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May 15, 2026 - World

The Greater Manchester mayor is hoping to return to parliament after a Labour MP stepped down, triggering a byelectionLabour’s deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has backed Andy Burnham’s efforts to return to parliament, saying there will be no attempt to stop the Greater Manchester mayor from fighting an upcoming byelection in Makerfield.Speaking at a Fire Brigades Union conference in Coventry, she saidWe could have further to fall as a party and we absolutely need to come back together as one team, because we’ve got to take the fight to [Nigel] Farage. We are at real risk of Nigel Farage walking up Downing Street in a few years time, and we can’t let that happen.But we’ve got to do our politics differently. We’ve got to end the factionalism. We’ve got to embrace all the different traditions of the Labour party, all the different voices, and bring one team back together. Continue reading...

May 15, 2026 - World

The UAE-Saudi rivalry is no longer just a Middle East story. It's becoming India's strategic headache.

May 15, 2026 - World

PM Modi arrived in Abu Dhabi amid the global energy crisis due to the war in the Middle East.

May 15, 2026 - World

US president said he and Chinese leader ‘settled a lot of different problems’ but gave little detail on solutionsTrump China visit live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s whirlwind trip to Beijing – the first US presidential visit in nearly a decade – wrapped up with much fanfare but little clarity about what was actually achieved.Trump said on Friday that he and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, “settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve”. But he didn’t provide much detail on what those solutions were. Continue reading...

May 15, 2026 - World

After talks on trade, Taiwan and Iran, Chinese President Xi Jinping showed off the centuriesold trees in Beijing’s walledoff Zhongnanhai compound, where he strolled with