the Caribbean nation, with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar describing it as an example of the growing cultural bonds between the two countries. Jaishankar samples Trinidad’s iconic ‘doubles’ Doubles, a popular street food in Trinidad and…
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports rose 14.1% in April from a year earlier, the government said Saturday, despite the Iran war and lingering impacts from higher U.S. tariffs. The data were released just days ahead of a planned meeting next week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. That…
HAVANA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday defended the Trump administration’s decision to slap new sanctions on Cuba, the largest of which is against GAESA, or Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., a business conglomerate operated by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. In addition to GAESA and its leader, the sanctions announced…
Nigel Farage hailed sweeping election wins for Reform UK as a “historic shift in British politics” on a day when the populist party made gains at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives. Reform made advances in heartland areas of both parties, clocking up substantial early results in the English local elections by taking control…
Nigel Farage chose Sunderland for the launch of Reform UK’s local election campaign because, he said, it was where he had first sensed the “big political earthquake” underfoot. A decade ago next month, the city was the first to declare its vote in the Brexit referendum – a thumping 61% opting to leave the EU…
World News The Republican president said the ceasefire includes a suspension of all kinetic activity and the exchange of 1,000 prisoners by each country. President Donald Trump walks through the Colonnade of the White House as he arrives to attend a luncheon for mothers Friday, May 8, 2026, in the Rose Garden of the White…
LONDON: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party had scooped up the most council seats in local elections in England by Friday night, even taking control of its first London council, as angry voters booted out hundreds of Labour and Conservative councillors in their traditional heartlands.By then, even though results continued to come in overnight for the…