
LONDON – Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling the British govement, sending global markets plunging Friday and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III. The decision launches a yearslong process to renegotiate trade, business and political links between the United Kingdom and what will become a 27-nation bloc, an unprecedented divorce that could take decades to complete. "The dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom," said Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party. "Let June 23 go down in our history as our independence day!" Prime Minis...
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