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• May's Conservatives win vote to bolster party's numbers on committees

  12-09-2017 23:56
  (Reuters) - British lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of handing the governing Conservatives greater say on committees that scrutinise laws, a move denounced by the opposition as an attempt to "rig parliament".The government won by 320 votes to 301, a day after lawmakers passed legislation to sever ties with the European Union.May lost the Conservatives' majority in a June election, forcing her government to rely on the support of a small Northern Irish party to pass laws.
  
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• Toyota Warns Brexit Jitters Mean It Could Move Jobs Out Of UK

  12-09-2017 23:51
  Toyota has warned Brexit uncertainty may force the Japanese carmaker to move some production out of the UK amid fears quitting the single market will disrupt free trade on the continent.
  
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• An 11-year-old boy fell into an Italian volcanic crater. His parents also died trying to save him. - Washington Post

  12-09-2017 23:46
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  An 11-year-old boy fell into an Italian volcanic crater. His parents also died trying to save him.
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  Three people — an 11-year-old boy and his parents — died after they fell into boiling mud in a volcanic crater in Pozzuoli, an Italian city not far from Naples. The family was visiting Solfatara, a shallow volcanic crater frequented by tourists, on ...
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• US Virgin Islands refusing entry to non-American Irma evacuees, survivors say - The Guardian

  12-09-2017 23:32
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  US Virgin Islands refusing entry to non-American Irma evacuees, survivors say
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  British army commandos and local residents take part in recovery efforts after Hurricane Irma passed Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. Photograph: Handout/Reuters. Hurricane Irma. US Virgin Islands refusing entry to non-American Irma evacuees, ...
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• US threatens action against China if it doesn't follow new North Korea sanctions - The Independent

  12-09-2017 23:26
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  US threatens action against China if it doesn't follow new North Korea sanctions
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  China has been warned that it could face further sanctions from the US if it does not abide by new United Nations sanctions placed on Kim Jong-un's regime, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said. The UN Security Council unanimously voted this week ...
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• Even an embarrassing glitch at iPhone X launch can't knock Apple off the top - The Guardian

  12-09-2017 23:23
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  Even an embarrassing glitch at iPhone X launch can't knock Apple off the top
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  Apple CEO Tim Cook (right) and chief designer Jonathan Ive with the new Apple iPhone X during a special launch event. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Apple. Even an embarrassing glitch at iPhone X launch can't knock Apple off the top. Despite ...
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• 'Horrendous' Princess Diana tribute mocked online

  12-09-2017 23:16
  A tribute to Princess Diana has been ridiculed online, with some describing the artwork as "horrendous" and "a disgrace".The memorial was placed in the town centre of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Princess of Wales' death and unveiled during a special ceremony.Jane Harris-Dyke described the Diana tribute as "truly horrendous".
  
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• Boy and his parents die falling into the Solfatara Volcano Crater near Naples in Italy - New Zealand Herald

  12-09-2017 23:15
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  Boy and his parents die falling into the Solfatara Volcano Crater near Naples in Italy
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  Rescue team & firefighters on the scene after a boy and his parents die falling into the Solfatara Volcano Crater near Naples in Italy. Source: AP. Daily Mail. Share via email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Show more Bookmark this article. Share on ...
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• Boris Johnson in Caribbean vows 'absolute commitment' to British overseas territories hit by Irma - Telegraph.co.uk

  12-09-2017 23:14
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  Boris Johnson in Caribbean vows 'absolute commitment' to British overseas territories hit by Irma
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  Boris Johnson arrived in the Caribbean to assure British overseas territories that the UK government was making an "absolute commitment" to them and "ratcheting up" aid following the devastation of Hurricane Irma. Mr Johnson arrived in Barbados en ...
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• Italian couple and son die after falling into volcanic crater - SBS

  12-09-2017 23:13
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  Italian couple and son die after falling into volcanic crater
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  An Italian couple and their 11-year-old son died Tuesday after falling into a shallow volcanic crater near the southern city of Naples, local officials said. Source: AFP - SBS Wires. 15 MINS AGO. The family of four - including a seven-year-old boy who ...
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• Hammond tries to keep EU friction at acceptable levels in Lords outing | John Crace

  12-09-2017 23:13
  Philip Hammond, the chancellor, appears before the House of Lords select committee on economic affairs.Midway through his appearance before the House of Lords select committee on economic affairs, Philip “Lurch” Hammond dodged a question on how the economy was coping with artificial intelligence – “Not very well, since you mention it, now we have a Maybot in charge of the country” – to insist that his main focus was on Brexit.Labour peer Alistair Darling gave
  
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• Man arrested over death of Louella Michie at Bestival released under investigation

  12-09-2017 23:12
  A man who was arrested in relation to the death of a 25-year-old woman at Bestival has been released under investigation.Louella Michie, the daughter of Coronation Street and Holby City star John Michie, was found dead at the music festival on Monday.A 28-year-old man, who was known to Ms Michie, was arrested on suspicion of murder and supply of a controlled class A drug.
  
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• Met asked to investigate claims UAE officials tortured three Qataris

  12-09-2017 23:08
  The request is being assessed by Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit, SO15.Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit is assessing a request to investigate allegations that United Arab Emirates security officials and politicians authorised the torture of three Qatari citizens in the UAE.The legal application, involving British police in a Gulf human rights dispute through the UK’s powers of universal jurisdiction over serious crimes, is likely to prove diplomatically embarrassing for the gove
  
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• Theresa May's police pay rise risks crime spike and job losses, top officers warn - The Independent

  12-09-2017 23:06
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  Theresa May's police pay rise risks crime spike and job losses, top officers warn
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  Police chiefs have warned that the Government's plan to give officers a pay rise costing £50m without providing extra finance risks rising crime and staff being laid off. Senior officers said they backed Theresa May's move to ease pay restraint, but ...
  Hammond eases public sector pay cap, but the squeeze goes onThe Guardian
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• It is early days, but all signs suggest Romelu Lukaku can join Manchester United greats - Telegraph.co.uk

  12-09-2017 23:01
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  It is early days, but all signs suggest Romelu Lukaku can join Manchester United greats
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  Just as Romelu Lukaku was settling into life as an effective Manchester United striker at Premier League level, along came this reminder that even greater tests await. A finisher at this club is judged by his deeds in Europe, where Denis Law, Ruud van ...
  Manchester United make winning return to Champions League with comfortable win over BaselThe Independent
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• Can we beat the Brexit clock? With 18 months left to make the break, we assess talks progress - Mirror.co.uk

  12-09-2017 22:53
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  Can we beat the Brexit clock? With 18 months left to make the break, we assess talks progress
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  The clock is ticking. Britain and the EU have just over 18 months to agree a Brexit deal. So far we have had three rounds of negotiations, countless position papers and a series of crunch votes in the Commons. But has any actual progress been made, or ...
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• Barcelona's Sagrada Familia Evacuated After Bomb Squad Check 'False Alarm'

  12-09-2017 21:38
  Catalan police have sent a bomb squad to check a van parked next to Barcelona’s world-famous Sagrada Familia church, which was evacuated as part of an anti-terrorism operation.
  
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• Chesterfield's Princess Diana Memorial Gets Absolutely Slated On Social Media

  12-09-2017 21:12
  A town’s floral tribute to Princess Diana has become a laughing stock on social media after people said the “horrific” design looked more like Worzel Gummidge than the late Princess of Wales.
  
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• iPhone X: new Apple smartphone dumps home button for all-screen design - The Guardian

  12-09-2017 21:11
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  iPhone X: new Apple smartphone dumps home button for all-screen design
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  Apple has unveiled the iPhone X, its new radically redesigned smartphone that drops the traditional home button for an all-screen design, as well as a new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models. Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil ...
  Apple reveals 'leap forward' iPhone XBBC News
  With a $1000 Price Tag, Apple's iPhone Crosses a ThresholdNew York Times
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• Sky takeover: Bradley letters reveal concerns over Fox standards

  12-09-2017 21:00
  Karen Bradley questioned Ofcom’s finding that Fox should not be referred to the competition watchdog on the grounds of broadcasting standards.The publication of letters between Karen Bradley and the media regulator show the culture secretary was determined to ask their competition counterpart to look into the Murdochs’ commitment to broadcasting standards as part of its investigation into 21st Century Fox’s £11.7bn bid to take over Sky.Bradley wrote to the Ofcom chief exe
  
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• Brexit transition deal should look like status quo, says Hammond

  12-09-2017 20:58
  Philip Hammond has made clear that the Brexit transitional deal that the government is seeking will “look a lot like the status quo” as ministers attempt to minimise the impact on British business.“There is general agreement that it would not make sense to ask business to face two sets of changes and that implies that a transition or interim period would need to look a lot like the status quo,” he said.Hammond reiterated the government’s position that Britain would
  
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• UK soldiers appear in court accused of neo-Nazi offences

  12-09-2017 20:46
  Three men, including two British soldiers, have appeared in court charged with terror offences.Lance Corporal Mikko Vehvilainen, 32, Private Mark Barrett, 24, and Alexander Deakin, 22, are accused of being part of banned neo-Nazi group National Action.Deakin is also charged with possession of documents likely to be useful to a person preparing to commit an act of terrorism, and distribution of a terrorist publication.
  
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• Patients' illnesses could soon be diagnosed by AI, NHS leaders say

  12-09-2017 20:43
  Computers may soon replace doctors in reading X-rays, said Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS’s national medical director.Computers could start diagnosing patients’ illnesses within the next few years as artificial intelligence increasingly ousts doctors from their traditional roles, NHS leaders believe.Machines may soon be able to read X-rays and analyse samples of diseased tissue, such as lumps that can indicate the presence of breast cancer, the NHS’s top doctor said.
  
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• 'An insult': Chesterfield's Princess Diana floral tribute ridiculed

  12-09-2017 20:29
  Chesterfield council said that like all art, the floral design was ‘meant to be a talking point’.A floral tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales produced as part of a traditional festival for dressing wells in Chesterfield has been described as “horrendous” and “an insult” to the late royal.The flower arrangement, decorating a well in Chesterfield’s market place to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death, was mocked online after the Derbyshi
  
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• No 10 faces backlash from Labour and unions over public sector pay cap lift

  12-09-2017 20:26
  Frontline police officers are £6,000 a year worse off in real terms compared with 2010, according to Labour analysis.Theresa May’s government faces months of strife over public sector pay after a decision to lift the 1% annual cap on increases was met with derision from Labour and renewed threats of strikes by trade unions.Following months of pressure over the issue, Downing Street simultaneously announced above 1% pay rises for police and prison officers in the last of the 2017-18 d
  
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• Hammond eases public sector pay cap, but the squeeze goes on - The Guardian

  12-09-2017 20:24
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  Hammond eases public sector pay cap, but the squeeze goes on
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  Philip Hammond: not yet ready to lift the public sector pay cap across the board. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images. Public sector pay. Hammond eases public sector pay cap, but the squeeze goes on. Phillip Inman. The chancellor insisted police and ...
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• Kay Burley Grills Tory Nick Hurd Over Police Pay Cap

  12-09-2017 20:23
  The Tory Minister for Policing took a bruising on Sky News this evening when discussing the Government’s decision to ditch its 1% cap on pay for all public sector workers.
  
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• Hammond eases public sector pay cap, but the squeeze goes on

  12-09-2017 20:22
  Philip Hammond: not yet ready to lift the public sector pay cap across the board.Philip Hammond’s re-emergence as a power in the cabinet can be seen clearly as the battle rages inside government over the thorny question of public sector pay.There may have been a green light from No 10 to rip up the current public sector pay cap and give the police and prison officers a 1% rise plus a 1% bonus for 2017-18, but the Treasury has made sure the bonus is not part of workers’ consolidated,
  
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• Brexit talks put back a week, EU expects May speech

  12-09-2017 20:18
  By Gabriela BaczynskaBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union postponed a new round of Brexit negotiations by a week until the end of the month in what EU diplomats said was to allow time for Prime Minister Theresa May to make a key speech in about 10 days.In confirming a delay until Sept. 25, which Brussels had been expecting, the British government said in a statement it was a joint decision taken because "more time for consultation would give negotiators the flexibility to make pro
  
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• 'Race hate' PR firm Bell Pottinger falls into administration

  12-09-2017 20:07
  Disgraced public relations firm Bell Pottinger has fallen into administration after being accused of running a "racially divisive campaign" in South Africa.Last week executives at Bell Pottinger told staff that the company's financial position had become parlous and that they could choose to terminate their employment immediately.Accountancy firm BDO was appointed appointed as administrators on Tuesday after the once leading City PR firm failed to find a rescue buyer.
  
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• This memorial of Princess Diana is attracting attention for all the wrong reasons

  12-09-2017 20:03
  Social media users had a mixed reaction to the Chesterfield tribute, with most saying it looked nothing like the late royal.
  
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• Belonging is not easy in the modern world | Letters

  12-09-2017 19:51
  Worker in the Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Middleton jam factory, 1929. ‘An injection of industrial democracy is needed if we are to achieve the kind of cooperative decentralised society George Monbiot seeks,’ writes John Lloyd.As Zygmunt Bauman explained so well in his insightful books on “liquid modernity”, more and more people (including me) are finding it difficult if not impossible to figure out where and with whom they belong in this contemporary reality.
  
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• Henry VIII powers and parliamentary sovereignty | Letters

  12-09-2017 19:49
  Demonstrators in Tudor dress protest against the European Union withdrawal bill. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
  
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• Harriet Harman hits out at unions for backing decriminalised sex work

  12-09-2017 19:49
  Harriet Harman urged TUC delegates to vote the motion down.Harriet Harman has accused two major unions of “legitimising exploitation” after they backed the decriminalisation of sex work.Aslef and the GMB will on Wednesday urge the Trades Union Congress conference to decriminalise prostitution, claiming it would improve safety for the thousands of men and women who work in the sex industry.
  
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• Eleven members of Traveller family convicted of modern day slavery jailed in England - thejournal.ie

  12-09-2017 19:41
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  Eleven members of Traveller family convicted of modern day slavery jailed in England
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  MEMBERS OF A Traveller family convicted of modern day slavery were today jailed for their crimes. Members of the Rooney family in Lincolnshire were found guilty of enslaving at least 18 victims – some of whom had disabilities, mental health ...and more »
  
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• Scandal-hit PR firm Bell Pottinger falls into administration

  12-09-2017 19:32
  Disgraced public relations firm Bell Pottinger has fallen into administration after being accused of running a "racially divisive campaign" in South Africa.The scandal caused a mass of exodus of investors and clients, including Carillion, the construction firm, HSBC, and the banking group CYBG.Last week executives at Bell Pottinger told staff that the company's financial position had become parlous and that they could choose to terminate their employment immediately.
  
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• Chancellor Philip Hammond reveals date of first autumn Budget

  12-09-2017 19:31
  Chancellor Philip Hammond has set 22 November as the date for his newly created autumn Budget.In a video message posted on Twitter, Mr Hammond confirmed the timing of the historic speech he will use to set out the Government's tax and spending plans.It will be the first budget of its kind, after Mr Hammond used his inaugural Autumn Statement last year to scrap both the traditional speech and the spring Budget.
  
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• Building COLLAPSES after huge fire breaks out near Lakeside Shopping Centre - Daily Star

  12-09-2017 19:21
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  Building COLLAPSES after huge fire breaks out near Lakeside Shopping Centre
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  SMOKE was billowing over Essex this evening as a huge fire broke out near Lakeside Shopping Centre in Chafford Hundred, Grays. 0. By Douglas Patient / Published 12th September 2017. Play Video. Play. Mute. Current Time 0:00. /. Duration Time 0:00.
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• Bell Pottinger goes into administration

  12-09-2017 19:18
  Building that houses the headquarters of Bell Pottinger in London.Bell Pottinger, the PR company, has been put into administration after a client exodus and increasing losses in the wake of the scandal over its campaign to stir up racial tensions in South Africa.Administrators BDO, who had unsuccessfully sought a buyer in a fire-sale of the embattled company, said it has made a number of the 250 staff redundant as it seeks to recoup losses to pay off bank debt.
  
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• Tuition fees row: education expert warns over graduate earnings

  12-09-2017 19:10
  The government is reported to be considering ways to reduce the cost burden on university students.A leading global education expert has intervened in the row over student tuition fees in England, warning about value for money as earnings for graduates become more volatile.Andreas Schleicher, education director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), endorsed the English system in which students pay annual tuition fees of £9,000 through loans, saying it had pr
  
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• Brexit talks postponed to hand negotiators more flexibility - Britain

  12-09-2017 19:05
  Britain said on Tuesday the next Brexit talks had been postponed until Sept. 25 to give "negotiators the flexibility to make progress in the September round".Earlier, Brussels diplomats told Reuters a new round of talks between Britain and the European Union had been delayed until the end of the month to let Prime Minister Theresa May make a key speech on Sept. 21.
  
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• Bell Pottinger Falls Into Administration After 'Racially Divisive' South Africa Campaign

  12-09-2017 19:00
  Disgraced PR firm Bell Pottinger is on the brink of collapse after falling into administration amid the controversy over its racially-charged campaign in South Africa.
  
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• Next round of Brexit negotiations delayed by a week, Government confirms - Sky News

  12-09-2017 18:59
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  Next round of Brexit negotiations delayed by a week, Government confirms
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  Downing Street is declining to comment on claims the postponement is to accommodate a "major intervention" by Theresa May. 20:13, UK, Tuesday 12 September 2017. Pro-EU demonstrators made their feelings known ahead of the Commons vote.
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• Brexit: Next round of talks delayed a week 'for consultation' - BBC News

  12-09-2017 18:58
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  Brexit: Next round of talks delayed a week 'for consultation'
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  The next round of Brexit talks has been postponed by a week to "allow more time for consultation". The fourth round of UK-EU negotiations, due to begin on 18 September, will start on the 25th instead. The government said a short delay "would give ...
  Brexit offer? Talks postponed for a week as May set to make 'very important' interventionExpress.co.uk
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• Brexit: What next for the government's EU repeal bill? - BBC News

  12-09-2017 18:54
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  Brexit: What next for the government's EU repeal bill?
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  After two long days of debate, a majority of MPs have voted in support of the general principles of the government's repeal bill which will extract the UK from EU law in time for Brexit. The bill - formally known as the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill ...
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• Bones of contention

  12-09-2017 18:51 via bbc.co.uk
  A majority of MPs have backed the bill's broad principles, but a number of contentious issues remain.
  
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• EU sees Brexit talks delay due to May speech this month

  12-09-2017 18:48
  By Gabriela BaczynskaBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union will delay a new round of Brexit negotiations by a week until the end of the month to let Prime Minister Theresa May make a key speech on Sept. 21, Brussels diplomats told Reuters.In early October she faces a tricky first Conservative party conference since she lost her parliamentary majority in an ill-advised snap election.
  
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• Scenes of Irma's Path of Destruction, From the Caribbean to Florida - New York Magazine

  12-09-2017 18:47
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  Scenes of Irma's Path of Destruction, From the Caribbean to Florida
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  A roof from a nearby building is seen against a funeral home on Marco Island, where Irma made a second landfall in Florida. Photo: The Washington Post/The Washington Post/Getty Images. Irma is now a post-tropical cyclone, ragged and weakened after ...
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• NHS chief warns of severe winter flu outbreak after worst season on record in Australia

  12-09-2017 18:26
  Australia is currently in the grip of its worst flu outbreak on record, and the global circulation of the virus means that episodes in the Antipodes and Asia are indicators of the likelihood of outbreaks in Europe later in the year.By mid-August there had been 70,000 cases of flu reported, with a high number of cases among children being blamed for driving up numbers.Just 10% of Australian children receive a flu vaccine.
  
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• 'Last Night In Sweden' Is Destroying Donald Trump And Alt-Right's Narrative

  12-09-2017 18:25
  A crowdfunded book and exhibition is aiming to set the record straight after Donald Trump’s inflammatory - and false - comments about Sweden earlier this year.
  
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