The VICE UK Morning News Bulletin

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Take My Wife, Please
The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether an income barrier preventing thousands of British citizens from bringing a foreign spouse into the UK is lawful. Since 2012, Britons must earn more than £18,600 before a husband or wife from outside the European Economic Area can settle in the UK. – BBC

First They Came for the Bankers
The City of London has warned that the loss of banking jobs to EU countries due to Brexit could threaten British and European financial stability. Senior bankers and business leaders reveal growing certainty that the threat of losing single market access will force a wave of relocations this year. – Guardian

Solitary Confinement
British prisons holding child inmates in solitary confinement may be breaching both UN torture rules and British law. Inspections show that some children have been driven to self-harm due to the severe emotional distress of solitary confinement. – Independent

The Welsh Now a Security Risk, Apparently
Welsh schoolteacher Juhel Miah has been prevented from entering the United States, but has not been given a reason. Miah, who is Muslim, was accompanying students on a trip to New York when he was stopped at the airport in Reykjavik, searched and put on a plane back to the UK. – Wales Online

Famine in South Sudan
The United Nations has declared a famine in South Sudan, the world's youngest country. The severe food shortage is the result of a civil war that has been running since 2013, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions. 5.5 million people are expected to face being at risk of death in the coming months. – Al Jazeera

Deportation Redux
The USA's Department of Homeland Security has laid out the Trump administration's aggressive plans for mass deportation. The new rules will chip away at protections for undocumented migrants who have lived in the US for years. – CNN

A Game of Chinese Checkers
China is completing the construction of almost two dozen buildings on artificial islands in the South China Sea. The buildings appear to be designed to house long-range surface-to-air missiles, according to US officials. – Reuters

First Do No Harm
An Israeli court has sentenced a soldier to 18 months in prison for killing a Palestinian attacker who was injured and lying on the ground. Elor Azaria was a medic in the town of Hebron when two Palestinians stabbed and injured another soldier. – ABC

Afghan Women to Finally See 'Grown Ups 2'
Kabul has seen the opening of its first ever cinema for women. Although there is no policy preventing women from going to see a movie, Afghanistan's cinemas have long been considered off-limits for them. The Galaxy Family Miniplex is looking to change that. – Broadly

The Revolution Will Not Be Humanised
What will happen when the human race is redundant and the robots take over? According to historian Yuval Harari, this is not a hypothetical and is taking place now. Harari discusses the technological and cultural factors that could make all of us redundant to society. –  The Atlantic

Abraham Lincoln: Body Slammer
We don't typically think of Abraham Lincoln as a street fighter, but the legendary US President had a great love of wrestling in his youth. According to biographer Ronald C White Jr, Honest Abe only had one recorded loss in 12 years of hand-to-hand combat. –  Vice Sports

Our Place in Space
If you want to feel insignificant, you've come to the right place. A new animated video explains just how big the universe actually is. Using extraordinary visual techniques, the video helps put our place in the cosmos into proper perspective. – Creators Project