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UK MPs vote to hold rare Saturday session on Brexit deal

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LONDON: British lawmakers on Thursday voted narrowly in favour of holding the first parliamentary session on a Saturday in 37 years, to debate the government's new Brexit deal.

Members of the lower chamber House of Commons voted 287 to 275 in favour.

It would only be parliament's fifth Saturday session since the eve of World War II.

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