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Boris Johnson recuperates at Chequers with pregnant fiancee

UK’s Johnson rallies party for Brexit fight

1:55 pm September 29, 2019

Manchester: Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gathers his Conservative party Sunday for what could be its final conference before an election, with the gathering set to be dominated by Brexit. Despite a string of parliamentary setbacks and a defeat in the Supreme Court, Johnson insists he will take Britain out of the European Union, […]

UK PM loses fresh parliamentary vote as tensions rise

8:38 pm September 26, 2019

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another setback on Thursday after MPs rejected his call to briefly suspend their business for his party’s conference, highlighting the hostility he faces in parliament just weeks before Brexit. In his seventh successive defeat in parliament, MPs voted to reject his call for three days off next […]

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 […]