Europe

18 August 2019; DW: Britain faces a shortfall of everyday essentials if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, a new leaked report says. Some lawmakers are demanding Parliament be recalled to discuss a no-deal Brexit.

A no-deal Brexit would jam British ports, leading to shortages in food, medicine and fuel, the latest United Kingdom government report suggested on Sunday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will not deploy new missiles as long as the United States shows similar restraint in Europe and Asia, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu said on Sunday, after Washington’s withdrawal from a Soviet-era arms pact.

The United States formally left the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia earlier this month after accusing Moscow of violating the treaty and deploying one banned type of missile, allegations the Kremlin denies.

Russia has also pulled out of the deal, but Shoigu said it had no plans to deploy new missiles.

18 August 2019; DW: The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany has sharply criticized the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, saying that it "incites fears and promotes a climate of exclusion of minorities."

18 August 2019; DW: The head of Germany's ruling Christian Democrats insists she has not called for ex-domestic intel boss Hans-Georg Maassen's exclusion from the party. The ex-spy chief has been accused of sympathizing with the far right.

The woman widely tipped to replace Angela Merkel as German chancellor has backed away from an earlier suggestion that the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) should expel the country's former domestic intelligence chief from the party.

18 August 2019; DW: The new UK prime minister will attempt to convince the French and German leaders to restart Brexit talks, according to British media. A longtime Brexiteer, Johnson has made his career criticizing the EU.

TEJEDA, Spain, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- More than 2,000 people have been evacuated in a small town in the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria island as a wildfire raged through the region.

The blaze, which started in the town of Valleseco on Saturday evening, was moving fairly quickly.

An emergency area was declared for the municipalities of Moya and Tejeda. Some 2,000 people in the town of Tejeda and several other districts were evacuated as a precautionary measure.

ROME (AP) — Italy’s hard-line interior minister buckled under pressure Saturday and agreed to let 27 unaccompanied minors leave a migrant rescue ship after two weeks at sea, temporarily easing a political standoff that has threatened the viability of the populist government.

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren framed their Democratic presidential bids in personal, faith-based terms Saturday before black millennial Christians who could help determine which candidate becomes the leading progressive alternative to former Vice President Joe Biden.

Sanders, the Vermont senator whose struggles with black voters helped cost him the 2016 nomination, told the Young Leaders Conference that his family history shapes his approach to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and the rise of white nationalism in the United States.

MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS /: The authenticity of the online transcript of the conversation between the crew of the Airbus A321 aircraft, which made an emergency landing on August 15 in the Moscow region, was confirmed at the Gromov Flight Research Institute, several sources confirmed it for TASS on Saturday.

"The conversations are authentic," said a TASS source at the institute that services and owns the runway at Zhukovsky Airport.

MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS/: Twenty-two people, including eight kids, have been rushed to hospital with injuries sustained in a passenger bus crash in the Russian city of Perm, Perm Region governor Maxim Reshetnikov told TASS.

"Now 22 people are those who are receiving medical treatment," he said.

According to him, eight people were among those who were injured, they were all taken to hospital.

A TASS source in the law enforcement agencies said that the bus had ploughed into a construction shop’s wall.