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BORIS JOHNSON and Jeremy Corbyn went head-to-head in the House of Commons on Wednesday night. Here’s how the Prime Minister picked apart Labour’s proposed new policies. Daily Express :: News Feed

U.S. President Donald Trump says he placed “no pressure” on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a phone conversation they had in July, when Trump asked him to “look into” whether Democratic political rival Joe Biden shut down an investigation into a company that had employed his son in Ukraine. CBC | World News

Bill O’Reilly accuser and former Fox News host Juliet Huddy came out to the press yet again to issue another claim and this one happens to be about President Donald Trump. Huddy said the incident happened in a Trump Tower elevator either in “2005 or 2006.” She said the act was not as surprising but this did not threaten her. ...

A former aide to Republican congressman Trent Franks has told The Associated Press the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child, at one point offering her $ 5 million to act as a surrogate mother. CBC | World News

Britain and the European Union hammered out a deal early Friday that allows Brexit talks to finally move on to the all-important issues of trade and the future relationship between the two. CBC | World News

FLEMISH dreams of a separate state from Belgium have been revived as the separatist leaders have been inspired by the mass Catalan demonstration in Brussels, providing yet another headache for the European Union leaders desperately trying to prevent the bloc from falling apart. Daily Express :: News Feed

The European Union and Japan have agreed terms for a free trade deal liberalizing almost all trade between the bloc and the world’s third-largest economy. CBC | World News

In the deadliest single attack on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in recent memory, rebels in eastern Congo killed at least 14 peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in an assault on their base that was launched at nightfall and went on for hours. CBC | World News

Firefighters battled several intense wind-driven wildfires early today that have swept across densely populated Southern California, destroying at least 500 structures and chasing 190,000 people from their homes over the past five days. CBC | World News

The California Horse Racing Board says approximately 25 racehorses were killed when a wildfire engulfed about eight barns at a training centre in northeast San Diego County. Horses that were in surrounding pastures remain unaccounted for. CBC | World News