UK prime minister Keir Starmer helps out in the call centre at Labour Party headquarters in London on Wednesday, on the last day of campaigning ahead of local elections. Photo: PA Naomi Tajitsu and Georgia Hall Bloomberg Today at 06:30 Investor worries over higher energy prices and elections that look to be disastrous for the…
British voters will cast ballots in elections later today that could hasten the end of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s troubled term and confirm that an increasingly fractured UK has entered an era of messy multiparty politics. Starmer’s centre-left Labour Party is expected to take a battering in elections for local authorities across England and for…
Polling has opened across England, Scotland and Wales in a series of local, mayoral and parliamentary contests – the biggest electoral test Keir Starmer and the Labour government have faced since the 2024 general election. As millions of people across Britain go to the polls on Thursday, party leaders are poised for a set of…
They might be local elections, but the results of thousands of votes being held on Thursday around Britain are likely to have major ramifications for the national government. If results go as expected, many analysts are predicting it could be terminal for the leadership of embattled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Less than two years…
Town halls across the region are bracing for huge change. Voters across the region are heading to the polls on May 7(Image: MEN) Greater Manchester could feel like a very different place on Friday. That’s because the local elections will be in full swing, with counting taking place or having already finished across the region…
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. The health emergency aboard the ship that’s moored across the ocean comes as Argentina sees a surge of hantavirus cases that many local public…
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran wants to negotiate and make a deal, adding that the U.S. was doing very well in Iran and that it was going very smoothly. “We’re doing very well in Iran. It’s going very smoothly, and we’ll see what happens. They want…
By Marcela Ayres, Gabriel Araujo and Luciana Magalhaes BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, May 6 (Reuters) – Brazilian billionaire Joesley Batista, one of the owners of meatpacker JBS, played a key role in arranging a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, scheduled for Thursday in Washington, one person with direct…
PARIS, May 6 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that he had held further talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, during which Macron had reaffirmed the importance of freeing up shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Macron added he had encouraged Iran’s president to look at the plans by France and Britain…