2nd Man Charged over Fires at Properties Linked to UK PM

19 May 2025, United Kingdom, London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a reception for UK and EU businesses in Downing Street. Photo: Hannah Mckay/PA Wire/dpa
19 May 2025, United Kingdom, London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a reception for UK and EU businesses in Downing Street. Photo: Hannah Mckay/PA Wire/dpa
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2nd Man Charged over Fires at Properties Linked to UK PM

19 May 2025, United Kingdom, London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a reception for UK and EU businesses in Downing Street. Photo: Hannah Mckay/PA Wire/dpa
19 May 2025, United Kingdom, London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a reception for UK and EU businesses in Downing Street. Photo: Hannah Mckay/PA Wire/dpa

British police said a Romanian national was charged with arson offences on Tuesday, the second man to be charged in an investigation into a series of fires at properties linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Police were called to a blaze at a property belonging to Starmer in north London earlier in May. No one was injured, but the entrance to the home was damaged.

Two further fires on separate days, targeting a nearby flat and a car, both linked to the prime minister, are also part of the investigation.

A 21-year-old Ukrainian, Roman Lavrynovych, was charged over the fires last week.

Police said the Romanian national, 26-year-old Stanislav Carpiuc, will appear in a London court later on Tuesday charged with conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life. He had been arrested at London's Luton Airport on Saturday.

Police also arrested a third man in connection with the fires on Monday. He remains in police custody, Reuters reported.

Counter-terrorism police have led the investigation given the prime minister's involvement.

Starmer, who has lived at his official 10 Downing Street residence in central London since becoming prime minister last July, has called the incidents "an attack on all of us, on our democracy and the values we stand for.”



Trump Says He Will Speak to Putin Soon about Ending Ukraine War

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in 2019. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in 2019. (Reuters)
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Trump Says He Will Speak to Putin Soon about Ending Ukraine War

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in 2019. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in 2019. (Reuters)

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after talks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he is considering sending more Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine to help Kyiv fend off Russian attacks, Reuters reported.

Trump said the anti-missile missiles are "very hard to get" but that "we are going to see if we can make some of them available."

Trump, at a press conference after attending the annual NATO summit, said Zelenskiy would like to end the war.

Trump said he will speak to Putin about it soon.

"Look, Vladimir Putin really has to end that war," Trump said.