Barnier offers Britain close ties but no ‘single market a la carte’
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc was prepared to offer Britain an unprecedentedly close relationship after it quits the EU, but it would not permit anything that weakened the body’s single market.
U.N. accuses Nicaragua government of widespread rights violations
Nicaragua’s government turned a blind eye while armed mobs rounded up protesters, some of whom were later raped with rifles and tortured in detention, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a report rejected as biased by Managua.
South African police evacuate mall over bomb threat
Shoppers were evacuated from the Mall of Africa, one of South Africa’s largest shopping complexes, on Wednesday as police searched for a bomb after receiving a threat, police said.
Smugglers use drone to fly drugs over militarized Cyprus frontier
Smugglers attempted to use a drone to fly illegal drugs over the frontier separating Turkish Cypriot northern Cyprus with the rest of the island, one of the most heavily guarded areas in Europe, Turkish Cypriot media reported.
UK’s Brexit plan has had ‘reasonably positive’ reaction from EU states: minister
Britain’s negotiating stance on Brexit, published in July, has received a reasonably positive reaction from other members of the European Union, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Wednesday.
Kenyan court temporarily halts criminal action against deputy chief justice
Kenya’s high court on Wednesday temporarily halted criminal proceedings against the deputy chief justice who had been arrested a day earlier and charged on suspicion of corruption, failure to pay taxes and improper dealings with a local bank.
One killed as foreign shop owners attacked in Soweto: South African police
One person was shot dead and foreign-owned shops were looted as violence erupted in the South African township of Soweto on Wednesday, police said.
Brexit deal is ‘within our sights’: UK’s Raab
Britain and the European Union have a deal “within our sights”, on the terms on which Britain will leave the bloc, Brexit minister Dominic Raab told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Cameroon cocoa exporters, farmers flee crisis in Anglophone region
Cocoa firms operating in Cameroon have moved staff out of the Anglophone region of the country and farmers are abandoning their crops in the area, as violence between separatists and security forces intensifies, exporters and farmers told Reuters.
Clashes shatter illusion of security in Libyan capital
A bout of fighting in Libya’s capital has laid bare the fragility of a militia cartel that had brought a veneer of stability to the city and encouraged the gradual return of foreign diplomats and plans for elections in December.
