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5 killed in Delhi protest before Trump’s visit
    2020-02-26  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

FIVE people have been killed in Delhi in protests over India’s controversial new citizenship law, hours before a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump.

A policeman and four civilians died in the capital’s deadliest day since the new law was passed last year.

Vehicles were set alight in the clashes between supporters and opponents of the law which critics say targets India’s 200 million Muslims.

Parts of the city remain tense as Trump prepares for Tuesday’s talks.

The violence in Muslim-majority areas in northeastern Delhi began Sunday and continued into Monday. It is the first time a member of the security forces has been killed in the unrest around India since it erupted late last year.

The new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) grants amnesty to non-Muslim immigrants from three nearby Muslim-majority countries. Protesters, largely led by Muslim women and men, say it discriminates against Muslims. But Hindu groups say the protests are unnecessary.

Clashes broke out Sunday when the two sides clashed with each other.

Police fired tear gas shells and led baton charges to disperse the stone-throwing crowds. Twenty-five people were injured. TV footage showed flames and smoke billowing from buildings.

The injured are being treated in Delhi’s GTB hospital for serious injuries, hospital sources told BBC Hindi.

(SD-Agencies)

Ministers from the EU will meet later to approve their mandate for post-Brexit trade talks with the UK.

The document approved by the EU General Affairs Council on Tuesday morning will be the basis for future negotiations, to be carried out by Michel Barnier.

It will say that a trade deal should be based on EU rules in some areas as “a reference point”.

Meanwhile, UK ministers will also meet at No 10 to discuss the government’s opening stance for negotiations.

The final agreement is due to be published online and presented in Parliament on Thursday.

BBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming said the EU document is important “because experience shows the EU will only accept a final deal with the UK on trade, security and other matters that comes close to conditions set out in it”.

For a free trade agreement, the EU will demand measures to ensure fair economic competition.

In international taxation, environmental and employment law this would involve shared standards that evolve over time, with EU rules as “a reference point”.

It also means the EU still wants its rules on government support for companies - so-called state aid - to apply in Britain whatever happens, which has already been rejected by Boris Johnson.

It is expected that ministers in the UK will commit to seeking a Canada-style agreement with zero tariffs, a proposal Mr Johnson and his Europe adviser David Frost have set out in speeches in recent weeks.

But the push for a Canada-style deal could set up a clash with the EU after its chief negotiator Mr Barnier ruled out such an agreement.

Mr Barnier has previously said the UK is too close in proximity to be permitted to compete with the other 27 member states on such terms.

The prime minister’s official spokesman, asked about the trade talks on Monday, said: “The UK’s primary objective in the negotiations is to ensure that we restore our economic and political independence on 1 January 2021.”

Mr Frost and his team will head to Brussels for the first round of negotiations on 2 March.

One clash expected with the forthcoming publication of the EU’s negotiation mandate is on fishing, with leading member states speaking regularly about wanting continued access to UK waters.

In a speech in Greenwich, south-east London, earlier this month Mr Johnson announced that, once free of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, “British fishing grounds are first and foremost for British boats”.

But French Europe minister Amelie de Montchalin signalled fishing would be a flash point when the two negotiating teams come together in London and Brussels over the coming months.

”The fishermen have the right to be protected, they know very well that if we sign a bad deal they will lose enormously,” she told TV station France 2.

A leaked draft of the EU negotiation mandate last week also included a stipulation that the UK should “return unlawfully removed cultural objects to their countries of origin”.

The passage is thought to refer to the Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek sculptures taken to Britain more than 200 years ago and now on display in the British Museum.

Downing Street has insisted the future of the marbles is “not up for discussion as part of our trade negotiations”.

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