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If there is no agreement on the brexit, the European Union wants to set a customs border in the Irish Sea, between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. For example, Northern Ireland can remain part of the internal market and customs union and the land border with EU member Ireland can remain open. The Times reports this on the basis of a letter from the British Prime Minister Theresa May who has seen the newspaper.

Moscow has a square named after former British double-spy Kim Philby. The latter passed to the Soviet Union in 1963 and died in 1988. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobjanin, has, according to the media, by decree ordered the name change of a crossroads in the southwest of the Russian capital, where the headquarters is also from the foreign intelligence service.

The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.

The British army opens the door wide for immigrants. It is planned that 1350 immigrants from the Commonwealth will be welcomed annually. In this way the shortage of soldiers in the British army must be discharged.

British customs officers are allowed to start their work in factories at that time in factories exporting to Ireland and in Irish and Northern Irish shops. In this way an official border between Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit can be prevented.

The 21-year-old British Shannon was almost killed at the beginning of this year by an assassination attempt by her adulterous husband. He stabbed the woman 46 times, with four of her organs being pierced. Yet she has already forgiven his deed, and she looks forward to a future together when he is released again.

Britain and the EU would have reached a secret agreement stating that Britain remains part of the Customs Union after the Brexit. This would keep the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland open and one of the biggest obstacles in the Brexit negotiations would be removed.

Police and fire brigade in London have been plucked in large numbers to the Sony headquarters in the British capital. In the building on Derry Street, a man with a machete would have walked around, injuring at least two people.

The British Sports Minister, Tracey Crouch, submitted her resignation on Thursday. According to the BBC, she quits after a row about the postponement of her change of law on slot machines with a fixed payout percentage. In this, the maximum bet must be reduced from 100 to 2 pounds to prevent gambling addiction.

Hospitals of the British National Health Service spend almost 3 million pounds (3.4 million euros) annually on people who put objects in their noses or ears. Doctors pick up plastic toys and pencils from those body holes, the BBC reports.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has caught a bone in Ecuador. The Australian objected in vain to the tightening of his house rules in the embassy of the South American country in London.

It is a tradition that a bridegroom does not get to see the wedding outfit of his future before the big day. Still, Prince Harry could see at a very early stage how Meghan would stand next to him as his bride on the wedding day.

Ecuador will no longer mediate with the British government in favor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent six years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 'We are neither Mr. Assange's lawyers nor representatives of the British government,' Foreign Minister José Valencia told Reuters on Tuesday. 'Ecuador has no responsibility whatsoever to take further steps.'

In the center of London, tens of thousands of people took part in an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday. The demonstrators want a new referendum about the brexit. According to the British media, the organizers say that as many as 500,000 people took part in the demonstration. Beforehand, they had announced that they expected 100,000 people.

The organizers of an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday in London expect more than 100,000 worried Britons to respond to their call. The 'People's Vote' campaign demands a second referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Citizens must also be given the right to vote on the final agreement, if it comes.

Christmas is being celebrated more extensively than usual this year in many homes in Wimbledon. The 750 members of the Wimbledon Park Golf Club will receive a one-tonne douceur around that time. Nothing seems to stand in the way of the takeover of their golf course by the adjoining All England Tennis Club- the club of the grass tennis tournament.

Banksy wanted to completely destroy his artwork that was recently sold at an auction in London. This appears from a video that the artist has placed on his website.

A British toddler with a very rare form of leukemia can undergo specialized treatment thanks to a generous donor. The anonymous lender, according to British media, transferred 100,000 pounds (about 114,000 euros) to the parents of four-year-old Zac Oliver from Broseley.

Working in the City of London demands the utmost of people- trainees at a law firm have again experienced last week. Their boss sent them an e-mail on Friday at a quarter to five with the question if they could work through the night. Those who refused, had to provide 'proof' to legitimize the failure.

The EU needs more time to reach an agreement on the Brexit with the United Kingdom. 'In the coming weeks, we will take a calm and serious time to achieve the decisive progress we need in the negotiations,' said EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on arrival in Luxembourg. There he talks to the EU ministers about the developments in the approaching separation of the British.

The Chinese brand Huawei has not been a small player for a long time. Last week, Bloomberg Intelligence even reported that the brand in the home country had overtaken Apple. Yesterday, Richard Yu presented the Mate 20 Series smartphones and a new smartwatch at the London ExCel Arena. Both with impressive and striking specifications and possibilities.

Ecuador has devised new house rules for Julian Assange, who has been living in the embassy of the country in London for six years. If the WikiLeaks founder does not comply with these guidelines, this may result in his diplomatic asylum being withdrawn.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who hides in the London embassy of Ecuador, may have a little more contact with the outside world. Assange has not been able to call and use the internet in recent months, but according to WikiLeaks these restrictions are relaxed.

Turkey never becomes a member of the EU. Accession talks with the country are officially truncated as Manfred Weber, the leader of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, will become the new President of the European Commission next year.

The buyer of the Banksy painting who destroyed himself at auction, decided to keep the artwork. The European art collector who turned the work upside down, according to auction house Sotheby's, said to have been especially shocked. 'But gradually I started to realize that I would get a piece of art history in my possession,' the woman said.

The Northern Irish bakery couple who refused to bake a cake with the message 'support gay marriage' has not been guilty of discrimination. That is how the British Supreme Court ruled after years of legal battle. Lower judges thought that the bakers were discriminating, but the highest court of appeal spoke to them freely.

The journalistic research network Bellingcat says he has discovered the identity of 'Alexander Yevgenyevich Petrov', one of the two suspects in the Skripal case. It was about Aleksandr Yevgenyhich Mishkin, military doctor of the Russian military intelligence service GROe.

You just have to dare; write a biography about Churchill. More than a thousand have been published in recent decades. But Churchill's life can always be rewritten in the light of current political circumstances.

The painting Girl with Balloon by the artist Banksy has destroyed herself during an auction of the work at Sotheby's in London. It is clearly a region of the anonymous artist.

The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist and billionaire George Soros has moved to Berlin and started working there. According to German media, it will be eighty employees and their families for the time being, but ultimately 150 people will work for the foundation in the German capital.