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European Union leaders meeting in Brussels say they've agreed a broad action plan with Turkey to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe. The president of European Commission Jean Claude Juncker says there was now an explicit link being created between progress on stopping migrants entering the EU and the acceleration of plans to grant Turkish citizens visa free travel to the European Union. The European Council president Donald Tusk says concessions have been necessary in return for Turkey's support. We prefer that well first because we need that responsible and adequate response from the Turkish side. They are our partners in the crisis. The more for more principle must supply you have passed. We have your, It is exact simple. During the day, the Bulgarian president Boyko Borisov abruptly left the EU talks after reports of violence between guards and refugees on Bulgari's border with Turkey. It was later confirmed that a migrant from Afghanistan was shot dead by a guard.

Officials in Nigeria say at least 30 people have been killed in an apparent suicide attack at a mosque near the city of Maiduguri. Reports say there were at least two big explosions during prayers. David Bamford has this report. Nigerian media, quoting local twitter, say that many people were killed in two explosions during evening prayers at the mosque in the Maiduguri suburb of Mulai. Injured casualties have been ferried to the local hospital. A senior official said the blasts were thought to be the result of an attack by suicide bombers. Maiduguri is frequently targeted by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has given evidence to federal prosecutors denying that he carried out illegal lobbying work after leaving office. The founder of the ruling Workers' Party remains one of Brazil's most popular politicians, but he risks becoming embroidered in a series of corruption and political crisis that have undermined the government of his successor Dilma Rousseff. Our Brazil correspondent Wyre Davies has this report. Although former president Lula hasn't been charged with any criminal offense, he was asked by federal prosecutors in Brasilia to clarify any really matter found in lobbying for some Brazil's biggest firms after he left office in 2010. In particular, prosecutors probe into details about President Lula's relationship with one of Brazil's biggest construction companies Odebrecht and preferential loans that received from a state development bank.

An opposition Venezuelan politician Manuel Rosales has been arrested six years after fleeing the country amid corruption allegations. Mr. Rosales, a former presidential candidate, denies any wrongdoing. World news from the BBC.

The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is making her first visit to the western state of Rakhine since 2012 when Buddhist attackers drove more than a hundred thousand Rohingya Muslims from their homes. Critics say Ms.Suu Kyi has not spoken up strongly enough for the Rohingya over her visit comes ahead of next month general election.

The US has been accused of carrying out drone attacks based on fake evidence in which most of those killed are not the intended targets. Allegations remained on a website called the Intercept. It said a whistle blower handed over secret military documents about drone strikes in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.

A senior minister in South Sudan has described the peace deal signed recently with rebels as flexible. His comments follow widespread anger at a unilateral decision by the government to redraw state boundaries. But in a BBC interview,South Sudan's minister of information Micheal Makuei said the agreement should not be read rigidly although the government was still committed to peace.

Scientists in Britain say it may be possible to prevent schizophrenia by calming the brain's immune system. Scans have shown that it's hyperactive both in people with schizophrenia and those at high risk. James Ganligon Ann reports. The brain has its own equivalents of gardeners called microglia. They read out infection but also constantly prune the connections in the brain. A team of UK medical research council scientists found the microglia was too keen in schizophrenia. It's thought the microglia like a gardener too keen with shears, trim the wrong brain connections. That leads to a brain that is not wired correctly and culminating symptoms such as hearing voices. The research said the study mount to a real step forward in understanding the condition and wanted trial anti-inflammatory drugs to treat and prevent schizophrenia. BBC world news.

布鲁塞尔正在举行欧盟峰会,欧盟领导人表示称,欧盟已经同意与土耳其达成行动计划,解决不断涌入欧洲的难民潮。欧盟委员会主席容克称,解决欧盟难民潮危机将会与加快土耳其公民入欧盟旅游的免签计划产生直接联系。欧盟理事会主席唐纳德·图斯克表示称,为了换取土耳其的支持,欧盟的让步是非常必要的。我们需要得到土耳其方面恰当,负责任的回应,这也是我们采取此项行动的原因。在难民危机中,土耳其是我们的盟友。我们在许多方面达成了共识。事情就是如此。有报道称在保土边境上,难民与警察发生冲突,得知这一消息后,保加利亚总理博伊科·鲍里索夫立即离开了欧盟会议。不久此次事件被证实是警方将一名阿富汗难民打死。

尼日利亚官方称,在迈杜古里市附近的清真寺发生自杀式炸弹袭击事件,造成至少30人死亡。报告称有至少两起大爆炸都发生在了祷告期间。请听大卫·班福德的报道。尼日利亚媒体援引当地推特网的话说,迈杜古里郊区姆莱的一座清真寺发生两次爆炸袭击,袭击造成多人死亡,当时人们正在做晚祷。伤者已被送往医院。一名高级官员认为这是一起自杀式爆炸袭击。迈杜古里频繁遭到恐怖组织“博科圣地”的袭击。

前巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦向联邦检察官递交证明,否认他在卸任后从事非法游说活动。这位劳工党创建人仍然是巴西最受欢迎的政界人物之一,然而他险些卷入到了一系列行贿和政治危机当中,此次危机也让接班人迪尔玛·罗塞夫政府的执政地位变得摇摇欲坠。请听本台驻巴西记者艾尔·戴维斯的报道。尽管前总统并没有遭受任何犯罪指控,但是为了澄清2010年卸任以后为几家大公司所进行的游说活动,达席尔瓦还是遭到了巴西利亚联邦检察官的询问。特别是对前总统卢拉与巴西最大建筑公司Odebrecht的关系,以及国家发展银行为其提供的优惠贷款一事进行了深入调查。

由于深陷腐败指控,逃离六年的委内瑞拉反对派政界人士曼努埃尔·罗萨莱斯终被逮捕。前总统候选人罗萨莱斯对犯罪行为给予否认。BBC全球新闻。

缅甸反对派领导人昂山素季对西部若开邦进行访问,这也是即2012年佛教僧侣驱逐10多万名罗兴亚穆斯林以后的首次访问。下个月缅甸将进行大选,有评论家认为昂山素季的此次访问并没有维护罗兴亚的权力。

由于多数击毙者不是袭击预设目标,导致美国无人机空袭行动遭到指责。该言论来自一个名叫“截击”的网站。网站称告密者提供了许多有关美国无人机空袭阿富汗、也门以及索马里的机密军事文件。

南苏丹资政认为,近期与反叛军所签署的和平协议存在诸多变数。由于政府单方面重新划定边境线,导致一片怨恨之声。然而在接受BBC采访时,南苏丹信息部部长迈克尔·马库依表示称,尽管政府致力于和平发展,但是此项协议也不会严格执行。

英国科学家称通过镇定大脑免疫系统,人们或将能够避免精神分裂症。通过对大脑的扫描显示,患有该疾病以及高危人群的免疫系统均处于极端活跃状态。请听詹姆斯·安的报道。大脑的园丁叫作”小神经胶质”。它可以分泌炎性细胞,而且还能够减少脑细胞中的不必要联系。英国医学研究委员会的科学家发现,小神经胶质对精神分裂症的反应尤为灵敏。它能够像园丁一样拿着剪刀修剪细胞之间的错误联系。这些错误联系或将导致许多症状,例如幻听。该研究认为这对于了解精神分裂症又迈出了坚实的一步,他们希望通过研究消炎药来治疗,以及预防精神分裂症。BBC新闻。

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