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Tuesday 17 July 2018
British PM accepts key amendments from hardline Brexiteers

By GREGORY KATZ break with Europe. They
LONDON (AP) — British said the changes would
Prime Minister Theresa May greatly limit May's ability to
on Monday accepted move forward with the plan
amendments to a customs that prompted two hardlin-
bill put forward by Brexit ers in her Cabinet to resign
hardliners who oppose her in protest last week — and
plan for a "common rule fresh resignations of lesser
book" with the European figures Monday.
Union after the country The amendments seek to
leaves the bloc. limit the government's abil-
Even with those unwanted ity to set up the customs
concessions, the govern- arrangements May has
ment only barely won a advocated, which would
Monday night vote, gain- keep close ties to Europe.
ing 305 votes in favor and They were proposed by the
302 against. The bill would European Research Group,
prevent Britain from col- the research arm of May's
lecting tariffs on behalf of Conservative Party which
EU nations unless the EU is headed by lawmaker Ja-
does the same for the UK cob Rees-Mogg.
The government avoided British Prime Minister Theresa May meets representatives during a visit to the Airbus at the May also came under
Farnborough Airshow, England, Monday, July 16, 2018.
what would have been an Associated Press fire Monday from a for-
embarrassing defeat, but mer Cabinet minister who
the razor-thin margin re- Brexit process forward. ments because it sees them week. However, critics said called for a new Brexit ref-
veals the fragility of May's A Downing Street spokes- as consistent with the prime May had caved in to pres- erendum, an idea immedi-
support as she tries to find a man said the government minister's plan as set out in sure from Brexit support- ately rejected by the prime
way to move the complex accepted the amend- a formal white paper last ers who want a complete minister's team.q

Archaeologists in Egypt discover mummification workshop

By MENNA ZAKI ing back to more than 2,500 The discovery which in- Persian Period, from 664- mine of information about
Associated Press years ago near Egypt's cludes a mummification 404 B.C. The site, which lies the chemical composition
CAIRO (AP) — Archae- famed pyramids at an an- workshop and a shaft, south of the Unas pyramid, of these oils," said Rama-
ologists in Egypt stumbled cient necropolis south of used as a communal buri- was last excavated more dan Hussein, the head of
upon a new discovery dat- Cairo. al place, is located at the than 100 years ago, in 1900. the German-Egyptian mis-
sion, at the press confer-
ence.
Among the artifacts found
were fragments of mummy
cartonnages, canopic cy-
lindrical jars and marl clay
and faience cups. Many
will be displayed in the
under-construction Grand
Egyptian Museum, the first
phase of which is expected
to be inaugurated later this
year.
Archaeologists also found
a gilded silver mask on
the face of a mummy in a
badly-damaged wooden
A recently discovered mummy mask is displayed at hall way coffin. The mask, the first to
of a burial chamber dating back 2,500 years at an ancient be discovered since 1939,
necropolis in Saqqara, Giza, Saturday, July 14, 2018.
Associated Press belongs to a priest.
"The finding of this mask
could be called a sensa-
Saqqara necropolis of In the mummification work- tion," Hussein said. "Very
Memphis, the first capital shop, an embalmer's ca- few masks of precious met-
of ancient Egypt. Memphis, chette holding a large als have been preserved to
a UNESCO World Heritage collection of pottery ves- the present day, because
Site, and its vast necropolis sels, bowels and measuring the tombs of most Ancient
are home to a wide range cups were found. Archae- Egyptian dignitaries were
of temples and tombs as ologists believe the findings looted in ancient times."
well as the three renowned will reveal more about the Down the 30-meter-deep
Giza pyramids. oils used in the mummifica- shaft is a host of burial
The latest find, announced tion process in the 26th Dy- chambers carved into the
at a press conference Sat- nasty. bedrock lining the sides of
urday, belongs to the Saite- "We are in front of a gold- two hallways. q