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Two more held in Nice over truck attack
Reuters, France
Police arrested a man and a woman in the French city of Nice on Sunday morning in connection with the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day, a judiciary source said.
Authorities have now detained seven people over the killings, claimed by Islamic State..

UK Labour Party for all-party
agreement on Brexit
Reuters, London
Angela Eagle, one of three candidates vying to lead Britain’s opposition Labour Party, said on Sunday there should be agreement between Britain’s political parties on the terms of a Brexit deal.
“We need to get the terms of leaving right and we’ve got to have all party agreement on that,” Eagle told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.

Bahrain court dissolves main opposition bloc
AFP, Dubai
A Bahraini court on Sunday ordered the kingdom’s main opposition group Al Wefaq to be dissolved, a judicial source said, after authorities accused it of “harbouring terrorism”.
The administrative court in Manama also ordered the movement’s funds to be seized by the government, the source said.
The ruling comes despite appeals by the United Nations, United States, and rights groups for the legal process against the bloc to be dropped.

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