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January 16, 2019

UK PM May to seek Brexit consensus after winning confidence vote

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote in the British parliament on Wednesday before proposing immediate talks with other party leaders in an attempt to break the deadlock on a Brexit divorce agreement.Lawmakers voted 325 to 306 that they had confidence in May’s government, just 24 hours after handing her Brexit deal a crushing defeat that left Britain’s exit from the European Union in disarray.With the clock ...

January 16, 2019

Russia, US fail to save missile treaty, Washington to pull out

BRUSSELS — The United States on Wednesday rejected a Russian offer to save a landmark treaty that keeps nuclear missiles out of Europe because it could not be properly verified, setting the stage for Washington to withdraw from the pact next month.After a meeting in Geneva between Russian and US officials, US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Andrea Thompson said Moscow was refusing to allow proper inspection ...

January 16, 2019

‘Not your habibti’: Designer seeks to empower women

By Clothilde MraffkoIT’S only three words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli’s collection, but they carry a powerful message: “Not your habibti”, or darling.She sees the clothes as helping empower Palestinian women facing unwelcome male attention in public.“When a woman is exposed to so much harassment on the street, she begins to dress to protect herself, to hide herself as opposed to ...

January 16, 2019

Princess Fawzia: How her marriage to Iran’s Pahlavi ended in a divorce

IRAN was the first country to formally recognize Egypt after its independence from Britain. It opened an embassy in Cairo to improve relations between the two countries.In 1928, Iran and Egypt signed a trade agreement and the Iranian Chamber of Commerce was established in Cairo.It was during this time that the Iranian ambassador in Cairo arranged a meeting between King Farouk’s sister, Princess Fawzia, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, crown prince ...

January 16, 2019

Dis‘May’ed: World media slam Brexit bedlam

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May was left “crushed” and “humiliated”, Britain’s newspapers said Wednesday as they raked over the fallout from parliament’s huge rejection of her EU divorce deal.Daily papers said May’s deal was sunk after the huge vote against the agreement struck between May’s government and Brussels, as she prepared to fight a no-confidence motion on Wednesday.The Daily Telegraph’s front page read: “A complete humiliation”, following the 432 ...

January 16, 2019

Climate change, data theft top fears for Davos summit

LONDON — The risks of catastrophic weather and flooding from climate change are exercising business leaders heading into next week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.An annual WEF report — based on a survey of about 1,000 respondents drawn from the Davos community of company chiefs, politicians, civil society and academics — listed climate change as the dominant concern for a third year running.“The world is sleep-walking into catastrophe,” Alison ...

January 16, 2019

Corbyn: Serial rebel with eyes on Downing Street

LONDON — British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has repeatedly beaten the odds in his long and colorful career and may stand to benefit from government divisions over Brexit but his leftist views and handling of disputes have proved deeply controversial.With Theresa May’s authority undermined by the defeat of her Brexit plans in the British parliament on Tuesday, the 69-year-old socialist immediately called a vote of no-confidence in her government.It is ...

January 16, 2019

Fathers of Indian child brides trapped in bondage

FOR his 16-year-old daughter’s wedding last year, Makhanlal Ahirwal bought Bhawani saris, bangles and anklets, got her in-laws a water cooler, a bed, and utensils as dowry and threw a feast for 500 people in his village in central India.The celebrations added 200,000 rupees ($2,800) to an unpaid debt of about 100,000 rupees that he’d already taken on for the wedding of another daughter.To repay the original debt he had ...

January 16, 2019

‘Naive, reckless’ tourists couch-surfing in war-torn Afghanistan

SEEKING an “authentic” experience as he backpacked through war-torn Afghanistan, Dutch tourist Ciaran Barr searched the Couch-surfing website for locals to stay with. He found an astonishing number of potential hosts.Despite the country’s decaying security nearly 2,000 Afghans — the vast majority of them men — have signed up to host guests on the social networking platform, which connects travelers around the world with locals who are willing to put ...

January 16, 2019

Brexinct — May-hem(med) in by machinations

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May, hemmed in by the various machinations that led to the crushing parliamentary loss on Tuesday, on Wednesday was trying to forge consensus in parliament on a Brexit divorce agreement.The crushing defeat of her own deal left Britain’s exit from the European Union in disarray 10 weeks before it is due to leave.The day after her parliamentary loss by the worst margin for a British ...

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