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‘An hour of abuse’: Jeremy Corbyn on Labour coups, and whether he feels sorry for Starmer
May 16, 2026 - World 
As Keir Starmer endures a slow ousting, his predecessor recalls the day in 2016 when colleagues tried to force him out – and assesses who might come next“Yeah, I do feel [sorry for him],” said Jeremy Corbyn, with only a little hesitation. “On a personal level it must be devastating. It is a horrible feeling. You suddenly realise that this person doesn’t trust you at all and really doesn’t wish you well at all, and you suddenly realise that any trust that was there actually disappears.”There are few in politics who have had the experience of being the subject of a Labour party-style coup, the British equivalent of being dragged from your office to be put up against a wall. Letters of resignations from so-called political friends, condemnatory statements on social media, all dripped out for maximum effect with the end goal of pushing the target, once the subject of standing ovations and gushing plaudits, out on their tail. Continue reading...
Germany's Friedrich Merz Says Wouldn't Advise "His Children" To Move To US
May 16, 2026 - World 
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday he would not advise young people in his country to move to the United States for study or work, in the latest sign of...
$200,000 Reward On US Ex-Air Force Specialist Accused Of Spying For Iran
May 16, 2026 - World
Monica Witt served in the Air Force between 1997 and 2008, where she was trained in the Farsi language and was deployed overseas on classified counterintelligence missions.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tries Beijing's 'zhajiangmian' on food tour
May 16, 2026 - World
The "douzhi'er," a fermented soybean drink that's slightly sour and gray-green in color, made the Nvidia CEO wince.
A third of Britons believe they have changed social class, survey finds
May 16, 2026 - World
‘Polyclass’ of 6 million people consider themselves to belong to more than one social category, researchers sayMore than a third of Britons say they have changed social class, with upper-middle and upper-class people most likely to identify as belonging to more than one class, according to a survey.Working-class people were the least likely to say they had changed class or identified with more than one, with 70% saying they were in the same social category they were born into, the study by research firm Attest found. Continue reading...
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