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  • Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

    Quick review of Brexit events and possible outcomes

    May came to power shortly after the Brexit vote, promising to be a steady hand in the negotiations.

    A huge political fight has erupted in the UK government over Brexit, Britain’s controversial decision to break away from the European Union, and it could bring down Prime Minister Theresa May. In the last 24 hours, three members of May's cabinet — Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, Brexit Minister David Davis, and the minister for the Department for Exiting the EU, Steve Baker — quit the government in protest over May’s handling of negotiations with the European Union.

  • Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 06:38 UTC

    May reshuffles cabinet and warns that a divided Tory party could lead to a Corbyn government

    Mrs May was forced to carry out a reshuffle of her top team after Boris Johnson and David Davis both quit.

    Theresa May will chair her new-look cabinet on Tuesday morning after a string of resignations over her Brexit strategy left her government in crisis. Mrs. May was forced to carry out a reshuffle of her top team after Boris Johnson and David Davis both quit.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

    Chinese home insulation blamed for gas emissions damaging the ozone layer

    The EIA says that its estimates of the amount of the gas being used in China are in the middle of the emissions range calculated by scientists in their report in May.

    Cut-price Chinese home insulation is being blamed for a massive rise in emissions of a gas, highly damaging to the Earth's protective ozone layer. The Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) found widespread use of CFC-11 in China, even though the chemical was fully banned back in 2010.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:20 UTC

    UK woman dies after exposed to never agent Novichok; her partner in critical condition

    Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, died at Salisbury Hospital, Scotland Yard said. She was admitted to hospital after falling ill at her partner's home in Amesbury

    UK police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok died in hospital on Sunday evening. Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died at Salisbury District Hospital, Scotland Yard said.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:11 UTC

    Rhino poachers end up eaten by a pride of lions in South African game reserve

    At least three hunters are believed to have been devoured by the predators at the Sibuya Game Reserve near Kenton-on-Sea in Eastern Province, South Africa

    A shoe is all that is left of one of the poachers who broke into a South African game reserve to hunt rhinos, and ended up eaten by a pride of lions. At least three hunters are believed to have been devoured by the predators at the Sibuya Game Reserve near Kenton-on-Sea in Eastern Province, South Africa, earlier this week.

  • Monday, July 9th 2018 - 06:46 UTC

    Brexit team resigns over Chequers' 'soft' plan: decisive debate this Monday in Parliament

    In his letter, Mr. Davis said “the current trend of policy and tactics” was making it “look less and less likely” UK would leave the customs union and single market.

    Brexit Secretary David Davis has resigned from the UK government. His resignation comes days after Theresa May secured the cabinet's backing for her Brexit plan despite claims from critics that it was “soft”. Mr. Davis was appointed to the post in 2016 and was responsible for negotiating the UK's EU withdrawal. Junior minister S.Baker quit shortly after Mr. Davis - as Mrs. May prepares to face MPs and peers this Monday.

  • Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 07:21 UTC

    May announces cabinet has reached a “collective agreement” on post Brexit

    Mrs. May has “picked a side” by opting for a closer relationship with the EU than any colleagues desired, and now has to sell it to her party and European leaders (Pic Joel Rouse/Crown Copyright/PA)

    The cabinet has reached a “collective” agreement on the basis of the UK's future relationship with the EU after Brexit, Theresa May has said. Ministers have signed up to a plan to create a free trade area for industrial and agricultural goods with the bloc, based on a “common rule book”.

  • Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 07:06 UTC

    Scotland says people 'require' a vote on the final outcome of Brexit

    Russell stressed that there would need to be clarity on what would happen if Scotland again voted against Brexit and the UK voted for it.

    Voters must be given a say on the final outcome of Brexit talks between Britain and the rest of the European Union, a senior member of the Scottish Government has said. Mike Russell, the Constitutional Relations Secretary in Nicola Sturgeon’s cabinet, said that people “require” such a ballot.

  • Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 06:30 UTC

    World Travel & Tourism Council congratulates EU on the ETIAS visa scheme

    We see this as an important first step in the digitalization of travel, stated Gloria Guevara, President & CEO World Travel & Tourism Council.

    The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has congratulated the EU on the adoption of the new European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), a pre-authorization system which allows the EU to know who is entering the EU, from where and if they pose a risk to EU security.

  • Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 06:16 UTC

    Argentine forensic team identifies soldier 93 buried in the Falklands

    Andres Folch, 19, was among the first to land in the Falklands during the Argentine invasion and died at the end of the conflict when Stanley was recovered

    Argentina's Human Rights Secretary confirmed on Thursday that another combatant, killed during the Falklands conflict and buried at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin has been identified. This brings the total to 93. The 19 year old conscript, Andres Folch was born in the northern province of Tucuman but lived in the San Marin county of Buenos Aires province.