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British House of Commons to Discuss EU’s Brexit

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 1, 2017 | World

London – Members of British parliament started debating the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill in parliament on Tuesday. The legislation would give Prime Minister Theresa May the power to invoke article 50 and start two years of negotiations to leave the...

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump Enhances Relations with Putin, Assures Europeans

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 30, 2017 | World

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump stated that he carried out an essential step to enhance U.S.-Russian relations and to assure his allies of the importance of NATO, through a phone call with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The positive call...

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British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump stand side by side at the start of a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Trump Prepares to Hit ISIS with Apache Helicopters

by Heba El Koudsy | Jan 28, 2017 | World

Washington- During his first visit to the Pentagon on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump asked for drafting a plan on new options to attack ISIS militants operating in Syria and Iraq, to be presented within 30 days. Sources at the Pentagon said that the options being...

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Prime Minister Theresa May. Reuters

UK Supreme Court Rules ‘Government Must Consult Parliament over Brexit’

by Najlaa Habriri | Jan 25, 2017 | World

London – Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Prime Minister Theresa May must seek approval from Parliament before formally triggering the country’s withdrawal from the European Union. May’s government insisted “nothing” would change the timetable for triggering...

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Bye-bye single market?
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Theresa May’s Brexit was Always Going to be Hard

by Mark Gilbert | Jan 21, 2017 | Opinion

In February 2015, economists at HSBC Holdings in London coined the terms “hard” and “soft” Brexit. The latter would maintain “much of the status quo” if the U.K. voted to quit the European Union; the former entailed “huge risk...