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Stories for January 24th 2017
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Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 18:46 UTC
UK Supreme Court scheduled to make landmark ruling on Brexit
The United Kingdom Supreme Court will rule whether Parliament or ministers have the power to begin the Brexit process. The landmark judgment, to be announced early Wednesday will decide how the EU's Article 50 exit clause is triggered.
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Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 18:40 UTC
Trump keeps his promise: dumps TPP and pledges to lower corporate taxes to 20% from 35%
President Donald Trump has fulfilled a campaign pledge by signing an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The 12-nation trade deal was a linchpin of former President Barack Obama's Asia policy.
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Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:17 UTC
Dutch premier joins elections' anti-immigration wagon: “act normal, or go away”
Weeks before Dutch voters go to the polls, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that anyone who rejects the country's values should leave. “Act normal, or go away,” he says, in a message seen as taking on the anti-immigration Freedom party currently running high in the opinion polls. Elections are taking place on 15 March.
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Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:10 UTC
Ushuaia out off internet: beavers cut the optic fiber to build dens
Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Argentina was left without internet and cellular phone communications most of last Friday because beavers had bitten pieces of the optic fiber for their dens.
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Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:52 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas negotiations have no third leg, “they are bilateral, Argentina and UK”
Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs committee formally constituted the All parties Parliamentary Observatory on the Malvinas Question, claiming congressional participation in all bilateral agreements with the UK referred to Falklands/Malvinas resources and underlining that there is no such thing as a third leg, Falklands residents in negotiations with the UK.
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Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:16 UTC
“Dancing for Falklands”, MLA Gavin Short takes on Argentina's most mediatic personality
Falkland Islands lawmaker, MLA Gavin Short has picked a dispute with possibly the most mediatic character in Argentina, a simple soccer commentator who in three decades has built a powerful entertainment corporation and is the showman of one of the evening programs which for years has had the highest ratings.
