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Keir Starmer defends Labour's Brexit policy at last general election
Feb 17, 2020 04:27Labour Party leadership contender, Keir Starmer, has strongly defended his party’s Brexit policy despite the disastrous outcome of last December’s general election.
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Predicting autism risk may begin with a drop of blood
Feb 16, 2020 08:53Principal Investigator Robert Naviaux, professor of medicine and pathology at UC San Diego School of Medicine said “We know from the history of certain genetic diseases, such as PKU, that if children can be identified before the first symptoms have appeared, then the disease can be prevented, even though the children have the DNA mutations,” adding, “I believe that over half of autism cases may be preventable if only we had a way to identify the children at risk before the first symptoms appear.
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UK post-Brexit rules to 'turn off tap' of low-skilled foreign labor
Feb 16, 2020 08:46Britain says it will no longer accept low-skilled labor from overseas and will make it a requirement for anyone wishing to come to the country to have a job offer and meet salary and language requirements.
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Study says US, China marked biggest hike in military spending in 10 yrs
Feb 16, 2020 06:05Global spending on defense rose by 4% in 2019, the largest growth in 10 years, led by big increases from the US and China, a study said Friday.
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EU lawmakers castigate Trump's 'deal of the century'
Feb 14, 2020 04:39It is not unusual to witness scathing criticism from EU legislators regarding a whole range of issues, but when it comes to US President Donald Trump's so-called 'deal of the century', the response in the European Parliament was almost unprecedented.
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EU3 plan for snapback mechanism off the table for lack of credibility: Iranian MP
Feb 13, 2020 02:30An Iranian lawmaker said the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal have deferred their decision to trigger the so-called snapback provisions of the JCPOA as it lacked international credibility.
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EU parliament lawmakers slam Trump’s new plan as unlawful
Feb 12, 2020 08:47An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament lawmakers have censured a US-devised proposal of the so-called “deal of the century”, saying the contentious plan flies in the face of international law.
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US' ‘embedded irrationality’ eroding optimism in JCPOA: Iran's nuclear chief
Feb 10, 2020 12:19The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says unilateral withdrawal of the United States from a landmark and multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has undermined the agreement, which could serve to prove that diplomacy is the most viable option for tackling toughest international issues.
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How the far-right became Europe’s new normal
Feb 07, 2020 14:20It was a scandal when a far-right party entered government two decades ago. Now it’s just routine. What happened? Twenty years ago, on Feb. 4, 2000, a shock wave reverberated from the heart of Europe: The far-right Freedom Party of Austria, founded in 1956 by National Socialist activists, entered government.
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UK’s Johnson talks tough on trade as EU demands fishing rights
Feb 07, 2020 14:18In their divorce agreement, Britain and the EU agreed to strike an “ambitious, broad, deep and flexible partnership,” including a free trade deal and agreements for security and other areas. They gave themselves 11 months to do it. A post-Brexit “transition period,” in which relations stay essentially unchanged, runs until the end of 2020. For the rest of this year the UK will continue to follow EU rules, although it will no longer have a say in EU decision-making.