Burnham, 56, arrived in London on Monday and was sworn in as a member of Parliament after nearly a decade away, during which he was the popular mayor of Greater Manchester. Shortly after Starmer’s statement, Burnham said he would run for Labour leader.
PARIS (AP) – France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering in a heat wave with daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and sleep-robbing sweaty nights. The national weather service, Meteo France, said most of the country was entering conditions that likely won’t ease before Friday.
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that her country seeks to restart oil shipments to Cuba soon, a move that could provide much-needed relief as the island’s crises deepen given a lack of petroleum.
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Russia strikes civilian infrastructure in various parts of Ukraine
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Iran would have developed a nuclear weapon and used it on Israel were it not for the two recent wars. There is no public evidence for that assessment, which runs counter to those of the U.N. nuclear watchdog and U.S. intelligence agencies.
BUNIA, Congo (AP) – Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said, as tracing those who had been in contact with patients remains a major challenge.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100.
Japanese royal family visits Belgian royal family at the Castle of Laeken