People visit St Peter's Square on the second day of the conclave
People visit St Peter's Square as cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope retreat behind the heavy doors of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel for their second day of voting. IMAGES
"This is a perilous moment," says UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, delivering a statement with other European foreign ministers following nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
People visit St Peter's Square as cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope retreat behind the heavy doors of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel for their second day of voting. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer takes to the stage at his party's annual conference, telling the room "Britain stands at a fork in the road - we can choose decency or we can choose division". Starmer has only been in power for 14 months after a landslide election win, but his party is struggling to fight off soaring support for the hard-right party Reform UK. The Labour Party leader adds that "at the end of this hard road, there will be a new country, a fairer country, a land of dignity and respect." IMAGES
The European Union hails the UN Security Council's vote in favour of US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan as "an important step". The plan "consolidates the ceasefire, enables humanitarian access at scale and opens the way for early recovery, reconstruction and institutional reform in Gaza," says the EU's foreign affairs spokesman Anouar El Anouni. SOUNDBITE
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