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The mother of a teenager killed in a car crash involving a U.S. diplomat’s wife on Tuesday (October 15) said U.S. President Donald Trump held her hand and felt “sincere.” Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn spoke to reporters after a White House visit with Trump intended to put pressure on to have American Anne Sacoolas to be sent back to face British investigators. Harry Dunn, 19, died after a car driven by Sacoolas crashed into his motorbike near RAF Croughton, an air force base in Northamptonshire in central England used by the U.S. military. Harry Dunn’s parents have also rejected…

Boris Johnson will write a letter to the EU asking for a delay to Brexit beyond 31 October if he fails to get an exit deal approved by parliament by Saturday, the Brexit secretary has confirmed. Stephen Barclay told a committee of MPs on Wednesday that the prime minister will “comply” with legislation, aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit at the end of the month, passed by opposition MPs last month. This law compels Mr Johnson to ask for a three-month extension to the Article 50 negotiating period, to 31 January 2020, if MPs have not approved a Brexit deal…

Fukushima residents on Tuesday took stock of the damage left in the wake of Hagibis as the death toll of the worst typhoon to hit Japan for decades climbed to 66. The highest death toll was in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, where levees burst in at least 14 places along the Abukuma River, which meanders through a number of cities in the largely agricultural prefecture. At least 25 people died in Fukushima, including a mother and child who were caught in flood waters, NHK said. Another child of the woman remains missing. About 133,000 households were without water while…

Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and his wife Catherine (‘Kate’), arrived in Pakistan’s capital on Monday to begin a five day visit that will focus on boosting ties and addressing challenges such as climate change. On Tuesday, the royal couple visited a school in Islamabad, where they sat and talked with school children. Upon their arrival in Pakistan, the Duke and Duchess were greeted by Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Thomas Drew, the British High Commissioner, as well as two children who gave them bouquets of flowers. The trip has been described by Kensington Palace…

Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in the region’s failed bid for independence in 2017. The three other defendants in the landmark ruling over a banned referendum and short-lived independence declaration were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison. All defendants were acquitted of the most severe charge, rebellion. The longest prison term went to former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, who was given 13 years. Four of the leaders were convicted of misuse of public funds. Separatist protests have been largely…

UK opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said there was a strong possibility of a national election before Christmas. In an interview broadcast on Sunday (October 13), he told Sky News that he was also unlikely to support a deal agreed between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Union. “If it creates a border down the Irish Sea rather than on the Irish border itself, I can see that bringing problems,” he said, adding that he would caution British lawmakers against backing a confirmatory referendum on a deal. Britain’s Liberal Democrat party leader Jo Swinson said on Sunday she…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not want to give a running commentary on Brexit talks when asked whether Northern Ireland would be leaving the EU customs union amid hopes an agreement can be found before an Oct. 31 deadline. Speaking during a school visit in South Buckinghamshire, Johnson asked reporters to “look at everything I’ve said previously and you can draw your own conclusions from that.” Johnson met with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Cheshire on Thursday (October 10) in a last ditch bid to avert an acrimonious separation or another delay after Brexit descended into…

Climate-change protesters from the Extinction Rebellion group blocked the entrance to the BBC headquarters in London, calling on the broadcaster to “tell the full truth” in its coverage of the environment. Extinction Rebellion is using two weeks of civil disobedience to pressure governments to do more to combat greenhouse gas emissions and on Thursday a protester forced a jet to turn around at London City Airport. Gathering outside the building in central London, the group called “on the BBC to meet its crucial moral duty to tell the full truth on the climate and ecological emergency.” A BBC spokeswoman said…

Spain’s Supreme Court is expected to announce on Monday its verdict in the trial of Catalan separatist leaders, a judicial source said, in a decision that could reignite tensions over a secession push that plunged the country into its worst political crisis in decades. The 12 Catalan politicians and civic leaders are facing charges ranging from rebellion to sedition and the misuse of public funds over their role in a 2017 banned referendum and the short-lived declaration of independence that followed. Spanish authorities are bracing for potentially violent protests in the region. Nine of the separatist’s leaders on trial are…

A Brexit deal could be clinched by the end of October to allow the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in an orderly fashion, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said after what he called a very positive meeting with his British counterpart Boris Johnson. With just three weeks to go before the United Kingdom is due to leave the world’s biggest trading bloc, it is still unclear on what terms it will leave or indeed whether it will at all. Ireland holds the key to any deal. It will have to consent to any solution to the hardest Brexit…