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| The UK's Theresa May remonstrated with Jean-Claude Juncker at a Brussels summit and the EU chief executive seemed anxious to placate the British prime minister whose Brexit demands he had called “nebulous” the night before. |
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| China’s finance ministry says it will suspend additional tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles and auto parts for three months starting Jan. 1, 2019. |
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| A plot to kill the president, links to foreign intelligence, a rogue police officer and a missing sniper: the snippets of news emerging from Sri Lanka in recent weeks seem plucked from the pages of paperback fiction. But the allegations have had real enough consequences for the island nation. |
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| Commentary: Nancy Pelosi's deal to limit herself to four years as speaker has all but assured her that she'll win back the gavel in the House of Representatives. But the dispute among Democrats about whether to elect her misses the point. "The days when a congressional leader had to work with a president of either party to pass legislation, reach compromise and find some kind of bipartisan balance, or when major legislation often received support and faced opposition from members of both parties, are gone," writes Columbia University political scientist Lincoln Mitchell. In a Trump presidency, the skills that Pelosi has sharpened during her three decades in Congress are no longer as pertinent "because this Congress is not going to pass any significant laws."
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| Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been imprisoned in Myanmar for one year. Follow our coverage of the case: https://reut.rs/2EwFeVz 1:05 AM - 14 Dec 2018 |
