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Reform looks set for success in local elections, but government insiders say they aren’t chasing Farage with approachLabour is under no illusions about how difficult Thursday’s local elections will be for the government.Nigel Farage’s Reform is on course to take hundreds of council seats and is ahead in the race for two mayoralties. Keir Starmer has not even campaigned in the Runcorn and Helsby byelection, such is the expectation of defeat. Continue reading…

Sergii Koretskyi has won the competition for the position of CEO at NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine.

More than 20 percent of Spain’s power capacity has been restored, the country’s REE electricity operator said late Monday as it battled to overcome a major outage that has hit Spain and Portugal.

The Ukrainian authorities have offered assistance to Spain, Portugal, and France, where a large-scale blackout was reported today.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday he was not concerned “at present” about American stores potentially running out of items due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday opened a weeklong celebration of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office by focusing on his border crackdown, an area of relative strength for the president at a time when there are…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The head of Israel’s internal security service says he will resign in June over the failure of his agency to warn of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks — defusing an escalating battle with Prime Minister…