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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Monday 17 SepteMber 2018





























            UK leader: Talk of leadership


            during Brexit ‘irritating’





            By GREGORY KATZ              night to discuss her possible  Writing  in  The  Observer,
             Associated Press            ouster.                      Khan  said  Britain  faces  ei-
            LONDON  (AP)  —  British  In  the  interview,  May  said  ther a bad deal or no deal
            Prime Minister Theresa May  the leadership talk can be  at all — options he said are
            concedes  that  she  gets  distracting.                   “incredibly risky.”
            “irritated”  by  the  debate  “I get a little bit irritated, but  He said the public deserves
            over  her  leadership  during  this debate is not about my  a right to choose between
            the  difficult  Brexit  negotia-  future. This debate is about  any  deal  reached  by  the
            tions.                       the future of the people of  government  or  staying  in
            She  told  the  BBC  in  an  in-  the  U.K.  and  the  future  of  the  EU.  He  said  that  if  no
            terview  scheduled  to  be  the  United  Kingdom,”  she  deal  is  reach,  the  public
            broadcast  Monday  that  said.  “That’s  what  I’m  fo-   should  be  able  to  choose
            she  is  concerned  for  the  cused on, and that’s what  between  the  “no  deal”
            country’s  future,  not  her  we  should  all  be  focused  scenario  or  remaining  in   In this July 24, 2018 file photo, British Prime Minister Theresa May
            own, as talks about Britain’s  on.” The opposition Labour  the bloc.                   listens  at  the  start  of  her  meeting  with  the  Qatar’s  emir  at  10
            upcoming exit from the Eu-   Party is also increasingly di-  The  mayor’s  stance  is  ex-  Downing Street in London.
            ropean Union continue.       vided over the Brexit issue.  pected  to  put  more  pres-                                         Associated Press
            May  faces  a  split  in  her  London Mayor Sadiq Khan  sure  on  Corbyn  at  the  La-  plan  to  keep  some  close  caused a furor by compar-
            Conservative  Party,  with  broke ranks on Sunday with  bour Party conference lat-     ties to the EU after Brexit.  ing May’s Brexit strategy to
            some influential figures pre-  party  leader  Jeremy  Cor-  er this month.             Johnson,  who  is  seen  by  a “suicide vest.”
            ferring  a  more  complete  byn to publicly back a sec-   In  her  interview,  May  criti-  many  analysts  as  position-  “I  have  to  say  that  that
            break with the EU than she  ond referendum of wheth-      cized former Foreign Secre-  ing  himself  as  a  possible  choice  of  language  is
            is  advocating.  Roughly  50  er Britain should go forward  tary Boris Johnson, who re-  successor to the embattled  completely inappropriate,”
            hard-liners  met  Tuesday  with plans to leave the EU.    signed in July to protest her  prime   minister,   recently  May said.q

            Roads shut after 2 fall ill in U.K. city where ex-spy poisoned




            LONDON  (AP)  —  British  unconscious  on  a  bench                                                                 rant in Salisbury was under
            police  closed  roads  and  in March. Its residents were                                                            investigation.  “As  a  pre-
            called  a  hazardous  re-    put back on edge in June                                                               cautionary  measure,  the
            sponse team Sunday night  when a man and a woman                                                                    restaurant and surrounding
            after  two  people  became  living in a nearby town was                                                             roads have been cordoned
            ill at a restaurant in the Eng-  hospitalized  with  signs  of                                                      off while officers attend the
            lish city where a Russian ex-  exposure to the same Sovi-                                                           scene  and  establish  the
            spy and his daughter were  et-made nerve agent, Nov-                                                                circumstances  surrounding
            poisoned  with  a  chemical  ichok. The woman, 44-year-                                                             what  has  led  them  to  fall
            nerve agent.                 old Dawn Sturgess, died.                                                               ill,” Wiltshire police said in a
            Wiltshire  Police  described  Britain’s   counter-terrorism                                                         statement.
            the  emergency  steps  tak-  police said this month they                                                            British  prosecutors  have
            en in response to “a medi-   think  Sturgess’  boyfriend                                                            charged  two  Russian  men
            cal incident” in Salisbury as  found  a  counterfeit  per-                                                          in  absentia  with  poison-
            precautions. The city spent  fume    bottle   containing                                                            ing  Sergei  Skripal  and  his
            months  with  quarantine  remnants of the substance                                                                 daughter, Yulia. They have
            tents  and  investigators  in  originally  applied  on  the   Emergency services personnel stage outside Prezzo restaurant,   alleged  Alexander  Petrov
            full-body  protective  gear  front door of Skripals home   Sunday,  Sept.  16,  2018,  in  Salisbury,  United  Kingdom,  where   and  Ruslan  Boshirov  were
            combing  for  evidence  af-  in  Salisbury.  The  conditions   police have closed streets as a “precautionary measure” after   Russian intelligence agents,
                                                                      two people were taken ill from the restaurant, amid heightened
            ter  Sergei  Skripal  and  his  of a man and woman who    tensions after the Novichok poisonings earlier in the year.   which  they  and  Moscow
            adult daughter were found  got  sick  at  Prezzo  restau-                                          Associated Press  have denied.q
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