UK’s post Brexit border arrangements to cost €5.5 billion The British government estimates it will spend at least 4.7 billion pounds (€5.5 billion) on implementing post Brexit border arrangements, after repeated delays in setting new rules, parliament's spending watchdog said on Monday (20 May). Slovak PM Fico’s assassination attempt likely not a ‘lone wolf’ attack In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Bulgarian president seeing Ukraine's victory over Russia as 'impossible', rising political violence in Germany, and so much more. Finland to present plan to push back migrants on Russian border Finland will propose a law next week allowing border agents to block asylum seekers trying to enter from Russia, the prime minister said on Sunday (19 May), a decision that could cause Helsinki to temporarily breach its international commitments. Islamic State claims deadly Afghanistan attack on tourists The Islamic State group on Sunday (19 May) claimed responsibility for an attack targeting tourists in Afghanistan that killed three Spaniards and three Afghans. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi pronounced dead in helicopter crash Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister were killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday (20 May), after search teams located the wreckage in East Azerbaijan province of Iran.
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