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• Boris Johnson given two-week EU deadline for Irish backstop plan

   
  18 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Daniel Boffey in Brussels — Brexit, Boris Johnson, European Union, Foreign policy, Politics, UK news, Europe, Trade policy, Michel Barnier, Jean-Claude Juncker
  Ultimatum comes as sources say PM was ‘surprised’ by levels of checks on the border Boris Johnson has been set a two-week deadline to table a plan for replacing the Irish backstop as further embarrassing details emerged of the prime minister’s chaotic visit to Luxembourg. France’s president, (...)

• Dutch Saint Nicholas parade to replace blackface with ’sooty faces’

   
  18 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Jon Henley — Netherlands, Christmas, Race, World news, Europe
  The Zwarte Pieten, or Black Petes, who accompany Sinterklaas have been the subject of protests After years of debate and at times violent protest, this year’s Christmas-season Saint Nicholas parade in the Netherlands will not feature white people in blackface makeup, the public broadcaster that (...)

• Midwinter Ball: Canberra’s political class dress to impress – in pictures

   
  18 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Mike Bowers — Canberra, Australia news, Australian politics, World news
  MPs and senators rubbed shoulders with business leaders and celebrities at the annual press gallery ball in Parliament House Continue reading...

• Businessman abducted and assaulted in ’horrific attack’ near Irish border

   
  18 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin — Ireland, Anglo Irish Bank, Europe, World news, Business, Northern Ireland
  Kevin Lunney runs firms formerly owned by Seán Quinn, who racked up €2bn debt in gamble on Anglo Irish Bank An executive running companies once owned by one of Ireland’s richest men has been found at the side of a road near the Irish border after being abducted and assaulted in a “horrific (...)

• Remove hook-nose sign language gesture, Jewish group demands

   
  18 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Daniel Boffey in Brussels — Judaism, Antisemitism, Belgium, Deafness and hearing impairment, World news
  Calls for ‘racist and humiliating’ gesture to be removed from online guide to Flemish signing An organisation representing Jewish communities in Europe are demanding the removal of a “racist and humiliating” depiction of Jews as having large hooked noses from an online dictionary of Flemish sign (...)

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