Brexit: Chancellor Merkel warns UK on scope of talks with EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says some British people have "illusions" about discussing the UK's future ties with the EU at the same time as nailing down the UK's Brexit terms.
An EU-UK deal can only be discussed once the exit issues - such as UK payments to the EU budget - are resolved, Mrs Merkel told German MPs.
The UK initiated the formal procedure to leave the EU on 29 March.
It sets a two-year deadline for completion of the exit negotiations.
EU leaders are to meet on Saturday to adopt their joint negotiating position on Brexit. They are working on the basis of draft guidelines issued on 31 March.
Official talks will not begin until after the UK general election on 8 June.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May called the early election, saying she needed to strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations.
One nation, two Trumps: America as divided as ever after first 100 days
We asked two neighboring communities in Ohio what they make of the president’s first 100 days in office. Their answers paint a disparate picture
by Ed Pilkington in Warrensville Heights and Chardon, Ohio
How did Donald Trump do in his first 100 days as US president? The moment you step out into the beating heart of America, you realize that’s the wrong question.
How did the Donald Trumps – plural – do in their first 100 days? That’s the better line of inquiry. And no, it’s not a reference to Donald Jr, busily engorging the family business while his father makes America great again.
The question to ask is: how did the two Donald Trumps do? One man, two entirely contrary public figures. There’s Donald Trump, champion of the white conservative religious masses of rural and small-town America, the man bringing change to Washington, reviving the nation’s pride, teaching a lesson to foreigners with a well-targeted bombing raid or two.
Christians are under attack in the Middle East – and not even a visit from the Pope can convince them to stay
In the British mandate of Palestine, the Christian population was 9.6 per cent of the population. By 1999, it was 2.9 per cent. Meanwhile, 35 per cent of the Christians of the West Bank and Gaza left between 1967 and 1999
Almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, I wrote a story for the front page of what was then The Independent’s Weekend Review. It was headlined: “Exodus: a story of Christians”. It told the tragedy of those people of the faith who were fleeing the lands of the forefathers.
I interviewed the only hermit left in Lebanon, in a cave in the north of the country, and he said to me: “I am the only hermit left in all the Middle East.” His eyes creased in happiness when I acknowledged his unique theological condition. “I will never leave Lebanon,” he said. “No Christian should leave the Holy Land. Those who have left will come back.”
He exuded faith: childlike, passionate, precise, untrammelled by contradiction or facts. And he was wrong.
Iran border guards killed by Sunni militants on Pakistan border
A clash on the Iran-Pakistan border has left 10 Iranian border guards dead. The Army of Justice, which has previously attacked Iranian security forces, has claimed responsibility for the violence.
A Sunni militant group killed 10 Iranian border guards at their post on the country's southeastern border with Pakistan on Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency.
The group, known as Jaish al Adl, or the Army of Justice, claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the news agency. The report called the militants involved in the shooting "terrorists."
"Ten border guards of Mirjaveh county in Sistan and Baluchestan Province were martyred in an ambush by the terrorists in the Pakistani border's zero-point," the report said.
Chernobyl disaster anniversary: The Exclusion Zone in pictures
Thirty-one years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of our Observers sent us photos from his trip to the desolate Exclusion Zone. In June 2016 he went to the site in the Ukraine where a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, turning the area into one of the most radioactive places in the world.
A routine test on Reactor 4 at the plant on April 26, 1986, ended in disaster when the reactor exploded, shooting radioactive particles into the atmosphere. The explosion released 100 times more radiation than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Radioactive material later drifted on the wind to other countries across Europe.
There is still controversy over how many people actually died as a result of the accident. The World Health Organisation said in a 2006 report that "The actual number of deaths caused by this accident is unlikely ever to be precisely known." One worker was killed in the initial explosion, and acute radiation syndrome killed 28 workers in the weeks following the accident.
India's Maoist rebels: An explainer
Government security crackdown on Maoist rebels has led to an increased casualty figure in the country's tribal areas.
Communist political movement in India started in 1920s as an anti-colonial struggle when the country was still ruled by Britain.
But the seeds of the first radical Marxist movement were sowed in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh shortly after India gained independence in 1947.
The first armed uprising was launched in 1967 in the remote Naxalbari village in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. The uprising, which began after a farmer was stopped from tilling his own land, was put down by force after 72 days.
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