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Brexit Deal Voted Down in Record Defeat

The House of Commons voted 432-202 against the Prime Minister’s deal.

Parliament in the UK has inflicted a crushing defeat on Theresa May's government over its Brexit deal, throwing the process of Britain's planned departure from the European Union into doubt.

Security forces in Kenya are still trying to break a siege by suspected Islamist militants in the capital, Nairobi. Four men targeted a hotel complex with explosives and bullets on Tuesday afternoon, and at least six people have died.

This month, the Cuban Revolution turned sixty. Last year, a non-Castro took the reins of power for the first time, with Miguel Diaz-Canel at the helm. Has he been a reformer, or a throwback to the hard-line communism of earlier years?

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