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Theresa May survives no-confidence vote but Brexit endgame nowhere in sight as power ebbs
British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday to remain in office — but saw more of her power ebb away as she battled to keep Brexit on track after lawmakers demolished her European Union divorce deal. May won a ...
Theresa May faces no-confidence vote after Brexit plan crushed in parliament by historic margin
U.K. lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and triggering a no-confidence vote that could topple her government. The defeat was widely expected, but the scale of the House of Commons' ...
'Trust me': May tells EU leaders she can get Brexit deal passed in U.K. Parliament
"Trust me," Prime Minister Theresa May told other European Union leaders on Thursday, saying that with their help, she could win the British Parliament's backing for her Brexit deal and prevent a chaotic departure. A day after a failed attempt to oust her by lawmakers ...
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 ...
SoftBank robot Pepper appears before U.K. Parliament, sparking lively debate
Pepper, Japan's talking robot, appeared in Britain's Parliament — a first for such a humanoid — on Tuesday, prompting Twitter users to seize the chance to heap more mockery on Prime Minister Theresa May. The latest round of public amusement at the expense of the ...
'Lives torn apart in 82 seconds,' U.K. Westminster attack inquest hears
A man who mowed down pedestrians with a car near Britain's Parliament before stabbing a policeman ruined many lives in a matter of seconds, an inquest heard on Monday, as it began with tributes to the victims and details of their last moments. On March ...
Cambridge Analytica ex-boss admits getting Facebook data from researcher
The former head of Cambridge Analytica admitted on Wednesday his firm had received data from the researcher at the center of a scandal over Facebook users' personal details, contradicting previous testimony to lawmakers. Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by Donald Trump in 2016, has denied ...
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 ...
Parliament to debate petition seeking to bar Trump from U.K. over Muslim slur but no vote planned
British lawmakers are to hold a debate on a petition signed by more than half a million people calling for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to be barred from Britain after his proposal to stop Muslims entering the United States. The debate, called by ...
A-bomb survivor takes to Skype to relate experience to U.K. Parliament
An atomic bomb survivor on Thursday recounted what she experienced during the U.S. attack on Hiroshima and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons in comments made to members of the British Parliament via the Internet telephone service Skype. According to the Hiroshima Municipal Government, ...
U.K. Parliament marks 800 years since signing of Magna Carta with exhibit
The British Parliament is marking 800 years since the signing of Magna Carta, the document that asserted the principle that the country's ruler is subject to the law, with an exhibition highlighting the expansion of rights down the centuries. The display in Westminster Hall, the ...
