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May’s cabinet confronts Brexit crisis

Bloomberg Theresa May is expected to confront her most senior ministers with the potentially explosive option of delaying Brexit by months, as the UK struggles to find a plan for leaving the European Union. The British prime minister will hold five hours of crisis talks with her cabinet, with the pro- and anti-Brexit factions in her top team set to ...

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After Idai, Mozambique Cholera cases top 1,000

Bloomberg Mozambique has confirmed more than 1,000 cases of cholera as an outbreak of the water-borne disease spreads following a tropical cyclone last month which has so far killed at least 598 people in the southeast African nation. The number of cholera infections rose from 246 on March 30, the health ministry said in a statement. President Filipe Nyusi last ...

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Trump tax cut would equal 6,500 miles of wall

Here’s an interesting exercise: Compare what is arguably President Donald Trump’s signature policy achievement, the late 2017 tax cut, with perhaps his top policy goal, a wall on the border with Mexico, in purely numerical terms. Set aside for the moment all the political and social arguments about immigration and the border. The companies in the S&P 500 have already ...

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