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May warns of "difficult times" as UK leaves EU

Sunday, 04 September 2016 5:15 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 04 September 2016 5:14 AM ]

British Prime Minister Theresa May views a car on a production line during a visit to the Jaguar Land Rover factory on September 1, 2016 in Solihull. (AFP)

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

Anti-Syria militants claim they have captured several villages from Daesh around the northern town of Ra’i close to the border with Turkey. The so-called Free Syrian Army says Turkish forces assisted them in the offensive. Meanwhile Turkey has continued with its invasion of Syria deploying more tanks to the war-torn country.
The Turkish army says over 100 PKK militants have either been killed or wounded during clashes in the southern Kurdish regions. At least 15 Turkish troops have also been killed and dozens of others wounded during the fighting. A shaky truce deal between the two sides collapsed in 2015.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain should be prepared for difficult times as the country leaves the European Union. May warned that Brexit would not be a simple task for the UK to accomplish. She also said that formal EU negotiations would not kick off until 2017.
Hundreds of people have marched through the British town of Harlow to condemn rising xenophobia in Britain. The participants were mainly from the Polish community. They paid tribute to a man killed by a group of right-wing attackers. The victim was beaten to death outside his shop in late August.
In the US city of Detroit, protesters gather outside a church where republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was addressing a largely African-American audience. The visit was Trump's first to a black church. The controversial billionaire has stepped up his outreach to minority voters in recent weeks.
Saudi warplanes have targeted a residential area in the Yemeni province of Sa'ada killing a father, a mother, and their child. Another Saudi airstrike in the same province hit a car killing four people. Over 9,600 Yemenis, mostly civilians, have been killed since the beginning of Riyadh’s onslaught in March 2015.
People in the German capital Berlin have staged a pro-refugee rally to condemn racism. Elsewhere in Frankfurt, far-right protesters have gathered to call for the closure of the country’s borders and change in asylum policies. Meanwhile German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her open-door policy toward the asylum seekers.
Protesters have staged a mass rally in the Taiwanese capital Taipei to demonstrate against the government’s planned pension reforms. Large pensions are expected to be cut as part of the plan. The government has repeatedly warned that various pension funds are estimated to go bankrupt if the system is not overhauled.