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Police officers patrolled the streets of Strasbourg morning as a manhunt was underway in northeastern France for a gunman who killed three people and wounded a dozen others at the city’s Christmas market. France raised its security threat to the highest alert level and strengthened border controls as police in the city searched for the suspect. German police also tightened border controls across the Rhine river, officials said. Police identified the suspect as Strasbourg-born Cherif Chekatt, 29, who was known to the intelligence services as a potential security risk. The gunman exchanged shots with security forces twice as he escaped.…

Lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party triggered a confidence vote in her leadership after Britain’s planned divorce from the European Union was plunged into chaos. Graham Brady, the chairman of the party’s so-called 1922 committee, said in a press release the threshold of 15 percent of the parliamentary Conservative Party seeking a confidence vote had been reached. “The threshold of 15 percent of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the leader of the Conservative Party has been exceeded,” Brady said. A ballot will be held between 1800 and 2000 on Wednesday in a room…

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Britain’s Theresa May struggled to get out of the car as she arrived in Berlin to ask Germany’s Angela Merkel for help on the Brexit Withdrawal deal With a waiting official at first unable to open the door, May’s delayed exit was fitting to the delayed key Brexit vote in the British parliament which she suspended a day earlier, acknowledging she would lose it. Britain’s parliament will vote on whether to approve May’s Brexit deal before January 21, her spokesman has now said. Without an approved deal, the options for the world’s fifth largest economy include a last-minute plan B…

Britain’s policy of not revoking its Article 50 Brexit notice has not been changed by a European court ruling saying that the government could do so without needing the consent of European Union counterparts, Brexit minister Stephen Barclay. The European Union’s top court ruled on Monday that the United Kingdom can unilaterally revoke its divorce notice, raising the hopes of pro-Europeans ahead of a crucial vote in the British parliament on Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal.

When we pray, we stand in the stead of Jesus; we’re taking His place. So, we can’t be praying to Him in His Name, or while standing in His stead; that won’t make any spiritual sense.

Greenpeace activists projected messages calling on politicians to take action on climate change onto the venue of the COP24 U.N. climate talks in Katowice, Poland . The slogans: “politicians talk, leaders act,” and “no hope without climate action,” were projected on the roof of the Spodek arena, where government officials and minister are meant to come up with a rule book to reduce emissions as agreed in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Greenpeace is calling for commitment to strengthen national climate plans in line with the 1.5 degrees limit by 2020, a strong rule book that supports action on the…

German rail travellers face heavy delays in the run-up to Christmas. Workers went on a nationwide four-hour strike, with all long-distance trains cancelled. It comes after salary talks broke down last week. Services slowly resumed after 9 a.m. but disruptions are set to continue throughout the day, rail operator Deutsche Bahn said. Although no additional rail strikes have been announced yet, EVG warned that further warning strikes can be expected during the pre-Christmas rush. A separate union, the Union of German Locomotive Drivers (GDL), is expected to continue its parallel talks with DB but warned that its 36,000 members could…

Prime Minister Theresa May will push ahead with a crucial vote on her European Union exit deal, her Brexit minister said as senior lawmakers in her own party piled pressure on the British prime minister to go back to Brussels and seek a better offer. The Prime Minister’s deal, is to be voted on in parliament later this week. Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, a leading Brexit campaigner, told lawmakers on all sides were united against the backstop and losing the vote in parliament would give May a mandate to ask the EU to remove it from the deal.

Thousands of pro-Brexit demonstrators marched through central London during the weekend to protest Prime Minister Theresa May’s European Union exit deal. The so-called ‘Brexit betrayal’ rally was organised by Britain’s eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), and hosted far-right activist Tommy Robinson as a speaker. In the east of the city the “People’s Vote” group also held a rally, calling for a second referendum on EU membership in response to May’s deal.