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France’s Macron, UK PM Keir Starmer To Visit US Amid Ukraine Talks

February 19, 2025 admin

Washington: French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Washington next week, amid other meetings aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, U.S. national security advisor Mike Waltz said on Wednesday. Asked about the chances of reaching a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, Waltz told Fox News…

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British PM says Ukraine must be ‘at the heart’ of any peace talks

February 13, 2025 admin

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Ukraine had to be “at the heart” of any negotiations to end the conflict with Russia. Mr. Starmer’s remarks come amid fears in Kyiv and its European allies that the U.S. might strike a peace deal without…

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Musk Amid Row Over Child Rapes In UK

January 6, 2025 admin

Elon Musk and Keir Starmer. Washington: US billionaire and key Donald Trump ally Elon Musk called Britain’s premier Keir Starmer “utterly despicable” in an escalating row over child rape crimes in northern England. Musk attacked the prime minister on X, writing that “…Starmer repeatedly ignored the pleas of vast numbers of little girls and their…

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U.K.’s Starmer criticises those ‘spreading lies and misinformation’ online

January 6, 2025 admin

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. File. | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday (January 6, 2025) that people spreading lies and misinformation online were not interested in supporting those affected and were only interested in themselves. “Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible…

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World’s Richest Man Sparks UK Row

January 6, 2025 admin

New Delhi: The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has sparked a political storm in the UK by launching a series of controversial posts targeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government. His comments have reopened discussions around the issue of child grooming gangs, sparking calls for fresh investigations. Musk’s Allegations Against Starmer On New…

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British Minister Slams Elon Musk’s Intervention in UK Politics

January 3, 2025 admin

London: A senior British government minister on Friday criticised Elon Musk’s latest intervention in the country’s politics as “misjudged and certainly misinformed”. The tech billionaire accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer a day earlier of failing to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions. In a string of posts on his…

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UK PM Keir Starmer Nominates Indian-Origin Krish Raval For Peerage

December 20, 2024 admin

A London-based professional who chairs the Labour Party’s diaspora group, Labour Indians, was on Friday nominated by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as one of his 30 picks for new political peerages in the House of Lords, to be approved by King Charles III. Krish Raval, awarded an OBE in 2018 by Queen Elizabeth II…

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U.K. could consider removing ban on Syrian militant group HTS

December 9, 2024 admin

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer had welcomed the overthrow of the “barbaric” Assad regime. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images The U.K. could lift a ban on the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which led to the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. The group had been proscribed in 2017 for its…

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Keir Starmer rejects notion that U.K. has to choose between Europe and America

December 3, 2024 admin

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer strongly rejected the idea that Britain had to choose between the U.S. and its allies in Europe. Mr. Starmer is one of several European leaders navigating Mr. Trump’s imminent return to power. Mr. Trump is expected to meet several Heads…

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FTA talks with India to relaunch early in 2025: U.K. PM tells Parliament

November 22, 2024 admin

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his statement on COP29 and G20 Summits at the House of Commons in London on November 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Free Trade Agreement negotiations with India — expected to significantly boost the estimated GBP 42 billion a year bilateral trade partnership — will be relaunched early…

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