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  May warns of catastrophe if MPs don’t back Brexit deal

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:00am on January 14, 2019

  British prime minister Theresa May on Sunday warned MPs preparing to vote down her EU divorce deal that failing to deliver Brexit would be a...

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  WHO study likens palm oil lobbying to tobacco, alcohol industries

  Reuters . Geneva | Updated at 01:04am on January 10, 2019

  The palm oil industry is deploying tactics similar to those of the alcohol and tobacco industries to influence research into the health effects of its...

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  Global natural disasters wreak $160b damage in 2018: Munich Re

  Agence France-Presse . Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Updated at 11:30am on January 09, 2019

  Natural disasters including wildfires, hurricanes and tsunamis inflicted $160 billion of damage and claimed 10,400 lives in 2018, German reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday. The...

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  Drop beef and save millions of lives, slash emissions: WEF

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 12:00am on January 04, 2019

  Switching from beef to alternative proteins could save millions of lives and dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions, the World Economic Forum said Thursday.....

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  Brexit can be a good crisis

  Anthony Barnett | Updated at 12:00am on January 04, 2019

  Brexit is not about Brexit. Certainly not just about Europe. It poses matters both economic and democratic simultaneously as it demands an answer to the...

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  Borders know no love

  Belén Fernández  | Updated at 12:00am on December 24, 2018

  DURING a Thanksgiving Day teleconference with members of the US armed forces, US president Donald Trump took the opportunity to exult over the intensified militarisation...

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  Perfidious Albion gets its comeuppance

  Deena Stryker | Updated at 12:00am on December 24, 2018

  THERESA May is no Maggie Thatcher! Though just as dogged, the current British prime minister, lacking Thatcher’s true grit, is paying for centuries of British...

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  May tours Europe in desperate bid to save Brexit deal

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 01:27am on December 12, 2018

  Embattled British prime minister Theresa May embarked on a tour of European capitals on Tuesday in a desperate bid to salvage her Brexit deal, a...

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  May heads to Europe in bid to save Brexit deal under fire

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 11:05am on December 11, 2018

  British prime minister Theresa May will visit Germany's Angela Merkel Tuesday as she works to salvage her Brexit deal, the day after delaying a parliamentary...

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  On extremism and democracy in Europe

  Cas Mudde | Updated at 12:00am on December 05, 2018

  This introduction to the updated Greek edition of the 2016 book, On Extremism and Democracy in Europe, brings to its thought-provoking chronological account three more...