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Keir Starmer Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Keir Starmer, prime minister of the United Kingdom. Personal Birth date: September 2, 1962 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Keir Rodney Starmer Father: Rodney Starmer, toolmaker Mother: Josephine (Baker) Starmer, nurse Marriage: Victoria (Alexander) Starmer (2007-present) Children: A son and daughter

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Gaza is facing a humanitarian crisis and seen tens of thousands killed since Israel launched its offensive in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

Pope Leo says he is concerned by ‘some things’ happening in the US in first major interview since election

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV voiced concern over “some things” happening in the United States and revealed he turned down plans for an AI version of himself in his first major interview since his election. The first American pope highlighted the significance of a letter his predecessor Pope Francis had sent

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Bezalel Smotrich is pictured at a news conference in the occupied West Bank last month.

Israel’s far-right finance minister suggests a real estate ‘bonanza’ in Gaza will follow the war

By Lauren Izso, Tal Shalev, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has described Gaza as a potential real estate “bonanza” and claimed he was talking to the United States about how to divide up the war-torn enclave. Speaking at the Urban Renewal Summit in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the far-right minister

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Thousands of Palestinians are seen trying to leave Gaza City on September 16

Israeli tanks surround Gaza City ahead of ground incursion as EU proposes sanctions amid global outcry

By Ibrahim Dahman Nadeen Ibrahim, Abeer Salman, Tim Lister, Lauren Izso and Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — Israeli tanks were stationed on the edge of Gaza City on Wednesday ahead of a planned ground operation into the enclave’s largest urban area, according to eyewitnesses and satellite imagery. Amid the military build-up, tens of thousands of

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Anti-Trump demonstrators take part in a protest march in London on September 17.

Protests, projections and programs: How Britons are showing their displeasure at Trump’s visit

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — As Britain’s royal family welcomed US President Donald Trump to Windsor Castle in a lavish ceremony on Wednesday, the British public gave the American leader their own – markedly less friendly – response to his presence in their country. In an altogether different kind of greeting, Brits have

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Alexey Navalny died suddenly in a Siberian penal colony in February 2024.

Alexey Navalny’s widow says lab tests prove Russian opposition figure was poisoned in prison

By Anna Chernova, Sebastian Shukla and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said. Tests were carried out independently by two separate overseas laboratories, with

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Displaced Palestinians move southward with their belongings on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for Gaza City on September 16.

Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel says it launched ground assault amid global outcry

By Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel said it launched an expanded ground assault on Gaza City on Tuesday in defiance of international condemnation, as Palestinians fled the enclave’s largest urban area in waves amid escalating bombardment. The long-anticipated incursion began on the outskirts of the city, Israeli officials said, where Israel’s military has

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Russian tanks move during the "Zapad-2025" (West-2025) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground near the town of Borisov

US observes Belarus-Russia war games as NATO allies feel the heat of Moscow’s incursions

By Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Borisovsky Military Training area, Belarus (CNN) — As US’s NATO allies in Europe are feeling the pressure from Moscow, putting them on edge in an already-febrile atmosphere with Russian drones entering Poland’s airspace, Russia and its main ally Belarus are conducting massive military drills right on the alliance’s doorstep. The exercises,

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Firefighters work on the destroyed roof of a house in Wyryki

NATO should impose no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect against Russian drones, Poland says

By Tim Lister, Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Poland’s foreign minister has suggested that NATO states should consider imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect the alliance’s territory and people from Russian drones. Radoslaw Sikorski’s remarks follow an intrusion last week by Russian drones into Polish airspace. NATO fighter jets and air defenses shot

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