LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday, pledging to reshape its politics to deliver a new economic model and revive a nation “fed up” with a revolving door of leaders. In front of dozens of supporters outside ‌his new office and residence at 10 Downing Street, Burnham said politicians had failed to bring the stability needed to raise living standards, something he said he would change, with both immediate measures and a longer-term plan to be drawn up later this year. Speaking without notes, Burnham delivered a domestic-focused speech aimed at offering hope to a nation that has, like many European countries, struggled for years with soaring prices and anaemic economic growth. He did not touch on foreign affairs.

 

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MOSCOW Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday held talks with visiting Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Choe Son-hui, the Kremlin said. “Putin spoke highly of bilateral ties between Russia and the DPRK,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, adding that the Russian leader took the opportunity to once again express gratitude to the DPRK’s leadership and people for their support during the special military operation. “Putin conveyed his warmest greetings to DPRK leader Kim Jong-un,” Peskov said. “In turn, the DPRK foreign minister thanked him for these warm remarks and noted that Kim Jong-un recently reaffirmed his commitment to comprehensively advancing the DPRK’s relations with Russia.”

 

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HOUSTON (AP) - Hundreds of protesters have rallied in Houston in the U.S. state of Texas to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican man shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent this month. Protesters marched from Ervan Chew Park on Sunday and briefly shut down a bridge on Dunlavy Street, according to local media and videos posted online. They held banners that read, “Abolish ICE” and “Justice for Lorenzo”.

 

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The lawmakers of Hungary’s ruling Tisza party unanimously support chess legend Judit Polgar for president and will make a final decision about the nomination at their next meeting, the parliamentary ‌group’s leader Andrea Bujdoso said on Monday. Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday that he would ask Polgar, widely regarded as the greatest ever female chess player, to take up the largely ceremonial role of president until a new constitution is passed. On Saturday, Tamas Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment passed by Tisza that ended his term as president. Electing a new president and drafting a new constitution are key elements of Magyar’s drive to dismantle former premier Viktor Orban’s bastions of power, for which Magyar says he received a strong mandate from voters.

 

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ARIZONA (Reuters) - Ten people, including a suspect, were wounded in a mass shooting that erupted early on Sunday in a busy commercial district near downtown Tucson, Arizona, police said. Police officers on routine foot patrol rushed toward ‌the sound of gunfire at about 2 a.m. local time and encountered a suspect, to whom they gave “repeated commands” and then shot, according to Tucson Police Department spokesperson Frank Magos. The officers rendered first-aid to the suspected gunman, and he was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening wounds, Magos told reporters in a briefing near the scene. Nine other people were wounded, apparently before police arrived on the scene, and they were taken to hospitals in critical condition, many of them with gunshots to their extremities, Magos said. All the victims were adults, and no police officers were injured, he said.