Category: Politico News

President Donald Trump invited China’s leader Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, for a White House visit on Sept. 24. “We look forward to it,” Trump said during remarks at a banquet in Beijing. The president called the high-stakes summit Thursday a “fantastic day” and “historic,” adding that the meetings were “extremely positive and […]

BEIJING — The sensitive issue of Taiwan intruded Thursday on a high-stakes meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. Chinese officials, in a statement released after the lengthy sit-down, said that Xi “stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations.” By […]

Siliņa then appointed Latvian army Col. Raivis Melnis as a replacement, but the Progressives’ withdrawal left Siliņa’s New Unity alliance without a parliamentary majority. Latvia, like its Baltic neighbors Estonia and Lithuania, has been on high alert since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, warning that spillovers from the war could test NATO’s eastern flank. “At […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Sky News Is the Labour leadership contest about to get messy and plunge the party into chaos? Sam and Anne start the day expecting Wes Streeting to resign as health secretary to spark a contest, but a new intervention may have changed everyone’s calculations. Angela Rayner has said […]

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is braced for an imminent challenge to his position with Health Secretary Wes Streeting expected to launch a bid for the leadership of the ruling Labour Party Thursday. It comes as former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, another potential rival, said she has been cleared of wrongdoing in a tax […]

LONDON — Angela Rayner has been cleared of wrongdoing in a tax investigation, removing a potential hurdle to any bid to become the next leader of the ruling Labour Party. The former deputy prime minister told the Guardian newspaper and ITV News that the U.K. tax authority HMRC concluded she “didn’t try to avoid paying tax” […]

In last year’s race for deputy Labour leader the first round of nominations closed just six days after the incumbent, Angela Rayner, resigned. Yet it would take Burnham until June at the very earliest to clear all the necessary hurdles to become an MP. Burnham supporters are asking NEC members to agree an election timetable […]

While 31 percent thought Starmer and his team had changed the country in the right way, “but not enough,” more than half — 56 percent — said Labour has either not changed anything since winning power in 2024 or changed the country for the worse. And a similar proportion — 53 percent — said Labour has no realistic […]

The changes at the top of the Commission, introduced when von der Leyen started her second term in December 2024, reflect a broader political shift away from environmental topics — the Green Deal having been a key part of her first term — toward business and defense. The Commission now has its first commissioner dedicated […]

Vice President JD Vance brushed aside President Donald Trump’s speculation about his and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s potential presidential campaign while likening Trump’s fascination with the heir to GOP leadership to “The Apprentice.” Vance told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday that he isn’t thinking about 2028, while calling Rubio a “very, very […]