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November 13, 2018

UK PM faces divided Cabinet as Brexit deal deadline looms

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday faced her divided ministers as negotiators scrambled to secure a divorce agreement with the European Union and anxiety mounted over the risk of a no-deal Brexit.May said on Monday her government was working “extremely hard” to save a deal, telling officials of London’s financial district that negotiations “are now in the endgame”.A British government source said a deal must happen by Wednesday ...

November 13, 2018

Kremlin critic Navalny says barred from leaving Russia

MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday he was prevented from flying out of Moscow for a European court ruling on whether his recent detentions have been politically motivated.“Border guards are saying that leaving is forbidden for me,” Navalny wrote on Twitter.“There is some kind of letter that says I am prohibited from leaving, but there is no explanation why.”He said he had planned to board a ...

November 13, 2018

Vatican orders US bishops to delay sex abuse reforms

BALTIMORE, Maryland — The Vatican has told the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to delay a vote, set to take place at their annual meeting, on measures to halt sexual abuse by priests.On the eve of the conference, US bishop leaders received a Vatican order demanding they wait to vote until after a global summit on sex abuse set to take place in Rome in February, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo announced ...

November 12, 2018

Turkey playing political game

Paris — French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Monday said that France was not in possession of the alleged recordings related to the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as far as he was aware, contradicting remarks by Turkey’s president.Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that France, Germany and Britain had been handed the tapes, but in an interview on France 2, Le Drian said this was not the ...

November 12, 2018

UK PM stares into Brexit abyss as domestic opposition mounts

LONDON/BRUSSELS — Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy came under attack from all sides on Monday, increasing the risk that her plan for leaving the EU will be voted down by parliament and thrust the United Kingdom towards a potentially chaotic “no-deal” Brexit.In a sign that Brexit talks could go down to the wire, EU sources said they want clarity from London by the end of Wednesday at the latest ...

November 12, 2018

Merkel critic Seehofer to resign as Bavarian conservative chief

BERLIN — Horst Seehofer, a critic of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal asylum policies, said on Monday he would step down as chief of the powerful Bavarian regional sister party to Merkel’s conservatives but remain Germany’s Interior Minister.“I will give up my office as party chief,” Seehofer told journalists in the eastern German city of Bautzen, confirming media reports published over the weekend.Sources at the Christian Social Union (CSU) told Reuters ...

November 12, 2018

WHO maps dangerous misuse of antibiotics

GENEVA — The World Health Organization warned on Monday that antibiotics consumption is dangerously high in some countries while a shortage in others is spurring risky misuse, driving the emergence of deadly superbug infections.In a first, the United Nations health agency said it had collated data on antibiotic use across large parts of the world and had found huge differences in consumption.The report, based on 2015 data from 65 countries ...

November 12, 2018

Eastern Ukraine elects separatist leaders as West rejects elections

DONETSK, Ukraine — People in Russian-backed areas of eastern Ukraine re-elected separatist leaders at the weekend, according to results released on Monday of polls condemned as illegal by Kiev and Western countries.Elections in the Donetsk and Lugansk “People’s Republics”, controlled by separatists since breaking away from Ukraine’s pro-Western government in 2014, took place after the killing of the rebel Donetsk “president” in a bomb attack in August.Security was tight for ...

November 12, 2018

Putin says had good talks with Trump in Paris: Russian media

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had a brief but good conversation with US leader Donald Trump at World War I centenary events in Paris, Russian media reported.When journalists asked Putin whether he managed to speak to Trump on Sunday, he said: “Yes,” Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. Asked how it went, Putin said: “Well.”He did not provide further details, but the French presidency said the ...

November 12, 2018

France calls for global talks on internet security

PARIS — The French government announced Monday a “Paris Call” for talks to lay out a common framework for ensuring internet security, following a surge in cyberattacks which has dented confidence in global networks.The move aims to relaunch negotiations on a “code of good conduct” which have stalled since last year.Officials said the text, to be presented by President Emmanuel Macron as he opens UNESCO’s Internet Governance Forum in Paris ...

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