#BREAKING Russia says 'not expecting changes' in relations with new Britain PM Truss
#BREAKING Outgoing UK PM Johnson vows to support successor Truss 'every step of the way'
#UPDATE Russia is not expecting any changes to its frosty relations with Britain under new PM Liz Truss, Kremlin says.
"Judging by statements made by Madame Truss when she was still foreign minister... one can say with much certainty that no changes for the better are expected"
VIDEO: Outside 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson says he "fulfilled his function" as Prime Minister, comparing himself to "one of the those booster rockets splashing down invisibly in some obscure, remote corner of the Pacific", despite rumours of him plotting a political comeback
#UPDATE Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson vows to support his successor Liz Truss "every step of the way" as he made his farewell Downing Street speech.
"It's time for us all to get behind Liz Truss and her team," he told Conservative Party colleagues
Battle for Number 10.
@AFP's Paul Faith snaps a shot of a new mural by artist Ciaran Gallagher in Belfast, Northern Ireland, depicting Liz Truss winning the Conservative Party leadership contest over Rishi Sunak
Boris Johnson promises unswerving support for his successor Liz Truss, as he leaves Downing Street for the final time as British prime minister to tender his resignation
UK politics: a chronology of scandal, crisis and firefighting.
#AFPGraphics timeline showing scandals and troubles in British government in recent months, leading to Boris Johnson's announcement of his resignation on July 7
#UPDATE Boris Johnson on Tuesday promised unswerving support for his successor #LizTruss as he left Downing Street for the final time as British prime minister to tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II u.afp.com/wvpo
#BREAKING Liz Truss becomes UK prime minister at audience with queen
#UPDATE Liz Truss today formally became the new UK prime minister after being appointed by Queen Elizabeth II during an audience at her Balmoral estate in Scotland.
The former foreign secretary, Truss, has met with the monarch to accept her offer to form a new government and become the 15th prime minister of her 70-year reign.
Full story: u.afp.com/wvNX
There is little chance of Britain resetting relations with France under incoming prime minister Liz Truss, experts say, with the neighbours' geographical proximity and sometimes divergent interests making for a testy post-Brexit relationship. u.afp.com/wvx3
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#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub