'Progress on deal' ahead of May-Juncker Brexit talks
Theresa May is set to meet key EU figures for talks on Brexit which could determine whether the UK is able to move on to negotiations on trade.
BBC Europe editor Katya Adler says deals were reached this weekend on the UK "divorce bill" and citizens' rights.
But Irish ministers said there was no agreement yet on the outstanding issue of the border with Northern Ireland.
No 10 said "plenty of discussions" lay ahead as it seeks a breakthrough at a summit of EU leaders in ten days' time.
Mrs May will meet European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, who has set a deadline for her to come forward with an improved offer on the terms of the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
Eight arrested over murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
Malta’s prime minister Joseph Muscat says all the suspects are Maltese nationals and most have a criminal record
Maltese police have arrested eight suspects over the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the prime minister, Joseph Muscat, has said, almost two months after her car was blown up close to her home.
All of the suspects are Maltese nationals and most have a criminal record, Muscat said, without providing any further details. The police have 48 hours to question the suspects, indict them or release them. Police operations have been taking place in the town of Marsa, and the Bugibba and Zebbug areas.
Caruana Galizia, whose hugely popular blog attacked high-level corruption, shady business dealings and organised crime on the island, died in October in a powerful car bomb yards from her home.
Rohingya crisis: Burma quotes Donald Trump in dismissing persecution of Muslim minority as 'fake news'
State continues to deny genocide accusations and borrows US President's most enduring catchphrase - despite White House condemnation of 'ethnic cleansing'
He was a member of the Rohingya student union in college, taught at a public high school and even won a parliamentary seat in Burma's thwarted elections in 1990.
But according to the government of Burma, Kyaw Min’s fellow Rohingya do not exist.
A long-persecuted Muslim minority concentrated in Burma's Rakhine state, the Rohingya have been deemed dangerous interlopers from neighbouring Bangladesh. Today, they are mostly stateless, their very identity denied by Buddhist-majority Burma.
Honduras ballot recount begins amid election fraud protests
Votes are now being recounted from more than a thousand disputed ballot boxes after last week's presidential election. But allegations of election fraud persist as thousands take to the streets in protest.
Honduras' electoral tribunal has restarted a partial recount of nearly 6 percent of ballots from last weekend's presidential election, as the country's main opposition leader continued to demand a wider recalculation of the votes.
Authorities on Sunday ordered the reopening of some 1,031 ballot boxes in which inaccuracies were detected, ignoring calls by Salvador Nasralla — the candidate for the leftist Alliance of Opposition Against Dictatorship and a well-known TV personality — that thousands more polling stations be included.
With 95 percent of votes counted by late Friday, incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez — who ignored a constitutional ban and ran for re-election — held a lead of more than 46,000 votes over Nasralla. It's not clear whether the remaining disputed votes could still swing the outcome.
US masses stealth jets in South Korea for war games
Updated 0816 GMT (1616 HKT) December 4, 2017
US F-22 fighter jets roared into the sky over South Korea on Monday to start air combat exercises that North Korea says are pushing the peninsula to the brink of nuclear war.
A US 7th Air Force official said the top-of-the-line F-22s are being joined by Air Force and Marine Corps F-35s in the largest concentration of fifth-generation fighter jets ever in South Korea.
The stealthy F-22s and F35s are among 230 US and South Korean aircraft participating in the annual Vigilant Ace 18 air combat drills.
After a 'failed' vote, what is happening in Liberia?
Liberia is in the thick of uncertainty after its Supreme Court ruled in November that a presidential run-off vote cannot proceed until a complaint of fraud and irregularities in the first round has been investigated.
An investigation into the complaint of fraud and irregularities has been completed by the National Elections Commission (NEC) as per constitutional rules. The Supreme Court is now hearing an appeal lodged by the Liberty Party and the Unity Party against the outcome of the NEC's investigation.
A ruling is expected Thursday.
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