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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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Boris Johnson ‘confident’ EU will back down in Brexit talks

how not to win friends and influence people

PM says ‘backstop just doesn’t work’ in run-up to meetings with Merkel and Macron

Boris Johnson has claimed that EU leaders will change their positions and allow the UK to scrap the Brexit backstop in the withdrawal agreement.

As the prime minister prepares for face-to-face talks with Angela Merkel of Germany and Emmanuel Macron of France this week, he acknowledged there would be “bumps in the road” before any agreement to drop the plan to prevent a hard border in Ireland.

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Donald Trump’s ‘peace agreement’ is a betrayal of Afghanistan and its people | Simon Tisdall

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This cut-and-run policy will leave the country trapped in a conflict with the Taliban and fail the casualties of war

If Donald Trump has his way a “peace agreement” in Afghanistan will be finalised in the coming days. It’s a sure bet the US president will claim noisy, personal credit for ending one of America’s longest wars. Knowing him, he may even hail it as the “deal of the century” – despite having already accorded that boastful accolade to his failed North Korea summitry. But the world, as always, should beware a Trump bearing gifts.

It will deliver what candidate Trump most wants – a path home for 14,000 American troops before next year’s US election

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The Guardian view on EU citizens’ rights: Johnson’s warm words are worthless | Editorial

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Many Brexiters, including the prime minister, are in denial about the cruelty that their choices have already inflicted on millions of people

The Conservative party is in the habit of seeing the European Union as something that was inflicted on Britain and Brexit as self-defence. Eurosceptics struggle to perceive any aggression in the act of leaving the EU. But for citizens of other European countries the referendum felt profoundly hostile. How could it be taken any other way? Control over immigration was a centrepiece of the leave campaign. Xenophobia was an active ingredient and without it the result might have been different. Since then many efforts have been made to regularise the position of EU citizens in UK law but the underlying condition of anxiety persists.

Last week, the Home Office announced that over one million people have been granted “settled status” – the new legal category that maintains rights of work and residence in the UK. More than 50,000 people applied in the first weekend after the scheme was launched in March. The Home Office advertises that number as if it describes enthusiasm for a popular new product and not a desperate dash for security. The total number of EU nationals in the UK is around 3 million.

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The five: surprising talents of the Neanderthals

Only a surprise because believing that those who came before us, were less than us has always been an easy way to make believe, “we” are the greatest!

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Embracing the arts as well as sports, they were masters of many different and complex disciplines

Last week, researchers from Washington University announced they had investigated the ear remains of 23 Neanderthals and found that around half had bony growths that suggested aquatic foraging was a prominent part of their lifestyle. These growths, known as external auditory exostoses, or “surfer’s ear”, are found today in surfers and those who spend time in wet and cold conditions.

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The Holocaust survivor, 87, facing eviction in California: ‘Will they throw me to the ground?’

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Exclusive: Musiy Rishin speaks out about landlord who wants wealthier tenants and has fought to evict him and his dying son

Musiy Rishin knows how to survive.

He narrowly escaped the Nazis’ massacre of Jews in the Ukraine in 1941. His family lived through wartime famine, and an earthquake in Uzbekistan, before they fled political turmoil in 1998. He persevered after the recent deaths of his wife and son.

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