The European Union has mixed feeling about Boris Johnson's new proposals for a Brexit deal.
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, said the EU is "open but not convinced" by the British Prime Minister's plan.
The new proposal keeps Northern Ireland in the EU single market for goods.
However it exits the customs union.
Meanwhile Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the new plans for the withdrawal agreement were welcome.
But he said they "fall short in a number of aspects"
UN Hormuz vote now expected next week
The UN Security Council is now expected to vote next week on a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz, diplomats said on Friday, but veto-wielding China has made clear its opposition to authorising any use of force.
Bahrain says 4 injured after drone interception
Bahrain said four citizens were injured and a number of homes damaged from falling debris from drone interceptions early Saturday.
Eight dead after earthquake strikes Afghanistan
Eight people were killed and one child was injured on Friday when a house collapsed in Kabul following an earthquake in Afghanistan, the National Disaster Management Authority said.
Iran downs US fighter jet, raising stakes in war
Iran shot down a US warplane on Friday in the first such known incident of the five-week war, officials from both nations said, with one of the crew members rescued after ejecting and the other still missing, according to a US source.
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of 'Easter escalation'
A large-scale daytime Russian strike killed at least two people in Ukraine on Friday, officials said, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced as an "Easter escalation", as Moscow shifts tactics to avoid Ukrainian air defences.
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