Live Updates: U.K. Local Election Results Point to Big Losses for Starmer’s Party – The New York Times

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  1. Live Updates: U.K. Local Election Results Point to Big Losses for Starmer’s Party  The New York Times
  2. Starmer’s Labour suffers huge losses as hard-right Reform gains in U.K. elections  NBC News
  3. Local elections could hasten the exit of Britain’s embattled prime minister  AP News
  4. ‘Leader of the pack’: Reform UK makes election gains, humiliating Labour  Al Jazeera
  5. These election results don’t mean tacking left or right, but delivering for the whole country | Keir Starmer  The Guardian
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What Beijing has learned about the U.S. from the Iran war – Politico

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  1. What Beijing has learned about the U.S. from the Iran war  Politico
  2. Beijing’s approach to the conflict in Iran and its implications for China  Brookings
  3. China and the war in Iran: pragmatism and national resilience  The International Institute for Strategic Studies
  4. How the Iran War Is Shifting Power Toward China  The New Yorker
  5. China will benefit from the Iran war, regardless of any deal between Trump and Tehran  Chatham House
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Nigel Farage hails ‘historic shift in politics’ after Reform UK election gains

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Party has success in Labour and Tory heartland areas but one pollster says results suggest Reform may have peaked

Nigel Farage hailed sweeping election wins for Reform UK as a “historic shift in British politics” on a day when the populist party made gains at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives.

Reform made advances in heartland areas of both parties, clocking up substantial early results in the English local elections by taking control of Essex county council, Havering – its first London local authority – and Sunderland city council.

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Rubio charms in Rome, but he says Trump’s verbal attacks may continue – The Washington Post

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  1. Rubio charms in Rome, but he says Trump’s verbal attacks may continue  The Washington Post
  2. Rubio questions allies' support on Iran following Italy talks  Reuters
  3. Nato refusing US permission to use bases is ‘a problem’, says Rubio after Meloni meeting – as it happened  The Guardian
  4. Rubio Meets Meloni as U.S.-Italy Relations Strained and Trump’s Attacks on Pope  The New York Times
  5. Rubio backs NATO in Rome as US-Italy tensions simmer  politico.eu
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Four south Florida men convicted in Haitian president’s assassination

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Men were convicted in Miami federal court for plotting to kill Jovenel Moïse at his Port-au-Prince home in 2021

Four south Florida men were convicted on Friday of plotting to kill the Haitian president, Jovenel Moïse, in 2021 by hiring mercenaries to assassinate him at his Port-au-Prince home, court records show.

Prosecutors argued during the nine-week trial in a Miami federal court that the men assembled two dozen former Colombian soldiers and supplied them with money, guns, ammunition and tactical vests in a conspiracy to kill Moïse. The 53-year-old president was shot dead in July 2021 at his private residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince, a killing that left a gaping political vacuum in the Caribbean nation and emboldened powerful gangs.

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Meeting ‘Madyar’: the Ukrainian drones boss raining on Putin’s parade – The Guardian

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  1. Meeting ‘Madyar’: the Ukrainian drones boss raining on Putin’s parade  The Guardian
  2. Putin’s scaled down Victory Parade getting smaller by the day  CNN
  3. What Russia's low‑key Victory Day celebrations reveal about Putin and the war in Ukraine  PBS
  4. Many Russians in No Mood for Celebration on Kremlin’s Biggest Day of the Year  The New York Times
  5. Rosenberg: Russia's Victory Day parade with no tanks a sign Ukraine war not going to plan  BBC
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