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May heads back to Brussels but EU not budging on Brexit 'Irish backstop'
Prime Minister Theresa May headed back to Brussels on Wednesday to renew her quest to reopen the terms of Britain's Brexit divorce, but appears headed for disappointment. With less than six weeks until Brexit day, May met European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker hoping for progress ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will later this week pledge to give Parliament another chance to voice their opinions on Brexit by Feb. 27, a government source said, as she tries to buy more time to negotiate a new deal with the European Union. As ...
EU's Tusk rebuffs May, and says Brexiteers deserve a place in hell
The European Union will make no new offer on Brexit and those who promoted Britain's exit without any understanding of how to deliver it deserve a special place in hell, Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday. The United Kingdom is on course to leave ...
Britain's department for exiting the European Union has been examining a secret new high-tech plan of keeping the Irish border open with the plan to be ready for a road test in March, the Sun newspaper reported late on Tuesday. Officials have been working on ...
Hollywood star Liam Neeson insisted Tuesday he was "not racist" after confessing that he had once set out to attack random black men after a friend of his told him she had been raped. "I'm not a racist," Neeson said on ABC news, although he ...
Actor Liam Neeson reveals hunting for 'black bastard' to kill after friend was raped
Veteran actor Liam Neeson revealed on Monday that he once walked the streets hunting for a "black bastard" to kill in retaliation for the rape of a friend. The 66-year-old Northern Irish star of "Schindler's List" and "Taken" is promoting his appearance in the Hollywood ...
May says she is 'armed with fresh' Brexit mandate and new ideas
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would be "armed with a fresh mandate and new ideas" when she next meets European Union negotiators over her Brexit deal. EU officials have insisted that the deal — rejected by British lawmakers — is not ...
Two more van hijackings hit Northern Ireland city as fifth man arrested over car bombing
Two vans were hijacked in Londonderry on Monday, police said, two days after the Northern Irish city saw a car bombing involving a stolen car in an attack pinned on a dissident paramilitary group. A bomb in a hijacked car blew up outside the courthouse ...
Four held over Northern Ireland car bomb as police link blast to dissident republican New IRA
Four men were arrested Sunday following a car bombing in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry, according to police who believe dissident republican group the New IRA to be responsible. Two suspects in their 20s were arrested Sunday morning and two other men, aged 34 ...
May wins vote of confidence in her party leadership but Parliament OK of Brexit deal still in doubt
British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a brush with political mortality Wednesday, winning a no-confidence vote by Conservative lawmakers that would have ended her leadership of party and country. May won the vote of 317 Conservative legislators with a 200-117 tally that reflected the discontent ...
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 ...
