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Britain's May still in talks with DUP on power deal

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<span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May's office said Sunday (Jun 11) talks were still ongoing with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on seeking its support for a Conservative government after earlier saying an </span><span style="font-size: large;">outline agreement<span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">had been reached.</span></h2>
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May's Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority in a humiliating election Thursday and now need the support of the 10 MPs from Northern Ireland's ultra-conservative DUP to pass votes, sparking widespread calls for her to resign.</div>
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"The prime minister has tonight spoken with the DUP to discuss finalising a confidence and supply deal when Parliament returns next week," a Downing Street spokeswoman said, referring to a deal whereby the DUP would support the government but not enter a formal coalition.</div>
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"We will welcome any such deal being agreed, as it will provide the stability and certainty the whole country requires as we embark on Brexit and beyond."</div>
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The new statement came after Downing Street earlier said the DUP had agreed to the principles of an outline agreement to support a Conservative government.</div>
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The DUP said the "talks so far have been positive", adding: "Discussions will continue next week to work on the details and to reach agreement on arrangements for the new Parliament."</div>
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There was no mention of what concessions the DUP may have asked for, amid growing concern about the influence of a party opposed to abortion and gay marriage.</div>
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The DUP has proved hugely controversial in the past over the homophobic and sectarian views of some of its representatives.</div>
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May is struggling to reassert her leadership, has called an election three years early hoping to strengthen her hand going into Brexit negotiations - only to see the gamble backfire spectacularly.</div>
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Sunday's newspapers were unsparing, with The Observer writing: "Discredited, humiliated, diminished. Theresa May has lost credibility and leverage in her party, her country and across Europe."</div>
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The Mail on Sunday reported that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was set to launch a bid to oust May, while the Sunday Times said five cabinet ministers were urging him to do so.</div>
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Johnson denied the reports as "tripe" and said: "I am backing Theresa May."</div>
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In the Sunday Mirror, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who scored hefty gains in the election, said there was still a chance for him to be prime minister if May failed to form a government.</div>
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"This is still on," he said, adding he would vote down the government's programme when it comes before parliament this month.</div>
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Earlier on Saturday May lost her two closest aides.</div>
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Senior party figures have cautioned against any immediate leadership challenge, saying it would cause only further disruption as Britain prepares to start talks with Brussels as early as June 19.</div>
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But media reports suggest they had demanded the departure of May's joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, as the price for allowing the 60-year-old vicar's daughter to stay in office.</div>
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They were replaced by Gavin Barwell, a former housing minister who lost his seat in the election.</div>
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The resignations of Timothy and Hill, on whom May had been heavily reliant since her previous job at the interior ministry, will be a personal blow.</div>
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Timothy - a combative character who one former colleague said had helped create a "toxic" atmosphere at the heart of the government - said he took responsibility for the Conservative manifesto, including a plan for elderly social care that caused a backlash.</div>
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May is preparing to name the rest of her cabinet after revealing Friday that her five most senior ministers would stay in their posts.</div>
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The Conservatives won 318 out of 650 seats - throwing away a 17-seat majority.</div>
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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, who is gay, was among the first to express disquiet over a deal with the ultra-conservative DUP.</div>
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"I sought, and to be fair to the prime minister, received a categoric assurance that in talking to the DUP that there would be no suggestion of any rollback on LGBTI rights in the rest of the UK," she said.</div>
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Several hundred people - many of them Labour voters - protested in central London against the alliance, with chants of "racist, sexist, anti-gay, the DUP has got to go".</div>
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Joining forces with the hardline Protestant party also threatens London's neutrality in Northern Ireland, which is key to the delicate balance of power in a province once plagued by violence.</div>
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On Brexit, the DUP supports leaving the EU but opposes a return to a "hard" border with Ireland -- which could happen if May carries through her threat to walk away from the talks rather than accept a "bad deal".</div>
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Her real test is likely to come when MPs vote on her programme after it is outlined in Parliament by Queen Elizabeth II on Jun 19.</div>
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May confirmed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a phone call that Britain was ready to begin Brexit negotiations "as planned in the next couple of weeks", reassuring EU leaders who had expressed doubts after her heavy electoral losses</div>
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European Council President Donald Tusk had warned there was "no time to lose" in starting Brexit talks, after May on Mar 29 started the two-year countdown to ending Britain's four-decade membership.</div>
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“I need your help to make it a birthday my husband will never forget,” Melania Trump wrote in an email to supporters. Her husband turns 71 on Wednesday.</div>
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“Our celebrations always include family and close friends. You have certainly proven yourself to be a loyal friend of my husband through your support of his positive vision to Make America Great Again and your unwavering commitment to the Republican Party,” the first lady’s email added.</div>
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“Friend, Donald will be glad to hear from friends like you who have meant so much to his and our Party’s success.”</h3>
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Former first lady Michelle Obama also used to ask supporters to help celebrate her husband Barack’s birthday.</div>
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But the first lady’s appeal came just as ousted FBI chief James Comey was accusing her husband’s administration of lies and defamation at a hearing into Russian interference in the US elections.</h4>

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7 arrested for London attack

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LONDON: Seven people have been arrested in the wake of a <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/four-victims-killed-in-uk-parliament-terrorist-attack/3617136.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665e80; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">terrorist attack in Westminster, London</a> which killed four people and injured 29, Britain's top anti-terrorism officer said on Thursday (Mar 23).</div>
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip a meeting with NATO foreign ministers next month in order to stay home for a visit by China's president and will go to Russia later in April, U.S. officials said on Monday, disclosing an itinerary that allies may see as giving Moscow priority over them.</h2>
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The House of Lords rejected a last-ditch attempt to amend a bill empowering May to begin Brexit, paving the way for it to become law as early as Tuesday.</div>
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The prime minister could then trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty at any time, starting two years of talks that will end with Britain becoming the first country to leave the bloc.</div>
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May's spokesman sought to play down speculation that she would send her notification letter to the European Council on Tuesday, when the bill is expected to receive royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II.</div>
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"We have been clear that the prime minister will trigger Article 50 by the end of March," her spokesman said ahead of the vote, heavily emphasising the word "end".</div>
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But the prospect of an imminent start to Brexit was enough to push the nationalist devolved government in Scotland into calling for a new independence referendum.</div>
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May has said Britain will leave Europe's single market in order to cut immigration, a move that the Scottish National Party (SNP) in power in Edinburgh has warned would be highly damaging to jobs and growth.</div>
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SNP First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said since the June referendum vote for Brexit that Scotland, where a majority wanted to stay in the EU, sought a different future.</div>
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On Monday, she made good on her warning, promising to give Scotland "a choice at the end of this process" by early 2019 - before Britain leaves the EU.</div>
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The European Commission, however, quickly responded saying that Scotland would have to reapply to join the EU rather than inheriting Britain's membership.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">May has the power to block the vote and said that another referendum, after Scots voted by 55 per cent to reject independence in 2014, would only cause "uncertainty and division".</span></div>
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But Sturgeon's call pushes to centre stage one of the prime minister's biggest concerns about Brexit - that it could lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom - as she prepares to fire the starting gun.</div>
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The other 27 European leaders are prepared for Britain to trigger Article 50, which begins a two-year countdown to Brexit, this week.</div>
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However, speculation is growing that it may now be delayed until after a Mar 25 summit in Rome to mark the EU's 60th birthday - timing that would likely be welcomed in Brussels.</div>
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Once May has notified the EU of her decision by letter, the bloc will take just 48 hours to issue its first draft proposal for the negotiations, with a follow-up meeting planned on Apr 6.</div>
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The actual talks are not expected to begin for months.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The bill empowering May to begin Brexit was forced on the government by a Supreme Court ruling and was held up when the House of Lords voted for amendments </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">demanding guarantees for EU nationals' rights and a parliamentary vote on the final withdrawal deal.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Brexit minister David Davis successfully urged MPs to overturn the changes earlier Monday, saying: "We will not enter the negotiations with our hands tied."</span></div>
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The House of Lords then conceded, passing the bill unamended late on Monday.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">'SHAME ON YOU'</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">The Lords amendment demanding protections for more than three million Europeans living in Britain was defeated by 335 votes to 287 by MPs - prompting shouts of "shame on you" from protesters outside.</span></div>
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Around 150 people had gathered to urge MPs to back the change, including Karin Templin, a 39-year-old architect who was born in the US but is now British.</div>
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"I'm appalled at the UK government, at this stupid ridiculous game that means they won't guarantee the rights of everybody who wants to stay in their home and in their jobs. I'm disgusted," she said.</div>
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May's government says it wants to guarantee Europeans' rights to stay in Britain, but cannot until EU leaders offer similar rights to British expatriates.</div>
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The other amendment that was overturned would have given parliament the right to decide whether to accept the final Brexit deal.</div>
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May has promised lawmakers a vote on the deal but only if she accepts it - insisting her ability to walk away will strengthen her hand in negotiations.</div>
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