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A New Vote on May’s Brexit Deal Promised Before Jan. 21

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12/11/2018

12/11/2018

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A New Vote on May’s Brexit Deal Promised Before Jan. 21

Top News: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government is under strain after initial plans for parliament to vote on the proposed agreement for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union on Dec. 11 were scrapped by the prime minister the day before. May’s spokesperson announced on Tuesday that the vote is now slated to happen before Jan. 21, 2019. This week, May, who is facing extreme scrutiny at home, will meet with European leaders in an attempt to win new concessions; on Tuesday, she had hastily arranged talks with Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte in the Hague and German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Commission, wasn’t optimistic. “It’s the only deal possible,” he said, “There is no room whatsoever for renegotiation.”

Netherlands: A loophole in Dutch law that prohibits police from interrupting a church service to make an arrest is being put to use by a rotating cast of pastors in the Hague. They have been sheltering an Armenian family by running a continuous service for six weeks.

AFRICA

•  Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and members of his immediate family have been barred from entering the United States.

•  Health workers in South Sudan are set to receive Ebola vaccinations as concern spreads that the outbreak in the Democratic of Congo could extend to neighboring countries.

•  Netflix is planning to launch Queen Sono, its first original series made in Africa, in 2019.

AMERICAS

•  Venezuela’s air force is carrying out exercises with its Russian counterparts using two long range strategic bombers flown in from Russia.

•  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Tweeted that this was a display of “two corrupt governments squandering public funds.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that Moscow considers Pompeo’s reaction “completely inappropriate.”

•  In Canada, Ontario’s Human Rights Commission reported that a black person in Toronto is 20 times more likely to be shot by police than a white person in the same city.

ASIA

•  Bells taken from the Philippines by the United States in 1901 as war trophies were returned to Manila on Tuesday.

•  Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that Beijing will “spare no effort” to guard against “any bullying that infringes the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens.”

•  In Indonesia’s contested Papua region, separatists called for a referendum, and said that they viewed the 16 indonesian construction workers they killed earlier in the month as casualties in a war.

EUROPE

•  The British government has spent almost £97,000 in the last week on Facebook advertisements seeking support for its Brexit deal.

•  Spain’s interior minister said that “the government will order an intervention by the state police” if local authorities did not quell pro-independence protests in Catalonia.

•  In London, Saudis in the diaspora called for a coordinated effort to oppose the way Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is running the kingdom.

MIDDLE EAST

•  The Arab League has cautioned Brazil not to move its embassy to Jerusalem.

•  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed to have tested a ballistic missile, riling officials in the United States.

•  Representatives of Houthi rebels and Yemen’s government have exchanged lists for a proposed prisoner swap, including an estimated 15,000 names.

- By Jefcoate O'Donnell

(Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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