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UK's Johnson accused of offering impossible Brexit vision

Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 12:21 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is offering Britons an unrealistic and unachievable vision of the U.K.'s future outside the European Union, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has...

Obese Mexican man removed from home for first time in six years

Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 06:18 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

A Mexican man who weighs about 1,100 pounds (500 kilos) and hadn't left his bed in six years has been removed by medical personnel for treatment. His doctor gave the 32-year-old man's name only...

2-year-old shoots 1-year-old in the face in a car

Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 06:13 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Baton Rouge police say a 2-year-old shot a 1-year-old sibling in the face inside a parked car in north Baton Rouge, leaving the infant in serious condition. Police spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely...

Internal memo reveals UK government has no real plans for Brexit

Tuesday, 15 November 2016, 11:48 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

A memo prepared by a consultant to the British government says ministers have no coherent plan for leaving the European Union and may need to hire up to 30,000 civil servants to complete the country's...

Poland exhumes president, wife killed in 2010 plane crash

Tuesday, 15 November 2016, 06:12 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

The bodies of former Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife have been removed from their tomb in Krakow, the first of more than 80 exhumations planned on prominent Poles killed in a plane crash...

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