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EU Council president Donald Tusk, who represents the leaders of member states, seized upon the failure of Prime Minister Theresa May to sell her Brexit plan to lawmakers to suggest Britain stay in the union.

Ireland said it would intensify preparations for a no-deal Brexit. While Germany said it is a bitter day for Europe. Reactions came after MPs vote by a massive 432 to 202 votes against the agreement.

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun was granted asylum in Canada at the request of UN officials.

The self-ruled island has its own currency, flag and government, but is not recognised as an independent state by the UN.

The island nation witnessed a 51-day political crisis after Sirisena controversially sacked prime minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe and installed Rajapaksa in his place in October.

Trump, speaking at the White House before departing for New Orleans, said a Washington Post report that he had concealed details about his meetings with Putin and confiscated his interpreter's notes was false.

The security breach came two weeks into the government shutdown, during which Transportation Security Administration agents have been required to work but have not received paychecks.

The genetic analysis found that the Galveston canines appear to be a hybrid of red wolf and coyote, but Heppenheimer cautions that without additional testing, it's difficult to label the animal.

Virginia State Police said they responded to more than 230 traffic crashes and helped more than 100 disabled vehicles in Virginia from midnight to noon Sunday.

Lawmakers are set to vote on May's Brexit deal on Tuesday, after she shelved plans for a vote in December when it became clear that not enough lawmakers from her own party or others would back the deal she agreed with Brussels.

Poland's counterespionage agency arrested Huawei executive Wang Weijing along with a former Polish security official on Friday on charges of spying for China.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, will board a Korean Air flight from Bangkok to Seoul on Friday night, immigration chief Surachate Hakpark said, before boarding a connecting flight to Canada.

Tim Cook's annual compensation of $15.7 million comprised a base salary of $3 million, a $12 million bonus and $680,000 in what it called "other compensation" that includes private air travel and security expenses.

Several foreign consulates have been evacuated in Melbourne as Australian officials note they are responding to multiple "hazardous material" events in the city.

Belgium is one of two countries, along with the Netherlands, where the euthanasia of people for psychiatric reasons is allowed if they can prove they have "unbearable and untreatable" suffering.

The US State Department reportedly lowered the EU mission's diplomatic status from member state to international organisation late last year.