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Johnson urges support for Brexit deal before knife-edge vote

Saturday, 19 October 2019, 06:52 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Boris Johnson worked behind the scenes Friday to win enough support to push his new Brexit deal through the fractious British Parliament and pave the way for Britain — finally —...

World's first female spacewalking team makes history

Friday, 18 October 2019, 14:58 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The world's first female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, floating out of the International Space Station to fix a broken part of the power network. As NASA astronauts...

What's in the proposed UK-EU Brexit deal?

Friday, 18 October 2019, 11:05 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Britain and the European Union have a Brexit deal — and if it is ratified, people and businesses will finally have a measure of certainty about what lies ahead. That's a big if....

Saturday drama: Brexit battle to be decided in UK Parliament

Friday, 18 October 2019, 10:56 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has lost every important vote in Parliament since taking office, faces a titanic struggle Saturday when he puts his Brexit deal with the European Union before...

Can Pete Buttigieg, cool and cerebral, second that emotion?

Friday, 18 October 2019, 08:18 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

John McAnear, a 77-year-old Air Force veteran, stood in an audience of hundreds in suburban Des Moines with an oxygen tank at his side, wheezing as he implored Pete Buttigieg to protect the Veterans...

EU Brexit deal endorsed; next hurdle for Johnson is Parliament

Friday, 18 October 2019, 07:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's career of disdain for the European Union was a thing of the past on Thursday as he and the bloc's leaders celebrated their long-sought Brexit deal. He now faces...

Pence announces Turkey has agreed to cease-fire in Syria

Thursday, 17 October 2019, 20:45 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey had agreed to a five-day cease-fire in northern Syria to allow for a Kurdish withdrawal from a security zone roughly 20 miles...

Former Nazi SS guard, 93, going on trial in Hamburg

Thursday, 17 October 2019, 10:59 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

From his post as a young SS private in a watchtower in Nazi Germany's Stutthof concentration camp, Bruno Dey could hear the screams of Jews dying in the gas chamber. And, Dey later told investigators,...

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