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A Week of Votes As Brexit Hangs in the Balance

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03/13/2019

03/13/2019

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A Week of Votes As Brexit Hangs in the Balance

Top News: After defeating Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal for a second time, the British Parliament is set to vote on Wednesday regarding the upcoming Brexit deadline on March 29. MPs are scheduled to choose whether or not a no-deal Brexit is acceptable and, subsequently, whether to extend the deadline.

Referring to a choice between no deal and no Brexit, Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said that, “Between those very unpleasant choices, I think no Brexit is the bigger risk.”

In what officials said would be a temporary measure, the British government said this week that 87 percent of total imports would become eligible for protection from tariffs. Currently, that figure is 80 percent. Additionally, over the same maximum period of 12 months, the British government committed to not introducing border checks on goods across the Irish border.

Algeria: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 82, said Monday he would not seek a fifth presidential term, but demonstrators continued to gather this week, some skeptical of the plan to cancel the presidential election in April.

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AFRICA

•  Ethiopian Airlines will send the black boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX flight that crashed to be analyzed by experts abroad.

•  Ethiopia and France have signed their first military cooperation accord.

•  Nigeria plans to hold supplementary elections on March 23 in six states where gubernatorial votes were considered inconclusive.

AMERICAS

•  Argentina and Brazil have thrown their support behind Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s nominee for representation at the Inter-American Development Bank, Ricardo Hausmann.

•  U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said this week that 240 asylum seekers have been sent to Mexico under the policy known as “Remain in Mexico,” which returns asylum seekers to Mexico to wait for their court hearings.

•  This week, two former military police officers were arrested in Brazil, suspects in the assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco last year.

ASIA

•  Indonesia’s elections chief Arief Budiman said that the polls will be ready to handle cyberattacks, as another source said the voter database had seen “probing” attacks recently.

•  India, joining several other nations, will not permit Boeing 737 MAX planes in its airspace.

•  U.S.-Taliban talks ended on Tuesday with two draft agreements.

EUROPE

•  Ireland’s European Affairs Minister Helen McEntee reiterated this week that the country will not plan for a no-deal scenario border with Northern Ireland unless no-deal becomes “the only likely outcome.”

•  On March 18, women can use Berlin’s public transport system at a 21 percent discount, in a measure mass transit operator BVG said is to raise awareness of the gender pay gap.

•  The EU has adopted its revised tax haven blacklist, despite a bid by Romania to postpone the vote.

MIDDLE EAST

•  The Syrian Democratic Forces say they prevented an Islamic State suicide bomb attack on Wednesday as fighting continues for Baghouz, the last pocket of territory held by the extremist group.

•  Egypt, joining Lebanon and several other countries, also said it would not permit Boeing 737 MAX planes in its airspace.

•  Air strikes this week in Yemen’s Hajjah province have killed at least 22 civilians.

- By Elizabeth Miles

(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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