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  • Brexit: DUP would possibly revisit confidence and supply deal, says Foster

    Arlene Foster Symbol caption The DUP is protecting its annual conference this weekend

    The DUP may need to revisit its trust and provide handle the Tories if Theresa Might’s Brexit deal passes thru parliament, Arlene Foster has stated.

    The DUP leader stated her settlement with the Conservatives had been intended to supply the united kingdom with nationwide stability and to ship on Brexit.

    She was once speaking on Radio Ulster’s Inside Politics programme.

    The DUP is maintaining its annual convention this weekend.

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    “If that is not going to ship on Brexit then in fact that brings us to the placement of looking once more at the trust and supply deal.

    “But we’re no longer there yet,” she said.

    The DUP leader insisted the federal government will have to “ditch the Irish backstop” and recognise that, in practice, no one will put into effect a hard border at the island of eire.

    She argued that the chance of such a troublesome border has taken on a “legendary status” in the Brexit negotiations.

    Mrs Foster argued that the ecu Withdrawal Settlement as it stands will not get the beef up of parliament.

    in preference to “wasting time” at the agreement, she mentioned Mrs May will have to attempt to secure a better deal.

    Mrs Foster stated the connection with the prospective use of era to monitor go-border business within the up to date ECU-UK Political Announcement doesn’t change her party’s objections to Mrs Might’s Withdrawal Agreement.

    She said it will were much better if both the european and the united kingdom had explored possible technological solutions to keeping up easy cross-border trade within the summer time of closing yr, when unionists prior to now championed the speculation.

    Mrs Foster stated the withdrawal agreement can be legally binding and feature the standing of a global treaty, so it remains important to the DUP that nothing contained in it damages the united kingdom constitutionally or economically.

    Inside Politics is on BBC Radio Ulster on Friday at 18:05 GMT and Saturday at 13:35 GMT.

  • Apec summit ends with out remark over US-China division

    Apec family photo Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption US VP Pence (3rd right) and China’s Xi didn’t seem together in Apec leaders footage

    An Asian economic summit has ended with no formal leaders’ commentary for the first time as a result of US-China divisions over trade.

    Papua New Guinea’s Top Minister Peter O’Neill said “the 2 large giants within the room” were unable to agree.

    He said a chairman’s observation for the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (Apec) summit would be released later.

    The US and China are engaged in trade struggle and revealed competing visions for the area at the summit.

    In his final feedback, Mr O’Neill mentioned Apec could try to make sure “unfastened and open business” in the area by 2020.

    Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption Mr Xi (C) criticised the united states’s The United States First policy

    Mr Pence later said he was ready to “greater than double” the tariffs imposed on Chinese goods.

    He additionally criticised China’s massive Belt-and-Street infrastructure programme, warning smaller countries that “opaque” Chinese Language construction loans resulted in “mind-blowing debt”.

    He advised nations to paintings with the u.s. as an alternative, announcing the u.s. didn’t “coerce, corrupt or compromise your independence”.

    Mr Xi insisted that there has been no “hidden schedule” to the Belt-and-Street scheme.

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  • Matthew Hedges: Jailed UAE spy row Briton ‘terrified’

    Matthew Hedges Image copyright EPA/DANIELA TEJADA Symbol caption The UAE govt is learning a request for clemency made via Matthew Hedges’ family

    A British academic, convicted of spying in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and jailed for all times, is “absolutely terrified”, his wife says.

    Daniela Tejada stated she had had “five mins” at the phone with Matthew Hedges for the first time considering his sentencing and he’s “now not smartly”.

    Hedges, 31, denied spying and mentioned he were researching his PhD. Prosecutors said he confessed.

    The UAE government is learning a request for clemency through his circle of relatives.

    Ms Tejada confirmed the request have been made, adding: “we can wait to look what occurs.”

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    Twitter post by @BBCPaulAdams: Things looking a bit more positive for Matthew Hedges this evening. Foreign office sources say they regard earlier UAE FM statement as “olive branch.” “We wanted to respond in kind.” Image Copyright @BBCPaulAdams @BBCPaulAdams

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    Mr Hunt met Ms Tejada within the wake of her complaint of the united kingdom executive for failing to take an organization sufficient stance with the UAE.

    However, talking afterwards, Ms Tejada thanked the foreign secretary for “taking the time” to fulfill her at “this crucial point”.

    Hedges, a political scientist at Durham University who’s at the start from Exeter, have been within the united states of america getting to know the UAE’s security strategy for his PhD thesis whilst he used to be arrested at Dubai airport on 5 May.

    The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned the rustic was once “made up our minds to protect its vital strategic relationship with a key ally” and delivered it was hoping all sides may just to find “an amicable answer” to the case.

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  • Sri Lanka mass graves: 230 skeletons discovered at country’s biggest web page

    Human remains at the Mannar mass grave Symbol caption Who the sufferers are or which aspect killed them continues to be unknown

    Sri Lankan experts say a mass grave discovered in advance this 12 months in the north-western town of Mannar has became out to be the country’s largest such web page.

    More than 230 skeletons have now been discovered at the grave in the former battle zone, up from approximately NINETY in August.

    Human rights teams say a minimum of 20,000 other people disappeared all through Sri Lanka’s long civil battle which resulted in 2009.

    The 26-yr war between troops and separatist Tamil rebels left no less than ONE HUNDRED,000 people dead.

    A court docket ordered specified excavations on the web page – a former co-operative depot close to the main bus terminus – after human is still had been discovered by staff digging foundations for a new construction earlier this yr.

    Image copyright AFP Symbol caption many of us were taken into custody throughout the conflict and heaps disappeared

    After the remains are exposed, they’re transferred to the custody of the court in Mannar, that allows you to decide what will have to occur subsequent as soon as the excavation is complete.

    A number of mass graves have been unearthed in Sri Lanka’s former battle zone because the battle ended.

    The remains of 96 other people had been found out in 2014 at a website in every other part of Mannar – adjoining to Thiruketheeswaram, a distinguished Hindu temple.

    But four years on there may be still no clarity in that case either, approximately who was once killed and by whom.

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    Rights teams allege that each the military and the defeated Tamil Tigers inflicted popular civilian casualties.

    but the government has all the time denied its forces had anything else to do with civilian deaths or disappearances, and the military dismisses any suggestion that squaddies are attached with the our bodies discovered in the mass graves in Mannar.

    After years of international power, the federal government in advance this year arrange an independent frame, the Place Of Job of the Lacking Individuals (OMP), to investigate the disappearances. The OMP has supplied partial funding for the excavation in Mannar.

  • US mid-terms latest: All you need to know Mid-terms: You choose what happens

     

    The US mid-term elections on Tuesday will help define the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency.

    Americans will vote for members of both chambers of Congress, as well as for governors in 36 out of 50 states.

    This is our last daily round-up ahead of the mid-terms, so we’ve pulled together all our material that matters.

    One question

    Wait…what are the mid-terms? (Don’t worry, it’s OK to ask.)

    It may feel like the US is always having elections, so what’s at stake on Tuesday? What are people voting for?

    Donald Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot this year, but it might as well be.

    One important thing to watch on Tuesday will be whether candidates who have embraced the president’s rhetoric and tactics end up doing well. This could shape the direction of the Republican party over the next two years.

    Either way, we can expect these mid-terms, like all others, to be a referendum on the president.

    The parties of presidents who have low approval ratings tend to do poorly in the mid-terms – and President Trump’s are very low indeed.

    This is one reason Democrats, with the House of Representatives in their sights, are optimistic this year.

    Here are other reasons Democrats are hopeful

    One race to watch

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    There are plenty we could have picked here – any of the close Senate races in Tennessee, Missouri or Arizona for example – but if there’s one race that sums up the 2018 mid-terms, it is the close race for governor in Georgia.

    Like in a number of other states this year, Georgia could see a significant first: Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams would become the first female African-American governor in the US if she won.

    Her Republican opponent Brian Kemp is Georgia’s secretary of state. His office has been behind the cancellation of 1.5m voter registration applications in four years, and has been accused of voter suppression, one of the hot-button issues this year.

    As with the divisive race for governor in neighbouring Florida, the Georgia contest has also been laced with racist undertones (or even overtones). Just last week, the Washington Post reported, voters in Georgia received a fake robocall purporting to be from Oprah Winfrey “asking you to make my fellow Negress Stacey Abrams the governor of Georgia”.

    Our correspondent Courtney Subramanian spent time in Georgia looking at how the bitter race has played out.

    You can read her piece here

    One guide

    The first polls will close at 23:00 GMT on Tuesday (that’s 18:00 on the east coast of the US).

    We’ll be bringing you coverage live online, on TV and on radio as the results come in.

    How can you find out where to read, watch and listen?

    See the schedule for our mid-terms coverage here

    One game

    There are plenty of possible outcomes on Tuesday, and therefore plenty of possible consequences.

    If you want to see what those consequences are, choose a scenario right here…

    Mid-terms: You choose what happens

     

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  • Students made to look black in French art school photo

    Undoctored École Émile-Cohl image Image copyright École Émile-Cohl Image caption The original, undoctored image as posted on the college’s website

    A French private art college has apologised after one of its promotional images was doctored to include more black students.

    The photo of a class trip to an art gallery was posted on a US promotional website for Lyon’s Émile-Cohl art school.

    Students noticed it was altered to darken the skin of white students, with black students digitally inserted.

    The school has apologised, and blamed the doctored image on a US PR company.

    Social media users posted comparisons of the original image and the altered version on Twitter.

    On its website, a statement by Émile-Cohl college says the school was first alerted to the image by students. They say it was “retouched to change the physical appearance” of some students.

    It removed the doctored image from the website and apologised to those concerned, “because it goes without saying that we disapprove of this process”.

    The photo was intended to be used as promotional material for a new college subsidiary in Los Angeles.

    The college director Antoine Rivière said in an interview with French news magazine L’Express the college sent several photos to a US communications firm “to enhance the reputation of our school there”.

    The image was changed without their knowledge, he says.

    “This is the antithesis of what represents Émile-Cohl,” he told the magazine.

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  • Mamoudou Gassama: Mali ‘Spiderman’ becomes French citizen

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    Media captionMalian “Spiderman” rescues Paris child – then meets French president

    The Malian migrant who dramatically rescued a small boy dangling from a balcony in Paris, France, has been made a French citizen.

    Mamoudou Gassama scaled four floors with his bare hands to save the four year old, who was left unsupervised.

    Mr Gassama, who had been in France illegally, received international acclaim for his bravery.

    President Emmanuel Macron personally thanked him and said he would be offered a role in the fire service.

    “This act of great bravery exemplifies the values which help unite our national community, such as courage, selflessness, altruism and taking care of the most vulnerable,” said the official decree published on Wednesday announcing the granting of his citizenship.

    Mr Gassama was initially given French residency, a first step towards citizenship, and then fast-tracked to receive French citizenship for his heroic gesture.

    He earned the nickname Spiderman as a result of his act of bravery.

    He also signed a contract for an internship with the Paris fire service and was given a medal by the city.

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    He arrived in France last year via the Mediterranean migrant route and found a job in construction in the capital.

    He worked cash-in-hand on building sites and lived in a hostel in the western suburb of Montreuil – known as “little Bamako” because of its large Malian population.

    He had not applied for asylum and was living illegally in France.

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  • Cancers ‘rising around the world’

    A woman is treated with chemotherapy Image copyright Science Photo Library

    There will be 18.1 million new cases of cancer and 9.6 million people will die with the disease this year worldwide, a report predicts.

    The rise, from 14.1 million cases and 8.2 million deaths in 2012, is partly due to a growing and ageing population.

    The figures suggest one in five men and one in six women will develop the disease in their lifetime.

    And as countries become wealthier, more people get cancers related to lifestyle rather than those linked to poverty.

    The International Agency for Research on Cancer provides regular snapshots of the scale of cancer around the world, looking closely at 36 different cancers in 185 countries.

    Researchers say while ways of measuring and collecting cancer data have improved over the years, the overall trend is that cancer rates and deaths have risen year on year.

    The latest report suggests lung cancer, female breast cancer, and bowel cancer are responsible for a third of all cancer cases and deaths worldwide.

    ‘Tobacco control’

    And the authors say lung cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in women in 28 countries.

    The worst hit countries include the USA, Hungary, Denmark, China and New Zealand.

    George Butterworth, from the charity Cancer Research UK, said: “Tobacco is the single biggest reason why more women across the world are getting lung cancer than ever before.

    “In the UK smoking among women became more prolific later than it did for men, so it’s not surprising that we’re seeing increasing lung cancer rates now.

    “Similarly, cigarettes are now increasingly popular among women in low and middle income countries and the tobacco industry’s aggressive marketing to them is influencing this.”

    Meanwhile, Dr Freddie Bray, of the IARC, said: “The results highlight the need to continue to put in place targeted and effective tobacco control policies in every country in the he world.”

    ‘Extraordinary diversity’

    Overall, the report estimates, nearly half of all cases and most cancer deaths in the world this year will occur in Asia, partly because of the large numbers of people living in the continent and partly because some cancers with higher death rates are more common in this region.

    This includes, for example, high rates of liver cancer, which generally has a poor prognosis, in China.

    Beyond this, the authors say, there is “extraordinary diversity” in the types of cancer and patterns of illness around the world.

    They say because of this countries need to consider tailoring how they try to prevent and treat cancer.

  • Russia’s Navalny challenged to a duel via Zolotov

    Viktor Zolotov and Vladimir Putin Image copyright AFP Symbol caption Viktor Zolotov (left) used to paintings as Vladimir Putin’s bodyguard

    The Head of Russia’s Nationwide Guard has uploaded a video difficult competition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny to a duel.

    Viktor Zolotov, who used to be Vladimir Putin’s bodyguard, promised Mr Navalny “payback” and said he could “make a juicy beefsteak out of” him.

    Mr Navalny printed a video closing month alleging that National Defend leaders were corrupt – angering Mr Zolotov.

    Mr Navalny is lately in jail for breaking anti-protest laws.

    he is Russia’s such a lot outstanding opposition chief and has led nationwide protests towards the government.

    Symbol copyright AFP Image caption Mr Navalny has led large anti-Putin rallies

    Mr Zolotov condemned Mr Navalny’s allegations in Tuesday’s video, calling them “offensive and nasty lies”.

    “No One has given you a top quality kick within the ass… I simply call you to a duel,” he said in a video revealed at the National Defend’s YouTube web page.

    “I promise to make a juicy beefsteak out of you in precisely a few minutes.”

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    Media captionHow the Russian state uses surveillance and propaganda to discredit opponents

    Mr Navalny’s former marketing campaign chief Leonid Volkov mentioned Mr Zolotov had made some “very severe threats” – but also mocked his video, announcing he “will need to have forgotten” that the competition leader is in jail and can’t reply.

    Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated he supported Mr Zolotov’s opinion, as a result of “libel need to be nipped in the bud”, however added that he didn’t assume the video counted as a bodily threat.

    Human rights groups have accused Russia of cracking down on political warring parties and harassing political activists.

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  • Trump receives ‘warm’ letter from Kim about new summit

    Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump at the June summit in Singapore Image copyright Reuters Image caption Time for a sequel to this summer’s blockbuster summit?

    North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has written to US President Donald Trump inquiring for a observe-as much as their ancient summit, the White Space says.

    The US says it is already taking a look at scheduling a new assembly.

    White Space spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the “very warm” letter confirmed Pyongyang’s “endured commitment to take care of denuclearisation”.

    Negotiations at the matter appeared to have stalled after the 2 leaders’ historic summit in Singapore in June.

    “the primary purpose of the letter was once to request and look to agenda every other assembly with the president, which we’re open to and are already within the strategy of co-ordinating that,” Ms Sanders said.

    Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption Lots of troops marched within the parade

    Mr Trump himself thanked the North Korean leader by the use of Twitter, announcing the parade was once “a large and really certain observation from North Korea.”

    “Thank You to Chairman Kim. We Will each turn out everybody fallacious!”

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    At their June summit in Singapore, the 2 leaders signed a imprecise agreement to paintings against the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

    however it did not come with a timeline, main points or any mechanisms to make sure the process.

    High-degree talks and visits have persisted, but the most up-to-date scheduled go back and forth via US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used to be referred to as off at the closing minute.

    each side have also blamed one another for stalling negotiations whilst insisting that they have been dedicated to the method.

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