Andy Burnham Becomes Labour Leader and Is Set to Be UK Prime Minister: Live Updates – The New York Times

  1. Andy Burnham Becomes Labour Leader and Is Set to Be UK Prime Minister: Live Updates  The New York Times
  2. From mayor to U.K. PM: Inside Andy Burnham's swift ascent  Axios
  3. Andy Burnham to become U.K.'s prime minister Monday after being declared Labour Party leader  CBS News
  4. Andy Burnham to become Labour leader and will promise to 'fix things politics has neglected'  BBC
  5. Opinion | The King of the North, Andy Burnham, Won’t Save Britain  The New York Times
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Iran war live: Tanker seized off Yemen in ‘pirate hijacking’ – The Independent

  1. Iran war live: Tanker seized off Yemen in ‘pirate hijacking’  The Independent
  2. Tanker boarded by armed group off Yemen, says British military  AP News
  3. Vessel boarded by unauthorized personnel in Gulf of Aden, UK says  The Times of Israel
  4. Pirates allegedly hijack chemical tanker Asana in Gulf of Aden off Yemen  The Times of India
  5. Vessels attacked in Persian Gulf, hijacked near Yemen  Quantum Commodity Intelligence
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Iran War Updates: Strait of Hormuz “back to the worst case scenario” amid escalating attacks, analyst says – CBS News

  1. Iran War Updates: Strait of Hormuz "back to the worst case scenario" amid escalating attacks, analyst says  CBS News
  2. Iran threatens to lash out at Arab neighbors as US ramps up strikes  Fox News
  3. Why is the US attacking southern Iran’s civilian infrastructure?  Al Jazeera
  4. U.S. Targets Iranian Bridges in Bid to Choke Off Regime’s Supply Routes  WSJ
  5. US launches new strikes as Iran says civilian infrastructure hit  BBC
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Democrats criticize Trump’s claims of election interference – US politics live

Virginia’s Mark Warner says speech was ‘just lies and long-debunked conspiracies’

Several major networks declined to air Donald Trump’s primetime televised address on Thursday, citing concerns that the content could be politically partisan or inflammatory.

CNN, ABC and NBC chose not to air the speech live, but CBS, Fox News and MS Now (formerly MSNBC) aired at least large portions of the speech live. Some ABC station station affiliates – including the Washington DC station owned by right-leaning broadcaster Sinclair – also chose to air the speech.

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Burnham to say his government will be ‘unashamedly Labour’ in first speech as party leader – UK politics live

‘Special conference’ to take place at noon where Burnham will be formally announced as Labour leader

It looks as if Keir Starmer has started moving out. A removals van has been seen at the back of Downing Street.

The Telegraph live blog is normally a pretty good read (although not as good as ours, obviously). But today Andy Burnham may want to give it a miss. At the Telegraph they don’t seem very enthusiastic about a Burnham premiership, and here is a selection of the blog headlines: ‘Burnham is coming for your home’; Burnham could crash the economy, claims Truss; Burnham accused of ‘waving away’ scrutiny on path to power; ‘Burnham is already a global laughing stock’.

The new Labour leader will say that ‘Britain took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s’ when ‘political power was centralised and economic power privatised’. To build an economy and a country that works for all people and places, Andy will say that it requires ‘a new path to the one we’ve been on for the last 40 years’.

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Knesset dissolves: How will Israel vote in October’s general election? – Al Jazeera

  1. Knesset dissolves: How will Israel vote in October’s general election?  Al Jazeera
  2. Israeli Government Pushes Through Divisive Laws Before Election  The New York Times
  3. Israel’s parliament dissolves ahead of Oct. 27 elections  AP News
  4. Coalition’s ‘legislative blitz’ is designed to shore-up, unshackle right-wing power  The Times of Israel
  5. Netanyahu's coalition falls to 48 seats, opposition gets 62 seats after legislative blitz - poll  The Jerusalem Post
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Has Ukraine’s Zelenskyy created a rival by sacking his defence minister? – Al Jazeera

  1. Has Ukraine’s Zelenskyy created a rival by sacking his defence minister?  Al Jazeera
  2. Ukraine Was on a Roll. Then a Clash Over War Strategy Exploded Into View.  The New York Times
  3. Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine as Zelenskyy’s defense shake-up sparks anger  AP News
  4. Political crisis and protests in Ukraine as Zelenskyy defends sacking defence minister  The Guardian
  5. Russia is the only winner from Ukraine's internal war as Zelenskyy backs General Syrskyi over Mykhailo Fedorov  Sky News
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