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After Brexit, What's Europe's Fate?
More surprises and turmoil in UK politics today raises the question: will a new Prime Minister and rearranged Parliament move forward with the BREXIT? And in the meantime, how will the EU tamp down revolt from other member countries and criticism that it is undemocratic? Coming up, who stands to gain and lose from Brexit chaos and a power vacuum in the EU.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 52m ListenMore surprises and turmoil in UK politics today raises the question: will a new Prime Minister and rearranged Parliament move forward with the BREXIT? And in the meantime, how will the EU tamp down revolt from other member countries and criticism that it is undemocratic? Coming up, who stands to gain and lose from Brexit chaos and a power vacuum in the EU.
Also, Canada has a Syrian Refugee problem... Too many families want to take them in. We’ll hear why soccer moms and poker buddies are intervening in a humanitarian crisis other people want no part in.
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Turkish police have conducted raids and detained more than 22 people in connection with Tuesday’s suicide attack at Istanbul’s main airport, which killed at least 43 people, and injured hundreds more.
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At last count, there are at least 21 million people currently displaced from their home countries, and nearly five million of them are Syrian. The reception Syrian migrants receive has been hot and cold to say the least. Greece shipped desperate migrants back to Turkey; Denmark confiscated their valuables; and here in the U.S.
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