Brexit: PM to bring third Brexit deal vote to Commons
Theresa May will make a third attempt to get her EU withdrawal deal through Parliament in the next week.
She told MPs that if her deal fails again to get their backing, a lengthy delay to Brexit may be needed.
The prime minister's warning comes ahead of a Commons vote later on whether to ask the EU for permission to delay Brexit beyond 29 March.
MPs voted on Wednesday evening to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.
Barter and dollars the new reality as Venezuela battles hyperinflation
As inflation soars, Venezuelans have been forced to find new ways to pay for essentials – when the power supply allows“Barter” reads a simple sign on Angelica Monasterios’s stall in Cupira, a town on the main road east from Caracas. Her niece painted the sign for her in early February, after spiralling inflation and vanishing reserves of hard cash made it hard to do business.
“We accept dollars and euros as well,” she said with a grin, sitting beside rows of handmade yucca wafers, the town’s speciality, balls of pure cacao farmed nearby and hand-carved toys.
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, and was once one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America, but its economy has been ravaged by years of runaway inflation. The devastating blackout that struck last week has pushed it to the verge of collapse.
India 'disappointed' as China blocks sanctions against leader of Kashmir bombing group
Western countries moved to declare Masood Azhar a 'global terrorist' after his group claimed deadly Pulwama attackAdam WithnallDelhi
China has blocked a UN Security Council proposal to blacklist the leader of a Pakistan-based militant group which India says was behind the 14 February suicide bombing in Kashmir.
Masood Azhar is the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), an anti-India Islamist group with links to al-Qaeda that is already itself blacklisted by the Security Council.
Western countries moved to declare Azhar a “global terrorist” after JeM claimed responsibility for the Kashmir attack, in which a local Kashmiri man killed 40 Indian paramilitary police officers.
Suspected neo-Nazis behind bomb threats across Germany: reports
More than 100 threatening emails have been sent to politicians, journalists, public figures and institutions across Germany in recent weeks. Investigators see a link between the emails, signed using neo-Nazi terminology.
A suspected neo-Nazi extremist or extremists are responsible for a series of bomb threats across Germany in recent weeks, according to media reports.
More than 100 threatening emails signed off with "National Socialist Offensive," "NSU 2.0" — short for National Socialist Underground — or "Wehrmacht" have been sent to prominent politicians and state institutions since the end of 2018, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcaster NDR reported late Wednesday.
More than 100 threatening emails signed off with "National Socialist Offensive," "NSU 2.0" — short for National Socialist Underground — or "Wehrmacht" have been sent to prominent politicians and state institutions since the end of 2018, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcaster NDR reported late Wednesday.
Norway MPs want Nobel for student climate campaigner Greta
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish school girl climate campaigner who has inspired worldwide protests, should be awarded this year's Nobel Peace prize, Norwegian lawmakers said Thursday.
"We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change it will be the cause of wars, conflict and refugees," Norwegian Socialist MP Freddy Andre Ovstegard told AFP.
"Greta Thunberg has launched a mass movement which I see as a major contribution to peace," he added.
Six months ago no one knew who Thunberg was when, as a 15-year-old, she camped outside Sweden's parliament next to a hand-written sign: "SCHOOL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE".
US drops 'Israeli-occupied' designation from Golan Heights
Senior US official says the change in description does not mean a change in their policy regarding the Golan Heights.
The United States no longer refers to the Golan Heights as an "Israeli-occupied" territory in its latest annual human rights report, published on Wednesday, though the State Department insists the wording change doesn't mean a policy change.
The report now calls the area the "Israeli-controlled Golan Heights".
When asked about the change on such a sensitive Middle East subject, a senior US official told reporters in Washington "there's no change in our outlook or our policy vis-a-vis these territories and the need for a negotiated settlement there".
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