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Thailand cave rescue: First boys rescued from trapped soccer team The first members ofa youth soccer team trapped with their coachin a flooded cave in northern Thailand have been rescued and are on their way to hospital, local officials said on Sunday. Four out of the 12 boys made it out of the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex, Narongsak Osottanakorn, the governor of Chiang Rai province and the head of the rescue mission, told reporters in the evening. Other Thai officials initially told reporters that six boys had been rescued. The rescue mission was due to resume on Monday and would be conducted by the same diving team that retrieved the first four boys, Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda said Monday. Anupong said divers needed to place more air canisters along the underwater route to where the boys and their coach are located — a process that can take several hours.
German government distances itself from Interior Minister Horst Seehofer The German government took the unusual step of distancing itself from German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer after he requested the EU strive for "unconditional security cooperation" with Britainafter it leaves the bloc, German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday. His move has angered the EU Commission, which is trying to present a united European front in the Brexit negotiations. Seehofer made the request in a letter to the EU Commission, the blocʼs executive arm that has been leading negotiations for EU national governments, in late June. "I would like to clarify that this [Seehoferʼs] was not a letter sanctioned by the German government," Thomas Eckert from the German Representation to the EU wrote in a letter to EU Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos.
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Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns His move comes days after May announced sheʼd united her Cabinet behind an EU exit plan
Chief Brexit negotiator David Davis wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May that he no longer wanted to be her "conscript." David Davis, Britainʼs chief negotiator in talks over the countryʼs planned departure from the European Union, has quit his post. The move has threatened Theresa Mayʼs future as UK prime minister only 48 hours after her Cabinet appeared to have agreed on a controversial proposal to offer the EU a post-Brexit free trade deal for goods. Davis and May exchange letters: Davis announced his resignation in a letter to Mayʼs office. He justified the decision on what he said was Britainʼs problematic Brexit policy, writing that it would leave the country "in at best a weak negotiating position, and possibly an inescapable one."The government, he added, also risked making "the supposed control by Parliament illusory rather than real," handing over "large swathes of our economy to the EU," and "not returning control of our laws in any real sense.""The national interest requires a Secretary of State in my Department that is an enthusiastic believer in your approach, and not merely a reluctant conscript," he wrote.May thanked
Davis for his service in a written reply to his letter, but wrote that she did not agree with his "characterization" of the governmentʼs Brexit policy. The proposal signed off on Friday, she added, met the criteria for an acceptable post-Brexit relationship with the EU.Britainʼs Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that Steve Baker, a junior minister in Britainʼs Brexit Department, also resigned. Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn suggested Theresa May should resign in response to Davisʼ resignation, writing on Twitter: "David Davis resigning at such a crucial time shows @Theresa_May has no authority left and is incapable of delivering Brexit." Who is David Davis? The Conservative Party politician headed the Department for Exiting the European Union and acted as Londonʼs chief envoy in negotiations with Brussels that began in mid-2017. Davis was considered among the most ardent Brexit supporters in Mayʼs Cabinet and had reportedly threatened to resign multiple times before.
Italy to block naval vessels carrying migrants from docking Italyʼshardline Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini,vowed on Sunday to stop foreign naval vessels that have saved migrants in the Mediterranean Sea from docking in Italian ports, extending a ban first placed on ships chartered by charities. Foreign naval ships participating in European Union and NATO-sponsored search-and-rescue missions transfer many migrants to land at Italian ports. On Sunday, Irish navy ship Samuel Beckett landed in Sicily with 106 migrants on board. Announcing his decision on social media, Salvini said he would inform his counterparts from other European Union countries about the move at an upcoming EU meeting in Austria.
British woman exposed to Novichok nerve agent dies British police on Sunday said a woman who wasexposed to the nerve agent Novichokin Amesbury, near the southwestern city of Salisbury, had died. Londonʼs Metropolitan Police said 44year-old Dawn Sturgess died on Sunday in a Salisbury hospital and the case had now become a homicide investigation . Police said Sturgess and 45-yearold Charlie Rowley, who remains in critical condition in hospital,were exposed to Novichok, the same type of nerve agent used to poisonformer Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury In March. UK Prime Minister Theresa May said she was "appalled and shocked" by the death.
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