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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he will resign from office and oversee a transfer of power by September, opening a new leadership process inside the governing Labour Party less than two years after its general election victory. Starmer said

France expanded heatwave alerts and adjusted public services as temperatures reached 40°C before the official start of summer. Météo-France placed 53 departments under orange heatwave alert from Friday noon. The affected belt stretched from the southwest toward the northeast. Paris

The European Parliament adopted new European Union rules for plants developed through new genomic techniques. The regulation aims to support sustainable agriculture, crop innovation and food security. It covers plants created through targeted changes to genetic material. The rules apply

The Council of the European Union has concluded the SAFE agreement with Canada, opening EU defence procurement under the Security Action for Europe instrument to Canadian companies and Canada-origin products. The decision completes the EU approval process for Canada’s participation

EuroWire, BUDAPEST: Hungary’s parliamentary election delivered a decisive upset on Sunday, with Peter Magyar’s opposition Tisza party defeating Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz alliance and ending the nationalist leader’s 16 years in power. Preliminary data from the National Election Office

EuroWire, MOSCOW: Moscow on Thursday launched the T2 tram route, a 33 kilometer cross city line that city officials described as the world’s longest urban tram line, extending the Russian capital’s surface rail network from Chertanovskaya metro station in the

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: The European Commission said on April 9 that free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz must be maintained without tolls or transit fees, setting out the bloc’s clearest position yet on a proposal to charge vessels using one

EuroWire, EXETER: Much of the United Kingdom was set to experience the warmest weather of the year on Wednesday, with the Met Office forecasting temperatures as high as 26 degrees Celsius after several days of unseasonably mild conditions. The agency

EuroWire, ULYANOVSK: At least 55 adult passengers sought medical help after an overnight passenger train linking Moscow and Chelyabinsk derailed in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region on April 3, with seven coaches leaving the track near Bryandino and no deaths reported. Regional

EuroWire, LUXEMBOURG: Returns of non-EU citizens from the European Union to third countries rose 13% in the fourth quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, even as the number of people ordered to leave the bloc declined, according to data