Theresa May survives confidence vote of Tory MPs
Prime Minister Theresa May has won a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party by 200 to 117.Mrs May is now immune from a leadership challenge for a year.
Speaking in Downing Street, she vowed to deliver the Brexit "that people voted for".
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Rights group claims IDF soldiers shot dead disabled Palestinian from behind (VIDEO)
Israeli soldiers shot dead a young disabled Palestinian from as far away as 80 meters, a rights group said, uploading a video that appears to debunk army claims that he was killed during violent clashes.
Renowned Israeli human rights group B’Tselem uploaded a new video showing the 22-year-old Mohammed Habali, being fatally shot by Israeli soldiers in early December in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.
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Hungary passes 'slave law' prompting fury among opposition MPs
The Hungarian government has passed a set of controversial laws amid scenes of chaos, as opposition MPs sounded sirens, blew whistles and angrily confronted the country’s rightwing prime minister, Viktor Orbán.One of the new laws raises the amount of overtime employers can demand their employees work and has been labelled a “slave law” by critics.
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Senate Poised To Vote To End U.S. Military Support For War In Yemen
The U.S. Senate is poised to deliver a historic rebuke to both Saudi Arabia and the Trump administration Wednesday night, passing a resolution demanding an end to U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia's ongoing war in Yemen.The resolution draws on congressional authority spelled out in the 1973 War Powers Act – authority that, until now, Congress has never actually used.
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Hyundai, Kia workers strike in South Korea in opposition to attacks on wages
South Korean workers at Hyundai Motors and Kia staged a four-hour partial strike last Thursday to protest plans by the company and government to impose massive wage cuts on auto workers in the city of Gwangju. The agenda, dressed up as a job creation measure, is a test run of what will be a broader attack on the working class in the future.
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Japan is planning to launch fighters from aircraft carriers for the first time since World War II
Japan unveiled plans to develop the country's first aircraft carrier in over seven decades on Tuesday.The Japanese government wants to "enable fighter jets to be operated from existing warships," the draft guidelines explained, according to the Associated Press.
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Syria war: Turkey warns of fresh anti-Kurd offensive in north
Turkey will launch a new operation against US-backed Kurdish militias in northern Syria "in the next few days", President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.The move, which he said would focus on territory to the east of the Euphrates river, risks confrontation with the US.America's support for the Kurdish Y..PG forces has strained relations with Turkey, which considers the Y..PG to be part of a terrorist group.
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Customs And Border Protection Paid A Firm $13.6 Million To Hire Recruits. It Hired 2
A scathing report by the Office of the Inspector General revealed that a consulting company hired by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to fill thousands of new jobs to satisfy President Trump's mandate to secure the southern border is "nowhere near" completing its hiring goals and "risks wasting millions of taxpayer dollars."
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