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Dario Thuburn
Screen grab taken from video of a packed chamber during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, April 3, 2019 (House of Commons/PA via AP)
May 23, 2019, 4:52 pm
British government postpones Brexit vote as crisis deepens
Move comes as PM May’s latest proposal is widely rejected and she is reported to be planning to resign as early as Friday
By Dario Thuburn
A puppet head of Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May spearing a representation of the British Economy is taken on a march and rally organized by the pro-European People's Vote campaign for a second EU referendum in central London on March 23, 2019. (Isabel Infantes/AFP)
March 29, 2019, 6:46 pm
Her Brexit strategy in tatters, British PM’s days are numbered
After losing yet another vote on her EU divorce deal and accused of plunging Britain into chaos, Theresa May’s leadership is hanging by a thread
By Dario Thuburn and Alice Ritchie
A pro-Brexit demonstrator arrives outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, January 15, 2019. (Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP)
January 15, 2019, 2:49 pm
British prime minister faces massive defeat in historic Brexit deal vote
Both those in favor of leaving European Union and those against the move oppose Theresa May’s plan; failure to pass agreement could bring early elections
By Alice Ritchie and Dario Thuburn
In this photo taken on March 8, 2018, members of the emergency services in green biohazard encapsulated suits investigate the site where Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found on March 4 in critical condition at The Maltings shopping center in Salisbury, southern England. (AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL)
April 4, 2018, 1:46 am
UK lab cannot determine if spy nerve agent was Russian-made
Military facility says analysts identified poison as Soviet-made Novichok, but exact source remains unclear
By Dario Thuburn
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets with a group of entrepreneurs and innovators during a round-table discussion at Cortex Innovation Community technology hub in St. Louis, November 9, 2017. (Jeff Roberson/AFP)
March 27, 2018, 9:16 pm
Facebook’s Zuckerberg rebuffs British MPs for data privacy grilling
CEO and founder of social media giant offers to send a deputy instead, but parliamentary committee chair says he wants to speak with the boss himself
By Dario Thuburn
Head of the centre-right party Forza Italia (Go Italy) Silvio Berlusconi (C) poses for pictures with supporters, outside the San Severo chapel during his tour in downtown Naples on March 3, 2018 on the eve of a closely-watched general election poll. (AFP PHOTO / Carlo Hermann)
March 4, 2018, 5:21 am
Italians head to the polls with far-right expected to make gains
Scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi returns to limelight in election praised by Steve Bannon as ‘pure populism’
By Dario Thuburn
British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on April 19, 2017 ahead of the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons. (AFP/Chris J. Ratcliffe)
April 19, 2017, 6:20 pm
British parliament backs holding early elections on June 8
In heated exchanges, PM May says Labour offers only ‘bankruptcy and chaos’; Corbyn slams gov’t ‘broken promises’
By Dario Thuburn and Alice Ritchie
Members of the emergency services work to help victims on Westminster Bridge, alongside the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Miklas Halle'n)
March 23, 2017, 9:18 am
British MPs to return to parliament day after deadly attack
Police treating Westminster Bridge car-ramming and stabbing attack that killed four as ‘Islamist-related terror’
By Dario Thuburn and Alice Ritchie
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, DC, January 27, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
March 17, 2017, 8:06 pm
UK raps White House over ‘ridiculous’ Trump spy claims
Downing Street says US will not repeat allegations, after British ambassador to US speaks with Sean Spicer
By Dario Thuburn
First Minister of Scotland and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon, second left, celebrates with the results for her party at the count of Glasgow constituencies for the General Election, Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
March 13, 2017, 3:50 pm
Scotland to seek post-Brexit independence referendum
Announcement comes in the same week that British PM Theresa May is set to trigger UK’s exit from the European Union
By Dario Thuburn
British Home Secretary Theresa May walks out of 10 Downing Street in central London after a cabinet meeting on June 27, 2016. (Leon Neal/AFP)
July 11, 2016, 3:30 pm
With no rivals, Theresa May expected to become Britain’s PM
Meanwhile, Labour rebel Angela Eagle tries to topple party leader Corbyn in Brexit shakeup
By Dario Thuburn and Robin MILLARD
British Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London on February 20 , 2016 regarding the upcoming referendum on whether to stay in the EU (AFP / JUSTIN TALLIS)
February 20, 2016, 6:08 pm
Britain to hold historic EU ‘Brexit’ referendum in June
Cameron plans to fight ‘heart and soul’ to keep UK in the European bloc, warning an exit would be ‘a leap in the dark’
By Dario Thuburn
Demonstrators hold placards as they protest outside the entrance to Downing Street in central London on November 28, 2015, against the British government's proposed involvement in air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria. (AFP/Leon Neal)
November 28, 2015, 7:25 pm
Thousands protest in UK, Spain as momentum builds to join Syria strikes
London rally opposes Cameron’s push to approve air raids on Islamic State in so-called caliphate
By Dario Thuburn and Mohammed Abbas
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Parliament in London, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015. (Photo by AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
November 26, 2015, 2:40 pm
Britain should join Syria airstrikes, Cameron tells MPs
PM facing pushback from parliamentarians, says UK must attack Islamic State to deny group a safe haven
By Dario Thuburn
Members of a local electoral commission unload a ballot box at a polling station in Simferopol, Ukraine, on March 16, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ VASILY MAXIMOV)
March 16, 2014, 10:07 pm
Crimea votes to join Russia amid Western outrage
Exit polls show 93 percent of votes favored leaving Ukraine in ballot deemed ‘illegal’ by Kiev and the West
By Dario Thuburn
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