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British Parliament Rejects No-Deal Brexit

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03/14/2019

03/14/2019

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British Parliament Rejects No-Deal Brexit

Top News: The British Parliament has voted to reject a no-deal Brexit after a chaotic evening in the House of Commons that laid bare divisions within the governing Conservative Party.

British lawmakers will today vote on postponing the date when Britain leaves the European Union. There are 15 days to go until the scheduled exit date of March 29.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is also expected to put her proposed Brexit deal before the British Parliament for a third time in the coming week even though Parliament has already rejected it on two occasions. May told members of Parliament that if her deal was not accepted, then Brexit may be delayed considerably.

United States: The Republican-led Senate voted on Wednesday to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, the latest rebuke of the Trump administration’s embrace of Saudi Arabia.

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to veto the resolution should it pass the in the House of Representatives.

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AFRICA

•  At least nine people were killed when a building, which houses a school and a kindergarten, collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday.

•  The newly-elected President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has pardoned some 700 political prisoners who were jailed by his predecessor Joseph Kabila.

•  Algeria’s new prime minister has vowed to form an inclusive and technocratic government which involves young Algerians.

AMERICAS

•  Former Texas Representative Beto O’Rourke has announced that he will run for President of the United States.

•  U.S. airplane manufacturer Boeing has ground its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft, after new evidence was discovered following the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

•  Cuba is to launch a sweeping make-over of its legal system with dozens of new laws which touch upon everything from criminal justice to market reform.

ASIA

•  Malaysia is to proceed with the case against a Vietnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of the North Korean leader. The decision comes after murder charges were dropped against  Indonesian Siti Aisyah, the only other person facing charges in the case.

•  British singer Joss Stone has performed in North Korea as part of her effort to play every country in the world.

•  On Wednesday, China prevented a U.N. security council motion which would have blacklisted the head of the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which claimed responsibility for the recent attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy in disputed Kashmir.

EUROPE

•  European Council President Donald Tusk has said he will back a long extension to Brexit if the U.K. does not reach an agreement on an exit plan.

•  The couple featured in the “distracted boyfriend” meme have been used in a new pro-family advertising campaign in Hungary.

•  A number of NATO countries increased their defense spending in 2018. NATO’s annual report showed that European members of the alliance were spending 1.51 percent on defense, a five-year high.

MIDDLE EAST

•  At the end of his state visit to Iraq, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was granted a rare audience with with Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.

•  The trial of a group of 10 women's right activists began in Saudi Arabia yesterday. Journalists were barred from the courtroom.

•  Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38-years in prison on several national security charges which are believed to be politically motivated.

- By Amy Mackinnon

(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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