4 h. ago Greenland Prime Minister issues defiant rebuke to Trump over island grab in scathing 48

Party leaders addressed Trump Friday, stating: 'Greenland's future must be decided by the Greenlandic people.'

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9 h. ago Britain’s former top judge tells Starmer: Make things right on cruel indefinite jail terms

Lord Thomas compares scandal to Post Office and infected blood sagas – as he calls on PM to scrap 'unjust' indefinite jail terms highlighted by The Independent

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20 h. ago Friends in Tehran tell me they've never seen anything like it, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS. This revolt is momentous. Yet from Starmer and the BBC, near silence...

The videos do not stop. They come in waves, minute after minute. Iranians marching, in their hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands. Streets choked with people.

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30 h. ago Starmer tells Merz and Macron that Nato must 'step up' Arctic operations as they scramble to stop Trump grabbing Greenland

Keir Starmer discussed the brewing row over US threats with Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz in a phone call.

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33 h. ago Greens could join pact with Labour to stop Farage – but only if Starmer is replaced as leader, Polanski says

Exclusive: Zack Polanski tells The Independent that doing a deal with a Starmer-led Labour Party would ‘lead to a worse version of Nigel Farage’

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37 h. ago Starmer's desperate bid to stop Trump grabbing Greenland: PM vows European states will do more to counter Arctic threat from Russia and China

Keir Starmer held calls with the Danish leader and the head of NATO before speaking to the US President for the second time in two days.

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51 h. ago Keir Starmer tells Elon Musk to 'get a grip' on 'disgusting' sexualised images of children created by X's AI tool Grok

The Prime Minister said this afternoon he had asked for 'all options to be on the table' amid the 'disgraceful' wave of illegal images being created by the app's AI tool Grok.

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56 h. ago France’s Macron warns US under Trump is ‘turning away’ from allies – Europe live

French president warned the US under Donald Trump was ‘breaking free from international rules’Another news line dominating this week’s coverage of European politics is to do with Greenland, and the US president Donald Trump’s ambitions to somehow take control of the Danish semiautonomous territory.The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said last night that he had plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland as a crisis escalates within Nato over US threats to take over the Arctic territory. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Russia says any western troops in Ukraine would be deemed ‘legitimate combat targets’ – Europe live

A Russian foreign ministry statement said statements by of pro-Ukraine governments becoming increasingly dangerousMeanwhile, Russia said that any western troops sent to Ukraine as part of the Coalition of the Willing would be deemed “legitimate combat targets,” after plans announced at the grouping’s summit earlier this week.Reuters reported that a Russian foreign ministry statement said “militaristic declarations” by a coalition of pro-Ukraine European governments were becoming increasingly dangerous. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Starmer tells PMQs that MPs would get vote on deployment of troops to Ukraine – UK politics live

Starmer said UK willing to put peace-keeping troops on the ground in Ukraine, but Kemi Badenoch says PM’s plans lack detailFarage is now talking about London, where council elections are taking place.He says that Sadiq Khan has said he will run for a fourth term as mayor. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Starmer tells ministers to work ‘as a team’ amid leadership speculation

Prime minister urges cabinet to focus on issues that matter to voters in start-of-year meeting

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4 d. ago Trump is marching into 2026 with the worst cabinet in history | Austin Sarat

From RFK Jr to Pete Hegseth, the president’s top aides have been disastrous. We shouldn’t be surprisedAs 2024 ended and Donald Trump’s cabinet picks were rolled out, commentators scrambled to decide which one was the worst. Was it Matt Gaetz for attorney general? Or Pete Hegseth, for secretary of defense? Or maybe Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?Soon after, the White House crowed that Trump had assembled “the greatest cabinet of all time”.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Starmer tells Cabinet of ‘fight of our political lives’ in general election clash with Farage’s Reform UK

He stressed to his senior ministers that Labour would be judged on whether it had tackled the cost-of-living problems faced by many households

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4 d. ago Coalition of the willing to discuss Ukraine security guarantees in Paris amid Trump threats over Greenland – Europe live

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will talk with leaders including Starmer, Macron, Merz and Carney as well as US delegation led by Steve WitkoffBefore Venezuela, Witkoff last week had indicated progress in talks on measures to protect Ukraine against future Russian aggression.On 31 December, he had tweeted that the “productive” discussions with national security advisers of Ukraine, UK, France and Germany had focused on “strengthening security guarantees and developing effective deconfliction mechanisms to help end the war and ensure it does not restart.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Does anyone believe you, Keir? Starmer tells Cabinet he IS tackling cost of living crisis despite Brits struggling with debt and food bills

Gathering his senior team for the first time in 2026, Keir Starmer talked up his action to ease pressure - admitting that will be what the government is judged on come the election.

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4 d. ago Does anyone believe you, Keir? Starmer to tell Cabinet he IS tackling cost of living despite Brits struggling with debt and food bills

Gathering his senior team for the first time in 2026, Keir Starmer is set to talk up his action to ease the financial pressures.

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5 d. ago Donald Trump hints US will invade Greenland as Denmark hits back

Donald Trump sent shockwaves around the world with the successful capture of Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro, and it is now feared he has set his sights on grabbing Greenland

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer to tell cabinet to slash cost of living in new year message

Under pressure prime minister to pledge to ‘use every tool’ his government to ‘make life better’ for Britons this year

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1 week ago Keir Starmer makes huge prediction for Mirror readers in New Year message

Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells Mirror readers that 'renewing our country was never going to be an overnight job' but vows 'we are getting Britain back on track'

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2 w. ago NATO fighters scrambled as Putin strikes Ukraine day before Trump peace talks

Russia used the full forces of its Tu-22M3 long range strategic bombers to inflict further misery on Ukraine and NATO was forced to scramble fighters for the second consecutive day

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