U.K. Cabinet will meet over Brexit deal

LONDON — After months of stalled talks, false starts and setbacks, negotiators from Britain and the European Union struck a proposed divorce deal Tuesday to provide for the U.K.’s smooth exit from the bloc.

But the agreement faces major political hurdles starting Wednesday, when British Prime Minister Theresa May will try to win the approval of her divided Cabinet for a deal many ministers view with skepticism.

The British government confirmed that the negotiating teams had reached a draft agreement and the Cabinet would hold a special meeting Wednesday afternoon to consider the proposal. Its support isn’t guaranteed: the prime minister is under pressure from pro-Brexit ministers not to make further concessions to the EU on the key issue of the Irish border.

Cease-fire reached

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas and other militant groups said they had accepted an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire to end two days of intense fighting with Israel that had pushed the sworn enemies to the brink of a new war.

The sudden announcement brought relief to a region that had been paralyzed by hundreds of Palestinian rocket attacks in southern Israel and scores of Israeli airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip. But it did not address the deeper issues that pushed Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers toward their latest violence and left doubts about international efforts to forge a broader truce agreement.

LGBT asylum seekers

TIJUANA, Mexico — The front line of what President Donald Trump calls a migrant “invasion” has arrived at the U.S. border: dozens of lesbian, gay and transsexual asylum seekers from Central America.

The group has taken up shelter in a rented home in Tijuana, where they played Ariana Grande music Monday night as they sorted through donated clothes, drank strawberry-banana juice and discussed how the asylum process might play out.

“I cannot believe we actually made it here to the border,” said Andy Albaringa, 23, a trans woman from El Salvador. “The trip was so tiring.”