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UK Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood In September, Unless Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire is Reached

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his country would act unless there was a truce, citing the “intolerable” humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at 10 Downing Street last month.
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UK Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood In September, Unless Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire is Reached

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his country would act unless there was a truce, citing the “intolerable” humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at 10 Downing Street last month.
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Starmer Is Edging Closer to Recognizing a Palestinian State, UK Officials Say

Two government officials said Britain was actively weighing the recognition of a Palestinian state, in a shift driven by public pressure over starvation in Gaza.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at President Trump’s golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday. Mr. Starmer, the officials said, resisted Palestinian state recognition in the past because he viewed it as a largely “performative” gesture.
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Starmer Is Edging Closer to Recognizing a Palestinian State, UK Officials Say

Two government officials said Britain was actively weighing the recognition of a Palestinian state, in a shift driven by public pressure over starvation in Gaza.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at President Trump’s golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday. Mr. Starmer, the officials said, resisted Palestinian state recognition in the past because he viewed it as a largely “performative” gesture.
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England’s Lionesses Take ‘Football Home’ With Gripping Euro Win

By edging out Spain in a penalty shootout in the European championship final, England’s women’s team cemented its position as the standard-bearer for English soccer.

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England’s players celebrated their victory in the European women’s soccer championship on Sunday.
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Trump’s Trip to Scotland Echoes an Earlier Visit, When He Applauded Brexit

Before his 2016 election, President Trump correctly predicted that the forces animating Brexit would go beyond the United Kingdom. But now most Britons say Brexit was a mistake.

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President Trump speaking with reporters after arriving in Glasgow on Friday.
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A New Golf Course and Old Grudges Await Trump in Scotland

Many Scots refuse to make peace with President Trump or his golf resorts, even after he deepened his investment in the land where his mother was born.

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Fiona Hill on Trump, Putin and Why Great Powers Fall

The former White House aide recently returned to her roots, advising Britain on defense and taking a role at Durham University in northeastern England. She still has her eye on global threats.

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“Inability to act is the real challenge for all democratic systems,” Fiona Hill said. “Populism offers quick fixes for extraordinarily difficult problems.”
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Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Sign Mutual Defense Pact as U.S. Steps Back

The new treaty includes a pledge by both countries to regard a threat against one as a threat against the other, in the latest sign of European nations uniting amid growing instability.

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The Anglo-German accord, signed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany covers energy, economic cooperation and migration, in addition to defense.
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U.K. Secretly Resettled 4,500 Afghans in Britain After Huge Data Breach

The government said that information about 18,000 Afghans was accidentally revealed in 2022. A legal order had prevented any reporting on the subject.

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British soldiers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in 2020. The acknowledgment of the data exposure comes at a time when immigration is a sensitive issue in British politics.
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King Charles III Will Host Trump for U.K. State Visit in September

Buckingham Palace confirmed the dates of President Trump’s trip to Britain, which will be his second state visit.

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In February, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain gave President Trump an invitation from King Charles for a state visit.
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U.K. and France Sign First Nuclear Pact to Fend Off Threat to Europe

At a summit on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron also announced a “one in, one out” pilot program on migrants crossing the English Channel.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, left, with President Emmanuel Macron of France at Downing Street in London on Wednesday.
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Macron’s U.K. State Visit: Migrants and the War in Ukraine Are on the Agenda

President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Britain, which began Tuesday, is heavy on pageantry. But both he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer hope for practical results.

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