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NewsFeedUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will prove ‘doubters’ wrong, as he faces growing calls to resign after disastrous local election results for Labour. He has vowed to ‘put Britain at the heart of Europe’ and to nationalise key company, British Steel.Published On 11 May 202611 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said Sunday that the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion budget request for defense spending is “outrageous.””They need to submit a defense budget that makes sense for the moment we’re in,” Kelly said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”Last month, the administration released its fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, which serves as a starting point for negotiations with Congress over annual spending. The proposal would mark a 42% increase in defense spending from 2026 levels.”When I got to the Senate five and a half years ago, the defense budget was just over $700…

Bitget has added OpenAI (preOPAI) as the second listing on its IPO Prime platform, extending pre-IPO access to one of the most closely watched companies in artificial intelligence.Issued on Solana by regulated partner Republic, preOPAI is designed to track the economic performance of OpenAI following a future public listing. The offering introduces a low entry threshold starting from $100, significantly reducing the capital requirements traditionally associated with pre-IPO participation.The commitment window for preOPAI will open on May 12, 2026, 8:00 to May 15, 2026, 8:00 (UTC). Allocations will then be distributed between 8:00 and 12:00 (UTC), followed by the start…

President Donald Trump is seen during a military Mother’s Day event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC,  on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.  (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Good morning and welcome to Fox News’ morning newsletter, Fox News First. And here’s what you need to know to start your day …TOP 31. President Trump rejects Iran proposal as ‘totally unacceptable’2. China’s undersea cable threat raises $10T fears as Trump-Xi talks loom3. Tide of sewage spreads north into US waters as contamination concerns mountMAJOR HEADLINESDESERT SECRETS — Former cop…

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An officer discovered a private Facebook group selling smuggled African ivory in Thailand, Patompong said, adding that after months of investigating police had arrested nine Thais who were group administrators tasked with posting the ivory for sale.The group were charged with illegal possession and trade of protected wildlife parts, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a million baht (US$30,800) fine, or both, according to a police statement.The ivory haul included cut pieces and fragments, as well as prayer beads, jewellery and knife handles, police said, adding that the target buyers were Thai and Vietnamese.The Convention on…

The United States-Israel war on Iran is not the result of a sudden escalation but the culmination of a long-term Israeli agenda to violently reshape the Middle East, former Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani tells Al Jazeera.In a wide-ranging, candid interview on Al Jazeera’s Al Muqabala programme, the veteran diplomat offered a stark assessment of the region’s rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape. He warned that the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is the most perilous consequence of the recent war, cautioned against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambitions for a “Greater Israel” and called for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Beef prices aren’t easing anytime soon and economists warn the pressure could last for years.That’s because the U.S. cattle herd has fallen to its smallest size in 75 years, after years of drought, rising feed costs and an aging ranching workforce forced producers to scale back.”The biggest thing has been drought,” Eric Belasco, head of the agricultural economics department at Montana State University, told Fox News Digital.Years of dry weather have wiped out grasslands across the West and Plains, leaving ranchers without enough feed or water to sustain their herds. Many have…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The former Prince Andrew was left “shaken” after being accosted by a masked man near his home in Norfolk on Wednesday.According to Norfolk Police, officers arrived on the scene after receiving reports that “a man was behaving in an intimidating manner in the village,” and later arrested the man on “suspicion of a public order offence and possession of an offensive weapon.””Alex Jenkinson, aged 39 and of Stowmarket, Suffolk has since been charged with two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to harass someone or cause alarm or…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! TUCSON, Ariz. — Walking down a desert path carved through the neighborhood just a mile and a half from Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills, retired Pima County Sheriff’s Lt. Bob Krygier points into the dense brush.”You can throw something under the tree right there, in this brush right back here,” he says. “We could walk past…I guarantee you we’ve walked by things that are probably suspicious in nature, dead animals, things like that, and you’re just not going to see them the terrain itself acts as a natural hide for…