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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to make the United Kingdom the greatest place on earth by leaving the European Union on October 31. “Our mission is to deliver Brexit on the 31st of October for the purpose of uniting and re-energizing our great United Kingdom and making this country the greatest place on earth,” Johnson told parliament in his first speech as prime minister. Britain’s new leader has promised to do a new Brexit deal with the bloc in less than 99 days but has also warned that if EU leaders refused – something he said was a “remote…

Enough of adversarial politics…. Let’s move on to calmer waters… Britain’s newspapers headlines heralded former London mayor Boris Johnson as he prepared to take over as prime minister. The former London mayor won the contest to succeed Theresa May, securing the leadership of the Conservative Party in a campaign put the United Kingdom on course for a showdown with the European Union. Johnson’s cabinet choices will help to flesh out how he intends to manage the world’s fifth-largest economy and its divorce from the EU at one of the most fateful moments in its modern history.  With the pound stuck…

Education minister Anne Milton has resigned from the government, citing “grave concerns” about Boris Johnson’s support for leaving the EU without a deal. Ms Milton is the second Tory minister to quit ahead of Mr Johnson’s appointment as prime minister, with speculation of a further exodus before he enters No 10 on Wednesday. Mr Johnson’s refusal to rule out a no-deal Brexit has caused alarm in Westminster, with a string of senior cabinet ministers saying they cannot serve under his leadership. The prior resignation of Alan Duncan, a junior foreign office minister who has long been critical of the now…

Boris Johnson is expected to be elected leader of Britain’s governing Conservative Party and the country’s next prime minister, tasked with following through on his “do or die” pledge to deliver Brexit in just over three months time. Arriving at his London office on Tuesday morning, Johnson was confronted by a silent protester wielding a sign reading ‘Freedom, Independence, Identity, Democracy, Sovereignty’. He declined to answer questions from the media. Johnson and his rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, have spent the last month criss-crossing the country seeking to win over the less than 200,000 Conservative Party members who will choose…

India successfully launched a rocket into space, in a bid to perform a soft landing of a rover on the moon, the country’s most ambitious mission yet to cement its position as a leading low-cost space power. The 10-billion rupee ($146 million) mission, if successful, will enable India to carry out studies on the presence of water on the south pole of the moon. Only the United States, Russia and China have been on the moon. The rocket, carrying the unmanned Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, blasted off from a southern Indian space centre to cheers from onlookers, a live telecast showed. The…

Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in running clashes with protesters late on Sunday, amid chaotic scenes as anger over an extradition bill morphs into a fresh front against what many see as a broader erosion of freedoms by Beijing. Hundreds of riot police faced off with protesters more than a kilometre from the Liaison Office, firing tear gas as police and ambulance sirens echoed through the chanting crowds.  Local broadcaster RTHK and other local media reported police also fired rubber bullets, while protesters fought back or counter-attacked with bottles, bricks, poles, and umbrellas.  Millions have taken…

The U.S. military accused a Venezuelan fighter aircraft of “aggressively” shadowing a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II plane over international airspace, in yet another sign of the increasing hostility between the two nations. The encounter between the U.S. and Venezuelan planes occurred on Friday, the same day that the Trump administration announced it was sanctioning four top officials in Venezuela’s military counterintelligence agency. In a statement issued Sunday, the U.S. military said that it had determined the “Russian-made fighter aggressively shadowed the EP-3 at an unsafe distance in international airspace for a prolonged period of time, endangering the safety of…

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard to discuss migration and trade, amid heightened bilateral tension ahead of a deadline on a deal that removed tariff threats on Mexican exports. Under the June agreement with the United States, Mexico averted punitive tariffs on U.S.-bound Mexican shipments threatened by President Donald Trump by promising to stem the flow of illegal migrants from Central America by July 22. If the United States deems that Mexico has not done enough to thwart migrants, the two countries are due to begin talks over changing rules to make most…

An Iranian flag was hoisted atop a seized oil tanker docked in Iran’s Bandar Abbas port, footage obtained by reporters from an Iranian news agency shows. The British-flagged Stena Impero was seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, because it had been involved in an accident. This is in apparent retaliation for the British capture of an Iranian tanker at Gibraltar two weeks earlier. The Iranian capture of the ship in the global oil trade’s most important waterway was the latest escalation in three months of spiralling confrontation with the West that began when new,…

London’s Crossrail project will probably go even further over budget, according to a report by MPs. Commuters have been “let down” by a programme that is well behind schedule, the Public Accounts Committee said and MPs said they were “sceptical” about the Department for Transport’s “ability to oversee major rail projects”. In response, the Department for Transport said it had acted “swiftly and effectively” when problems at Crossrail became clear. Construction on the Crossrail route began in 2009. It is Europe’s biggest infrastructure project. It has been officially named the Elizabeth Line in honour of the Queen. When completed, it…