World News Hits on Wednesday

See News presents the most dominating headlines for the world news on Wednesday.

Brexit: Special sitting for MPs to decide UK's future

MPs will be called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting in a decisive day for the future of Brexit.  (BBC)

White House Declares War on Impeachment Inquiry, Claiming Effort to Undo Trump’s Election

The White House declared war on the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, announcing that it would not cooperate with what it called an illegitimate effort “to overturn the results of the 2016 election” and setting the stage for a constitutional clash with far-reaching consequences. (The New York Rimes)

How fake refugees from Kenya got settled in the US and Europe

He says he doesn't feel guilty for the lie that got him into America.

Like other families who arrived as Somali refugees, he says they first depended on food stamps to get by. But the family of seven successfully navigated their new life, and his siblings grew up to become nurses and teachers. (CNN)

More elephants found dead at Thai waterfall after herd falls trying to save calf; death toll at 11

The carcasses of five more elephants were discovered in Thailand downstream from a waterfall known as the "Ravine of Hell," where six other elephants plummeted to their deaths over the weekend, officials said Tuesday. (Fox News)

Rainè Riggs, Bernie Sanders’ Daughter-In-Law, Dies Suddenly At 46 After Cancer Diagnosis

Rainè Riggs, a neuropsychologist and daughter-in-law of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, died on Saturday — two days after receiving a cancer diagnosis, according to an obituary shared online by Lee & Martin Funeral Home in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. (Huffpost)

Furor over Syria began with troubling Trump phone call and White House statement

The results have been rapid and remain unpredictable — and, in the view of critics, amount to the abandonment of the U.S.’s Syrian Kurdish allies to a massive Turkish military assault. (Washington Post)

White House Refuses to Cooperate With Impeachment Probe

The White House said it won’t cooperate with the House impeachment probe after the administration blocked the deposition of a U.S. ambassador seen as central to the Ukraine controversy, marking clear battle lines in the fight between President Trump and Democratic lawmakers. (The Waal Street Journal)

Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino win 2019 Nobel Prize for chemistry

Scientists John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. (Reuters)