Corporate Dispatch Morning Briefing

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Boris Johnson will attempt to trigger a general election today after MPs – including 21 rebels from within his own party – inflicted a stinging defeat on him.

Members trying to avoid a no-deal Brexit next month won a dramatic vote to seize control of the parliamentary agenda on Tuesday, paving the way for a delay in leaving the EU.

During a visit to Ireland, US VP Mike Pence told Irish President Michael D. Higgins and Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Tuesday that the US will look to play any role it can to achieve a successful British exit from the European Union

The UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame has reiterated that United Nations Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is going to file a case at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Security Council and UN Sanctions Committee on Libya about the attacks on Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport.

In Italy, 79.3% of the members of the Movimento Cinque Stelle voted in favour, 20.7% against, the coalition government agreement with the Democratic Party.

Somalia’s 2019 cereal harvest is the poorest the country has seen since 2011, when famine strained already scarce resources, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), announced, blaming unreliable weather patterns and “climatic shocks”.

Maltese Newspapers 

The launch of a public consultation process seeking to reform sex work laws and the lates from the UK dominate the front pages on Malta’s newspapers

Other stories include one about the Auschwitz Museum after a photo emerged of a group of young men from Malta making the Nazi salute outside the historic camp. A representative said that the incident is being taken seriously and will be reported to the museum’s legal office.

PN Leader Adrian Delia who said that Malta’s good reputation is at risk because of bad practices by the government. Delia announced that the party will publish proposals to strengthen the financial services sector.

We also read that Professor Stephen Montefort, Head of Medicine Department at the University of Malta threw out claims that more than a hundred people in Malta die of asthma every year, as was recently suggested in parliament.

On This Day 

In 1998 the U.N. tribunal on Rwanda sentenced former Prime Minister Jean Kambanda to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide.

Thought of the Day

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –Steve Jobs

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