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In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Andy Burnham explicitly dismissed the idea of an early general election, saying “I’m going to rule it out… I don’t think people want it.”Explaining his decision, the new prime minister suggested the majority of the electorate “voted for a manifesto” in the last election, and vowed he would “honour that manifesto” with the support of parliamentary colleagues.Burnham went on to say, “I just think what I most need to do is get Britain focused on getting the country back where it should be, getting it working.”Andy Burnham: The Laura Kuenssberg Interview…

As locals and visitors make the trip to Northern Ireland’s lakes in search of summer sunshine, they are once again facing an unwelcome sight: blue-green algae.The toxic bacteria which can cause skin irritation and sickness in people and animals who come into contact with it, has become an unwelcome feature of recent summers.There are currently 247 algae blooms across Lough Neagh and Northern Ireland’s water systems, according to the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, external. Eighty have been confirmed in June and July alone.The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) said two of the areas affected are…

On Friday evening, some of the Liverpool squad took the short walk from their hotel in downtown Nashville to Broadway – the famous entertainment district here in the state of Tennessee.Szoboszlai, who was among that group, certainly took some inspiration. Wearing the armband after coming on at half-time and picking up from exactly where he left off last season, the Hungarian scored a belter from outside the box to level the game at 2-2 after Sunderland had gone ahead through Timur Tutierov, having initially levelled through Enzo le Fee.Seeing Harvey Elliott make a surging run on his first game back…

Peter Mason, auctioneer and senior valuer at Dawsons, said: “What struck me most was just how funny Morrissey is.”Running through almost every letter is a wonderful sense of humour and genuine warmth that makes him an incredibly endearing character.”Alongside the wit and unmistakable literary voice that would later become synonymous with Morrissey, the correspondence also captures Britain at a fascinating moment in its cultural history.”Through his observations on punk, music, politics and everyday life, the letters offer a vivid snapshot of the changing British music scene and political landscape during the 1970s while documenting the emergence of a remarkable young…

I cannot remember a summer when at least one evening hasn’t been spent following signs to a local sagra. Not quite a food market and not quite a village fete, a sagra is like a village moving its kitchen outdoors for a few nights.When I think back to those nights from childhood, the first image that comes to mind is of a woman’s hand closed into a fist above a pan of hot oil. Through a tight circle formed between her thumb and forefinger, she would squeeze soft lumps of batter, one small ball at a time, into the oil. In…

 Chuks Okocha in Abuja The vice-presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has expressed confidence that the party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, will honour his pledge to serve only one term if elected in the 2027 presidential election. Kwankwaso stated this during an interview on News Central’s 60 Minutes with Mr. Kay, while responding to questions about Obi’s commitment to a single four-year tenure and whether he would seek the presidency after the proposed arrangement. According to him, Obi has publicly made the promise and should be trusted to keep his word. “I personally…

On a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit’s opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage. As two of the leading figures on the American left, Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders were there to champion Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed – a doctor running on a platform of universal healthcare.His supporters carried signs with El-Sayed’s slogan “Medicare for All”, and wore shirts urging the end of immigration enforcement and US aid to Israel.But they were…

  MOHAMMED KARI contends that Nigeria should make production more rewarding than importation   In the past few weeks, I have watched the debate over the Dangote Refinery and fuel import licences from the sidelines. Every other day, I see a different headline about ships arriving with imported petrol, fertilizer, and countless other products. And that has left me asking a simple but troubling question: what exactly do we still produce for ourselves? Besides, at a time when a Nigerian investor has committed about US$20 billion to solving a problem government failed to solve for decades, why are we still debating how…

Even for researchers who secure approval, “there’s no guarantee that the data is good,” said L. K. Seiling, coordinator of the DSA40 Collaboratory, a German initiative that tracks 46 DSA applications. API data is often difficult for a colleague to reproduce, so a researcher’s work cannot be checked for errors, which Iamnitchi said is a “basic requirement of science.” DSA40 data shows that of 46 tracked applications, 20 were approved and 14 rejected. But approval rates vary widely: TikTok approved 11 of 13 applications, while X rejected 11 of 23. The true rejection rate is likely higher because the tracker…

At one point in the documentary, House of Hope, the protagonist, Manar Wahhab, breaks down in a classroom corner in the school she founded with her husband in the occupied West Bank. The cameras keep rolling.“To step into someone’s life with a camera at the moment when they’re really down, it feels a little bit uncomfortable, but we made the choice together to keep filming during these moments. I wanted the audience to be there with them,” director Marjolein Busstra told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe film follows Wahhab, a Palestinian woman who established a Waldorf…