Gary Gibbon
Tusk on Brexit deal: “maybe 5, maybe 6, maybe 7 days” to go
I asked European Council President Donald Tusk if there could be a deal within a week. He said: “I hope so … but still we need maybe 5, maybe 6, maybe 7 days.”
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Government publish Brexit legal advice they didn’t want you to see
The government was forced to hand over its Brexit legal advice to parliament this morning.
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg fails to attend Commons fake news hearing
Our democratic institutions have been “upended by frat-boy billionaires from California” – the words of a Canadian politician who was hoping to question Mark Zuckerberg over data harvesting, privacy policies and fake news on Facebook.
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Senator close to Mueller investigation gives inside view on alleged Russian interference
We speak to Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, about the ongoing investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Russia in the 2016 election.
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Boris Johnson shores up DUP opposition to Brexit deal
Prime Minister Theresa May has arrived in Brussels ahead of tomorrow’s Brexit summit where she’s hoping her Withdrawal Agreement will be endorsed by EU leaders. She’s meeting the President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, now and the EU Council chief and summit chair Donald Tusk shortly after. Mr Tusk has reportedly prevented a last…
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Democracy in crisis in Sri Lanka as two men claim to be Prime Minister
Members of parliament in Sri Lanka convene again tomorrow in an effort to resolve the turmoil which has engulfed the government. Two men currently claim to be Prime Minister – one of them, a former populist president accused of serious human rights abuses. Never in the past 85 years of democracy in Sri Lanka has…
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Interpol urged to reject Russian as new head
The Kremlin has denounced what it called “western meddling” in an election, after Britain and the United States urged the international police agency Interpol not to elect a former Russian interior ministry official as its new chief. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said that if Alexander Prokopchuk was appointed, it would be like turning Interpol into…
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Gary Gibbon
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Decision day in America as voters go to the polls for midterm elections
Donald Trump has inserted himself in the United States midterm election race in a way that’s not typical of Presidents past.
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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump, immigration and the U.S. midterm elections
President Trump has eschewed saying much about the latest job figures which are up; or about the US economy which is booming. Instead it’s immigration. Jon Snow sat down with Anthony Scaramucci, Mr Trump’s former Press Secretary, and asked him why there’s such a focus on immigration.
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Accusations of voter suppression in Georgia ahead of U.S. midterm elections
In a state known as the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement, there are now accusations that state authorities are placing obstacles in the way of some seeking to cast their ballots. More often than not, it seems to be African American voters who are affected.
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Jon Snow
SnowBlog: Life on an American campaign trail like no other
Chicago O’Hare Airport. Mile upon mile of concrete runways with tiny quadrants of grass, and slow moving aircraft traffic criss-crossing ahead of us. We are in America. The eternal passport control awaits us, and thence to the open road. Five lanes in each direction, massive ten wheeler wagons belching un-green gases along in all but the not…
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The race to be Arizona’s first female senator
With a record number of women running, next week could see the first African American female governor – and the first Native American woman in Congress. And, whoever wins in Arizona, the elections are set to return the state’s first ever female senator.
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Divided America: Jon Snow’s tale of two communities, ahead of next week’s midterm elections
This area has one of the highest manufacturing jobs per capita in the United States and it also has a diverse population, with many Hispanic and Latino workers and families.
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Divided America: Trump’s popularity tested in mid-term elections
Next Tuesday’s poll is the first chance Americans have had to deliver a verdict on President Trump through the ballot box. With turnout high in states including Texas and Georgia, where early voting’s already under way, Democrat hopes are up.
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Angela Merkel to step down as German Chancellor in 2021
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down as leader of her Christian Democrat party, saying she took ultimate responsibility for her fourth term government’s poor showing in recent elections.
