INTERNATIONAL

Brazilian prosecutors have made a formal allegation of tax evasion and money laundering against former tourism minister Henrique Alves. Mr Alves resigned on Thursday after being linked to a corruption scheme. Brazil’s Attorney General Rodrigo Janot presented evidence to the Supreme Court saying that Mr Alves had a secret bank account in Switzerland. He became the third cabinet minister to ...

The UK faces an “existential choice” in the EU referendum from which there would be “no turning back”, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Mr Cameron said choosing to leave the EU in Thursday’s vote would be a “big mistake” and lead to “debilitating uncertainty” for up to a decade. However Michael Gove told the Sunday Telegraph the UK could ...

Leaving the European Union would make the UK as significant as Guernsey, France’s economy minister has said. Emmanuel Macron told Le Monde newspaper that Britain would become “a little country on the world scale [that] would isolate itself… at Europe’s border”. He said the EU should send “a very firm message” about the consequences of a British vote to leave ...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has criticised Nato military exercises in Eastern Europe, accusing the organisation of “warmongering”. Mr Steinmeier said that extensive Nato manoeuvres launched this month were counterproductive to regional security and could enflame tensions with Russia. He urged the Nato military alliance to replace the exercises with more dialogue and co-operation with Russia. Nato launched a simulated ...

Russia President Vladimir Putin has said it is unjust and unfair that the Russian athletics team remains banned from international competition, including the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) decided not to lift the suspension, imposed after accusations of state-sponsored doping. Individual athletes can compete as neutrals if they prove they are clean. Mr Putin ...

David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn have united to condemn the killing of MP Jo Cox as an “attack on democracy”. Speaking alongside the prime minister in Mrs Cox’s West Yorkshire constituency, Labour leader Mr Corbyn said Parliament would be recalled on Monday, and labelled the attack “an act of hatred”. Mrs Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed in the street ...

They argue the current approach is working against the Syrian opposition and helping Mr Assad to stay in power. It was signed by 51 mid-to-high level officials who advise on Syria issues. It is not unusual for internal “dissent cables” to be filed through State Department channels. However, it is rare to have this number of diplomats voice opposition to ...

The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month has been found in the Mediterranean, Egyptian investigators say. The “black box” was damaged and had to be pulled out in several stages but its memory unit was intact, they said. A search vessel with an underwater robot has been scouring the crash site and has sent back ...

Wreckage of the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean last month has been found, Egyptian investigators say. A statement said “several main locations of the wreckage” had been identified. A deep sea search vessel had also sent back the first images of the wreckage, the statement added. There were 66 people on board flight MS804 when it crashed ...

Oscar Pistorius has removed his prosthetic limbs and hobbled around the courtroom at his sentencing hearing in South Africa. The former Olympic athlete was on his stumps when he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a door at his home in 2013, and his defence made much of his vulnerability. The hearing in Pretoria was called after a court convicted ...