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European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has reiterated to Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson that "the Withdrawal Agreement is the best and only agreement possible", a spokesperson says, as the EU seeks to reject a push by Johsnon to rewrite the Brexit deal. SOUNDBITE
The EU Commission says that Brexit talks should move on to trade talks as "sufficient progress" had been made on the first stage covering divorce issues, following talks between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker. SOUNDBITE
"We are now at the closest we ever have been at reaching an agreement. We are very optimistic, we are very hopeful. But we are also very keen for this mediation to succeed in reaching a humanitarian truce" says Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari during a press conference in Doha. IMAGES
The representative for the Ethiopian government reads out a joint statement agreed upon between the two sides of the Ethiopian conflict. "We have also agreed on a detailed programme of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration for the TPLF combatants" he says, as part of a peace process that has seen the warring parties come to an agreement at talks facilitated by the African Union in Pretoria. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says a new post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union would benefit both sides of the Channel, after a last-gasp agreement was secured. "This is a good deal for the whole of Europe and for our friends and partners as well," he told a Downing Street news conference. SOUNDBITE
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