| In September, Guatemalan migrant Misael Paiz tried to make his way through one of the deadliest border crossings in the Arizona desert. After several hours of walking, he collapsed next to a dirt track called Cemetery Road. Reuters was with the Border Patrol agents when they found his body. |
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| A Republican U.S. representative of Utah who is trailing her Democratic challenger filed a lawsuit seeking to halt vote counting while two incumbent Republican congressmen in California and New Jersey conceded, more than a week after the U.S. midterm elections. |
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| Commentary: Even if Special Counsel Robert Mueller is allowed to complete his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin in 2016, the likelihood of anything he finds making a dramatic change to the political environment or leading to Donald Trump’s removal from office is slim, writes Lincoln Mitchell, a political science teacher at Columbia University. |
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| Prime Minister Theresa May battled to save a draft divorce deal with the European Union after her Brexit secretary and other ministers quit in protest at an agreement they say will trap Britain in the bloc’s orbit for years. Their resignations have also put her position as leader of the Conservative Party - and consequently her premiership - under threat. The prime minister has suffered 18 resignations from her government since last November, ten of which have been related to her approach to Brexit. |
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| The British currency plunged and is set for its second biggest drop this year as opposition mounted at Theresa May’s draft deal for leaving the European Union with a series of resignations. The dollar jumped and traders bought into the safe-haven yen after the Brexit deal was plunged into uncertainty, spooking investors across currency markets. |
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