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EU unwilling to accept May's 3-month Brexit delay

UK Prime Minister Theresa May asked for a three-month delay to Brexit yesterday to buy time to get her twice-rejected departure deal through parliament, but the request faced immediate resistance from the European Commission. Full Story

May to ask for Brexit delay as uncertainty continues at Westminster

Downing Street confirmed Tuesday that British Prime Minister Theresa May will write to European Council President Donald Tusk asking for Britain's departure from the bloc to be delayed. Full Story

Black box data show "clear similarities" between Indonesian and Ethiopian crashes: France's BEA

France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA), which is investigating the recent crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX plane, announced on Monday that it had found similarities between the doomed jet and Indonesia's Lion Air flight of the same model that crashed into the sea in October last year. Full Story

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