Brexit: MPs prepare for votes in bid to break deadlock
MPs are preparing to vote for their preferred Brexit option, with the PM due to meet Tory backbenchers in an effort to win them over to her deal.
Some have suggested Theresa May must name the date she will step down to have any hope of winning MPs' approval for her deal at the third attempt.
Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has hinted he may soon back the plan.
Having voted to seize control of Commons business, backbench MPs will vote on Brexit alternatives later.
The Speaker will select around half a dozen options, likely to range from cancelling Brexit to leaving the EU without a deal, with MPs marking on paper each option with a "yes" or "no".
Secretive group seeking to oust Kim Jong-un claim North Korea embassy raid
Cheollima Civil Defence says it carried out daring raid on Madrid building in February
A secretive dissident group seeking to overthrow the regime in North Korea has claimed responsibility for last month’s raid on the country’s embassy in Madrid, as a court in Spain prepared to seek the intruders’ extradition.
Cheollima Civil Defence said in statement posted on its website that the 22 February raid on the embassy was “not an attack” and claimed that its members had been responding to an “urgent situation” inside the embassy. The intruders fled with computers, hard disks and other items after a failed attempt to persuade an embassy official to defect.
The raid took place less than a week before the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, met Donald Trump in Hanoi for denuclearisation talks, prompting speculation that the group was attempting to obtain information about North Korea’s former ambassador to Spain, Kim Hyok-chol.
The Caliphate's KidsSick Children Bear the Brunt of Post-IS Chaos
The last pocket of Islamic State may have been dislodged over the weekend, but the extremist group has left behind hundreds of children. They are the group's weakest and most innocent victims -- and in urgent need of medical care.
By Christoph Reuter
A three-month old baby shouldn't look like this. It shouldn't be a tiny, motionless bundle with feeble, wrinkled skin stretched over its bones. It shouldn't have to be kept alive with a feeding tube and intravenous fluids in an incubator.
The baby's name is Saifullah, or "Sword of God," and that is almost all the nurse knows about it. At least it survived the first three days, says the doctor. Statistically speaking, that is cause for optimism. For the 20 to 30 children and infants that arrive each day at this hospital in the Kurdish-controlled city of Al-Hasakah, Syria, the biggest danger is that they'll be "dead on arrival." The name of the hospital cannot be disclosed due to safety concerns. The same goes for the name of the doctor.
Australia and Netherlands in talks with Russia over downed Malaysia jet
Australia and the Netherlands on Wednesday said they were in talks with Russia over the ongoing investigation into the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine.
The Malaysia Airlines jet was hit by a Russian-made BUK missile over war-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers.
Close to two thirds of those killed on the flight between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur were Dutch, while 38 Australians were also lost.
Last year Australia and the Netherlands blamed Russia for the disaster.
Thai opposition forms alliance, demands junta step aside
Vote outcome remains shrouded in mystery with unofficial results delayed and growing allegations of election fraud.
Seven Thai parties said on Wednesday they formed a "democratic front" after a disputed election, claiming the opposition won a majority in the lower house of parliament and the right to try and form a government.
However, the coalition will likely fall short of electing a prime minister, which requires a combined vote with the upper house of parliament, the Senate, which is entirely appointed by the ruling generals that in 2014 overthrew an elected Pheu Thai party government.
Publishers are racing to turn the Mueller report into a book
It takes months to publish a book. Publishers want to turn the Mueller report around in 1 week.
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As America waits with bated breath to find out if the Department of Justice plans to release the Mueller report, publishers are feeling a special urgency. Three publishing houses have already announced plans to publish the report in book form after it’s released to the public, and more may follow soon. Expectations are riding high. The Skyhorse edition, the first announced, is already a best-seller on Amazon.
And if the Department of Justice chooses not to release the report after all?
“Then we don’t have a book to release,” says Dennis Johnson, the publisher of Melville House.
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