LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson was expected to resign as prime minister on Thursday, triggering a search for a new British leader. Below is how a process to find Johnson’s successor will work: – Candidates putting themselves forward for the leadership – and there could be many – must be nominated by two other Conservative …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to resign on Thursday, with his office saying he will make a statement to the country. “Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative Party leader today,” BBC Political Editor Chris Mason said on Twitter. Johnson had been hanging onto power despite the resignation of a string …
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By Juby Babu (Reuters) – The heads of MI5 and FBI warned of the growing long-term threat posed by China to UK and U.S. interests, in their first joint appearance on Wednesday. MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said the service has already “more than doubled our previously-constrained effort against Chinese activity of concern,” adding it …
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By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -A strong showing by Japan’s ruling party in upper house elections on Sunday would give Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a firmer grip on the factious party and allow him to emerge from the shadow of a powerful predecessor and define his premiership. If his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) does as …
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By David Brunnstrom TOKYO (Reuters) – This week’s G20 meeting in Bali cannot be business as usual but the United States is determined to ensure nothing happens there that can give legitimacy to Russia’s “brutalising” of Ukraine, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Thursday. The gathering of G20 foreign ministers, which formally starts …
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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Thursday it would expand the rollout of the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines from next week as it battles a steady rise in hospital admissions fuelled by the highly transmissible new Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5. The new subvariants have now become the dominant coronavirus strains in …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Simon Lewis KYIV/KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine has so far staved off any major Russian advance into the north of its Donetsk region, but pressure is intensifying with heavy shelling on the city of Sloviansk and nearby populated areas, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday. Russia and separatist proxies were already …
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By Elizabeth Piper, Kate Holton and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Boris Johnson defied pressure from senior ministers and a mounting rebellion within his party to quit on Wednesday, vowing to stay on as prime minister and fight off any attempts to oust him. After more than 30 resignations from within the government and with …
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By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi pledged on Wednesday to rebuild and grow the struggling economy and said he would look at all options to do that, including the possibility of tax cuts. Zahawi, who moved from the education ministry to the Treasury on Tuesday after the resignation of …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by the resignation of ministers who said he was not fit to govern and with a growing number of lawmakers calling for him to go. Below is a summary of some of those who could be …
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