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Starmer’s ‘Love Actually’ Moment With Trump May Never Come

What was billed as an “emergency” Monday morning press conference offered Keir Starmer a now-or-never chance to hit back at Donald Trump over his latest assault on the transatlantic alliance.

Starmer last February delivered a personal invitation from King Charles III to Trump to attend a second state dinner in the UK.
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UK Opens Ukraine Business Center to Speed Up Defense Exports

The UK will open a business center in Kyiv this year to help defense startups send more military hardware into Ukraine.

A soldier demonstrate drone flying during a training exercise for Ukrainian troops, operated by Britain's armed forces in eastern England, on June 17, 2025. Photographer: Justin Tallis /AFP/Getty Images
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UK Military Chief Warns of Defense Cuts Under Current Budget

The UK cannot afford to fulfill its defense commitments despite a recent spending uplift, the head of the UK’s armed forces warned, weeks after telling Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he’s preparing for spending cuts due to a multibillion-pound shortfall.

Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images
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UK’s Starmer Escalates Threats Against X, Calls Grok ‘Shameful’

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer escalated his threats against Elon Musk’s X on Monday, vowing to enforce a law that banned the sexualization of people’s images without their consent and calling such content generated by Grok as “disgusting and shameful.”

The chat window for chatbot Grok on a laptop arranged in Riga, Latvia, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Announced in March, XAI Holdings was created from the combination of X, formerly Twitter, and Musk’s AI venture, xAI. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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UK Sees Ship Seizure as Show of Europe’s Role in US Security

British support for the US operation to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker demonstrated the importance of the transatlantic security partnership, UK Defence Secretary John Healey said, even as tensions rise over President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland.

A US Coast Guard ship approaches the Bella 1 tanker in the North Atlantic, in a video released on Jan. 7.
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New MI6 Chief Warns Putin is ‘Dragging Out’ Ukraine Talks

The new chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of deliberately prolonging negotiations to put an end to the war in Ukraine, in an assessment that complicates President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a deal by year-end.

An employee stands next to a heavily damaged building of of Ukrainian energy provider DTEK power plant at an undisclosed location on Dec. 10. Photographer: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images
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