Britain’s May will meet Labour’s Corbyn at 1500 GMT: source
Britain’s Theresa May will meet Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party, at 1500 GMT inside parliament, a government source said on Wednesday, a day after lawmakers voted for the prime minister to renegotiate her Brexit deal.
Ireland says Brexit backstop alternatives tested, none work
Brexit negotiators have spent two years looking at alternatives to the backstop insurance policy to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland and have not found any that work, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Wednesday.
Israeli forces kill knife-wielding Palestinian girl: police
Israeli forces shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian girl who tried to carry out a stabbing attack at a checkpoint between the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Wednesday, police said.
Bashir’s hometown split as anti-government protests hit Sudan
Fed up by months of bread queues, price hikes and petrol shortages in Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir’s hometown of Shendi, office worker Louay Mohamed Kheir, feels there’s only one solution: “We need a new president.”
Trump says Afghanistan talks ‘proceeding well’
Negotiations in Afghanistan are going well, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after U.S. officials earlier this week said there had been significant progress in talks to end 17 years of war in the country.
Brazil President Bolsonaro leaves intensive care, recovering in hospital: spokesman
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has left intensive care after a planned operation to remove a colostomy bag, and is now recovering in a hospital room in Sao Paulo, a presidential spokesman said on Wednesday.
U.N. rights experts seek inquiry into toxic waste from Brazil dam
United Nations human rights experts called on Wednesday for an impartial investigation into the deadly collapse of a dam in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and into toxicity of the waste from the iron ore mine owned by Vale.
Stranded migrants to leave rescue ship: Italian PM
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said 47 migrants who have been blocked at sea off Sicily for 11 days on a rescue ship will be allowed to come ashore on Wednesday, ending the latest migrant standoff.
Exclusive: UAE used cyber super-weapon to spy on iPhones of foes
A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the help of a sophisticated spying tool called Karma, in a campaign that shows how potent cyber-weapons are proliferating beyond the world’s superpowers and into the hands of smaller nations.
Bangladesh to sue Manila bank over $81 million cyber heist: cenbank governor
Bangladesh will file a lawsuit in a U.S. court on Wednesday against Philippine bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) over its role in one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists, the Bangladesh central bank governor said.
