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King Charles III welcomes Sir Keir Starmer during an audience at Buckingham Palace, where he invited the leader of the Labour Party to become Prime Minister and form a new government following the landslide General Election victory for the Labour Party, on July 5, 2024 in London, England. The Labour Party won a landslide victory in the 2024 general election, ending 14 years of Conservative government. (Photo by Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Keir Starmer takes power as prime minister as UK Labour Party sweeps to power in historic election win

July 5, 2024 at 8:15 a.m.

Labour leader Keir Starmer has officially become prime minister of the United Kingdom.

A woman and a dog leave from a polling station, at the village hall in Cuxham, west of London, as Britain holds a general election on December 12, 2019.

In the UK election campaign’s final hours, Sunak battles to the end as Labour’s Starmer eyes victory

July 3, 2024 at 11:42 a.m.

Voters in the United Kingdom are set to cast ballots in a national election on Thursday, passing judgment on British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's 20 months in office, and the...

Prince William, and Kate Princess of Wales on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with their children Prince George, left, Prince Louis, front centre, and Princess Charlotte wave to the crowds after the Trooping the Color ceremony, in London, Saturday, June 15, 2024. Trooping the Color is the King's Birthday Parade and one of the nation's most impressive and iconic annual events attended by almost every member of the Royal Family. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Princess of Wales returns to public view after cancer diagnosis at Trooping the Color ceremony

June 15, 2024 at 9:02 a.m.

Britain put on a display of birthday pageantry for King Charles III.

Britain’s Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak reacts as he meets with veterans at a community breakfast during a party campaign event in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4, in Northallerton, northeastern England, on Saturday, May 25, 2024. (Oli Scarff/Pool Photo via AP)

PM Rishi Sunak’s plan to make 18-year-olds do national service grabs attention on UK election trail

May 26, 2024 at 8:46 a.m.

All 18-year-olds in Britain will have to perform a year of mandatory military or civilian national service if the governing Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election, the party...

Eden Golan of Israel performs the song Hurricane during the second semi-final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dutch contestant kicked out of Eurovision hours before tension-plagued song contest final

May 11, 2024 at 12:24 p.m.

The Netherlands contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest has been expelled from the competition.

This drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the village of Ocheretyne, a target for Russian forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military has acknowledged the Russians have gained a “foothold” in Ocheretyne, which had a population of about 3,000 before the war, but say fighting continues. No people could be seen in the footage, and no building in Ocheretyne appeared to have been left untouched by the fighting. (Kherson/Green via AP)

Drone footage shows Ukrainian village battered to ruins as residents flee Russian advance

May 4, 2024 at 9:58 a.m.

The village has been a target for Russian forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.

Media waits outside Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales’s revelation she is undergoing treatment for cancer has sparked an outpouring of support and well wishes from around the world. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Double cancer blow to Kate and King Charles leaves Britain’s royal family depleted and strained

March 23, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

The Princess of Wales’ disclosure that she has cancer and will take time off to recover leaves the ranks of working royals depleted and strains a monarchy that King Charles...

FILE – A general view of The London Clinic where Kate, Princess of Wales is recovering from surgery, in London, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. A British privacy watchdog said Wednesday, March 20, 2024, it is looking into a report that staff at a private London hospital tried to access the Princess of Wales’ medical records while she was a patient for abdominal surgery. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Did UK hospital staff try to snoop on Kate’s medical records? A privacy watchdog is investigating

March 23, 2024 at 4:25 p.m.

A British privacy watchdog is investigating a report that staff at a private London hospital tried to snoop on the Princess of Wales’ medical records while she was a patient...

A montage of some of the front pages of Britain’s newspapers, in London, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. The Princess of Wales has apologized for “confusion” caused by her altering of a family photo released by the palace. The image of Kate and her children was intended to calm concern and speculation about the princess’s health, but had the opposite effect. Several news agencies that initially published the photo, including The Associated Press, withdrew the image over concerns about digital manipulation. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Kate’s photo scandal shows how hard it is for the UK monarchy to control its narrative

March 12, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

The scandal over Kate, Princess of Wales’ family snapshot is a new chapter in the thorny relationship between the media and Britain’s royal family. It’s also a sign of how...

FILE – A view of Kensington Palace in London, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. The first official photo of Kate, the Princess of Wales, since her abdominal surgery nearly two months ago was issued Sunday after weeks of speculation about her whereabouts. But The Associated Press and other news agencies later retracted it from publication because it appeared to have been manipulated, fueling more conjecture. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Kate, Princess of Wales, apologizes for altering family photo that fueled rumors about her health

March 11, 2024 at 2:14 p.m.

The Princess of Wales has apologized for “confusion” caused by her altering of a family photo released by the palace. The image of Kate and her children was intended to...

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