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Boris Johnson is expected to be elected leader of Britain’s governing Conservative Party and the next prime minister on Tuesday, tasked with following through on his “do or die” pledge to deliver Brexit in just over three months time. Johnson and his …
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NPR’s Steve Inkeep talks to political anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla, who has been protesting in Puerto Rico to force the governor to resign.
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Members of the ruling conservative party have voted to choose a new leader to replace Theresa May, who is resigning. The favorite is Boris Johnson, a former foreign secretary and mayor of London.
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For weeks Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been touting a plan for a shipping security coalition in the Persian Gulf. It still hasn’t come together and he’s told Britain to protect its ships itself.
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NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute, and formerly of the National Iranian American Council, about how current tensions in the Persian Gulf are affecting Iranian politics.
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Iran warned Britain’s next prime minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday that it will “protect” waters of the oil-rich Gulf, amid a standoff between the two countries over the seizure of tankers. In the face of rising hostilities with the United States, Ira…
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(Bloomberg) — Boris Johnson addressed Conservative members of Parliament after he was elected their leader and ruled out an early general election. He is preparing to take over as U.K. prime minister on Wednesday and is facing a new civil war inside t…
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Investing.com – Oil prices gave back some recent gains on Tuesday as the U.K. offered a conciliatory tone its recent dispute with Iran in the Gulf, while markets prepped for the release of U.S. crude inventories.
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(Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. set records for lobbying in the second quarter as Washington ramped up scrutiny of big technology companies, while Google’s spending dipped as it continued to reshuffle its influence operations.The world…
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Regime and Russian air strikes killed 50 people in northwest Syria on Monday, most of them in a crowded market, a war monitor said, in the latest violence to plague the opposition bastion. In the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province, men covered in blood were carried away from the market by residents and rescue workers, who used mattresses as makeshift stretchers, an AFP photographer said. He saw the corpse of one man sprawled on the ground near a motorcycle, rubble surrounding his lifeless body. With his eyes closed and his face covered in dust, another man clutched the arms of two people helping him out of the bombed area, the photographer added. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes on the vegetable market and surrounding areas in Maaret al-Numan killed 36 civilians and two unidentified persons. A member of the Syrian civil defence, known as the White Helmets, rests atop an excavator after participating in a search for victims under the rubble of buildings Credit: ABDULAZIZ KETAZ/AFP/Getty Images The Britain-based monitor said Russian aircraft carried out the air raids, but Moscow denied it was responsible. “The Russian air force was not carrying out any missions in this part of Syria,” said a defence ministry statement. More than 100 other people were wounded, according to the monitor, which said many of those injured were in a critical condition and people remained trapped under the rubble. The head of the local hospital, Radwan Shardub, described his horror at seeing “burnt and carbonised bodies, and body parts”. “It’s boundless criminality to shameful international silence,” he said. The White Helmets rescue group said one of its volunteers was killed during the raids, raising the number of rescue workers killed since April to at least 6. A member of the Syrian civil defence, known as the White Helmets, helps an injured Syrian child after pulling him out from under the rubble Credit: OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images The jihadist-run Idlib region, home to some three million people, is supposed to be protected by a months-old international truce deal, but it has come under increased bombardment by the Syrian regime and its ally Russia since late April. The spike in violence has killed more than 690 civilians, and damaged or knocked out of service two dozen health facilities in jihadist-held territory. More than 330,000 people have fled violence in the area over the past three months, according to the United Nations.
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Donald Trump is turning into the “face of racism and exclusion” following his attacks targeting four congresswomen of colour, the chief executive of Siemens has said.In one of the sharpest rebukes from a major business leader against the president, Joe Kaeser, who leads the German industrial giant, responded to a news article about a Trump rally in North Carolina last week, when supporters directed a hostile chant towards Democrat Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, yelling “Send her back!”The president had earlier targeted Ms Omar, who was born in Somalia and is a naturalized US citizen, in a racist tweet, saying on Twitter that she and three other Democrats, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, should “go back” to “the crime infested places from which they came”.”I find it depressing that the most important political office in the world is turning into the face of racism and exclusion,” Mr Kaeser said on Twitter.”I have lived in the USA for many years, experiencing freedom, tolerance and openness as never before.”Mr Kaeser has previously used his position as the head of one of Europe’s most powerful manufacturers to take a stand on political issues.Last year, he backed out of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia following the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.Despite his own attacks, Mr Trump has since attempted to distance himself from the crowd’s chant, claiming that he tried to stop it by “speaking very quickly”.In fact, Mr Trump paused for 13 seconds during the rally to let the chant continue.While business executives have criticised Mr Trump’s policies and rhetoric in his two and a half years in office, including opposition to the administration’s family separation policy at the southern US border, the recoil against the president’s latest derogatory remarks have come mainly from US lawmakers and world leaders.The leaders of the UK, Canada and New Zealand were among those denouncing Mr Trump’s comments. Mr Kaeser’s compatriot, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said she “stands in solidarity” with the congresswomen Mr Trump targeted on Twitter.”In my view, the strength of America lies in that people from different (origins) contributed to what makes the country great,” she said at a news conference last week, according to Business Insider.While some of Mr Trump’s political allies have condemned the chant, they have been careful not to directly denounce the president.”The chants were offensive and very unfortunate, and it did not speak well of that crowd,” said Utah senator Mitt Romney, who was the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee for president.”I’ve said what I believe about the president’s responsibility in this regard, which is, I believe he has a special responsibility to unite Americans regardless of our ethnicity, race, national origin, and feel that he failed in that regard.”The Washington Post
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