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In this image taken from video, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday Sept. 4, 2019. (House of Commons via PA via AP)
September 5, 2019, 2:07 am
Johnson’s Brexit plans in crisis after 3rd defeat in 2 days
Parliament blocks call for early elections; lawmakers determined to thwart PM’s plan to take UK out of EU by October 31 deadline even without a deal
By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves the House of Commons in London, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, after MPs voted in favor of allowing a cross-party alliance to take control of the Commons agenda on Wednesday in a bid to block a no-deal Brexit on October 31. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
September 4, 2019, 1:37 am
Major defeat for British PM as lawmakers seize Brexit agenda
Boris Johnson vows to call new elections after some fellow Conservatives vote against him; cross-party rebels now plan to introduce bill to block ‘no-deal’ exit from EU
By Gregory Katz and DANICA KIRKA
British Ambassador Kim Darroch hosts an event at the British Embassy in Washington, October 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)
July 9, 2019, 2:35 pm
UK prime minister stands by envoy to US who called Trump administration ‘inept’
‘You can’t change an ambassador at the demand of a host country,’ May’s party says, after US president lashes out at Kim Darroch as ‘not liked or well thought of’
By DANICA KIRKA
Elly Wright, a Dutch painter who has lived in Britain for 51-years, poses for photographs with a copy of the book "In Limbo", in which her Brexit testimonial story is one of those featured, at her home in Epsom, on the south west edge of London, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Britain’s seemingly endless debate over leaving the European Union has brought division, strife and fear of foreigners, and the trauma has shattered Wright's sense of belonging. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
April 13, 2019, 8:53 am
‘Brexhaustion’: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out
The fatigue and worry caused by three years of conflict has spawned new terms to describe the mental wellbeing of worn-out Brits
By DANICA KIRKA
A pro EU protester shouts through a megaphone at the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, March 27, 2019 as British lawmakers were preparing to vote on alternatives for leaving the European Union. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
March 28, 2019, 3:58 pm
UK leader Theresa May makes final push on Brexit deal
Lawmakers reject eight alternatives to prime minister’s proposal after unprecedented move to try to break deadlock
By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
Brexit protesters demonstrate near the House of Parliament in London, March 26, 2019. (AP/Frank Augstein)
March 27, 2019, 2:34 pm
UK lawmakers prepare to vote on alternatives to Brexit deal
House of Commons schedules 5-hour debate on various options, after which lawmakers will vote for those they find acceptable
By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves a cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London, January 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
January 15, 2019, 10:02 pm
UK Parliament rejects May’s Brexit deal, in biggest defeat in modern history
Lawmakers shoot down PM’s proposal in devastating 432-202 vote, plunging the bid to leave the European Union into chaos
By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and Gregory Katz
Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, speaks during a meeting with top military officers in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia on November 19, 2018. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
November 21, 2018, 12:51 am
Possible Russian president of Interpol raises alarm in West
Kremlin critics fear they could soon face arrest anywhere around the world as Putin ally Alexander Prokopchuk front-runner to lead international police organization
By DANICA KIRKA and Angela Charlton
In this file photo taken on July 04, 2017 Interpol vice president Alexander Prokopchuk (L) and and Meng Hongwei, president of Interpol, attend the opening of the Interpol World Congress in Singapore on July 4, 2017. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)
November 20, 2018, 8:56 pm
Russian police official may be tapped as Interpol president
Kremlin critics warn against move, say Vladimir Putin has already used international agency to hunt down dissidents
By DANICA KIRKA and Angela Charlton
In this April 12, 2016, photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the company's 10-year roadmap during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
October 25, 2018, 5:34 pm
UK watchdog fines Facebook over data breach in Cambridge Analytica scandal
$644,000 penalty comes after British regulators find that between 2007 and 2014, social media giant processed personal info of users without informed consent
By DANICA KIRKA
British billionaire Richard Branson visits a Zumba Step dance class at Virgin installations in Madrid, Spain, December 10, 2003. (AP Photo/Abraham Caro Marin, file)
October 12, 2018, 3:29 pm
Global business leaders suspend ties with Saudi Arabia
Pressure grows on Riyadh to explain fate of missing regime critic Jamal Khashoggi
By DANICA KIRKA
In this photo dated March 10, 2018, former White House strategist Steve Bannon addresses members of the far right National Front party at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille. (AP Photo)
August 12, 2018, 6:32 pm
Steve Bannon weighs in on UK burqa debate, Boris Johnson
US Republican strategist says ex-foreign secretary will make ‘a great prime minister,’ says far-right activist Tommy Robinson is ‘a force of nature’
By DANICA KIRKA
Protestors hold up banners as a six-meter high cartoon baby blimp of US President Donald Trump is flown as a protest against his visit, in Parliament Square in London, England, Friday, July 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
July 14, 2018, 5:04 am
Demonstrators mock Donald Trump; protest his visit to the UK
Tens of thousands protest across the country as US President meets with Queen and Theresa May before heading off to one of his golf courses in Scotland
By DANICA KIRKA
Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave from the West Door of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony. (AFP/ Ben Birchall)
May 19, 2018, 3:38 pm
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wed in Windsor as millions watch
The American actress arrived in a dress designed by British designer Clare Waight Keller; ceremony complete with Anglican prayers, a gospel choir, and a horse-drawn carriage
By Gregory Katz, DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
The offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA) in central London, March 20, 2018. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)
April 17, 2018, 7:45 am
UK academic says data firm helped Trump campaign spread fear
Researcher tells British parliament committee that presidential hopeful used info from Cambridge Analytica to effectively deploy ‘false racist and Islamophobic comments’
By DANICA KIRKA
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