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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he is stepping down as head of the Labour party, after several days of mounting pressure following the election of his rival in a critical election Andy Burnham. He will remain prime minister until his successor is chosen. FRANCE 24’s journalists tell us what to know.

The conflict in the Middle East has been a stark reminder that Europe pays a major cost for continuing to depend on imported fossil fuels. Soaring prices are threatening growth and fuelling inflation. Against this backdrop, investments in renewable energy are no longer about meeting climate targets. They are existential, and central to achieving competitiveness […]

Andy Burnham is a political insider turned outsider who is the current frontrunner to replace Keir Starmer as Britain’s next prime minister. After losing two bids for the Labour Party leadership, Burnham focused on Greater Manchester, where he served as mayor and earned a “King of the North” moniker for railing over what he called […]

Britain’s Keir Starmer on Monday announced his resignation as prime minister and as leader of the governing Labour Party. Starmer says he will remain caretaker prime minister until a new Labour leader is chosen in the next few weeks. Follow our live blog for all the news and reactions. 

More than 800 schools in several parts of France were closed Monday as a record heatwave, which killed three people over the weekend, was set to intensify. Both France and Belgium have announced cuts to their rail services as authorities across Europe issued health alerts in a bid to cope with record temperatures.

Ten years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the UK could once again be facing a dramatic change in leadership. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure amid growing speculation about his political future, with reports suggesting support within his own party is weakening and talk of a possible leadership contest gathering […]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected ​to ‌resign on ⁠Monday and set out a ‌timetable for his departure, according to a report by the ⁠Observer. Starmer has publicly vowed to stay in post, but pressure is building as more and more Labour Party colleagues conclude his time is up. Deatils and analysis by FRANCE […]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was reflecting on the “political realities” facing his leadership, a senior minister said Sunday, as media reports suggested he could resign within days. The speculation follows Andy Burnham’s decisive by-election victory, which has strengthened expectations that the Labour heavyweight will challenge Starmer for the party leadership and, potentially, the premiership.

Gene-edited crops are making a comeback in the EU. Earlier this week, Brussels lawmakers gave the final go-ahead to an easing of restrictions, allowing a broader use of plants obtained by what’s known as new genomic techniques, or NGTs. The promise is that they will make crops more resistant to drought and disease, increasingly important […]

Ukraine’s president has returned a state decoration he received from Poland amid a diplomatic spat. Poland stripped Volodymyr Zelensky of the award after Zelensky renamed a ⁠military unit in honour of the World War Two-era Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The insurgents were involved in massacres which Poland considers a genocide. Two former Ukrainian presidents and other […]