EU leaders approve new Brexit deal which can now go before MPs
But there's no guarantee MPs will prefer this deal to Theresa May's.

But there's no guarantee MPs will prefer this deal to Theresa May's.
David Herszenhorn, Politico EU
Ursula von der Leyen loves horses, but political horse-trading or show-jumping? Not so much.Since her confirmation by a narrow vote in the European Parliament in July, the European Commission's president-elect a former German defense minister and close ally of Angela Merkel has hunkered down with a small coterie of aides to prepare her five-year term, appearing little in public and saying even less.
'There is still widespread harassment taking place in the workplace,' vice-chair of committee says
Paul Wells, Maclean's
The maddening choice comes down to this: a government that is fiscally responsible or one that takes climate action seriously. You can't have both.
Kiddeminster Harriers have new owners after a consortium of local business people completed their takeover ofthe National League North club on Thursdsay.
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Ankit Panda, The Diplomat
Kim Jong Un's latest photo-op might inspire laughs, but it's an important sign.
Something is definitely up. There is data, and it points in a specific direction, but also there are some long shadows and heavy circumstances and longstanding and well-founded suspicions in play as well. But we might as well start with the data.
Ronan McCrea, Irish Times
Having been apparently dead two weeks ago, a Brexit deal has suddenly risen Lazarus-like from the dead. However, the prospect of a last-minute deal raises significant difficult issues for a number of actors in the Brexit drama.This miraculous resurrection was made possible by a sudden and dramatic shift in the policy of the Johnson government which abruptly abandoned many of its key red lines and has signed up to a deal that, to paraphrase Seamus Mallon's take on the Good Friday Agreement... Читать дальше...
In 2013, Propublica published an incredible story revealing how pharma giants laundered bribes to doctors in exchange for commitments to prescribe their expensive, proprietary and often dangerous products.
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Attacker has been released from jail as she is expecting a baby
The next G7 summit will be held at Donald Trump's Doral resort in Florida on 10-12 June 2020, the White House said.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The mother of Eric Garner is urging New York lawmakers to repeal a law used to keep the disciplinary records of police officers, firefighters and correction officers confidential.
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Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, explains the concept of a "dimensions" at five different levels of complexity. Dr. Carroll sure has a big brane. Read the rest
Physarum polycephalum, aka “the blob,” a single-celled and apparently extremely intelligent slime mould, is making its public debut Saturday at the Paris Zoological Park.