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With Cabinet backing, May girds for Brexit battle in U.K. Parliament
British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of her senior ministers for a draft European Union divorce deal on Wednesday, freeing her to tackle the perilous struggle of getting Parliament to approve it. More than two years after the United Kingdom voted in a ...
U.K. shadow finance minister commits Brexit gaffe by longing for 'united' Ireland
Asked for his Brexit solution to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, a leading member of the U.K.'s main opposition party dropped a bombshell. "Oh, what a temptation," said Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, who would be in charge of ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a showdown with ministers and lawmakers in her Conservative party after refusing to back reform of Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighboring Ireland's vote to liberalize its laws. Voters in Ireland, a once deeply Catholic nation, backed ...
In Northern Ireland, abortion rights groups clamor for change
Abortion rights activists in Northern Ireland called on the British government to end what one group described as the province's "Victorian-era abortion ban" after neighboring Ireland voted by a landslide to liberalize its laws. Official results showed on Saturday that 66 percent of voters in ...
U.K. bags Brexit transition deal to avoid 2019 'cliff edge' in return for Irish vow
Britain and the European Union agreed on Monday to a transition period to avoid a "cliff edge" Brexit next year — though only after London accepted a potential solution for the border with the Irish Republic that may face stiff opposition at home. The pound ...
May set to hail 'new sense of optimism' in Brexit talks after deal clears rough patch
Prime Minister Theresa May was set to hail "a new sense of optimism" in Brexit talks on Monday, telling Parliament Britain and the European Union should sign off on a deal at a summit this week "to move forward together" to discuss future trade ...
Gerry Adams to step down in end of an era for Irish nationalism
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams, a pivotal figure in the political life of Ireland for almost 50 years, said on Saturday he will step down as party leader and complete a generational shift in the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Reviled by ...
Germany qualifies for World Cup with easy victory over Northern Ireland
Germany qualified for the World Cup in style on Thursday when superb early strikes from Sebastian Rudy and Sandro Wagner set it on the way to a 3-1 win in Northern Ireland that maintained its perfect record in Group C. Rudy fired a remarkable ...
Political leaders in Northern Ireland are casting Thursday's British election as a referendum on whether voters want to be part of the United Kingdom or neighboring Ireland. Britain's vote to leave the European Union has raised the stakes in the long and divisive dispute over ...
Street fighter to peacemaker: Northern Ireland's Martin McGuinness dies at 66
Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland who was a key figure throughout five decades of conflict and peace, has died at 66, his party, Sinn Fein, said on Tuesday. McGuinness, whose journey from street fighter to ...
Sex worker to challenge recently changed Northern Ireland prostitution law
Sex worker and law graduate Laura Lee is due to appear before Northern Ireland's High Court on Monday to challenge a law making it illegal to pay for sex. Northern Ireland criminalized the purchase of sex in 2015 — the first part of the U.K. ...
Recent Brexit vote makes prospect of a united Ireland suddenly thinkable
Protestant unionists are queuing for Irish passports in Belfast and once quiet Catholic nationalists are openly campaigning for a united Ireland, signs of deep shifts in the United Kingdom's most troubled province since Britons on June 23 voted to leave the EU. Eighteen years after ...
