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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain’s top internal security official is pressing social media companies to devise automatic systems to spot and block violent militant messaging before it is posted on their networks. FILE PHOTO – Britain’s Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, is seen appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show in this photograph received via the
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[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government said on Thursday it would use legislation to fix the time and date of the country’s European Union exit, addressing concerns of Brexiteers who fear slow negotiations and opposition to the divorce could cause delays. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London, November
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[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a strong Brexit supporter as aid minister on Thursday following a resignation that left her struggling to ward off open conflict in a cabinet divided over leaving the EU. Britain’s Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt leaves 10 Downing Street, London, Britain, November
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[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – “Major issues” must still be resolved on safeguarding citizens’ rights after Brexit, the European Parliament’s negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said on Wednesday, the eve of another round of divorce negotiations between London and Brussels. The talks have been grinding slowly and Verhofstadt said that London’s assurances on the status of EU citizens
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[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as she negotiates Brexit. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Employment Minister Priti Patel, leaves after a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in central London, Britain
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[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May gained a wax doppelganger on Wednesday that projected an air of strength and permanence sorely lacking in her crisis-prone government. Madame Tussauds unveils their new wax model of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May in London, November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez The wax figure of May, stepping
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[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU diplomats will start sketching out a Brexit transition offer on Wednesday that would probably let Britain stay in the single market for about two years after it leaves the bloc in March 2019, EU officials said. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May and European Council President Donald Tusk pose before a
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[ad_1] PARIS (Reuters) – Britain’s Oxford University said one of its professors, the prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, had taken a leave of absence after two women filed complaints against him in France alleging rape. Author Tariq Ramadan talks with a journalist after a conference at the Er-Rahma mosque in Nantes, western France, April
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[ad_1] EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Offices at Scotland’s devolved parliament in Edinburgh were briefly evacuated on Tuesday after suspicious packages containing white powder were found. The Scottish Parliament is reflected in a pond in Holyrood Edinburgh, Scotland March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne “It’s a white powder incident, there were a couple of suspicious packages sent to
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[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson did not make a gaffe when he commented about the activities of jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Britain’s trade minister Liam Fox said on Tuesday. Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is seen in an undated photograph handed out by her family. Ratcliffe Family Handout via
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[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May’s government said it would submit legislation to parliament on Tuesday needed to let Britain pursue an independent trade policy once it leaves the European Union. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the Conferederation of British Industry’s annual conference in London, Britain, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mary Turner
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[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Northern Ireland will not stay in the European Union’s single market or the customs union after Brexit, a British government official said, adding that arrangements for the border with Ireland must not eat into the United Kingdom’s integrity. Britain’s Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Brokenshire speaks to media outside Stormont
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