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EU moves to ratify Brexit accord despite delay request
AFP, Published on 20/10/2019
» BRUSSELS: Brussels officials on Sunday pressed on with plans to ratify the divorce deal as European leaders considered Prime Minister Boris Johnson's reluctant request for a Brexit delay.
EU mulls Johnson's reluctant Brexit delay request
AFP, Published on 20/10/2019
» LONDON: EU leaders were on Sunday considering a request by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to delay Britain's departure from the bloc, which he was forced to make after MPs refused to back his Brexit deal.
IMF chief says building 'peer pressure' to follow trade rules
AFP, Published on 20/10/2019
» WASHINGTON: With trade tensions undermining confidence and global growth, economic leaders are increasingly pushing each other to fix the shortcomings that fueled the disputes, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said Saturday.
British PM sends unsigned letter seeking Brexit delay
AFP, Published on 20/10/2019
» LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reluctantly wrote to Brussels asking for a Brexit extension after MPs voted Saturday to force him into seeking a delay beyond October 31.
The law pitting UK parliament against PM Johnson
AFP, Published on 20/10/2019
» LONDON - After British MPs voted on Saturday to delay a decision on whether to approve Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, the prime minister is now bound by the so-called "Benn Act" to ask the EU for an extension to the divorce deadline.
Johnson defiant as MPs delay Brexit deal approval
Published on 19/10/2019
» LONDON: A defiant Boris Johnson says he will not negotiate a delay to Brexit, after lawmakers voted on Saturday to withhold approval for his agreement to leave the European Union until formal ratification legislation has passed.
Turkey, Kurds trade truce-violation claims
AFP, Published on 19/10/2019
» RAS AL-AIN, Syria: Turkish and Kurdish leaders accused each other of violating a US-brokered truce in northeastern Syria even as it appeared to be taking hold on its second day Saturday.
Brexit on knife edge ahead of UK vote
AFP, Published on 19/10/2019
» LONDON: British MPs gathered on Saturday for a knife-edge vote on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal for a decision that could see the UK leave the EU this month or plunge the country into fresh uncertainty.
Facebook says it will deliver News Corp stories
AFP, Published on 19/10/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Friday confirmed that some stories from News Corp, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, will be among the headlines delivered in a news tab the leading social network plans to launch in coming weeks.
Dutch port will keep on trucking despite Brexit 'chaos'
AFP, Published on 19/10/2019
» THE HAGUE: While Boris Johnson scrambled Friday to sell his EU divorce deal to parliament, the Dutch port of Rotterdam handed out "Brexit Muppet" leaflets to truckers to prepare them for whatever happens.