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Catherine, Princess of Wales, leaves a carriage alongside her three children at the annual celebration for King Charles III's official birthday, her first public appearance since December. Kate, 42, who revealed in March she was receiving chemotherapy treatment, makes a tentative return to public life for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer, attending the Trooping the Colour military parade in London. IMAGES
UK newspapers all lead with news that Catherine, Princess of Wales, is being treated for cancer. There have been months of sometimes frenzied speculation online about the whereabouts of the princess, who has not attended public engagements since Christmas. IMAGES
The White House wishes Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, a full recovery after the "terrible" news of her cancer diagnosis. "All of us just heard the terrible news. Our thoughts are with the Duchess of Cambridge and her family," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets newly-appointed Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan. Morgan, who was voted in on August 6 and is the first woman to lead Wales, replaced her short-lived predecessor Vaughan Gething who survived less than five months in office and resigned following rows over political donations and sacked ministers. Both Starmer and Morgan are members of Britain's centre-left Labour Party. IMAGES
Britain's Labour finance minister Rachel Reeves says that the country's public finances face an additional hole of £22 billion ($28 billion) inherited from the previous Conservative government. "We have inherited a projected overspend of £22 billion of spending this year that was covered up by the party opposite," says Reeves, appointed after the centre-left Labour party's landslide election victory on July 4. SOUNDBITE