<strong>The</strong> International News Weekly WORLD January 18, 2018 | Toronto 04 UK opposition seeks end of May’s ‘zombie govt’ as PM faces no-trust motion Washington : Kim Yong-chol, North Korea’s lead negotiator in nuclear talks with the US, is expected to arrive in Washington on Thursday, according to informed sources. After his arrival, Yongchol is likely to meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US special representative to North Korea Steve Biegun on Friday, CNN quoted informed sources as saying on Wednesday. It remains unclear if he will visit the White House. <strong>The</strong> dates for meetings between North Korea’s top negotiator and US officials in Washington have only been confirmed to CNN by London: <strong>The</strong> UK on Wednesday stood at its most dangerous crossroads in decades after parliament emphatically rejected PM <strong>The</strong>resa May’s Brexit deal and left her facing an uncomfortable vote to oust her government Pressing for May’s ouster, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said she was leading a “zombie government” and that her “Frankenstein deal is dead”. Corbyn tabled a no-confidence motion against May immediately after her withdrawal deal was voted down by a 230 majority on Tuesday night. “ This government cannot govern and cannot command the support of parliament on the most important issue facing our country. Every single previous prime minister in this situation would have resigned and called an election. <strong>The</strong> blame for this mess lies at the feet of the PM and her government,” Corbyn said as the House of Commons debated his motion on Wednesday. But May remained defiant against the challenge to her the US side. A source familiar with US-North Korea denuclearisation talks told CNN that the meetings would happen “by this weekend”. No firm details have been publicly announced yet. leadership. “I believe a general election is the worst thing we could do. It would deepen division when we need unity, bring chaos when we need certainty North Korean negotiator headed to Washington; will meet Secy of State “A lot of positive things are happening. He (Trump) and Chairman Kim (Jongun) have established a good relationship, and conversations between the United States and North Korea continue,” a White House spokesperson told CNN. “We are working to make progress on our goal of achieving the final, fully verified denuclearisation of North Korea, and the President looks forward to meeting Chairman Kim again at their second summit at a place and time yet to be determined.” <strong>The</strong> location and the date of the second summit are expected to be discussed during the meeting in Washington. Yong-chol last came to the US in June 2018. He visited New York and met Pompeo before travelling to Washington, where he delivered a letter from Kim Jongun to Trump in the Oval Office. and bring delay when we need to move forward,” she told MPs. “It is not in the national interest.” May was widely expected to see off the opposition’s bid to bring down her government, having secured the backing of her own party’s rebels and the small Northern Irish party which props up her minority administration. However, many within and outside May’s party have criticised her for not getting cross-party support for the withdrawal deal from the EU in the first place. <strong>The</strong>y include Gina Miller, who took the government to court, forcing the government to hold the meaningful vote. She told Sky News: “It should be cross-party, remainers, leavers and other parties negotiating this deal.” PIO Labour MP Seema Malhotra said during the debate: “In 2017 she went to the country and asked for a mandate, she lost her majority. Last night she saw the biggest defeat for a government vote in the history of this House. She has refused to open dialogue with the front bench. This looks like more of a strategy to divide and conquer rather than to bring this House and country together and work out how we move forward.” Punjab-origin Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP called on May to resign, telling the House: “Homelessness has spiralled out of control and the usage of food banks has risen exponentially.” However there was a ray of hope that a Brexit crisis could be averted as on Wednesday EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said that if May shifted on her red lines, the EU was open to renegotiation. It is widely expected that Article 50 will get extended and a nodeal Brexit will not happen. Israeli student killed in 'horrendous attack' in Australia Melbourne : An Israeli woman who was killed in the Australian city of Melbourne had been on the telephone to her sister when she was followed from public transport and attacked close to the university where she was studying, police said on Thursday. <strong>The</strong> body of Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was found by passers-by early on Wednesday near La Trobe University's Bundoora campus in the northeast of Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city. Police described her as an Israeli national. "This is an horrendous crime that has been inflicted on an innocent member of our community," Detective Inspector Andrew Stamper told a news briefing on Thursday. "Our presumption is that this was a random attack and opportunistic," he said. It was the second time in seven months that a young woman had been killed on her way home at night in Melbourne, which has an active night life and is popular with overseas university students. Police said Maasarwe had taken a tram home after an evening out seeing a comedy show. She had been speaking with her sister on the phone at the time of the attack and her sister alerted authorities, Stamper said. "She heard the sound of the fall, the phone falling to the ground and heard some voices and that was it," he said. Family members arrived from Israel on Thursday. Maasarwe had been in Melbourne on a six-month study abroad programme as part of a degree at Shanghai Android 'Q' may bring system-wide 'Dark Mode' San Francisco : A leaked preview of Google-owned operating system (OS) Android's next major update tentatively named "Q" has confirmed several new features and tweaks including "Dark Mode" as a system theme, according to media reports. <strong>The</strong> "Dark Mode" in Android Q OS would turn quick settings, launcher, volume panel and other elements part of the user interface (UI) to turn into pitch black colour. "XDA acquired the latest internal build of Android 'Q' and flashed it on a Pixel 3 XL with screenshots of this build, featuring the February 2019 security patch," 9To5Google reported late on Wednesday. <strong>The</strong> leak also suggested a "Developer" option to "override force-dark" where apps that do not feature built-in themes switch from white backgrounds to dark gray. <strong>The</strong> new update leak also displays a redesigned app info screen "Material <strong>The</strong>me" elements like a new row of buttons for uninstalling, force stop and opening the app. Other changes involve the Ambient Display moving the battery indicator to the top-right corner, while new "Time to take action" and "Time to read" settings possibly let users customise heads-up notifications, the report added. University. Police said forensic testing was being conducted on two pieces of clothing found nearby that they believe was likely to have been left by the person responsible for her death. In June, 22-year-old Eurydice Dixon was followed as she walked home from performing at a Melbourne comedy club before she was sexually assaulted and killed in a central park. Dixon's death provoked an outpouring of grief, with more than 5,000 people attending a vigil at the park, and a wider push by police to acknowledge that women should be free to come home alone late at night and be safe. More broadly, Australia has been reviewing its policies around violence against women. Sixty-nine women died violently in Australia in 2018, up from 54 in 2017, according to community group Destroy the Joint.
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