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Die Another Day, Starring Theresa May

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01/17/2019

01/17/2019

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Die Another Day, Starring Theresa May

Top News: After narrowly surviving a no-confidence vote Wednesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to find a way to modify her plan for and find a cross-party consensus over Brexit. On Tuesday, Parliament rejected her initial plan by a massive 230-vote margin.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he will not negotiate with May unless she backs away from the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, which many analysts argue would be catastrophic. “With no-deal on the table, the prime minister will enter into phony talks just to run down the clock and try to blackmail MPs to vote through her botched deal on a second attempt by threatening the country with the chaos that no-deal would bring,” he said in a speech in Hastings.

United States: President Donald Trump is set to roll out changes to U.S. missile defense policy on Thursday. Conditions influencing U.S. strategy have changed quite drastically since the last major policy update in 2010: North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China all have significantly more advanced capabilities now than they did then. In response, Trump wants to double down on missile defense, put sensors in space, and research ways to shoot down missiles from space. All of this, of course, depends on whether he can find the funds.

AFRICA

•  In Kenya, nine people were arrested in connection with a hotel attack in Nairobi earlier this week, which left at least 21 people dead. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility.

•  Ghanaian journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale, who investigated corruption in the country’s soccer leagues, was shot dead in Accra.

•  After this week’s protests and riots in Zimbabwe, doctors said they had treated some 68 gunshot wounds.

AMERICAS

•  Mexican lawmakers approved a plan to create a new National Guard to combat organized crime.

•  Alex Cifuentes, a former associate of accused Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, testified in a Brooklyn Federal Court that Guzman once paid a $100 million bribe to Enrique Peña Nieto, who was then the president-elect of Mexico.

•  Colombia’s Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) militants said they shot down and stole $500,000 in cash from a transport helicopter. A rival group, the Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL), also claimed responsibility, but denied recovering the money.

ASIA

•  Delfin Lorenzana, the defense secretary of the Philippines, called for a review of the U.S.-Philippines security relationship amid rising tensions in the South China Sea.

•  A cotton plant growing inside a Chinese moon rover died after scientists were forced to cut power because of a battery capacity issue.

•  A woman in Indonesia was eaten by her pet crocodile.

EUROPE

•  France is set to invest $50 million to help ports and airports survive a potential no-deal Brexit.

•  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday.

•  Facebook said Thursday it had taken down two Russian disinformation networks in Eastern Europe.

MIDDLE EAST

•  An Islamic State attack in Manbij, Syria on Wednesday left 19 people dead, including four Americans.

•  Representatives from both sides of the conflict in Yemen met in Jordan to discuss the details of a proposed prisoner exchange.

•  Police in Israel arrested a lawyer as part of an investigation into accusations that some judicial appointments were handed out in sex-for-judgeships arrangements.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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