German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday said that the EU could survive a Brexit and warned Britain the union would not tolerate "cherry-picking" in upcoming negotiations on their future relations.
"The EU is strong enough to withstand Britain's withdrawal," she told the German parliament ahead of a crisis summit of the 28 member states in Brussels.
More than 280,000 people have been killed in five years of civil war [File: AFP] Hundreds of civilians have been killed in both Syrian government and rebel attacks across the war-torn country in recent days, according to local activist groups.
Amal al-Sada, a 28-year-old Palestinian woman from Hebron, had been visiting her jailed older brother for more than a decade before deciding to risk smuggling a SIM card to him - unaware of the price she would pay for the attempt.
The Nigerian government has said it is in contact with Boko Haram after the armed group released a new video purporting to show the schoolgirls it kidnapped more than two years ago, and offering to trade the captives in return for the release of its jailed fighters.