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Turkey will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, according to Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as Ankara responded on Friday to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an airstrike by Syrian government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region. President Tayyip Erdogan chaired an emergency meeting on the attack overnight. The killing of 33 Turkish soldiers and wounding of 32, announced by the governor in Turkey’s Hatay province bordering Syria, raised the Turkish military death toll in the region to 54 this month.

Turkey President Recep Erdogan confessed on Friday that he transported terrorist mercenaries from Syria to Libya accompanied by Turkish soldiers. According to AFP, Erdogan claimed in a statement today that transporting those terrorists and Turkish soldiers is for “training”. He didn't explain the nature of the "training". The #Libyan Army Commander Khalifa Haftar also affirmed that the Turkish regime continues transporting terrorists from the north of Syria to Libya.

Five new Britons have contracted coronavirus in France, the French health minister has said. Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said the Britons, including one child, were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with a person who had been in Singapore. All five had been staying in the same chalet in a ski resort, Les Contamines-Montjoie, in the mountainous region of Savoie in eastern France. They were hospitalized in the region overnight and are not in a serious condition. More than 34,000 people are now infected around the world, including three in the UK.

France President Emmanuel Macron has accused Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of failing "to keep his word" to stop interfering in Libya crisis, he said Turkey was sending ships with Syrian mercenaries to the conflict-torn country. "We have seen in recent days Turkish ships accompanying Syrian mercenaries arriving on Libyan territory," Macron said at a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. This deployment, he added, was "a clear violation of what President Erdogan pledged at the Berlin conference" where world leaders vowed to keep out of the Libyan conflict. "It is a failure to keep his word," the French leader added.

Britain has left the European Union, bringing the curtain down on 47 years of membership. About four years on from the 2016 referendum, the UK ceased to be a member of the bloc at 11pm on Friday. In a video message released to mark Brexit, Boris Johnson referenced the divisions that have been caused by the Leave vote. He said that while Brexit represented an "astonishing moment of hope" for many, there will be others who "feel a sense of anxiety and loss". But he predicted that the "opportunity" of Brexit can be turned into a "stunning success". Supporters and opponents of Brexit made their views known throughout Britain, with Westminster a particular focus for events.