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French far-right leader Jordan Bardella’s glitzy romance with an Italian princess has handed his critics an irresistible line of attack: that the National Rally’s champion of the working class is getting dangerously close to the very elite his party claims to oppose.

A Kyrgyz court has found former security chief Kamchybek Tashiev guilty of attempting to violently seize power from his longtime ally and friend, President Sadyr Japarov.

Previously, the then-Conservative government declined to apologise, arguing that the state had not supported these practices. Starmer has now acknowledged the government’s role in forced adoptions.

Reform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”.

Grok, the large language model (LLM) developed and operated by Elon Musk’s xAI, is facing intense scrutiny following an international investigation revealing that the chatbot repeatedly bypassed its own guardrails to engage in conspiracies and violent fantasies.

The politician could be tapped to be the National Rally’s candidate for France’s 2027 presidential election next week.

Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots has insisted that he “would never have protected Jeffrey Donaldson in any circumstance”.

Labour’s UK defence ­investment fund is around £14billion short of what Forces chiefs insist they need to keep the nation safe.

A total of 83 asylum seekers are to be moved into £250,000 homes on an estate dubbed “Migrant Street”.

Asylum seekers who invoked the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to stay in the UK last year will cost the taxpayer £4.9bn over their lifetimes, Home Office analysis has found.

Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party.

A former Royal Navy officer has warned the UK risks losing influence within NATO due to Labour’s defence spending plans.

John Swinney will face questions from MSPs at Holyrood on Thursday in the final FMQs before summer recess.

Sir Keir Starmer has signalled he is squarely focused on tackling the cost of living and remaining professional, despite turmoil at the top of Government.

Andy Burnham is considering a tax hike on the sale of shares and second homes as part of a radical new economic agenda, it has emerged.

The Scottish Government has been accused of trying to “manipulate the record” of its meeting with an Israeli diplomat after documents released to The Ferret show it changed the official minutes of the talks after a public backlash.

Former Cyprus’ President Nicos Anastasiades labeled an official anti-graft report a flawed "smear campaign" and demanded a fresh criminal investigation to clear his name.

Donald Trump has branded Andy Burnham “extremely liberal” in his first comments of the PM-in-waiting – and urged him to do one thing Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly refused.

Brits want to see a Labour leadership contest rather than a coronation for Andy Burnham, new polling seen by media reveals.

Nepal’s Special Court on Tuesday ordered former Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel to remain in judicial custody for seven days following his arrest in an ongoing money laundering investigation, judicial officials said.

A nationwide broadcast strike and mass protests have erupted in Prague over a controversial government funding overhaul that journalists warn is a systematic attempt to silence critics and control the press.