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    Rain Chexit: European Union Grants Brexit Delay To U.K. — Again

    Days before the Oct. 31 deadline to leave the EU, the bloc signed off on a British request to postpone it again. With the deadline reset to Jan. 31, the U.K. appears little closer to a clean exit.
    by Colin Dwyer Oct 28, 2019 2 minutes

    The divorce has been deferred once more.

    Days before the U.K.'s Oct. 31 deadline to leave the European Union, the multinational bloc agreed to Britain's request on Monday to postpone the departure another three months.

    With the announcement came another incongruously delightful portmanteau: European Council President Donald Tusk that the other 27 countries in the EU tentatively signed off on a Brexit "flextension," a flexible

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