The United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on March 29 and yet little is clear: There is, so far, no full exit agreement.

The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) has completed the signing of 21 memoranda of understanding (MoU) with securities regulators in the European Union.

Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini agreed to allow them to leave the Diciotti, the Italian coastguard ship which had rescued them some 10 days ago.

The Diciotti vessel has been docked at the port of Catania since Monday night, after the Italian government blocked migrants from leaving in the absence of commitments from the EU to relocate some of them.

Congo's President Joseph Kabila will not stand in the election scheduled for December, a spokesman said, finally agreeing to obey a two-term limit.

Spain's Supreme Court dropped a European arrest warrant for Puigdemont last week after Germany refused to extradite him.

The penalty is nearly double the previous record of 2.4bn euros which the US company was ordered to pay last year over its online shopping search service.

Prime Minister Theresa May has come under fire from both wings of her party over a hard-won Brexit plan.

After publicly criticising British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy, US President Donald Trump said that the relationship was "very, very strong."

Prime Minister Theresa May published her blueprint for relations with the European Union after Brexit on Thursday.

Theresa May has been wrestling with how to enact Brexit without jeopardising business with the world's biggest trading bloc of 27 countries whilst forging new global deals.

Talks to save the 2015 nuclear deal on Friday are unlikely to satisfy Iran, European powers said, and Tehran warned that it could leave the accord if it was not fully compensated for the re-imposition of US sanctions.