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The Queen will be asked by the government to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September – and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline. It will pave the way for Boris Johnson’s new administration to hold a Queen’s Speech – laying out the government’s plans – on 14 October. But it also means MPs are unlikely to have time to pass any laws that could stop the prime minister taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on 31 October. Tory backbencher and Remain campaigner Dominic Grieve called it “an outrageous act”,…

One of the UK’s largest independent financial consultancy firms is plotting a £200m takeover of the pensions advisory arm of KPMG, the accountancy giant. Sources said that LCP, which is backed by the private equity firm Inflexion, was competing against a number of trade and financial bidders for the pensions advisory business. LCP provides actuarial and investment advice to hundreds of clients, including roughly one-third of the FTSE-100, according to its website. That would make the KPMG division, which has about £50bn under advice, a logical fit with LCP’s business, according to City insiders.

Fifty towns in England will be given a share of £1bn to revitalize their struggling high streets. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the announcement means more than 100 high streets will be supported by the High Streets Fund. The money could be used for schemes such as improving transport links or converting empty shops into homes or offices. The news comes as high street retailers fight to stay in business, with mass store closures, job losses, and profit warnings. Mr Johnson said: “Our high streets are right at the heart of our communities, and I will do everything I can…

A US pastor who lost his daughter in a mass shooting in his church has announced he’s running for state senate in efforts to influence gun laws. Frank Pomeroy’s 14-year-old daughter Annabelle was killed in shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on November 2017. She was one of 26 victims of the massacre. According to the NY Post, Pastor Pomeroy said the mass shooting in EL Paso, Texas this month, which killed 22 people, prompted him to get into politics. The First Baptist Church shooting has been recorded as the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. The…

More than 150 African Christians have been arrested and detained in unsanitary and inhumane conditions for gathering to worship without government consent. Government officials in Eritrea, a country in northeast Africa, have arrested more than 150 Christians since June 23, holding some of them in an underground prison. The most recent arrests occurred Aug. 18, when security officials took into custody 80 Christians in Godayef; these Christians are still being held at the local police station. Prior to those arrests, 70 members of the Faith Mission Church of Christ were arrested June 23. The regime treats those that gather without…

Christian cartoon producer and co-creator Phil Vischer says Christian filmmakers will have to start addressing LGBT issues and same-sex relationships from a biblical perspective because children are already seeing these storylines in secular movies and TV shows.  “Parents are definitely going to have to deal with a growing LGBT presence in children’s media,” Vischer told The Christian Post. “It’s going to show up more and more as the world has decided that LGBT issues are in the same categories as race and civil rights issues.  A veteran in the world of children’s entertainment, Vischer said it’s only a matter of…

Italy’s opposition Forza party leader Silvio Berlusconi said, his party wants the country to go to ballots if a center-right government cannot be formed after the collapse of the coalition made up of the 5-Star Movement and the League. That will lead to the formation of the country’s 67th government in just 73 years.  The average Italian government lasts just 13 months. “There is only one path to follow: early elections. This is the suggestion I made to the President,” he told reporters. Former Prime Minister and media tycoon Berlusconi spoke after meeting the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not believe the case had yet been made for Russia to rejoin the G7 following its “provocations” in places like Salisbury, Ukraine and elsewhere. Russia was pushed out of the G8 in 2014 because of its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. The European Union subsequently slapped sanctions on Moscow after it supported rebels fighting Ukrainian troops in the east of the country. The conflict between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed forces has killed an estimated 13,000 people since 2014. A ceasefire deal brokered by France and Germany ended the major conflict in eastern…

French President Emmanuel Macron told Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson there was not enough time in the month ahead to negotiate a new Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday challenged Britain to come up with alternatives to the Irish border backstop within 30 days — a challenge which Johnson readily accepted. “What Chancellor Merkel said yesterday, and which is in line with the substance of our talks, is that we need visibility in 30 days,” Macron told reporters standing alongside Johnson. “Nobody is going to wait until Oct. 31 without trying to find a good solution.” Macron’s…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told French President Emmanuel Macron that he wanted a Brexit deal and believed it was still possible to reach one in time for the Oct. 31 deadline. Johnson also said he had been “powerfully encouraged” by what he had heard from German Chancellor Angela Merkel during talks in Berlin on Wednesday. Johnson insisted that under no circumstances would the United Kingdom set up border checks on the boundary between EU member Ireland and the British region of Northern Ireland. He added that understood the EU’s desire to preserve the integrity of its single market, but…