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Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative leadership contest, pitching party to the right after blowout UK election loss

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  Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative leadership contest, pitching party to the right after blowout UK election loss Analysis by  Rob Picheta , CNN  6 minute read  Updated 7:52 AM EDT, Sat November 2, 2024 Kemi Badenoch speaks on stage, on the day she was announced as the new leader of Britain's Conservative Party, in London, on November 2, 2024.   Mina Kim/Reuters CNN  —  Britain’s humbled  Conservative Party  elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader on Saturday, turning to a right-wing favorite who has railed against identity politics, transgender rights and state spending to rebuild its reputation after a devastating election defeat. Badenoch defeated Robert Jenrick in a vote of party members by 53,806 votes to 41,000, after a months-long contest to replace Rishi Sunak as leader. She’s the first black woman to lead a major British political party. Her selection all but ensures a rightward shift to Britain’s political discourse over the next sev...
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Satellite imagery shows mystery ship built in China amid breakneck naval expansion

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  This satellite image captured on October 23, 2024, shows an entirely new class of Chinese vessel with a large open flight deck at a shipyard in the southeastern end of the country.   Planet Labs PBC Hong Kong CNN  —  China appears to have built a new and unusual aircraft carrier, intriguing experts with a potentially first-of-its-kind vessel that could further increase Beijing’s rapidly expanding maritime power. Satellite imagery from Planet Labs shows a vessel with a large, open flat top under construction at Guangzhou Shipyard International on Longxue Island, in the southern province of Guangdong. This potential new aircraft carrier “is of a somewhat unusual shape and size – much smaller than China’s previous naval aircraft carriers,” said Thomas Shugart, a former US Navy submarine commander and now a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. But the vessel is even smaller than the Type 075 amphibious assault ships used by Beijing’s navy, suggesting that ...
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