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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s top court will rule on Tuesday whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament was unlawful, a judgment that could lead to the recall of the legislature and give lawmakers more chance to obstruct his Brexit plans.

Johnson advised Queen Elizabeth to prorogue, or suspend, parliament on Aug. 28, a move his opponents said was made to stymie challenges to his promise to take Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without a divorce deal.

KIEV (Reuters) - An aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted on Monday as saying any investigation in Ukraine would be conducted transparently, after U.S. media reports said President Donald Trump asked Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden, a rival in next year’s U.S. election.

Trump’s July 25 call with Zelenskiy stoked controversy in Washington after reports that Trump repeatedly asked the Ukrainian leader to investigate whether Biden, the Democratic front-runner in next year’s election, misused his position when he was vice president.

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil fell below $64 a barrel on Monday, reversing an earlier gain, pressured by the prospect of a faster-than-expected full restart of Saudi Arabian oil output and by fresh signs of European economic weakness.

A source, briefed on the latest developments in the Sept. 14 attack on Saudi oil facilities, said Saudi Arabia has restored around 75% of crude output lost.

Oil was up earlier in the session, supported by scepticism over how fast output would come back.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Boeing is set to face a EU antitrust investigation of up to five months into its bid for a controlling stake in the commercial aircraft arm of Brazil’s Embraer, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

The deal, marking the biggest shift in commercial aerospace in decades, would reshape a global passenger jet duopoly and reinforce Western planemakers against newcomers from China, Russia and Japan.

LONDON, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- The National Executive Committee (NEC) of Britain's main opposition Labor Party voted Sunday in favor of a statement outlining how the party would delay a decision on whether to back Britain staying in the European Union until after a general election.

As part of a plan, put forward by party leader Jeremy Corbyn, a Labor government would strike a new Brexit deal with the EU and then put it to a public vote. There would be an option on the ballot paper to remain.

23 Sep 2019; MEMO: France’s foreign minister said on Sunday his country’s main aim at this week’s UN General Assembly meeting is to de-escalate tensions between the United States and Iran and that a meeting between their presidents was not the top priority, Reuters reports.

LONDON, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The European Union (EU) is “in no way responsible” for the consequences of Brexit, and the bloc should not be held accountable for what is a “British decision,” European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said.

“The European Union is not leaving the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union,” Juncker said.

“The EU is in no way responsible for any kind of consequences entailed by the Brexit,” he said.

LONDON (AP) — Longtime British tour company Thomas Cook collapsed after failing to secure rescue funding, and travel bookings for its more than 600,000 global vacationers were canceled early Monday.

The British government said the return of the firm’s 150,000 British customers now abroad would be the largest repatriation in its peacetime history. The process began Monday and officials warned that delays are inevitable.

MOSCOW, September 22. /TASS/: Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu is convinced that Russia and Ukraine will live in peace and have good neighborly relations in the future.

In his interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, published on Sunday, Shoigu highlighted that Ukrainians were Russia’s brotherly nation. "And I am absolutely convinced that we will live in peace and have good neighborly ties with the Ukrainian people. I’m sure that the time for this will come."

MOSCOW, September 22. /TASS/: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has revealed that several more attempts to assassinate him have been thwarted since the August 2018 drone attack in Caracas.

"After this assassination plot we have foiled several other attempts to kill me. All of them had been staged by Colombia with Washington’s approval," Maduro has told Rossiya-1 TV channel. "It’s regrettable that they have started using purely criminal methods and are trying to carry out political murder to remove the president," Maduro said.