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Indonesian airline Garuda said Friday that it's canceling a multibillion-dollar order for Boeing's 737 Max 8 passenger jet after the plane was involved in two deadly crashes in less than five months.

"Our passengers have lost confidence to fly with the Max 8," Garuda spokesperson Ikhsan Rosan told CNN.The Indonesian carrier ordered 50 of the planes in 2014 for $4.9 billion. It has taken delivery of one of them but has now sent a letter to Boeing (BA) saying it no longer wants to receive the remaining jets on order, Ikhsan said. It's the first airline to say it's canceling a 737 Max 8 order.

It's the latest blow to Boeing over the 737 Max, its bestselling passenger jet.
Boeing representatives are planning to visit Jakarta on March 28 to discuss the cancellation request with the airline, Ikhsan said.

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Time is running out for British lawmakers to unite and ensure a "smooth and orderly" Brexit, PM May stressed at the conclusion of the European Council summit. "We will be leaving the European Union and I absolutely firmly believe that it is the duty of Parliament to deliver on that result of the referendum," she told a press conference.

Promising to do her best to rally support for her twice-rejected divorce deal, May emphasized that failure to agree on the proposal will leave the country with a 'no-deal' alternative.

We are now at the moment of decision. And I will make every effort to ensure that we're able to leave with a deal and move our country forward.

"If Parliament does not agree with a deal next week, the EU Council would extend Article 50 'til the twelfth of April. At this point, we would either leave with 'no deal' or put forward an alternative plan. If this involved an extension, it would mean participation in the European Parliamentary elections," she explained, stressing that it would be "wrong" to ask Brits to participate in these elections three years after they decided to leave the EU.

The battered cabinet of Prime Minister Theresa May will offer seven alternative options of how to proceed with Brexit, sources told Sky News. Those range from a no-deal Brexit to a second referendum.

According to the British news channel, Parliament may be offered a choice between revoking Article 50, a second referendum, the prime minister's deal, her deal plus a customs union, the deal plus a customs union and single market access, a standard free-trade agreement, or a no-deal Brexit.

The sources said this approach is considered a viable way forward, considering that PM May's Brexit deal would most likely be defeated for a third time if put to the vote next week. Once source said the cabinet was in "panic mode" now.

A petition to revoke Article 50 and prevent the UK from leaving the European Union crashed the UK government's website on Thursday morning, after hundreds of thousands people swarmed to add their signatures.

The petition, which was posted on Wednesday night after PM Theresa May addressed the British public to criticize MPs for her requesting a delay to Brexit, was receiving 1,500 signatures every minute and had been signed by more than 600,000 before the site crashed.

As of midnight London time, the petition has attracted over 2 million signatures.

At around 9am a message appeared to state that the site was "down for maintenance" and asked users to "please try again later." By 9.40am the site was up and running before crashing shortly afterwards.

The petition calls on the government to revoke Article 50 and keep the UK in the EU, continuing: "The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is the will of the people. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now for remaining in the EU. A people's vote may not happen, so vote now."

Brexit blather is back in the news again. To listen to politicians and media talking heads, you'd think it's all rather complicated and 'beyond the ken of mere mortals'. In reality, however, 'Brexit' is quite simple: for the last two and a half years, the British establishment has been trying to make Brexit go away.

Don't believe me? Explain why, then, that of the 650 UK Members of Parliament, about 70% come from constituencies where the majority of people voted for Brexit, while among all Members of Parliament about 70% have made it clear that they favor remaining in the EU.

In addition, the Conservative government which approved the referendum in 2015 was lead by David Cameron, who has always been against leaving the EU. His successor, Theresa May, who negotiated the pseudo-Brexit deal that would effectively keep the UK in the EU, and which was voted down yesterday by a massive majority in Parliament, is also against Brexit.

So the obvious reason why the last 2.5 years of British politics has been an utter farce, and why the British people find themselves in this current mess, is that while a majority of British citizens voted to leave the EU, a large majority of their MPs on both sides of the aisle (and the British 'establishment' itself) do not want to leave the EU and are determined to make sure it never happens. To claim otherwise would be to suggest that British politicians were as clueless about the nature of the UK's relationship with the EU as the British public. But that's not the full story.

The decision that Brexit would not happen was taken immediately after the 'Leave' vote in the referendum in 2016, and that fact was evident to anyone with eyes to see. The politicking of the last 2.5 years had little to do with Brexit and everything to do with internal UK political power games, i.e. British political party mandarins and individual politicians feathering their own nests with an eye on their future positions within the British political system, which they are sure will remain an integral part of the EU. The Conservative strategy so far has been to hold on to power by attempting to convince their voter base (who want Brexit) that Theresa May's 'deal' is actually Brexit, when it clearly isn't at all. The EU has been on exactly the same page as Theresa May all along.

At the same time, the main opposition Labour party has correctly seen 'Brexit' as their best chance to force both a no-confidence vote in May's government and another snap general election to take power themselves. The no-confidence vote happened this evening and, as expected, the Conservatives survived given their slim majority in Parliament and the support of Northern Ireland's 'more British than the Queen' Democratic Unionist Party (which has its own agenda to prevent the breakup of the United Kingdom and the reunification of Ireland). Basically, when Conservative politicians are asked if they have confidence in themselves, they'll always answer 'yes'.