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UK prime minister Boris Johnson mulls early election over Brexit impasse

Top UK court: Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal

9:16 pm September 24, 2019

LONDON: In a major blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain’s highest court ruled Tuesday that his decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks in the crucial countdown to the country’s Brexit deadline was illegal. The unanimous, strongly worded Supreme Court judgment declared Johnson’s order to suspend Parliament “void and of no effect.” The court found that […]

UK Supreme Court to rule on Johnson’s shutdown of Parliament

2:46 pm September 24, 2019

London: Britain’s Supreme Court plans to give its verdict Tuesday on the legality of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s five-week suspension of Parliament. The case marks a historic confrontation between the prime minister, the courts, and Parliament over their rights and responsibilities. Johnson has refused to say whether he will resign if he is found to […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

S Arabia blocking approval of UN oceans report: participants

2:43 pm September 24, 2019

Monaco: Oil giant Saudi Arabia is blocking the adoption of a major UN report on oceans and climate change by challenging an earlier UN assessment highlighting the need to slash carbon emissions caused by burning fossil fuels, multiple sources told AFP. Already deep into overtime, a meeting of the 195-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

No breakthrough as EU’s Tusk, Britain’s Johnson meet in New York

5:03 am September 24, 2019

United Nations (US): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated a call for “flexibility” from the EU in Brexit talks during a meeting with Council President Donald Tusk in New York on Monday that failed to yield a breakthrough. Johnson and Tusk met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly as Britain races towards its […]

Dozens of Britons march in southern Spain ahead of Brexit

1:56 am September 23, 2019

MALAGA, Spain: Dozens of Britons marched through the southern Spanish city of Malaga on Sunday to register their concerns about their uncertain status as Britain prepares to leave the European Union. Spain is home to around 300,000 Britons. Together with Portugal, the Iberian peninsula accounts for almost a quarter of all Britons living in Europe, […]