Brexit Trigger News Sends British Pound Lower and other top stories.

• Brexit Trigger News Sends British Pound Lower

  

  The British pound slumped Monday after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May set a March date to begin exiting the European Union and said that full access to the country’s largest trading partner was a lower priority than controlling immigration. Mrs. May’s speech to her Conservative party’s annual conference set regaining control of immigration policy as a non-negotiable priority. That puts her at odds with EU counterparts who have...

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• Hurricane Matthew: 'Life-threatening flash floods and mudslides' expected

  

  Hurricane Matthew is expected to dump torrential rainfall on Jamaica and Haiti on Sunday evening before making landfall Monday. "This rainfall will produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the National Weather Service said Sunday. "Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion." Many Jamaicans, however, believe they can ride out the storm, putting their trust in a higher power, despite pleas from authorities to leave the threatened coast."I'm not afraid, I..

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• Indian and Pakistani troops exchange fire in Kashmir

  

  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Pakistani troops were firing at each other in disputed Kashmir on Monday, as Indian troops searched the site of a gunbattle where an Indian paramilitary soldier was killed.Lt. Col. Manish Mehta, an Indian army spokesman, said Pakistani troops fired without provocation using small arms and mortar shells in the Poonch sector of the Line of Control separating the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir.Pakistan's army said in a statement that its troop..

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• Black Monday: Women in Poland go on strike against abortion ban

  

  Image copyright EPA Women in Poland have gone on strike in protest against proposals for a total ban on abortion. They marched through the streets wearing black as a sign of mourning for their reproductive rights.Women who oppose the ban are staying away from work and school and refusing to do domestic chores, in a protest inspired by a women's strike in Iceland in 1975.Anti-abortion protests are being held around the country too.Women took to the streets of the capital city, Warsaw, in a p..

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• Tory economic policy: Out with the hawks

  

  Image copyright AFP Image caption Philip Hammond and Theresa May are striking a different tone on the economy Out with the deficit hawks - in with the conservative pragmatists.That might not, well, quite catch on. But there is certainly a sense of down with the old regime at the Tory conference today. Philip Hammond isn't just a totally different character to the former occupant of the job, George Osborne, but he is intent on junking a fair bit of Mr ..

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• Middle East|15 Turkey-Backed Syrian Rebels Killed in Fighting With IS

  

  ANKARA, Turkey — Fighting in northern Syria between Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces and militants from the Islamic state group has killed at least 15 rebels as the opposition tries to push toward a town that carries symbolic importance for the extremists, an activist group and Turkish officials said Monday.The deaths toll among the rebels is the highest since Turkey sent troops and tanks into Syria in August to help rebels re-take IS strongholds near the border and curb the advance of a..

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• Colombia rejects deal to end FARC conflict: What happens next?

  

  Likened to the fallout from the United Kingdom's "Brexit" referendum, the vote's unexpected failure has left the Colombian political classes reeling and unsure how to respond in order to save four years of hard negotiation with the Marxist militia.And while a meeting of the deal's principals is scheduled for Monday morning, FARC's financial disclosures -- and possibly a disarmament campaign that began last week-- have been questioned.In the weeks leading up to Sunday's vote, many Colombians were..

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• Taliban launches major assault on Afghan city of Kunduz

  

  "This time, the Taliban won't be able to capture any part of Kunduz," said Mahfoz Akbari, spokesman for the police in Kunduz, speaking to CNN by telephone. Akbari was referring to the Taliban's brief capture of the strategically important city in September 2015.A Taliban spokesman and Afghan government officials gave similar descriptions of how militants launched a pre-dawn attack on the city from four different directions."Our Mujahideen are advancing rapidly inside Kunduz," Taliban spokesman Z..

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• Victims Of Turkey's Post-Coup Purge Invited To Prove Their Innocence

  

  Enlarge this image Turks line up outside the Istanbul governor's office, one of the "crisis management centers" set up for those who believe they were wrongly suspended, fired or arrested following the July 15 coup attempt. Gokce Saracoglu for NPR hide caption toggle caption Gokce Saracoglu for NPR Turks line up outside th..

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