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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss meets the vice-president of EU commission Maros Sefcovic, to discuss progress on the Northern Ireland Protocol. IMAGES
While President Donald Trump sends his lawyers hither-and-yon to try to overturn the election, President-elect Joe Biden has been busy filling Cabinet slots. HuffPost reports Biden named John Kerry on Monday as his special envoy on climate. He's tasked the former secretary of state with steering a 180-degree turn in US diplomacy on the issue. Kerry will also be advising the incoming Biden administration on the security challenges a warming planet poses. America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. Kerry will represent the US at a moment that scholars increasingly see as a period of American imperial decline amid unprecedented planetary changes.
Theresa May was selected as leader of the Conservative Party in Britain following the withdrawal of her only rival, Andrea Leadsom on Monday. Addressing fellow Tory MPs outside the Houses of Parliament in her first speech as leader she reaffirmed her stance on Britain’s withdrawal from Europe saying "Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it."
Theresa May was selected as leader of the Conservative Party in Britain following the withdrawal of her only rival, Andrea Leadsom on Monday. Addressing fellow Tory MPs outside the Houses of Parliament in her first speech as leader she reaffirmed her stance on Britain’s withdrawal from Europe saying "Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it."
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski welcomes Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron to Warsaw, with the two counterparts shaking hands ahead of a bilateral meeting. Ex-prime minister Cameron is in the Eastern European country to shore up support for Poland's neighbour Ukraine against Russia's invasion and discuss tackling migration. IMAGES
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
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