BREAKING: King Charles III asks Sir Kier Starmer to form a government, making him Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Photograph by Buckingham Palace.

BREAKING: Rishi Sunak announces resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and as Leader of the Conservative Party, following a landslide Labour victory in the UK General Election. #Elections2024 #UKElection2024

EU agrees to begin talks on Ukraine and Moldova membership

Ambassadors for the European Union agreed to start accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on 25th June.

https://cldbreaking.news/eu-agrees-to-begin-talks-on-ukraine-and-moldova-membership/

Alan Bates knighted in King’s Birthday Honours

The former sub-postmaster relentlessly campaigned against the Post Office, helping to expose the Horizon IT scandal and finally bringing justice for those falsely accused.

https://cldbreaking.news/alan-bates-knighted-in-kings-birthday-honours/

Supermarkets urgently recall food products linked to E. coli outbreak

Aldi, Asda, Boots, Co-Op, Morrisons, and Sainsbury’s are among the UK supermarkets recalling products after hundreds of people have contracted E. coli, with at least 67 hospitalised.

https://cldbreaking.news/supermarkets-urgently-recall-food-products-linked-to-e-coli-outbreak/

BREAKING: US Supreme Court unbans gun ‘bump stocks’

Bump stocks, a type of gun accessory which allow for rapid firing, were banned since the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest in U.S. history.

https://cldbreaking.news/us-supreme-court-unbans-gun-bump-stocks/

Reform UK overtakes Tories in election polling

The latest data from YouGov shows that Reform UK have nominally overtaken the Conservative Party and taken second place to Labour.

https://cldbreaking.news/reform-uk-overtakes-tories-in-election-polling/

7.4 magnitude major #earthquake hits off the east coast of #Taiwan. Tsunami warning issued for the surrounding islands.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is charged with historic sexual offences and resigns as Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

Disgraced CEO of #crypto exchange #FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (#SBF), is sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraudulently using customer funds.

This caused FTX to become bankrupt, and customers lost billions of dollars. At least 3 victims have committed suicide.

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin, has died while imprisoned in a Russian penal colony.

U.S. House Intelligence Committee urges President Biden to declassify all information relating to a “serious” and “destabilising” national security threat that has emerged, relating to the Russian Armed Forces.

All members of Congress have been urgently briefed on the threat.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, is impeached by the House of Representatives, and will now face trial in the Senate. They are accused of mishandling the migrant crisis at the Mexico border.

Graham Jones, former MP for Hyndburn and seeking re-election, is administratively suspended from the Labour Party after being secretly recorded making antisemitic remarks about Israel.

Steve Wright, veteran DJ for BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 spanning multiple decades, has died aged 69.

The Body Shop enters administration, risking up to 2,000 jobs.

Metropolitan Police believe the Clapham chemical attack suspect, Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, probably died after going into the River Thames.

His Majesty King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer.

Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe are jailed for a minimum of 22 and 20 years respectively, for the murder of Brianna Ghey.

The pair are currently both 16-years-old.

Child murderers of Brianna Ghey can now be named as 16-year-olds Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe.

Brianna Ghey, 16-years-old, was stabbed to death in Cheshire in February 2023.