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Kashmir: Pakistan’s Khan vows to ‘fight until the end’

oops During a visit to Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan accused India’s military of “planning” action in regions controlled by Pakistan. Khan said Pakistan was “fully prepared to respond.”

These Four Candidates Are Scrambling to Make the Cut for the Next Democratic Debate – The New York Times

“The D.N.C. donor requirement may have been added with the right intentions, but there’s no doubt that it’s created a situation in which billionaires can buy their way onto the debate stage,” Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana said in a statement on Tuesday. “We’re kidding ourselves if we’re calling a $10 million purchase of 130,000 donors a demonstration of grass-roots support.”

Philip Hammond: MPs can stop Boris Johnson delivering no-deal Brexit

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Former chancellor suggests No 10 advisers have no intention of negotiating a new EU deal

Philip Hammond has said MPs can prevent Boris Johnson taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on 31 October, calling no deal a “betrayal of the referendum” and suggesting advisers in Downing Street have no intention of negotiating a new deal.

Hammond expressed scepticism about the prospect of a national unity government taking over after a no-confidence vote but said if parliament could not agree on a way to honour the referendum result, a referendum or general election was inevitable.

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A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault over Stockholm brawl | Music | The Guardian

The court rejected the claim of self-defence in its ruling, finding that the three men “assaulted the victim by hitting and kicking him as he lay on the ground” and that Mayers, 30, “also threw the victim to the ground and stepped on his arm”. It said they were “not in a situation where they were entitled to self-defence”, ordered them to pay Jafari 12,500 kronor (£1,000) in damages and handed down conditional sentences, meaning they face no prison sentence in Sweden unless they commit a similar offence in the country again.

Source: A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault over Stockholm brawl | Music | The Guardian

No chance of US-UK deal if Northern Ireland peace at risk – Pelosi

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Senior US politician says Brexit cannot be allowed to imperil Good Friday agreement

There is no chance of Congress approving a US-UK trade agreement if Brexit undermines the Good Friday peace agreement between Ireland and Northern Ireland, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has said.

Pelosi was restating the entrenched position of congressional Democrats and many Republicans in the wake of remarks made by Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, during a visit to London this week.

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Statue of Liberty shown cuffed and arrested by immigration officials in new mural

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Mural in downtown Las Vegas by British artist Izaac Zevalking meant to draw attention to America’s founding by immigrants

A mural of the Statue of Liberty, handcuffed and slammed on the hood of a police cruiser, is drawing attention in downtown Las Vegas, a day after a top Trump administration official in charge of immigration suggested the statue’s famous inscription be amended to include a test of means.

Under the pseudonym Recycled Propaganda, artist and British immigrant Izaac Zevalking painted the image on a wall late last month, before citizenship and immigration services director Ken Cuccinelli – jokingly – suggested amending Emma Lazarus’s sonnet inscribed on the statue to read: “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.”

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