LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Members of Britain’s governing Labour Party dealt Prime Minister Keir Starmer a blow on Wednesday, rejecting his decision to cut...
is not binding, but it’s a setback to Starmer’s efforts to unite his center-left party around the contentious measure., Starmer has cautioned that the dire state of the public finances inherited from the last Conservative government means he must make hard choices such as ending the winter fuel allowance , worth between 200 and 300 pounds , for all but the poorest pensioners.
The government has promised the withdrawal of the heating allowance will be offset by an above-inflation increase in the state pension and other measures to reduce poverty. Starmer acknowledged some of those decisions would be unpopular, but said: “We will turn our collar up and face the storm.”Sky News has won a prestigious International Emmy Award for coverage of the Myanmar civil war. Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his crew went on a month-long undercover mission embedded with the country's secretive resistance movement. Myanmar, in southeast Asia, is embroiled in a civil war between a military junta and ethnic militia and armies.
"The situation between Lebanon and Israel since October 8th, 2023 is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation," the joint statement said. "Thus we call for an immediate 21 day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement," it added. The statement came from the U.S.
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