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7 U.K. Lawmakers Quit Labour Party And Form Independent Group

7:25am February 19, 2019

Rachel Martin talks to Robert Shrimsley of the Financial Times about the decision of seven Labour members of Parliament to leave their party and start a new political platform: The Independent Group.

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Sweden Has Come Up With An Unusual Way To Encourage Entrepreneurship

6:16pm February 18, 2019

by Maddy Savage

Workers in Sweden have the right to take six-months unpaid leave if they want to start their own business. It's one of the reasons why Sweden is a leading country for startups.

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In Britain, 7 Parliament Members Quit Opposition Labour Party

6:16pm February 18, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Telegraph political correspondent Anna Mikhailova about the seven members of Britain's Parliament who quit the Labour Party over Brexit and other issues.

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Dozens Of Former British Diplomats Urge For Delay In Brexit

6:16pm February 18, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former U.K. National Security Adviser Peter Ricketts about the case for abandoning Brexit.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Senate committees in April. But he hasn't appeared before British Parliament, despite its requests for him to do so.

Facebook Has Behaved Like 'Digital Gangsters,' U.K. Parliament Report Says

4:42pm February 18, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

"The age of inadequate self-regulation must come to an end," says Damian Collins, chair of the committee behind the report, which is often scathing on Facebook's practices and corporate conduct.

British politician Luciana Berger speaks Monday at a news conference to announce the formation of the Independent Group, as seven British members of Parliament quit the Labour Party because of its approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism.

7 Lawmakers Quit U.K. Labour Party Over Alleged Anti-Semitism And Brexit Approach

1:44pm February 18, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The seven politicians said that persisting anti-Semitism and leader Jeremy Corbyn's "complicit" role in Brexit led to their resignations. They say the party "has changed beyond recognition."

Wim Janssen, one of the musicians involved in the recording project, plays a viola made by master luthier Girolamo Amati in 1615.

An Italian Town Fell Silent So The Sounds Of A Stradivarius Could Be Preserved

12:51am February 18, 2019

by Christopher Livesay

The mayor of Cremona, Italy, blocked traffic during five weeks of recording and asked residents to please keep quiet so master musicians could play four instruments — note by note — for posterity.

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She Left London At 15 To Marry An ISIS Fighter. Now She Wants To Go Home

5:54pm February 17, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin spoke with correspondent Anthony Loyd of The Times about Shamima Begum, an ISIS bride who left home as a teenager and now wants to return.

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'Essentially The Death Penalty': Vatican Defrocks Former Cardinal McCarrick

5:55pm February 16, 2019

Veteran Vatican watcher John Allen tells NPR's Michel Martin that the defrocking of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick is the most severe form of punishment for a cleric.

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30 Years After Departure, Russian Veterans Remember Afghan War

10:57am February 16, 2019

by Lucian Kim

Thirty years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russian veterans of that disastrous war muse on their service and the U.S. as it contemplates its own pullout.

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