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In today’s newsletter: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will now face the Conservative membership – but is she the next Thatcher or is he the one to unite the party’s fractured support?

Unless the UN Security Council extends its approval of aid deliveries to opposition-held parts of northwest Syria next month, food supplies will be depleted by September in the region that is home to some 4 million people, aid agencies warned Thursday. Concerns have been rising in recent months that the…

The former first lady was the guest speaker at the annual South Shields Lecture organised by ex-Labour MP and foreign secretary David Miliband

Teachers in Warsaw work to address student-held trauma in classrooms after the Polish school system absorbed tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugee students.

More people are now crossing the border into Ukraine than are fleeing the war. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the head of the International Rescue Committee about the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

The full uniformed flummery of the state opening of parliament belies the fragile state of the nation, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Londoner’s Diary: Marr free from Beeb managers / New Hay boss / Miriam Gonzalez Durantez hits out at sexism / Fox frenzy? / David Miliband circles / A brusing canvassing encounter

Labour needs a project for power led with verve from the top and executed relentlessly at every level

The wife of former President Bill Clinton has notable ties to the North East, with her great grandfather residing in County Durham.