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A8 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 14 May 2019
UK Brexit talks stagger on but parties remain far apart

LONDON (AP) — Brexit talks The U.K.'s departure from
between Britain's Conser- the EU, long set for March
vative government and 29, has been delayed un-
the main opposition La- til Oct. 31 while Britain's
bour Party resumed Mon- politicians try to break the
day with little sign of prog- deadlock.
ress, as the two parties re- Anger at the Brexit mo-
mained far apart on terms rass is fueling support for
of the U.K.'s departure from smaller parties ahead of a
the European Union. European Parliament elec-
Senior Conservative and tion next week. The newly
Labour officials have been formed Brexit Party, led by
meeting for weeks in an former U.K. Independence
attempt to find a compro- Party head Nigel Farage, is
mise Brexit deal that can leading opinion polls for the
win majority support in Par- May 23 contest and could
liament. take the largest share of
Labour Brexit spokesman Britain's 73 seats in the EU
Keir Starmer told Monday's legislature.
Guardian newspaper his The pro-EU Liberal Demo-
party would only support a crats have also seen their
deal if was put to a referen- Running for re-election as an MEP, European Parliament Brexit chief Guy Verhofstadt, center, who popularity surge as voters
is the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, speaks as he stands with the
dum vote. leader of the British Liberal Democrats party Vince Cable, center left, as they pose for the media turn their frustration on the
Starmer said that as many with supporters in Camden Square, London, Friday, May 10, 2019. two big parties.
as 150 of Labour's 246 law- Associated Press Conservative lawmaker
makers "would not back a Huw Merriman said his
deal if it hasn't got a confir- to leave the EU. al of what people voted give Parliament votes on a party faced "an absolute
matory vote." Foreign Secretary Jeremy for, and we want to imple- series of Brexit options in an mauling" in the European
Prime Minister Theresa May Hunt said it was "a crunch ment the first referendum. attempt to see if any has election.
has rejected a new ref- week" for the talks. But let's see where these majority support. He told the BBC that pro-
erendum, saying voters He said the Conservative talks go to." Previous "indicative votes" EU voters will "blame us for
made their decision in 2016 Party believed a new refer- If the cross-party talks fail, failed to find agreement on having tried to take us out"
when they narrowly opted endum "would be a betray- the government says it will any way forward. of the bloc.q

Denied graves by Nazis, resistance fighters finally buried

By DAVID RISING fighters could become
BERLIN (AP) — Executed for martyrs' cemeteries, so to
standing up against Ad- speak, and they wanted to
olf Hitler's dictatorship and avoid this," Tuchel told The
then denied graves so as Associated Press.
not to become a rallying Stieve's main focus was on
point for others, the partial female menstrual cycles,
remains of 300 Nazi resis- and he wrote papers on
tance fighters were laid to how stress affected the fe-
rest Monday in a solemn male reproductive system.
ceremony in a downtown The tissue samples discov-
Berlin cemetery. ered by Stieve's heirs were
The small wooden box low- primarily taken from wom-
ered into the square gran- en, aged 20 to 40, and
ite-edged plot included the doctor would have
remains of Erika von Brock- certainly known that they
dorff, who was beheaded didn't die of natural causes,
in the Nazis' notorious Plo- Tuchel told relatives and
etzensee Prison on May 13, others who packed the
1943 — exactly 76 years small chapel at the Doro-
ago — for her involvement theenstaedtischer Cem-
in the famous Red Orches- etery for a multi-denomina-
tra resistance movement. A cemetery staff member holds a box with the remains of political prisoners of the Nazi regime in tional service by Protestant
"I'm just happy that there is Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 13, 2019. and Catholic priests and
now this place," reflected Associated Press a Jewish rabbi before the
her daughter, 81-year-old burial.
Saskia von Brockdorff, after The remains — fragments of but was complicit in their deal with Nazi authorities to "It was clear they were in-
sprinkling handfuls of earth tissue — were discovered crimes, said Johannes quickly receive the bodies volved in the resistance
into the grave. "We always two years ago by descen- Tuchel, director of the Ger- of victims who had been and were executed for
drove with my sons to Plo- dants of Hermann Stieve, man Resistance Memorial executed for his research, their activities," he said.
etzensee, but that is really the former director of the Center, who was involved in exchange for agreeing Overall, more than 2,800
a place of execution even Berlin Institute of Anatomy in the investigation into the to leave no traces of their people were executed by
if it is not what it was then, at the Charite hospital. remains and organizing bodies behind. hanging or guillotine at the
and I'm glad I can come Stieve wasn't a member their burial. Among other "The Nazis worried that the Ploetzensee prison during
here now." of the Nazi party himself, things, Stieve reached a graves of the resistance the Nazi era.q