In just his second month as prime minister, Boris Johnson has suffered a defeat that will put an end to his main goal: Brexit at any cost. The British parliament has passed a bill preventing Johnson from taking the country out of the EU on October 31 without a deal with the EU. In response, the prime minister will try to force an early general election, but even the Labour Party, which is interested in them, has refused to support it.

The British House of Commons voted 327 to 299 on Wednesday night to pass a bill barring the government from Brexit without an agreement with the EU. After that, the document will go to the House of Lords. The document obliges the prime minister to ask the EU for negotiations on the postponement of Brexit until January 31, if the parties do not agree on the terms by October 31.

“Brexit without a transaction” is canceled, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers a severe defeat, from which he may not recover Photo: Source: PA Wire / TASS In total, in the second month of his premiere, Boris Johnson suffers a defeat that will put a cross on his main goal - Brexit at all costs. The British parliament has adopted a bill prohibiting Johnson to withdraw the country from the European Union on October 31 without a deal with the EU.

Google will pay a hefty $170 million fine to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York State for illegally collecting information about minors by YouTube without parental consent. This is the largest fine in the history of the FTC's relationship with Google, but it is small compared to Facebook's recent $5 billion fine and Alphabet's nearly $31 billion profit last year.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam today made an official televised address announcing the withdrawal of a bill that would allow the expulsion of suspected Hong Kong residents to mainland China. It was this bill that provoked mass protests in June, but its repeal does not mean either a victory for the protesters or an end to mass demonstrations. Hong Kong's economy will continue to suffer. What happened.

On July 27, another person involved in the “Moscow case” or the case of “mass riots”, Yevgeny Kovalenko, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. He was accused of throwing an urn at a National Guard officer. The prosecutor's office asked for 5 years in prison for Kovalenko. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Kovalenko became the fifth convict in these few days. Today, the court sentenced Kirill Zhukov to 3 years in prison for trying to lift the visor of a policeman's helmet at a rally.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade made a mistake when developing souvenir products for the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which is currently taking place in Vladivostok, and depicted Rama IX cable-stayed bridge in Bangkok instead of the bridge to the Russian island on booklets and other products. The agency acknowledged this on its Instagram. The officials thanked the forum guests for their attentiveness and promised to correct the “unfortunate misunderstanding”.

Next year, Apple will release a new low-cost smartphone for the first time in three years, found out the Nikkei Asian Review . The name and price of the model are unknown, but it is assumed that it will continue the budget line of the iPhone SE. For the company, this is a necessary measure: Apple sales are declining in emerging markets due to high prices, and in the third market for the company - China - problems due to the trade war with the United States. Details.

The UK is on the verge of an economic recession even before leaving the EU - the uncertainty with Brexit and the policy of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who seriously set his sights on a hard exit, led to this, writes Bloomberg . What's happened? Analysts at IHS Markit said today that the services PMI indicated a decline in activity in August. Together with similar dynamics of the industrial and construction indices, this indicates a contraction of British GDP in the third quarter by 0.1%.

The Austrian Vienna topped the ranking of the world's most comfortable cities to live in, according to a regular study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. This means that the city has the highest rates of accessibility and quality of medicine, education, low crime rate, comfortable climate and developed infrastructure. In second and third place are Australia's Melbourne and Sydney. On the fourth line - Japanese Osaka, on the fifth - Canadian Calgary, the capital of the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Russian retailer Vkusvill is considering an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York, , said Andrey Krivenko, founder of the chain in an interview with Reuters. If this IPO goes through, it will be the first overseas listing by a Russian grocery retailer since Lenta was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2014. True, during this time its shares have lost two-thirds of the price. Details.

The "smart vote" of Alexei Navalny was supported by the former chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Sergei Guriev. In a video message, he said that there could be no good candidates in such elections in principle, and praised the FBK for its work, which "has led to the fact that United Russia is afraid to go to the polls openly." Read also Navalny has published a list for "smart voting" Details.

The Tverskoy court sentenced Kirill Zhukov, a protester on July 27, who tried to lift the visor of a Russian guard, to three years in a penal colony, Open Media reported. He was the first detainee in the Moscow case. According to investigators, Zhukov caused physical pain to the National Guard. The prosecutor requested under Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a representative of authority that is not dangerous to health) 4.5 years in prison out of five possible.

The British Parliament voted against the government's ability to determine the agenda of the House of Commons, according to the official Twitter account of the Parliament. This means that the deputies will consider the bill on another postponement of Brexit despite the protest of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Members of the British Parliament voted to consider a bill on Wednesday that would bar the government from holding a "hard" Brexit until January 31 without an agreement with the EU.

yet The Ministry of Finance will not include in the Tax Code payments for the passage of heavy trucks on the roads (“Platon”), fees for negative environmental impact and environmental fees. The conversion of fees into taxes would increase the liability for tax evasion. Now the Tax Code will include only three new taxes instead of six. Details. Now it is proposed to transfer into the status of taxes a recycling fee for cars, deductions from telecom operators and a resort fee.