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Former President Donald Trump has hinted that he may pull out of his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC television. The Republican candidate accuses television of bias, with both staffers arguing over whether the candidates' microphones should be switched off.more

Many Western European countries still underestimate the scale of the Russian threat and are only branding efforts to rebuild their defence capabilities, although the example of Poland shows that rapid rebuilding is possible, says Keir Giles, an expert at London-based think tank Chatham House.more

Officials of the Afghan Ministry of Virtue and Vice Prevention have just presented a year-long summary of their fight against prohibited phenomena, such as music or the propagation of beliefs other than the officially prescribed Islam, the tolonews portal reported.more

Keir Starmer spoke to President Xi Jinping of China yesterday. The Prime Minister began by setting out his priorities for his government, including national security, secure borders and economic stability. The leaders discussed areas of shared collaboration, and potential areas of cooperation between the UK and China, including on trade, the economy and education.more

Home Office ministers have promised a "large surge" in returns flights for failed asylum seekers and others with no right to be in the UK. Plans include 100 more new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs and reopening immigration removal centres in Hampshire and Oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. more

Prime Minister Donald Tusk will receive the European journalists' award on September 12 in Potsdam, which has been awarded since 2005 by the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium organization - the dpa news agency reported. The award will also be presented to the President of Kosovo, Vjosia Osmani-Sadriu.more

More than half of people think Britain is “moving in the wrong direction”, according to a poll which shows a drop in favourability for Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet.more

A 16-year-old accused of repeatedly stabbing a Catholic army chaplain appeared before Galway County Court in the west of Ireland yesterday. According to police, the attacker has a ‘radical Islamist mindset’ and supported the terrorist organisation Islamic State.more

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II found Donald Trump ‘very coarse’ and particularly disliked how the then US president, directed his gaze behind her, ‘as if in search of other more interesting’ people, the ‘Daily Mail’ revealed yesterday, citing an excerpt from a new book about the late monarch.more

US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has refused to take part in a Fox News TV debate on 4 September, former President Donald Trump wrote on social media last night.more

Ministers have activated emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding as more rioters are sentenced for their role in the recent unrest. The longstanding measures, known as Operation Early Dawn, allow defendants to be held in police cells until prison beds become available and could mean their court dates are delayed or adjourned at short notice.more

Hamas planned to unearth buried British and Commonwealth war heroes in Gaza in a bid to blackmail the government, newly discovered documents suggest. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) led by the UK Defence Secretary has preserved the graves of over 3,000 Commonwealth veterans from World War I and II. more

Kamala Harris is closing in on Donald Trump in support in several key states where voters are undecided who to vote for. According to The New York Times/Siena College poll released Saturday, the Democrat leads in Arizona (50 to 45 percent) and North Carolina (49 to 47 percent).more

Anti-immigration demonstrations, riots with features of pogroms and lynchings will repeat in Great Britain until the country's economic reform is comprehensive and the living standards of wide circles of society are raised - says political scientist and expert on the far right, Dr. Aaron Winter.more

Kamala Harris has a multi-point lead in three key ‘rust belt’ states and has moved closer to Trump in his own state, Florida, according to a compilation of new polls. The polls provide further confirmation of the vice-president's growing ratings.more

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has urged Iran to "refrain" from attacking Israel during a phone call with Iran's new president. Sir Keir told Masoud Pezeshkian there was a "serious risk of miscalculation and now was the time for calm and careful consideration", Downing Street said.more

Changes could include raising the minimum salary threshold for overseas workers to obtain a visa to take up a job in the UK.more

Donald Trump’s campaign has said some of its internal communications have been hacked and suggested it was targeted by Iranian operatives. US news website Politico reported on Saturday that it had been emailed campaign documents including internal research carried out on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.more

ABC News has said it will host the first debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on 10 September. The network confirmed the showdown in a post on X, formerly Twitter, after Trump said on Thursday that he would be open to debating his Democratic rival multiple times before the November election.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last night called on police to "keep high vigilance" even as the wave of riots that have swept across the country in recent days appears to be subsiding.more

Kamala Harris, whom delegates to the Democratic Party convention officially elected on Monday as the party's presidential candidate, yesterday introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential candidate during a rally in Philadelphia.more

Eluned Morgan has been confirmed as the first female first minister of Wales, following a vote in the Welsh Parliament. The Senedd was recalled from its summer break to nominate her, after Vaughan Gething resigned.more

As head of the National Space Council (NSC), current vice-president Kamala Harris has made herself known as an advocate of sending astronauts to the moon again to build a base there. Like Donald Trump, she sees space as another space of global competition with China, assesses the Politico website.more

Within the first month of the Labor government taking power, 3,596 illegal immigrants entered Great Britain through the English Channel, which is an almost identical number to the same period last year and clearly lower than in the same period a year earlier - according to statistics British Home Office.more

Due to the indexation of salaries in the budget sector for next year, President Andrzej Duda's salary will increase by over PLN 1,000. zloty. According to a SW Research survey for "Wprost", 64 percent respondents believe that the salary of the head of state should not be higher, nearly 19 percent is of the opposite opinion.more