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Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to Pyongyang for a two-day state visit set for Monday 8 June and Tuesday, 9 June, both countries announced Friday, in what will be his first visit in nearly seven years. The trip comes just weeks after Xi separately hosted US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. The trip’s announcement also comes a day after North Korea unveiled a new facility to produce the ingredients for nuclear bombs, a move experts say suggests North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is eager to cement his country’s status as a nuclear weapons…
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Ten years — and six prime ministers — ago Britain was on the brink of voting to leave the European Union. Host Patrick Baker was in his first job as a TV news producer during the referendum campaign. A decade on, he’s gone back to the people who lived through its biggest moments to find out what was really happening behind the scenes, and how those events changed British politics forever. Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave, recounts the brutal battle with rival group Leave.EU to become the official Brexit campaign, and how his colleague Dominic Cummings used new…
“There’s a case to look at that again,” Burnham responded. “In a world where we do have serious challenges with knife crime, I think it needs to be looked at, although it needs a very careful debate,” he added. Burnham also rejected accusations of two-tier policing in Greater Manchester, heaping praise on his Chief Constable Stephen Watson. He also highlighted Watson’s promise to “never take the knee.” No woke here. 5. Kenyon’s social media posts continue to haunt him Other candidates in the debate rounded on Kenyon — a plumber who stood for Reform UK at the general election…
The migrants rebelled against their handlers after they did not receive their pay for weeks and the trafficker demanded transport money. CCTV footage of the attack shows two men locking the workers in a van, and then setting it on fire at a gas station. “That’s why they set fire to the car. To punish us,” the sole survivor of the attack told Corriere della Sera. “They wanted to kill us all.” Police have arrested two suspects, named as Safeer Ahmed and Ali Raza, in connection with the crime. Italy’s caporalato system provides cheap, illegal labor for farms in southern…
An open parliamentary seat in Dublin Central should be Sinn Féin’s for the taking. But the capital’s most famous mobster is on the ticket, too — and could determine the winner in Ireland’s complex voting system. May 20 5 mins read
The European Parliament’s Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats wants Pina Picierno, who recently quit their group, to resign from her post as Parliament vice president. “While we acknowledge that EP rules technically allow her to keep the vice-presidency, doing so would be politically incoherent,” said Andrea Maceiras, spokesperson of the S&D group’s chair, Iratxe García. Maceiras said that the positions “are the result of negotiations during the constitutive process and reflect the weight of the political groups, meaning that [Picierno] is holding a position that belongs to the S&D.”
Published on 04/06/2026 – 21:42 GMT+2•Updated 21:57 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin in an open letter to the Russian leader on Thursday, saying he was ready for a “full ceasefire.” The letter marks one of the few times Zelenskyy has appealed directly to Putin since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion and the first time he has ever sent a letter directly to the Russian leader. “The choice is yours now. Enough of war. Ukraine proposes to end this war,” Zelenskyy wrote, adding “Ukraine proposes ending this war through direct engagement between us — and you.…
Under a provision of Germany’s criminal code — which designates it an offense to insult or belittle political figures — such investigations are not uncommon, although most cases are dropped. This is not the first time Rogers has weighed in on free speech in Germany. In February, she commented on another widely reported investigation involving a retiree who wrote “Pinocchio is coming” under the very same Facebook post by Heilbronn police. According to German newspaper Tagesspiegel, prosecutors checked 38 comments for possible insults but dropped many of the cases, including that of the retiree. For some of the other defendants,…
China accused the United States on Thursday of distorting facts and smearing its political system, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said censorship could not “erase” the memory of Beijing’s crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters. On 4 June 1989, the Chinese government sent troops and tanks to crush protests calling for political reform in and around the central square in the capital Beijing. The death toll remains unknown and discussion of what happened is censored in mainland China. Rubio said at a news conference on Wednesday that “no amount of censorship can erase the past.” “Those who sacrificed to uphold…