UK publishes update to no-deal Brexit plans, seeking to reassure businesses and voters
Britain sought on Tuesday to ease concerns about leaving the European Union without a deal, publishing a raft of contingency plans which included a new advice service to help suppliers of medical goods.
Any threat to withdraw UK-Irish security cooperation is unacceptable: minister
Julian Smith, the British minister for Northern Ireland, said any threat to withdraw security cooperation with Ireland was unacceptable and not in the interests of the province or the wider United Kingdom.
Germany warns of repeat of 2015 migrant influx into EU
Germany warned on Tuesday of a repeat of the chaotic influx of migrants that caught the European Union unprepared in 2015, with Greece and Cyprus sounding alarms over a fresh surge of arrivals from neighboring Turkey.
France needs ‘society of vigilance’ against Islamist ‘Hydra’: Macron
France must develop a “society of vigilance” in its fight against the “Hydra” of Islamist militancy, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, as he paid homage to the victims of a deadly knife attack at the headquarters of the Paris police.
Five more Thai elephants died in waterfall plunge, drone footage shows
Five more wild elephants in Thailand died in a plunge from the top of a waterfall, drone footage released on Tuesday showed, bringing the death toll to 11, including a three-year-old calf.
Kremlin rejects idea of U.S. role in Ukraine conflict talks
Russia on Tuesday rejected the idea of involving the United States in talks to help resolve the conflict between the Kiev government and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.
Sudan has received half of $3 billion aid promised by Saudi and UAE
Sudan has received half of $3 billion in aid promised by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in April and expects the remainder to be paid by the end of next year, Sudan’s finance minister said late on Monday.
China’s tourists cut back foreign travel over ‘Golden Week’, choose patriotic destinations at home
Chinese mainland tourists cut back on trips and spending abroad during the long “Golden Week” holidays in early October, with a weaker yuan, political turmoil in Hong Kong and global tensions dampening their enthusiasm to travel too far from home.
Peebles, Mayor, Queloz win Nobel physics prize for discoveries in astronomy
Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for revealing the wonder of the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.
China smartphone maker Vivo says to suspend all cooperation with NBA
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo said on Tuesday it will suspend all cooperation with the National Basketball Association (NBA), joining a series of Chinese firms cutting ties with the league following a tweet by a Houston Rockets executive supporting Hon…
