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British Cabinet Ministers Resign Over Brexit Deal

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11/15/2018

11/15/2018

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British Cabinet Ministers Resign Over Brexit Deal

Top News: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s tentative Brexit deal faced a major setback Thursday after two high-level cabinet officials, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey, resigned, along with two junior ministers. Raab said he could not “in good conscience” support the deal as it currently stood.

May defend the deal before the House of Commons. “It is a draft deal that means we will leave the EU in a smooth and orderly way on the 29 of March 2019,” she said—a line that was met with laughter. She said her government was preparing for a no-deal Brexit as well.

“This is not the deal the country was promised, and Parliament cannot and I believe will not accept a false choice between this bad deal and no deal,” Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said.

The European Union accepted the draft withdrawal document but said much remained to be hammered out.

Bangladesh: Myanmar’s western neighbor backed out of its plan to begin the repatriation of Rohingya refugees. Bangladesh’s refugee commission said it could not find anyone who would agree to go back. Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled what the United Nations called ethnic cleansing at the hands of Myanmar’s military.

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AFRICA

•  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told a group of Chinese investors that he would deploy the army in order to protect Chinese businesses from theft. "To me, this is a simple problem to solve," he said.

•  Tanzania is losing about $10 million in aid funding, which Denmark says it will withhold after a Tanzanian official announced an anti-gay crackdown.

•  Nigerian state governors refused to accept a deal to raise minimum wage to $82 a month.

AMERICAS

•  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right president-elect, said he would name Ernesto Araujo, who currently heads the foreign ministry’s U.S. and Canada department, as the country’s top diplomat. Araujo has praised U.S. President Donald Trump and called on Brazil to reclaim its “Western soul.”

•  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to meet with soon-to-be Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Thursday.

•  Colombia is investigating the death of Jorge Enrique Pizano—a witness in an ongoing corruption investigation into the activities of Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht.

ASIA

•  “I have never used a computer in my life,” Yoshitaka Sakurada, Japan’s cybersecurity strategy chief, told lawmakers.

•  Prosecutors in Malaysia accused Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, of taking more than $45 million in bribes.

•  Hong Kong and Australia reached a trade agreement.

EUROPE

•  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced plans to restrict traffic in the city center to prioritize pedestrians.

•  “I do not do policy or diplomacy by tweets,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in response to a string of Trump tweets attacking him.

•  The European Commission is set to discipline Italy after Rome refused to amend its proposed budget, which the EU rejected.

MIDDLE EAST

•  According to a Saudi prosecutor, an intelligence official, not Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month.

•  In Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition halted its assault on the Houthi-held port of Hodeidah ahead of peace talks.

•  Iran executed two coin traders for “spreading corruption on earth” after a nationally broadcast trial that has been criticized by human rights groups.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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