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July 09, 2018 Cabinet crisis: Johnson, Davis resign PM's Brexit plan
David Davis out. Boris Johnson out. Did Theresa May clear the air or is the UK prime minister circling the wagons? The resignation of her foreign and Brexit ministers follows last Friday's closed door retreat at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, where she chose in favor of a deal that keeps trade flowing with the continent and the border open with Ireland. Will the resignations weaken or strengthen her hand?
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July 05, 2018 Novichok II: What's behind new nerve agent poisoning in England?
Some are calling it Novichok II. Just a few kilometers from where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned four months, an area couple are in critical condition, victims of the same military grade nerve agent. Moscow again denies unleashing novichok, its offers to help in the probe once again rejected by London. A new attack or were the couple collateral victims of the remnants of the first attack?
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July 04, 2018 Power grab? Protests in Poland as government forces out judges
Is Poland's democracy at stake? A new law gives the country's president the discretion to retire any justice over 65, which happens to be the age of Malgorzata Gersdorf. In all, twenty-seven of the court's 73 judges are affected. After common courts and the constitutional council, it's the last piece of the judiciary to effectively fall under the orders of the justice minister. Is it a power grab? What options do the opposition and civil society have?
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July 03, 2018 And in the end... Merkel wins : the coalition survives after border compromise
Has Angela Merkel caved to hardliners... or once again quietly demolished a political rival? We'll read the fine print on a late night compromise with her conservative interior minister on new transit centers for migrants at the Bavarian border. Has Merkel won or is her grand coalition still on tenuous ground? On the day the new hardline Austrian chancellor visits Brussels to mark his country's six-month rotating presidency of the E-U, what future for the ideals of the center-right?
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July 02, 2018 Mexico's historic sweep: Can López Obrador make good on reform?
Even elimination against Brazil at the World Cup won't be enough to stop the celebrating. Not only has Mexico elected its first left-wing president in decades, it's also on track to hand Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador an outright majority in congress. But can Amlo deliver? We ask our panel whether the 64-year old's a radical or a reformer and see how the firebrand former mayor of Mexico City can or cannot make good on his promise to tackle corruption, violence, and fight for the poor.
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June 28, 2018 The big divide: E.U summit split over border policy
Europe's big divide. The stakes couldn't be higher at the Brussels summit with the German chancellor warning that the E.U's fate hangs in the balance of a deal on border policy. Can compromise be reached?
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June 27, 2018 Mexico swings left: Firebrand Lopez Obrador tipped for historic win
He likes to call himself a "high risk politician."No, we're not talking about Donald Trump...but the man who come Sunday could become Mexico's first-ever left wing president. Supporters hail André Manuel Lopez Obrador as a crusading maverick, detractors as a populist demagogue. We'll ask how the 64-year old former mayor of Mexico City went from perennial loser to runaway favorite.
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June 26, 2018 Unholy rift: Macron visits pope amid migrant row with Italy
What a week to have a trip to Rome planned. Emmanuel Macron received at the Vatican where he became the first French president in a long while to take up the traditional title of honorary canon of Saint John Lateran. We'll look at the Jesuit-educated Macron's visit with the Pope... how an agnostic manages a nation of lapsed Catholics... The elephant in the room? The big hole in the French leader's agenda...
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June 25, 2018 Erdogan Almighty: Turkey elections hand president enhanced powers
This time, Recep Tayep Erdogan has truly got unbridled power.Turkey's leader of 15 years winning reelection with an outright majority in Sunday's first round to become the first president with enhanced executive powers. How will he use those powers, powers borne of the constitutional reform he pushed through last year. At 64, Erdogan is now set to become Turkey's longest-serving leader of the modern era, eclipsing the republic's founder Kamal Ataturk.
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June 22, 2018 Zero Tolerance: Does Border Security Trump Compassion?
In the United States, the Trump administration has gone back on its decision to separate migrant children from their parents at the border. But confusion still reigns over the fate of the 23-hundred kids detained. Can this situation be remedied? Also on the programme, Turkish President Erdogan is likely to win Sunday's presidential elections.The government's human rights violations and lack of freedom of the press are well known abroad. Is the government a dictatorship?
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