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EU firmly rejects Boris Johnson request to remove backstop

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Johnson says MPs who claim they can prevent no deal are to blame for hardline EU response

The European Union has rebuffed Boris Johnson’s attempts to tear up the Irish backstop, in a coordinated response that appeared to close the door on further meaningful Brexit negotiations.

In remarks shortly before the prime minister departed for a whistle-stop tour to meet European leaders, Johnson put the blame for the EU’s hardline response at the feet of Conservative rebels, claiming his negotiating strategy was being undermined by those who said they could prevent no deal.

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Walmart sues Tesla over solar panels it says caused multiple fires

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About seven Walmart stores had fires due to Tesla’s solar systems as of November 2018, according to the lawsuit

Walmart has sued Tesla, saying solar panels supplied by the electric carmaker were responsible for fires at about seven of its stores.

The fires destroyed significant amounts of store merchandise and required substantial repairs, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket losses, according to a lawsuit filed in a New York court on Tuesday.

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‘We have an obligation’: Ilhan Omar calls on lawmakers to visit Israel

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Rashida Tlaib and Omar called decision to block their entry an attempt ‘to suppress our ability to do our jobs’ in press conference

The Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar called on her colleagues to visit Israel to prevent Donald Trump and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “succeed in hiding the cruel reality of the occupation from us”.

Omar’s comments came to in an emotional press conference on Monday, following Israel’s decision last week to deny her and the Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib entry to the country amid pressure from Donald Trump. Omar called Israel’s decision to block the planned official visit “nothing less than an attempt by an ally of the United States to suppress our ability to do our jobs as elected officials”.

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Putin’s Russia: A Moderate Fascist State – The American Interest

Russia and the World

Putin’s Russia: A Moderate Fascist State
Vladislav Inozemtsev

By standard scholarly definition, Russia today is not an illiberal democracy: It is an early-stage fascist state.

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Vladislav L. Inozemtsev is director of the Centre for Post-Industrial Studies (Moscow) and an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

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Labour may stay neutral if second referendum is between its Brexit deal or remain

There is no neutral – duh. Remain and elect EU MPs who will work to get rules and regulations that benefit all!

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Corbyn says Labour will back remain against no-deal Brexit as he and McDonnell pledge to stop exit without agreement

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have left the door open to their party staying neutral in a second referendum if the choice were a Labour deal or remaining in the EU, as they pledged to do everything possible to stop the UK leaving without an agreement.

The Labour leader said the party would campaign to remain against a no-deal Brexit. But when asked if the party would stay agnostic if the public were given a choice between a deal negotiated by Labour and remaining in the EU, Corbyn did not say which side the party would support.

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