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LONDON (AP) — Here is what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said as he announced Monday he is stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party, just two years after being elected in a landslide. “Thank you. Walking up this street two years ago was the proudest moment of my life. A new Labour government. The first in 14 …

  In an emotional statement outside 10 Downing Street, Mr Starmer said Labour had been asking whether he was “best placed to lead us into the next general election” and that he had “heard the answer.” United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday announced his resignation as both prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, saying he had …

The first round of negotiations between the US and Iran to reach a final deal to end the war has ended with “encouraging progress”, mediators Qatar and Pakistan say. The talks began on Sunday in Switzerland, after last week’s initial agreement between the US and Iran. Technical talks will continue throughout the week. In a joint statement early on Monday, …

The United States joining with Israel to launch a war in the Middle East was always a fraught situation for the longstanding US-Israeli alliance. But things seemed to come to a head Thursday, when Vice President JD Vance had some blunt and harsh words for Israel — words that sounded a whole lot like a threat. It was the culmination …

  Donald Trump confronted South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House last year over claims that Afrikaners were being persecuted The US government says it will stop funding programmes in South Africa intended to tackle the spread of HIV and Aids, linking the decision to the government’s alleged failure to protect the white-minority Afrikaner community. South Africa’s health ministry …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans continue to disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling Iran, while his overall presidential approval holds steady, according to a new AP-NORC poll that was conducted as he suggested a deal with Iran had been reached. The poll points to just how unpopular the war, which began Feb. 28, has been with Americans even …

The US has dropped its naval blockade of Iran after the two countries signed a deal to end the war in the Middle East. US Central Command confirmed the end of the blockade on X “in accordance with the President’s direction”, and said some US vessels would remain “in the general area”. Soon afterwards, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said …

The Federal Government has hinted at possible measures against South African companies operating in Nigeria, including telecommunications giant MTN, as outrage grows over the continued harassment and attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, disclosed this on Thursday, while addressing concerns over the worsening anti-migrant attacks in South Africa and the evacuation of …

When the Iran war began on February 28, President Donald Trump proclaimed that the US military would “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground.” “It will be totally, again, obliterated,” Trump declared in a video. In the days that followed, his administration cast the obliteration of Iran’s missile program as a paramount goal for the war, …

The memorandum of understanding signed by President Donald Trump and President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran lays out the political, military and economic consequences of the ill-judged decision to attack Iran on 28 February. The human cost is already clear. Thousands have been killed, many of them civilians, in Iran and Lebanon. The US, and by extension Israel, have suffered a …