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.