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The new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at Downing Street in London after Britain's head of state, King Charles III, officially appointed the Labour leader during an audience at Buckingham Palace. IMAGES
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets newly-appointed Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan. Morgan, who was voted in on August 6 and is the first woman to lead Wales, replaced her short-lived predecessor Vaughan Gething who survived less than five months in office and resigned following rows over political donations and sacked ministers. Both Starmer and Morgan are members of Britain's centre-left Labour Party. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer lays flowers at the police cordon in Southport near the scene where three children were killed in a mass stabbing, with five other children and two adults seriously injured. Some people heckled the prime minister as he laid the wreath, with one saying "Is that it?" but other onlookers said "Shame!" to those who were heckling. IMAGES
New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says an upcoming NATO summit in Washington is an opportunity for him "to make clear our unshakeable support" for the alliance and to "reiterate" Britain's backing of Ukraine. Speaking after his Labour Party secured a landslide election win, ending 14 years of Conservative rule, Starmer says "the first duty of my government is security and defence." SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron receives British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for bilateral talks at the Elysée Palace. IMAGES