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Stories for January 18th 2019
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Friday, January 18th 2019 - 08:55 UTC
Border wall tit-for-tat: Trump halts Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan by denying military aircraft
President Donald Trump has postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming trip to Brussels and Afghanistan, asking her to stay to negotiate an end to the partial US government shutdown.
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Friday, January 18th 2019 - 08:45 UTC
Speaker of UK Parliament John Bercow, next Brexit victim?
Such is the anger with the Speaker of the UK Parliament at senior levels of government, it has been suggested he could be blocked from getting a peerage when he retires. Ministers are furious at what they see as John Bercow's “bias” during Commons debates on Brexit.
