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UK PM Burnham Makes UN Debut, Trump Rejects AI Plan
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UK PM Burnham Makes UN Debut, Trump Rejects AI Plan

Andy Burnham used his first UN General Assembly speech as UK prime minister to push for a global AI standards body and condemn Russian disinformation — only for Trump to publicly swat the proposal away, calling it a 'globalist scheme.' Trump did, however, say he can 'do business' with Burnham, while criticising the prior government's Chagos Islands deal as 'terrible.'

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