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Former business and trade minister Kemi Badenoch and former junior immigration secretary Robert Jenrick entered the crucial round of voting yesterday to find a new leader for the British Conservative Party. Whichever one wins, it will mean a significant shift of the party to the right.more

Sixty of the wealthiest people in the UK collectively contributed more than £3bn a year in income tax, the BBC has learned. Each of the 60 individuals had an income of at least £50m a year in 2021/22, but many will have earned far more and probably pay large amounts in other taxes too.more

Although the US services have deconfirmed a Kremlin-linked network of accounts designed to interfere in the US election, the Russians need not worry. No one does as much to promote disinformation as the owner of Platform X, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

Former Foreign and then Home Secretary James Cleverly unexpectedly came to the fore yesterday in the election for the new leader of the Conservative Party, which lost power in the UK at the beginning of July after 14 years in government.more

Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said. Giving his annual update on security threats faced by the UK, Ken McCallum said GRU agents had carried out "arson, sabotage and more dangerous actions" in Britain as the UK continues to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.more

I hope that the Polish people will go to the polls and vote for me. ’No one has done more for the Polish people than I have,’ former US President Donald Trump declared in an interview with TV Republika yesterday.more

British sovereignty over Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands is non-negotiable, Prime Minister's spokesperson Keir Starmer stated yesterday. He stressed that the situation of these territories is quite different from that of the Chagos Islands, which, according to the agreement reached on Thursday, will be ceded to Mauritius.more

‘Poland's strong economy, military strength and awareness of the Russian threat make it a key country in Europe, which is particularly important in the face of US indecision,’ Edward Lucas, this newspaper's columnist and security expert, writes in ‘The Times’ today.more

Israel has failed to fully achieve either of the two objectives of the operation launched after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack, the only thing Israel has fully succeeded in is revenge, assessed Dr Ahron Bregman of the Department of War Studies at King's College London.more

Sue Gray, Downing Street's Chief of Staff, resigned yesterday, explaining that to continue in her role would risk distracting attention from the government's actions. Indeed, for some time now, the attention of the British people has been focused not on the actions of the government, but on what is happening around it.more

Sparks from the Middle East conflict are igniting hatred in the UK too, wrote British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in The Sunday Times on the eve of the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. He stressed that only a two-state solution could break the cycle of violence in the Middle East.more

During the negotiations over the terms of Brexit, Russian intelligence recruited with the help of so-called compromises an Irish parliamentarian to seek to undermine relations between the UK, Ireland and the European Union, ‘The Sunday Times’ revealed today.more

Workers should be offered tax breaks on private health insurance to tackle the worklessness crisis facing Britain, business leaders have said. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is calling for an overhaul of the tax system to improve workplace health.more

The UK will hand over sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, which have been the subject of a dispute between the two countries for more than 50 years, to Mauritius, but the military base on the island of Diego Garcia will remain under British-American jurisdiction for at least 99 years.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has returned more than £6,000 for gifts and services received since taking office, his office said yesterday. This follows a wave of criticism since Sky News calculated that he had accepted gifts totalling £107,000 over the past five years.more

Germany's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs yesterday approved a draft tightening the rules on citizenship allowance. They stipulate that an unemployed person who refuses to work will receive an allowance reduced by 30 per cent for three months.more

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced yesterday a strengthening of cooperation with the UK. The starting point is the support that the UK, together with the EU, is providing to the embattled Ukraine against Russia.more

The four candidates for the leadership of the British Conservative Party yesterday set out visions for its renewal after the party's worst defeat to date in the last election. All the speeches were well received, but are more likely to strengthen the favourites in the race - Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated today ahead of a meeting in Brussels with European Union leaders that he wants a more pragmatic and mature relationship, but that there is no question of a return to the EU single market or a customs union with the EU.more

Republican US vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance showed himself to be prudent, while Democrat Tim Walz performed better than expected in the assessments of Republican activist Keith Nahigian and Democratic activist Lukas Lipinski.more

The four candidates to replace former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party will deliver keynote speeches today on the final day of its annual conference in Birmingham. For two of them, this is the last chance to remain competitive.more

The Swiss and Italian authorities will improve the border between the two countries in the Alps, the BBC News website reported. This is necessary due to the melting of glaciers there, caused by a warming climate.more

In a ceremony at the North Atlantic Alliance Headquarters, Mark Rutte took over as NATO Secretary General from Jens Stoltenberg before noon today.more

Official documents accessed by the independent Russian portal Insider show that anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned in prison, and that the authorities removed references to his ailments to hide this.more

Eliminating Hezbollah's leadership and taking the lead in the conflict are incentives for Israel to go further and dismantle the organisation altogether, especially as Iran is unlikely to want to risk open war because of it, according to Matthew Savill of the London-based think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).more