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• HuffPost Verdict: Theresa May's Brexit Deal Buries Its Bad News For Tory And DUP MPs

  14-11-2018 23:53
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• Varadkar says draft agreement could have economic benefits for Northern Ireland

  14-11-2018 23:43
  The Irish PM said Northern Ireland businesses would have ‘unfettered access to both Great Britain and EU markets’.
  
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• Irish PM welcomes Brexit deal as one of his better days in politics

  14-11-2018 23:25
  Ireland achieved all its key priorities in Britain's withdrawal agreement with the European Union, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Wednesday, adding that its approval by the British government marked one of the better days in his career.Speaking to reporters after British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of her cabinet for the draft deal, Varadkar said it was "decisive progress" that paved the way for a special European Union summit later this month.The draft agreement repres
  
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• May's deal will appall many, DUP MP says

  14-11-2018 23:20
  The Brexit deal struck by Prime Minister Theresa May will be appalling to many people who will judge it when it comes to a vote in parliament, an MP from the Northern Irish party that supports May's government said on Wednesday.To use (May's) own words, no deal is better than a bad deal, and I would think that the House of Commons will give their judgement on it when it eventually comes to them," Sammy Wilson, Brexit spokesman for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), told the BBC.
  
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• After cabinet backing, May girds for Brexit battle in parliament

  14-11-2018 23:11
  Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of her senior ministers for a draft European Union divorce deal on Wednesday, freeing her to tackle the much more perilous struggle of getting parliament to approve the agreement.More than two years after the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the EU, May told reporters outside her Downing Street residence that she had won over her divided cabinet, which includes some senior Brexiteers.
  
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• Brexit deal: key points from the draft withdrawal agreement

  14-11-2018 23:08
  EU chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, holds the draft withdrawal agreement on Wednesday.The 585-page draft withdrawal agreement negotiated between the European Union and the United Kingdom contains several highly contentious points that supporters of Brexit in particular will find hard to stomach.The draft Brexit agreement says both parties will “use their best endeavours” to have a future trade agreement concluded six months before the end of the transition period in December
  
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• Tory MPs urged by Rees-Mogg to reject May’s Brexit plan

  14-11-2018 23:07
  The arch-Brexiteer said the deal would see the UK hand over £39 billion to the European Union for ‘little or nothing in return’.
  
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• Prince Charles is a duchy original, Queen says at birthday dinner

  14-11-2018 23:00
  Prince Charles and Camilla as they left Clarence House on Wednesday for his 70th birthday dinner at Buckingham Palace.The Queen has paid tribute to Prince Charles on his 70th birthday, calling him a “duchy original” and an heir to the throne comparable with any in history.At a Buckingham Palace dinner, the 92-year-old monarch raised a toast to her son and heir before family, friends and members of European royalty.
  
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• Trade deal possible by the end of 2020, EU chief negotiator says

  14-11-2018 22:55
  Michel Barnier said the future UK-EU relationship could be agreed during the transition period.
  
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• Queen pays tribute to son Prince Charles as he turns 70

  14-11-2018 22:53
  Queen Elizabeth paid tribute to her "duchy original" son Prince Charles as he celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday at a party at Buckingham Palace."It is a privilege for any mother to be able to propose a toast to her son on his 70th birthday," the queen said at the palace party for friends and family she hosted in his honour.Charles, Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip's eldest son, was born at Buckingham Palace on Nov. 14, 1948, four years before his now 92-year-old mother ascended to
  
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• Factbox - What does the Brexit deal say about the Irish 'backstop'?

  14-11-2018 22:51
  One of the most difficult issues in Brexit talks was the Northern Irish 'backstop', an insurance policy to avoid a return to controls between the British province and EU-member Ireland which could threaten the 1998 peace accord which ended 30 years of violence.Following are some of the key clauses from the Brexit deal's so-called "protocol" on Ireland and Northern Ireland.The objective of the Withdrawal Agreement is not to establish a permanent relationship between the Union and the United Kingd
  
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• Provisional UK Brexit deal with EU difficult to secure, says Barnier

  14-11-2018 22:48
  The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says the ‘path is still long’ in getting agreement on both sides of the channel.Michel Barnier conceded that securing backing for the provisional Brexit deal struck with the UK would be difficult as he unveiled a new customs union along with a joint pledge to keep the EU and UK in permanent regulatory lock-step.As the EU’s chief negotiator revealed the withdrawal agreement and political declaration on the future deal in Brussels,
  
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• No resignation threats during May's cabinet meeting - UK official

  14-11-2018 22:41
  No one threatened to resign at a meeting of Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet of top ministers during discussions over whether to back a draft deal on Britain's divorce terms with the European Union, a senior government official said on Wednesday.May won the backing of her senior ministers for a draft European Union divorce deal on Wednesday, freeing her to tackle the much more perilous struggle of getting parliament to approve the agreement.
  
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• Weatherwatch: F-35 fighter's worst enemy could be lightning

  14-11-2018 22:30
  The new F-35 Lightning II fighter, currently undergoing flight trials on the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in the US, faces an unusual weather hazard.Ironically, the Lightning II is vulnerable to lightning.A metal skin conducts lightning harmlessly, but composite aircraft may be damaged by a strike.
  
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• Scottish Secretary Mundell satisfied Brexit deal protects fishing industry

  14-11-2018 22:30
  Scottish Conservative MPs had written to the Prime Minister raising their concerns.
  
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• Lucy McHugh murder: Stephen-Alan Nicholson charged with killing 13-year-old girl

  14-11-2018 22:28
  A man has been charged with the murder of teenager Lucy McHugh,whose body was found in woodland at a Southampton sports centre.Stephen-Alan Nicholson, 24, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder, rape of a child under 13 and two counts of sexual activity with a child under 16.Lucy, 13, was stabbed to death and her body was found by a member of the public in woodland at Southampton Sports Centre in Hampshire on 26 July.
  
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• Queen hails Charles as 'respected heir to the throne'

  14-11-2018 22:27
  The Queen has called Prince Charles "a dedicated and respected heir to the throne to stand comparison with any in history", at a party to celebrate his 70th birthday.At a black tie dinner staged in honour of the Prince of Wales, she said: "It is a privilege for any mother to be able to propose a toast to her son on his 70th birthday."Over his 70 years, Philip and I have seen Charles become a champion of conservation and the arts, a great charitable leader - a dedicated and respected heir to the
  
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• Queen praises ‘passionate and creative’ Charles on his 70th birthday

  14-11-2018 22:19
  The monarch, who rarely makes public comments about her children, gave the Prince of Wales a ringing endorsement at Buckingham Palace.
  
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• EU trade chief says she hopes EU member states will approve Brexit deal

  14-11-2018 22:18
  The United Kingdom and the European Union have agreed on a deal that would give London's financial centre a basic level of access to the bloc's markets after Brexit."We very much share the criticism that the U.S. has voiced," she said when asked in a CNBC interview if she supported the tough U.S. stance on trade with China.
  
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• Hammond and Clark urge business support for Brexit deal

  14-11-2018 22:15
  Britain's business community should publicly support the Brexit deal agreed by Theresa May’s Cabinet despite its "imperfections", two of her most senior ministers have urged captains of industry.Sky News has learnt that Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, and Greg Clark, the Business Secretary, told dozens of business leaders on a hastily arranged conference call on Wednesday evening that the UK's withdrawal agreement and negotiations over the future relationship with the European Union were e
  
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• Five Things You Missed While Everyone Was Obsessing Over Theresa May's Brexit Plan

  14-11-2018 22:14
  Brexit, Brexit, Brexit... it's been inescapable today as Cabinet ministers
  
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• Draft Brexit deal bad for Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon claims

  14-11-2018 22:11
  The First Minister made the claim after Theresa May announced her Cabinet had given its blessing to the agreement.
  
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• Draft Brexit deal ends Britain's easy access to EU financial markets

  14-11-2018 22:05
  The United Kingdom and the European Union have agreed a deal that will give London's vast financial centre only a basic level of access to the bloc's markets after Brexit.The agreement will be based on the EU's existing system of financial market access known as equivalence - a watered-down relationship that officials in Brussels have said all along is the best arrangement that Britain can expect.
  
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• Cabinet approves Brexit deal after marathon five-hour meeting

  14-11-2018 21:48
  Prime Minister Theresa May said she believed ‘with my head and my heart’ that the draft agreement was in the country’s best interests.
  
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• Draft Brexit deal bad for Scotland, parliament unlikely to back - Sturgeon

  14-11-2018 21:39
  EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday British Prime Minister Theresa May's draft Brexit divorce agreement was bad for the Scottish economy, adding that parliamentary approval would be difficult to win.
  
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• Man charged with murder of schoolgirl Lucy McHugh, 13

  14-11-2018 21:35
  The teenager’s body was found in woodland at Southampton Sports Centre in July.
  
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• Cabinet support for Brexit deal was by a majority - UK eurosceptic MP

  14-11-2018 21:35
  LONDON (Reuters) - The decision by British Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet of top ministers to back a draft Brexit agreement was made by majority rather than unanimous, a senior eurosceptic Conservative MP said on Wednesday.
  
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• EU's Barnier says draft agreement a 'decisive' step for Brexit

  14-11-2018 21:33
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday a draft agreement on the terms of Britain's departure from the bloc was a key step towards concluding Brexit talks.
  
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• Wait, Did Theresa May Just Say There Might Be 'No Brexit'?

  14-11-2018 21:32
  Theresa May has for the first time floated the prospect of ditching plans to
  
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• Former City trader behind UK’s biggest banking fraud deported to Ghana

  14-11-2018 21:24
  Kweku Adoboli was placed on a Kenyan Airways flight on Wednesday, friends said.
  
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• EU parliament progress on Brexit deal

  14-11-2018 21:24
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Wednesday welcomed progress on agreeing a Brexit deal after Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet approved a draft agreement reached by negotiators.
  
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• Britain, EU agree draft deal on Northern Irish backstop

  14-11-2018 21:24
  Britain and the European Union have agreed a draft Brexit text, including a solution to the so-called backstop to prevent a return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.The draft deal says any such backstop arrangement, which would see Britain and the EU establishing a single customs territory, would be temporary and both sides would seek to secure a deal on a future relationship by Dec. 31, 2020, to ensure a backstop would not be necessary.
  
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• My deal, no deal or no Brexit, May says after winning ministers' backing

  14-11-2018 21:20
  Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of her senior ministers for a draft European Union divorce deal on Wednesday, freeing her to tackle the much more perilous struggle of getting parliament to approve the agreement.More than two years after the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the EU, May told reporters outside her Downing Street residence that she had won over her divided cabinet, which includes some senior Brexiteers.
  
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• May's statement after cabinet endorses Brexit deal

  14-11-2018 21:20
  Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she had secured the support of her top cabinet ministers for her Brexit deal."The Cabinet has just had a long, detailed and impassioned debate on the draft Withdrawal Agreement and the Outline Political Declaration on our future relationship with the European Union.
  
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• Juncker recommends EU Brexit summit citing 'decisive progress'

  14-11-2018 21:15
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday he has recommended that the European Union hold a summit with Britain after the British government endorsed a draft Brexit agreement.
  
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• EU's Tusk to meet Brexit negotiator Barnier 0650 GMT Thursday

  14-11-2018 21:05
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Council President Donald Tusk will meet EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier at 0650 GMT on Thursday, a statement said.
  
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• EU's Verhofstadt says Brexit deal maintains close relationship with UK

  14-11-2018 21:03
  The draft Brexit agreement endorsed by the British government on Wednesday will allow Britain to leave the European Union while keeping a close relationship with the bloc, the European Parliament's point man on Brexit said."While I hope one day the UK will return, in the meantime this agreement will make a Brexit possible, while maintaining a close relationship between the EU and UK, a protection of citizens rights and the avoidance of a hard Irish border," former Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt
  
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• EU's Barnier to speak at 2000 GMT on Brexit

  14-11-2018 21:03
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will brief reporters on the draft agreement endorsed by the British government on Wednesday at 2000 GMT in Brussels, the European Commission said.
  
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• Lawmaker on EU parliament Brexit committee urges second UK referendum

  14-11-2018 21:01
  The draft Brexit agreement endorsed by the British government on Wednesday will show the British people that remaining in the European Union is their best option, a leading EU lawmaker said on Wednesday."Now that we have the deal on the table, British citizens know what Brexit will really mean for them," said Philippe Lamberts, who leads the Greens in the European Parliament and sits on the legislature's Brexit steering board."That's why it would be fair to ask them whether Brexit is the future
  
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• Ireland on board with draft Brexit deal - EU sources

  14-11-2018 21:00
  Ireland's envoy to the European Union told a meeting of the bloc's 27 national ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday that Dublin was on board with the existing draft Brexit deal, diplomatic sources said.Ireland's goal of a "backstop" guarantee on future trade relations that would avoid a "hard border" with the troubled British province of Northern Ireland had been the clear objective of the European Commission's negotiators.
  
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• EuroMillions: Location of £76m jackpot winner revealed as prize remains unclaimed

  14-11-2018 20:51
  EuroMillions organisers searching for the UK winner of a £76m jackpot have revealed the location where the ticket was bought.It was purchased in the parliamentary constituency of Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire - the same area that a retired couple previously scooped a £53m jackpot.Richard and Angela Maxwell, from Boston in Lincolnshire, won the life-changing sum in April 2015.
  
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• UK Scotland minister sees no cabinet resignations tonight over Brexit - BBC

  14-11-2018 20:50
  LONDON (Reuters) - No British government ministers will resign over Brexit tonight, Scottish Secretary David Mundell said, according to a Tweet by a BBC reporter on Wednesday evening following a cabinet meeting.
  
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• Theresa May's Brexit deal: everything you need to know

  14-11-2018 20:47
  After a mammoth meeting, Theresa May’s cabinet has backed the text of the draft withdrawal agreement drawn up this week in Brussels by EU and UK negotiators, two-and-a-half years after Britain voted to leave the bloc.What is the withdrawal agreement?Think of it as the separation agreement between the UK and the EU.
  
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• Theresa May wins cabinet backing for Brexit deal

  14-11-2018 20:42
  Theresa May said she believed with “my head and my heart” that her Brexit deal was the best one for Britain, after securing the backing of her ministers for it during a five-hour cabinet meeting.In a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street, the prime minister said her cabinet had taken a “collective” decision to press ahead with the deal – which she will then have to bring back to parliament for approval.
  
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• 'Fractious parliament' greatest threat to orderly Brexit, says IoD

  14-11-2018 20:33
  Theresa May leaves Downing Street on Wednesday for her first Prime Minister’s questions since returning from meeting the EU to agree a draft agreement for Brexit.Business leaders have warned that parliamentary divisions must not be allowed to derail the chances of a Brexit deal, after Theresa May returned from Brussels with draft proposals.Lobby groups including the Institute of Directors and the British Retail Consortium – who had yet to see the deal – said any degree of certa
  
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• Theresa May Wins Cabinet Backing For Her Brexit Deal After Emergency Meeting

  14-11-2018 20:28
  Theresa May has announced the Cabinet has agreed to back her Brexit deal
  
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• Judges get counselling because of 'relentless' stream of serious cases

  14-11-2018 20:24
  Judges are receiving therapeutic support from psychologists because of the strains of their workload, the number of sexual abuse cases they have to hear and threats made against them, the lord chief justice has revealed.In his annual report, Lord Burnett of Maldon says “low morale” among the judiciary is also due to “poor physical working conditions” and unsatisfactory levels of pay and pensions.“Many judges are obliged to cope with a relentless stream of cases invo
  
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• Northern Irish DUP MP says May's position 'very, very shaky'

  14-11-2018 20:18
  BELFAST (Reuters) - A lawmaker from the small Northern Irish party whose votes prop up the British government said on Wednesday Prime Minister Theresa May's position appeared to be "very, very shaky" due to opposition to her Brexit deal.
  
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• How does a leadership challenge to a Conservative prime minister work?

  14-11-2018 20:18
  Prime Minister Theresa May's position as leader of the Conservative Party - and consequently her premiership - is under threat, with media reporting that some MPs who are unhappy with the draft Brexit deal she has reached with the European Union are taking steps to call a confidence vote.- WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN FOR THERE TO BE A LEADERSHIP CONTEST?A challenge is triggered if 15 percent of the Conservative MPs write letters demanding a confidence vote to the chairman of the party's "1922 Committee
  
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• Libya says Manchester bomber's brother will be extradited this year

  14-11-2018 20:07
  Hashem Abedi pictured being held by the Special Deterrence Force in Tripoli, Libya.The younger brother of the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi, will be extradited to Britain before the end of the year, according to the Libyan prime minister.Hashem Abedi, 20, was arrested in Libya shortly after his older brother blew himself up at the Manchester Arena on 22 May last year, killing 22 people.
  
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