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Brexit is not unprecedented

Stephen Holt

A similar shuddering rejection of Europe occurred a mere 500 years ago. The resulting disruption took more than a century to run its destructive course.

Two great setbacks to democracy could be reversed in 2019

Crispin Hull
Crispin Hull

The evidence has been piling up since 2016 that voters in Britain and the United States were grossly misinformed.

How the most powerful woman in American politics is going to take on Trump

Mike DeBonis

"She'll cut your head off, and you won't even know you're bleeding," Nancy Pelosi's daughter said just before the Congresswoman regained the House speakership.

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North America

US President Donald Trump.
World Politics

Donald Trump renews national emergency threat

US President Donald Trump has renewed his threat to declare a national emergency over border security as negotiations to end a partial government shutdown continue.

The Ocean Cleanup, a long floating boom that will be used to corral plastic litter in the Pacific Ocean is assembled in Alameda, California.
Waste

Huge trash-collecting boom in Pacific Ocean breaks apart

A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart.

Jogging.
North America

Jogger attacked by dog, then bitten by its owner, police say

  • by N'dea Yancey-Bragg
US President Donald Trump.
Syria

No timetable for Syria withdrawal: Bolton casts doubt on Trump's plans

President Donald Trump has said he planned to go to his retreat at Camp David, Maryland, to discuss border security and other topics with senior staff
Trump's White House

Trump says 'not much headway' in talks as shutdown drags on

  • by Catherine Lucey

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Asia

A miner looks for gold.
Tragedy

Dozens die in Afghan gold-mine collapse

The death toll after a collapse at a gold mine in Afghanistan has climbed to 35, a local official said.

An earthquake
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Earthquake

Indonesia stuck by magnitude 6.6 earthquake

An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 174 km north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia's Molucca islands, early on Monday.

Malaysia's King Sultan Muhammad V on Sunday abdicated in an unexpected and rare move.
Malaysia

Malaysia's King Muhammad V announces shock abdication

Kiyomura Corp owner Kiyoshi Kimura, left, with the bluefin tuna for which he made a wining bid at the annual New Year auction, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Japan

Bluefin tuna nets record $4.3 m in year's first sale at Tokyo market

Opposition Congress party activists burn an effigy of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reacting to reports of two women of menstruating age entering the Sabarimala temple, one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Religion

Third woman breaks Indian Hindu temple ban as protests cause gridlock

  • by Sudarshan Varadhan

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A Saudi woman.
Gender equality

Saudi women to be told of divorce by text message, via website

Women in Saudi Arabia will be notified by text message if they are divorced under a new law designed to protect them.

  • by Lin Taylor and Heba Kanso
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun.
Updated
Saudi Arabia

'I am afraid my family will KILL me': Saudi woman en route to Australia detained in Bangkok

  • by Latika Bourke
Congolese President Joseph Kabila arrives to cast his vote on December 30 in Kinshasa, Congo. .
Democracy

US troops on standby as Congo election results delayed

Brazil's new first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, pictured with husband Jair Bolsonaro, gives a military salute from the Planalto Presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, on January 1.
International affairs

Brazil military opposes Bolsonaro's openness to US military base

  • by Rodrigo Viga Gaier
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has tried to suppress an interview with US network CBS in which he admits co-operating with Israel.
International affairs

El-Sisi says Egypt and Israel co-operate against ISIS in Sinai

  • by Hamza Hendawi
Former Syrian military officer Yasseen*.
War

How a man who helped run a brutal military machine lives with the fallout

  • by Michael Bachelard & Kate Geraghty
President Donald Trump speaks at a hanger rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on December 26 at which he defended his surprise decision to pull troops from Syria.
War

US fudges on timeline for Syria withdrawal as fighting continues

  • by Lesley Wroughton

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