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EU takes action against UK over customs duties

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Britain's opposition Labour Party Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell takes a breakfast television interview ahead of his scheduled speech later today at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, Monday Sept. 24, 2018. The Labour Party confirms Monday it will hold a major debate on Britain's Brexit split from Europe Union at its party conference this week. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

UK’s Labour opposition says it might back new Brexit vote

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

British lawmakers David Davis, left, and Jacob Rees-Mogg, right, at the launch of the Institute of Economic Affairs' Brexit research paper, in central London, Monday Sept. 24, 2018. The IEA unveils its own projected framework for post Brexit trade relationships between the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the rest of the world. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Brexit backers advocate alternative economic plan

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EU takes Poland to its top court over judicial reform

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Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, waves to supporters outside the International Slavery Museum at the Royal Albert Dock in Liverpool, England, as he arrives in the city for his party's annual conference, Saturday Sept. 22, 2018. The annual Labour Party conference includes a weekend of full of various rallies and meetings, with thousands of people expected to greet party leaders. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Stop Brexit? UK’s Labour party mulls backing new referendum

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement on Brexit negotiations with the European Union, at 10 Downing Street, in London, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. The British government on Friday accused the European Union of slamming the handbrake on Brexit negotiations, after the bloc said Prime Minister Theresa May's blueprint was unworkable. A rattled May insisted that her plan was the only one on the table — and that Britain was prepared to walk away from the EU without a deal if it was rejected. ( Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP)

UK envoy urges EU to step back from the Brexit ‘abyss’

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Theresa May looks to passing by heads of government after the family photo at the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Theresa May ‘humiliated’ after EU trashes her Brexit plan: U.K. media

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British Prime Minister Theresa May smiles when arriving at the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

The Latest: EU’s Tusk says Brexit compromise still possible

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British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

EU, UK fail to resolve border row as Brexit deadline looms

By LORNE COOK and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, speaks beside Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, during a press conference after the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

The Latest: May says hers is only serious plan on table

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Germany, France help Western Balkans get rid of illicit arms

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FILE - In this Friday, May 4, 2018 file photo migrants and refugees wait outside the European Asylum Support Service offices inside the camp of Moria on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece. The jammed Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and the dangerous migrant detention centers in Libya serve as a sober reminder to European leaders that their statistical success in curbing migration into the continent has spawned what the U.N. and others condemn as massive humanitarian failures. Deeply divided over how and where to control Europe’s borders, leaders are meeting Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018 in a summit in Austria. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

EU looks to Egypt, Africa for help with migrant challenge

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

EU getting ‘impatient’ with Facebook over consumer data use

By KELVIN CHAN and RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May waits to greet her Maltese counterpart Joseph Muscat to 10 Downing Street in London ahead of talks, Monday Sept. 17, 2018. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Britain appeals for EU Brexit compromise over Irish border

By LORNE COOK and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

EU opens investigation into how Amazon uses data

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EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, background, is kissed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker before a meeting at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. British Prime Minister Theresa May urged EU leaders to compromise and back her Brexit blueprint Wednesday, ahead of a key meeting of the bloc's leaders in Salzburg, Austria. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Latest: EU chief says UK’s Brexit offer must be reworked

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In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2018, workers pick grapes on the slopes above the Tavora river, in the background, where it meets the Douro river near Tabuaco, northern Portugal. The scorching late summer sun of northern Portugal is ripening the black, super-sweet grapes that will go to make what European Union rules say is the only wine in the world that can be called port. But port wine's second-largest export market is the United Kingdom, and the impending British exit from the EU is throwing port's almost 50 million euros' ($58 million) worth of annual business there into doubt. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Port wine? Feta? Brexit may spell trouble for famed EU names

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier waits for the start of a General Affairs Article 50 Council at the Europa building in Brussels, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. A top European Union official on Tuesday said Britain and the EU could yet fail to reach an agreement on the terms of their divorce, just six months before the U.K. is due to leave the bloc. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

The Latest: EU studying Brexit border compromise

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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 5, 2016 file photo, a man cycles past a Polish Specialties shop in London. A British government-commissioned report said Tuesday Sept. 18, 2018, that citizens of European Union countries should not have easier access to the U.K. after Brexit than people from other parts of the world. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Report urges UK to lift cap on skilled migrants after Brexit

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, center, stands next to Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, as James Logan Jones, right, Interim Chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States walks by, at the Three Seas Initiative Business Forum in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump has reaffirmed Washington's support for a business summit that aims to boost connectivity in Eastern Europe and improve ties between the region and the U.S.(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru) **FILE**

US: Europe should cut dependence on Russia gas

By ALISON MUTLER - Associated Press