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U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence meets with Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Downing Street in London, Britain, September 5, 2019. Peter Summers/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson told visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday that Britain’s National Health Service would not be included in negotiations with the United States …

Johnson is the MP for Orpington and the universities minister in his brother’s government. “In recent weeks I’ve been torn between family loyalty and the national interest – it’s an unresolvable tension [and] time for others to take on my roles as MP & Minister,” Johnson tweeted. This is the second time Jo Johnson has …

A “zombie prime minister” cornered by his “own intransigence” whose failed “kamikaze strategy” had left his country facing a future that had “never looked less certain” – Europe’s media were not kind to Boris Johnson after his fourth successive Commons defeat. Some, though, predicted an election could yet throw him a lifeline. Le Monde said …

Members of Parliament opposed to Britain crashing out of the European Union without a deal on October 31 — as Johnson has threatened to do — called Tuesday for an emergency debate that would allow them to seize control of the agenda from the government in the House of Commons tomorrow. The House of Commons …

A Russian blogger who posted a tweet that said the children of police could be targeted in “snuff videos” has been sentenced to five years in jail, as three more Kremlin critics were charged with organising an illegal protest. The tough sentence for blogger Vladislav Sinitsa came amid a flurry of legal moves in response …

Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the world will gather in Rome next week to discuss the latest progress in their common goal. It will be an ambitious double spacecraft mission to deflect an asteroid in space, to prove the technique is a viable method of planetary defence. Queen guitarist …

The U.S. and Poland signed an agreement Monday to cooperate on new 5G technology as concerns grow about Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Vice President Mike Pence and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed the deal in Warsaw, where Pence is filling in for President Donald Trump, who scrapped his trip at the last minute because …

Berlin zoo has said its resident panda Meng Meng has delivered twins, the first time one of the endangered animals has given birth in the country. “Meng Meng became a mom – twice! We are so happy, we are speechless,” the zoo tweeted on Monday, posting a video of Meng Meng guiding one of her …

It seemed a match made in hell. The village did not fancy the asylum seekers. The asylum seekers did not fancy the village. Residents of Lisdoonvarna in County Clare, on Ireland’s west coast, rejected a government plan to settle asylum seekers there in a lopsided vote: 197 against, 15 in favour. Authorities ignored the vote …

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are taking to the streets across Britain and outside the gates of Downing Street in protest against Boris Johnson’s move to suspend parliament. Crowds brandished banners pledging to “defend democracy”, chanted “stop the coup” and waved EU flags in London in a bid to resist the parliament shutdown. Demonstrators are …