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What to Watch at Trump and Xi’s U.S.-China Summit

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-05-13T19:01:41+00:00

Here’s what to know about the biggest sources of tension in U.S.-China relations before the first summit in Beijing in nine years between the nations’ leaders.

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Wes Streeting prepares to launch leadership challenge against Keir Starmer

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:56:56+00:00

Health secretary’s move to force race sparks scramble on left of Labour for candidate to oppose himUK politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting is preparing to launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer on Thursday if the health secretary can secure the support of enough MPs to trigger a contest.Streeting’s move to force a race has sparked a frantic scramble on the left of Labour to find a candidate to oppose him, with Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner both possible contenders. Continue reading...

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Benjamin Netanyahu made secret trip to UAE at height of the Iran war

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:54:05+00:00

The covert meeting with the UAE’s president is the latest milestone in a rapidly developing Middle East allianceBenjamin Netanyahu has revealed he made a secret trip to the United Arab Emirates at the height of the Iran war to meet president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.“This visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE,” the Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement on Wednesday night. Continue reading...

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Benjamin Netanyahu says he made secret trip to UAE at height of Iran war

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:54:05+00:00

Emirates’ foreign ministry rejects claims that Netanyahu visited the country describing them as ‘baseless’Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed he made a secret trip to the United Arab Emirates at the height of the Iran war to meet the president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.“This visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE,” the Israeli prime minister’s office said on Wednesday night. Continue reading...

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US Senate confirms Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, replacing Jerome Powell

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:49:24+00:00

Warsh will serve four-year term as chair, taking over amid rising inflation and pressure from Trump to lower ratesThe US Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as chair of the Federal Reserve, one of the most powerful roles in the federal government that holds enormous sway over the economy.The 54-45 Senate vote on Wednesday was split along party lines, with the exception of Democratic senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, who joined the Republican majority. Warsh was confirmed for a four-year term as chair and a 14-year appointment on the Fed’s rate-setting board. Continue reading...

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Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:42:45+00:00

Health secretary’s lack of challenge had reassured Starmer and his allies – but then briefings for a speculative Thursday launch emergedAs the unofficial political truce of the king’s speech approached, with still no sign of a leadership challenge from Wes Streeting, some of his Labour colleagues assumed the health secretary’s chance to go for the top job might have passed for ever.“There is a risk he becomes the David Miliband of this generation if he doesn’t do something,” one MP said, a reference to another longtime heir apparent who never made the final step. Continue reading...

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Emmanuel Macron et Abiy Ahmed, une relation privilégiée malgré la guerre et les massacres au Tigré

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-05-13T18:39:38+00:00

Pour la dernière étape de sa tournée africaine, Emmanuel Macron a fait le choix de l’Ethiopie. L’occasion d’afficher une nouvelle fois son soutien à son premier ministre, Abiy Ahmed, dont l’action dans la région du Tigré, théâtre d’une guerre meurtrière entre 2020 et 2022, a été critiquée.

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Beware of Drunk Deer, French Police Say, Announcing Season of Inebriation

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:33:40+00:00

Some wild animals, eating fermented or rotten fruits, “may exhibit completely unpredictable behavior,” the police warned drivers in Saône et Loire, a rural region in central-eastern France.

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The south London community where ‘pioneering’ scholarship choristers are made

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:29:46+00:00

St John the Divine, Kennington has built one of UK’s largest youth choral programmes in area marked by deprivation https://media.gutools.co.uk/images/f691f17c8bec6dd39eb407c2e7bddce5c0148803https://media.gutools.co.uk/images/d8f91c2e89ef1aed515efeda33eadbfe161bafbb Continue reading...

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Keir Starmer sets out changes to education, health and courts in king’s speech

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:21:07+00:00

King Charles unveils government agenda for the next year as PM faces leadership threat from within LabourUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer on Wednesday looked to reassert his authority over his restive party, unveiling his plans for the next parliamentary session even as speculation grew that he would be challenged for his job as soon as Thursday.Starmer announced his second King’s Speech as prime minister, promising a package of measures with bills to abolish NHS England, overhaul the provision of special educational needs teaching, limit trials by jury, introduce digital ID and e

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Drug counselor who delivered ketamine dose that killed Matthew Perry gets two years

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:19:34+00:00

Erik Fleming was sentenced in Los Angeles court after previously pleading guilty over the Friends actor’s 2023 deathSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA licensed drug addiction counselor who delivered Friends star Matthew Perry the doses of ketamine that killed him was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison.Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence to 56-year-old Erik Fleming in a federal court in Los Angeles. Continue reading...

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Milka maker milked shoppers over size of chocolate bars, German court rules

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:17:42+00:00

Brand owner Mondelēz was accused of reducing weight of Alpine Milk bar from 100g to 90g without significantly altering the packagingMany chocolate lovers consider shrinkflation a serious crime – and they have been vindicated after a German court ruled that the makers of Milka cheated consumers by cutting the bar’s size, while keeping the wrapper the same.The three-week case in a regional court was brought by Hamburg’s consumer protection office. It accused the chocolate brand’s US owner Mondelēz of deceiving shoppers by cutting the weight of Milka’s classic Alpine Milk bar from 100g to 90g wit

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‘Hold the line’: Burnham tells allies in parliament he still has options to return

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T18:08:29+00:00

Greater Manchester mayor seeks to reassure his supporters after potential seats for him fail to materialiseAndy Burnham has told Labour MPs they should hold the line and that he has options to return to parliament after several seats identified by his allies failed to materialise.Two seats that backers of the Greater Manchester mayor had described as “nailed on” as recently as Monday night are now out of contention after the MPs concerned got cold feet. Continue reading...

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Итоги торгов на Мосбирже 13 мая

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-05-13T18:08:04+00:00

Главный бенчмарк российского фондового рынка по итогам основной сессии в среду, 13 мая, увеличился на 0,18% до 2694,72 п. Его долларовый аналог индекс РТС прибавил 0,76% и составил 1157,2 п.

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Сбежавшего за границу экс-чиновника Буцаева обвиняют в особо крупном хищении

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-05-13T17:57:07+00:00

Следственные органы возбудили уголовное дело в отношении бывшего заместителя министра природных ресурсов и экологии, а также экс-руководителя Российского экологического оператора (РЭО) Дениса Буцаева, рассказали «Ведомостям» два источника, знакомых с ходом расследования.

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London’s answer to New York’s High Line is scrapped

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T17:53:45+00:00

Project organisers say high costs and the energy crisis have scuppered planned green route from Camden to King’s CrossThe Camden Highline, a multimillion-pound effort to transform a disused rail line into a greenery-filled walking and cycling paradise, has been all but scrapped.Nearly a decade since it was conceived as London’s answer to New York’s fabled High Line, the project has fallen victim to high costs and the energy crisis. Continue reading...

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Camden Highline, London’s answer to New York park, is scrapped

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T17:53:45+00:00

Project organisers say high costs and energy crisis have scuppered green route from Camden to King’s CrossThe Camden Highline, a multimillion-pound effort to transform a disused rail line into a greenery-filled walking and cycling paradise, has been all but scrapped.Nearly a decade since it was conceived as London’s answer to New York’s fabled High Line, the project has fallen victim to high costs and the energy crisis. Continue reading...

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‘It’s more incrementalism’: Starmer’s safe king’s speech fails to quell mutiny

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T17:53:21+00:00

One of PM’s expanding cohort of critics in Labour party says policy programme ‘sums up where we have gone wrong’For Keir Starmer’s Labour critics, his second king’s speech, in which the government set out what it would do in parliament over the next 12 to 18 months, was a crystallisation of everything that was wrong with the prime minister’s strategy.Over 34 bills and three draft ones, Starmer set out a programme he said would “make this country stronger and fairer”. But the package, which included limiting trial by jury, reshaping the NHS and moving the country closer to the EU, fell short of

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Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-13T17:47:32+00:00

Tiffany McElroy says inmates assisted in delivering her baby in May 2024 after jail staff left her to fend for herselfAn Alabama woman has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her civil rights and those of her infant daughter were violated after jail staff where she was incarcerated allegedly left her to labor alone for more than a day.Tiffany McElroy, now 28, was booked into an Alabama jail in May 2024. Three days after arriving, she said she felt her water break weeks before she was expected to give birth. Continue reading...

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Кто такой Егор Ковальчук

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-05-13T17:36:45+00:00

13 мая президент Россси Владимир Путин встретился с председателем правительства Луганской народной республики (ЛНР) Егором Ковальчуком и назначил его врио губернатора Брянской области вместо ушедшего в отставку Александра Богомаза. Чем известен новый глава региона – в справке «Ведомостей».

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