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How Liz Truss' aggressive tax cutting policy led to her downfall

7:54am October 23, 2022

by Stacey Vanek Smith

Liz Truss tried to push through an aggressive tax cutting policy in her first days as UK Prime Minister. With inflation soaring and markets on edge, the timing could not have been worse.

Repair Together volunteers dance to music in Anysiv, Ukraine, after a day of cleaning up destroyed homes in nearby Kolychivka on Oct 1. The after-party took place in a theater damaged by shelling. Repair Together is a Ukrainian volunteer initiative that organizes young people to travel to and clean up sites damaged by Russian strikes.

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Young Ukrainians volunteer to clean up destroyed homes — and try to make it fun

5:02am October 23, 2022

Young volunteers blast techno music while helping people in destroyed villages and then hold dance parties to blow off steam. "Listening to music keeps us balanced, so we can keep working," one says.

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What went wrong for Liz Truss

5:58pm October 22, 2022

The U.K. will soon have its fifth prime minister since 2016. How did we get here?

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The race to replace Liz Truss

5:58pm October 22, 2022

by Willem Marx

The United Kingdom's Conservative Party is trying to settle on a new prime minister in the wake of Liz Truss' resignation.

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Support for Ukraine becomes the focus of Italy's politics

5:58pm October 22, 2022

by Sylvia Poggioli

A rift between Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and coalition member Silvio Berlusconi over his ties to Russia complicates her effort to reassure the West of her support for Ukraine.

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Liz Truss vs. lettuce

5:58pm October 22, 2022

Andrew Gilpin, an editor for the British tabloid The Daily Star, talks about the publication's decision to run a livestream that likened Liz Truss' premiership to a head of lettuce.

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Tetyana Safonova looks at her mobile phone during a power outage on Thursday in Borodyanka, Ukraine.

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Ukraine's power grid sustains record damage in Russian strikes, utility says

5:49pm October 22, 2022

by Julian Hayda

Over 1.4 million households have lost electricity after repeated Russian air raids, the president's office says. Ukraine's power utility says the extent of the damage eclipses earlier attacks.

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Boris Johnson may be back as prime minister. Here's what U.K. voters are saying

8:23am October 22, 2022

We talk to voters in the U.K. about contenders for the Prime Minister's post following the abrupt departure and brief tenure of Liz Truss.

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Italian President Sergio Mattarella is flanked by newly appointed Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni during the swearing in ceremony in Rome on Saturday.

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Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has been sworn in as Italian premier

7:18am October 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in on Saturday as Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to be premier.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is among the contenders bidding to succeed Prime Minister Liz Truss.

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Here are the candidates for the next U.K. leader. Yes, Boris Johnson is one of them

5:40pm October 21, 2022

by Willem Marx

Following the resignation of Liz Truss as Britain's fourth prime minister in a little over six years, her Conservative Party — in power since 2010 — is racing to select a replacement.