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January 17, 2019

Riven by crisis, Britain searches for Brexit emergency ‘plan B’

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May will try on Thursday to break the impasse in Britain’s political elite over how to leave the European Union by searching for an emergency exit deal, though there is so far little sign of compromise.After May’s two-year attempt to forge an amicable divorce was crushed by parliament in the biggest defeat for a British leader in modern history, May called for party leaders to ...

January 16, 2019

UK PM May to seek Brexit consensus after winning confidence vote

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote in the British parliament on Wednesday before proposing immediate talks with other party leaders in an attempt to break the deadlock on a Brexit divorce agreement.Lawmakers voted 325 to 306 that they had confidence in May’s government, just 24 hours after handing her Brexit deal a crushing defeat that left Britain’s exit from the European Union in disarray.With the clock ...

January 16, 2019

Russia, US fail to save missile treaty, Washington to pull out

BRUSSELS — The United States on Wednesday rejected a Russian offer to save a landmark treaty that keeps nuclear missiles out of Europe because it could not be properly verified, setting the stage for Washington to withdraw from the pact next month.After a meeting in Geneva between Russian and US officials, US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Andrea Thompson said Moscow was refusing to allow proper inspection ...

January 16, 2019

Dis‘May’ed: World media slam Brexit bedlam

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May was left “crushed” and “humiliated”, Britain’s newspapers said Wednesday as they raked over the fallout from parliament’s huge rejection of her EU divorce deal.Daily papers said May’s deal was sunk after the huge vote against the agreement struck between May’s government and Brussels, as she prepared to fight a no-confidence motion on Wednesday.The Daily Telegraph’s front page read: “A complete humiliation”, following the 432 ...

January 16, 2019

Climate change, data theft top fears for Davos summit

LONDON — The risks of catastrophic weather and flooding from climate change are exercising business leaders heading into next week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.An annual WEF report — based on a survey of about 1,000 respondents drawn from the Davos community of company chiefs, politicians, civil society and academics — listed climate change as the dominant concern for a third year running.“The world is sleep-walking into catastrophe,” Alison ...

January 16, 2019

Corbyn: Serial rebel with eyes on Downing Street

LONDON — British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has repeatedly beaten the odds in his long and colorful career and may stand to benefit from government divisions over Brexit but his leftist views and handling of disputes have proved deeply controversial.With Theresa May’s authority undermined by the defeat of her Brexit plans in the British parliament on Tuesday, the 69-year-old socialist immediately called a vote of no-confidence in her government.It is ...

January 16, 2019

Brexinct — May-hem(med) in by machinations

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May, hemmed in by the various machinations that led to the crushing parliamentary loss on Tuesday, on Wednesday was trying to forge consensus in parliament on a Brexit divorce agreement.The crushing defeat of her own deal left Britain’s exit from the European Union in disarray 10 weeks before it is due to leave.The day after her parliamentary loss by the worst margin for a British ...

January 16, 2019

‘Upskirting’ becomes illegal across UK

LONDON — British lawmakers have outlawed the practice of “upskirting” — secretly taking pictures up women’s skirts — following an 18-month campaign by a victim.Those found guilty face up to two years in jail, leading campaigner Gina Martin to praise the bill as “politics and society at its best”.Members of the upper House of Lords on Tuesday gave the bill the final seal of approval, and it now only requires ...

January 16, 2019

Facebook to tighten political ad rules for 2019 elections

PARIS — Facebook said on Tuesday it will tighten rules for political ads in countries with elections scheduled in the first half of the year, building on transparency efforts already underway in the United States, Britain and Brazil after a series of scandals.“As we prepare for major elections around the world this year, we’re continuing our focus on preventing foreign interference and giving people more information about the ads they ...

January 16, 2019

Putin accuses West of ‘destabilizing’ the Balkans

BELGRADE — Ahead of a visit on Thursday to Belgrade, Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Western countries for “destabilizing” the Balkans, returning an accusation often lobbed in his direction.“As for the situation in the Balkans, a serious destabilizing factor there is the policy of the US and some other Western countries aimed at securing their dominance in the region,” he told the Serbian Vecernje Novosti newspaper in an interview ...

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