Britain Votes To Leave Eu; Leader To Quit; Markets Rocked

Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, The Augusta Chronicle
Fri, 06/24/2016 - 6:13am

LONDON — Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling the prime minister Friday, sending global markets plunging and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III. The decision launches a years long process to renegotiate trade, business and political links between the United Kingdom and what would become a 27-nation bloc, an unprecedented divorce that could take decades to complete. read more

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