MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 26th 2019
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Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:40 UTC
US and Colombia intercept homemade submarine with five tons of cocaine
A homemade submarine carrying more than five tons of cocaine was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, the US Coast Guard said.
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Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:13 UTC
PM Johnson defies the opposition to call a confidence vote on Thursday, and a “snap election”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday challenged opposition MPs to call a confidence vote in his government, in a defiant response to the Supreme Court decision to strike down his suspension of parliament.
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Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 07:53 UTC
Johnson asks how come Thomas Cook directors paid themselves large sums when a business goes down the tube
After the collapse of Thomas Cook left hundreds of thousands of passengers reliant on the British state to repatriate them, Prime Minister Boris Johnson questioned whether bosses should have paid themselves so much ahead of its demise.
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Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 07:42 UTC
Bulgaria's Georgieva is the new IMF Managing Director; second woman in the post, takes office October first
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday formally selected Kristalina Georgieva of Bulgaria to be only the second woman ever to lead the 189-member institution. The selection had been all but guaranteed after the global crisis lender said earlier this month that Georgieva, a former World Bank CEO, was the sole candidate.
