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If there is a day when it is legitimate to compare politics with football, it is today. England has not won the world championship since 1966, and it has not had a good prime minister for decades. If you ask the Conservatives, since Margaret Thatcher in the eighties. If you ask the centrist Labour, since Tony Blair in the nineties. And if you ask the left-wing Labour, you have to go much further back, to Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, or even Clement Attlee, creator of the welfare state.

Andy Burnham is now serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The former mayor of Manchester, who was received on Monday morning by Charles III at Buckingham Palace, gave a speech at the doors of his new residence, 10 Downing Street, in which he pledged to restore stability to the United Kingdom and admitted the lack of quality of the current political generation in the United Kingdom.

The director of the United States Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Chris Fall, resigned just three months after being appointed to lead the federal AI testing institute at the Department of Commerce, a department spokesperson told Reuters.

The United States and Iran are heading towards the return of war on all fronts, due to the lack of solutions that resolve their fundamental disagreement: who should control the Strait of Hormuz. Washington concluded yesterday its ninth consecutive night of attacks against Iranian military and civilian infrastructure, bombings that reached the cities of Bushehr, Chabahar, Bandar Mahshahr, and Bandar Imam Jomeini. For its part, Iran attacked for the second day the Aqaba international airport, in southern Jordan, as well as military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, and two oil tankers in Hormuz, a maritime route through which 20% of the world’s oil passed before the war.

The American-British men’s rights influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested on Saturday in Miami, United States, at the request of the United Kingdom, which demands their extradition for alleged rape.

A landslide recorded this Friday in Pengshui County, in the municipality of Chongqing, in southwest China, has left at least eight dead and 34 people missing, according to local authorities. The collapse occurred early in the morning and mobilized more than 800 rescue personnel to search for people trapped under tons of earth and rocks.

The U.S. military announced this Sunday the end of its latest round of airstrikes against Iran, which included attacks against the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard for the attack that caused the death of U.S. soldiers in Jordan.

Hostilities between Russia and Ukraine are once again worrying the world, and not just Europe, because they are intensifying in the Black Sea, a vital area for grain exports. This has become in recent weeks the latest battlefield in a conflict that has lasted almost four and a half years, with both sides trying to destroy the economic base of their enemy.

The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, stated that his Administration is considering the possibility of ordering the arrest of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, if he attends the UN General Assembly next September.

Two U.S. military personnel in Jordan died on Friday while defending the area from an Iranian missile and drone attack, the United States Central Command (Centcom) reported in a statement on Saturday.