{"id":62984,"date":"2017-02-01T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62984"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:20:44","slug":"world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/01\/world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK Commons overwhelmingly backs Brexit bill<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

MPs have voted by a majority of 384 to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way.
\nThey backed the government’s European Union Bill, supported by the Labour leadership, by 498 votes to 114.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-38833883<\/a><\/p>\n

TRUMP’S STATESMAN
\nEx-oil executive Rex Tillerson confirmed as Secretary of State<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Rex Tillerson as secretary of State, as part of a fast-paced day for majority Republicans who also pushed past Democratic resistance to advance three other President Trump Cabinet picks to a final vote.
\nThe vote to confirm the former ExxonMobil executive as the country’s top diplomat was 56-43.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/02\/01\/senate-confirms-tillerson-as-secretary-state-in-gop-push-to-fill-trump-cabinet.html<\/p>\n

Trump says McConnell should \u2018go nuclear\u2019 if court pick stalled, as Dems split on tactics<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

President Trump said Wednesday he\u2019d urge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to go nuclear\u201d if his Supreme Court nominee is held up, raising the stakes in what already has become an impassioned Senate fight over Judge Neil Gorsuch.
\nhttp:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/02\/01\/trump-says-mcconnell-should-go-nuclear-if-court-pick-stalled-as-dems-split-on-tactics.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Donald, duck! Now the Europeans are coming after you<\/span><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s one thing to watch Chuck Schumer manufacture tears for immigrants, or Nancy Pelosi critique a nominee for the Supreme Court, for whom she is not entitled to vote. They are at least Americans, and entitled to voice their discontent with Donald Trump\u2019s nascent administration.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s another matter for the European Union \u2013 the most dysfunctional political and economic Rubik\u2019s Cube ever devised<\/strong> \u2013 to launch a frontal assault on its traditional across-the-waters ally, and, by the way, its main guarantor of military protection.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet that\u2019s exactly what has happened in this frantic first fortnight of Trump-land. In a piece of political showmanship on a par with Baghdad Bob (remember him?), the president of the E.U. has equated the Trump administration with China, Russia and radical Islamic terror as a threat to the security of Europe.
\nhttp:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/02\/01\/donald-duck-now-europeans-are-coming-after.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK Commons overwhelmingly backs Brexit bill MPs have voted by a majority of 384 to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way. They backed the government’s European Union Bill, supported by the Labour leadership, by 498 votes to 114. http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-38833883 TRUMP’S STATESMAN Ex-oil executive Rex Tillerson confirmed as Secretary of State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}