Saudi Arabia has for the first time taken part directly in air strikes alongside the United States, hitting an Iraqi militant alliance linked to Iran on July 29.
Andy Burnham, Britain's newly appointed prime minister, will host Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky in London on Monday, making him the first foreign leader he meets in the job.
A single figure — $3.9bn — turns Britain's immigration crackdown into an economic subtraction, and reframes a domestic policy as a contest for global talent the UK may be choosing to lose.
Andy Burnham looks set to enter Downing Street within days without a contest. The new questions are about tax, energy and credibility — and they are the ones foreign capitals will be watching.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they struck US bases in multiple Middle Eastern countries in retaliation for American attacks, as Washington reported degrading Tehran's capacity to hit Hormuz shipping and Britain proscribed the IRGC.
Brussels and London jointly blacklisted 33 Russia-linked cyber targets tied to FSB operations, drawing a NATO condemnation and a Russian threat of retaliation. The move lands while the EU's broader 21st package remains hostage to internal bargaining — evidenced by Bulgaria's confirmed removal of Patriarch Kirill.
Ann Widdecombe, the former Tory minister who reinvented herself as a Brexit Party MEP and then a Strictly Come Dancing contestant, has died aged 78. Her career maps the fracturing and realignment of the British right over three decades.
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer behind Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, has died at 75 in a Portuguese hospital where she was treated after acute intestinal surgery, according to an announcement on her official website.