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EU Extends U.K.'s Brexit Deadline Until Oct. 31

Frustrated by the British Parliament's failure to develop its Brexit plan, EU leaders offered a compromise extension. Now the U.K. has to renew its efforts to agree on terms for the divorce.

The European Union has agreed to delay the United Kingdom's departure from the EU, known as Brexit, until Oct. 31.

The deal, early Thursday in Brussels, averts a potential crisis as British leaders had failed to agree on their

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