International

• Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 13:21 UTC

  How a British prime minister is replaced: the keys to a possible Starmer succession

  

  British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces the most serious political crisis since his arrival at Downing Street in July 2024, but a potential change at the head of the government runs up against a web of internal Labour Party rules, the absence of a consensus candidate, and the personal obstacles weighing on the figure best positioned in internal polling. Starmer, who won the 2024 general election with an overwhelming majority, has flatly ruled out resigning despite mounting pressure from his own parliamentary group following Labour's collapse in the local and regional elections of 1 May.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 02:27 UTC

  Labs across three continents confirm passenger-to-passenger spread on hantavirus cruise

  

  A comparative genomic analysis of five people infected aboard the polar cruise ship MV Hondius has confirmed that the hantavirus spread from passenger to passenger during the voyage, according to a study published on the open scientific platform Viriological and produced jointly by laboratories in South Africa, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The scientific finding supports the hypothesis handled since the outbreak began, which has left ten people infected and three dead, and completes the epidemiological picture after weeks of investigation.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 00:54 UTC

  The Rise of the 'Yen-style' Advantage: Why US Digital Nomads are Flocking to the Southern Cone

  

  Make it make sense. The math of the average American career is getting increasingly difficult to reconcile with the reality of the American housing market. Those traditional milestones of, say, a $3,000-a-month studio in a high-growth tech hub, have started to feel like a structural trap rather than a success story.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 00:27 UTC

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• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 20:27 UTC

  Over 70 Labour MPs call for Starmer's resignation after election rout

  

  More than 70 Labour Party MPs have publicly called for the resignation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer following the electoral collapse the governing party suffered in last Thursday's local and regional elections. The count, which was rising hour by hour through Monday according to a tracker maintained by the specialist outlet LabourList, includes around ten parliamentarians who joined the pressure in the last 24 hours, alongside a trickle of resignations from government posts.

• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 14:42 UTC

  Delcy Rodríguez defends Essequibo claim at The Hague under temporary EU sanctions waiver

  

  Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday to defend her country's claim to the Essequibo, the border region disputed with Guyana, before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The trip, authorized under a specific waiver to the European Union sanctions imposed on her, marks her first major international journey outside the Caribbean since the capture of President Nicolás Maduro by US forces in January, which paved the way for her to assume office as interim leader.

• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 08:40 UTC

  PM Starmer’s dreadful Monday: will a speech overcome the greatest challenge to his political future

  

  UK’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer this Monday will be facing the greatest threat to his premiership and political future, with a speech in which he is expected to promise bolder action to tackle “big challenges” facing the country, as he battles to persuade his MPs not to ditch him as Labour leader.

• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 04:42 UTC

  Trump calls Iran's response to his peace proposal “totally unacceptable”

  

  US President Donald Trump described Iran's response to Washington's latest proposal to end the war that has pitted the two countries against each other since 28 February as “totally unacceptable” on Sunday. “I have just read the response from Iran's so-called 'Representatives.' I don't like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform.

• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 03:55 UTC

  Trade, Iran and Taiwan dominate agenda of Trump-Xi summit beginning Wednesday in Beijing

  

  China confirmed on Monday that US President Donald Trump will pay a state visit from 13 to 15 May at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. It will be the first trip by a US president to the country in nearly a decade —since Trump's own November 2017 visit— and will unfold against the backdrop of the US war against Iran, the fragile trade truce between the two powers, and the dispute over Taiwan's sovereignty.

• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 03:51 UTC

  Up to 8,000 Latin Americans fight in Ukraine for Russia, many deceived, international report finds

  

  An international report presented in Kyiv in late April estimates that between 1,000 and 8,000 Latin Americans are serving in the Russian army in its war against Ukraine, in what its authors describe as a global human-trafficking network run to replenish front-line casualties. The document, titled “Fighters, Mercenaries or Victims of Human Trafficking?”, was produced by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Ukrainian organization Truth Hounds, and the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights.