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New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference, following his first cabinet meeting at Downing Street. (Photo by Claudia Greco-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Labour landslide: But Keir Starmer’s UK win is overshadowed by huge challenges

Labour faces the electorate’s expectations of transformative change amid economic hardship, with the populist Reform Party snapping at its heels

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised a “decade of national renewal” (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Labour tipped for historic win as UK voters go to the polls

If predictions are accurate, Rishi Sunak will on Friday visit head of state King Charles III to tender his resignation as prime minister

Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, greets Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, during his state visit to 10 Downing Street in London, UK, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What the ANC can learn from the Tory meltdown

If South Africa’s governing party does end up losing its majority in future elections, it might never get it back

Futile: Palestinians live among the wreck and rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images

South African lawyers seek ‘blood money’ to compensate Gaza victims

They want the UK and US to pay for damages for their alleged role in assisting the Israeli military to commit war crimes and genocide

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

Where does SA fit into America’s ‘new consensus’?

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo by Frank Augstein – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Pressure on Sunak is building after the UK local elections

The Tories are comforting themselves for their loss by arguing that historically every government during the mid-term suffers losses in local elections

KYIV, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 21: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Alternative crop of image #1247356353) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media during the joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, (not pictured) on February 21, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since her election last autumn, the Italian Prime Minister has shown consistent support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, despite tensions within the rightwing political alliance that brought her to power. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/Getty Images)

Zelensky in Europe: Too early to ask for jets?

After getting the green light from Washington for tanks, Ukraine’s president is pleading for fighter jets to defend his country from Russia

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

UK set for ruling on plan to deport migrants to Rwanda

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

Prime Minister Mark Rutte

Dutch expected to apologise for 250 years of slavery

Prime minister expected to give speech on ‘meaningful moment’

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine

UK’s Sunak exposes his naivety on foreign policy

This was evident in the British prime minister’s speech at the lord mayor’s banquet, which customarily focuses on foreign policy

Divide and conquer: There has been little sign of renewal and unity in the ANC if its elections are anything to go by. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

For the ANC, the lines are clearly drawn

It’s not what Oliver Tambo meant but, for the ANC, the lines have been clearly drawn since the party’s elections in 2017

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa (L), Britain’s King Charles III, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor and Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort during a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on November 22, 2022 in London, England. This is the first state visit hosted by the UK with King Charles III as monarch, and the first state visit here by a South African leader since 2010. (Victoria Jones – Pool / Getty Images)

Ramaphosa calls for reform of UN Security Council during United Kingdom visit

Cyril Ramaphosa is on a state visit to the UK, the first to be hosted by King Charles III after the death of Queen Elisabeth II in September.

: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference after meeting with US President Joe Biden and a phone call to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on November 16, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Photo: Getty Images

Sino-UK relations sour further after the G20 summit

‘The China threat’ provides Sunak with a way to divert attention from his domestic problems but he needs to tread carefully

No one is sure what Sunak must do, but whatever it is, it’s not going to be easy in toxic British politics. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

With Sunak as UK PM, let’s hope for bland times ahead

No one is sure what Sunak must do, but whatever it is, it’s not going to be easy in toxic British politics

Britain’s former finance chief inherits a UK economy that was headed for recession even before the recent turmoil triggered by Liz Truss. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak inherits UK economy in crisis

Britain’s former finance chief inherits a UK economy that was headed for recession even before the recent turmoil triggered by Liz Truss

Tory leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak takes part in the final Conservative leadership election hustings in London, United Kingdom on August 31, 2022. Photo: Getty Images

Rishi Sunak is the UK’s next leader. Here’s what he doesn’t want you to know

From offshore dealings to right-wing think tanks, the former chancellor has not been transparent about his finances

Liz Truss, Britain’s Foreign Secretary is announced as the next Prime Minister at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre. ((Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Liz Truss named as UK’s third woman prime minister

The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, after a gruelling summer-long contest decided by just over 170 000 Conservative members

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss arrives to attend a Tory Leadership hustings event on July 21, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Truss is the Tory Corbyn: How the Conservative Party will destroy itself

Liz Truss has the support of 62% of the Conservative Party members who anoint the next prime minister