Japan warns against no UK deal
TUNIS: Two people blew themselves up yesterday in back-to-back suicide attacks in the centre of Tunis, killing a policeman and injuring eight people, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said.
The first bombing took place near a police patrol car in Charles de Gaulle Avenue, injuring three civilians and two policemen, the ministry said.
One of the two policemen died later in hospital. Four other security personnel were wounded in a second suicide attack that targeted a police building in the capital soon afterwards.
The suicide bomber reportedly tried to storm the anti-terrorism building in the district of Gorjani, but was prevented by the police, witnesses said. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the bombings.
The attack prompted authorities to put security forces on alert at key state institutions. JAPAN yesterday cautioned the two candidates vying to replace Prime Minister Theresa May that a no-deal Brexit would be so disruptive for many companies that Japanese capital’s 35-year bet on Britain could end.
In an appeal to both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Tokyo did not want a no-deal Brexit, that some companies were already moving out and that more investment could go.
“I know Boris and I know Jeremy, both of them pretty well,” Kono told Reuters in Osaka where a G20 summit begins today.
“I have communicated with them that Japan wouldn’t want a no-deal Brexit. So hopefully Brexit could be done through an ordinary and calm way.”
Japan has long seen Britain as a pro-business, liberal gateway into the rest of the EU and has around 1 000 companies based in the country, including major carmakers and Mexico City. Because it’s a historic site, Lopez Obrador said yesterday he won’t alter anything. He said tourists would still have access to the building, and nothing would happen to the cats in the garden. | AP technology firms. Japanese firms have invested over £60 billion (R1 076bn) in Britain.
But following the 2016 vote to leave the EU, some Japanese firms have begun moving business out of Britain, with particular concern over the impact of a possibly disorderly exit on October 31.
Asked whether investment could leave Britain, Kono said: “It could be that there is going to be less investment.”
French carmaker Peugeot also said yesterday that plans to build the next generation Astra vehicle at its Ellesmere Port car plant, which would keep the site open, will depend on the terms of Brexit.
“The decision on the allocation to the Ellesmere Port plant will be conditional on the final terms of the UK’s exit from the EU,” it said.
The factory built around 5% of Britain’s 1.5 million cars last year. The Astra will also be made at Peugeot’s LONDON: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will head to southern Africa later this year for their first official overseas tour as a family since the birth of son Archie.
The couple will visit South Africa, Angola and Malawi and also undertake a working visit to Botswana at the request of the Foreign Office, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
Meghan, 37, gave birth to Archie, Russelsheim plant in Germany.
Carmakers have been particularly vociferous in their opposition to a no-deal Brexit due to fears over tariffs of up to 10% on vehicles, customs delays and new bureaucracy which could cripple just-in-time production practices.
Britain’s new leader will be announced late next month. Both contenders – Johnson and Hunt – have said they are prepared to take Britain out of the bloc without a deal, although it is not their preferred option.
No-deal means there would be no transition period so the exit would be abrupt – the nightmare scenario for many businesses and the dream of hard Brexiteers who want a decisive split.
Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government had attracted Japanese carmakers to Britain in the 1980s to rebuild an ailing domestic industry with promises of access to the European single market. their first child, in May. Harry, 34, is a frequent visitor to southern Africa for his charity work.
The trip will bring back happy memories for the couple who went to Botswana after they began dating in July 2016 and returned the following year for a romantic getaway to celebrate Meghan’s 36th birthday. Harry also sourced the diamond in her engagement ring from Botswana, the world’s
Last year Nissan, Toyota and Honda made roughly half of Britain’s 1.5 million cars, employing tens of thousands of people both directly and through the supply chain.
Brexiteers have long argued that the EU’s biggest economy Germany, which exports hundreds of thousands of cars to Britain every year, would not impose restrictions in order to protect that trade.
Some Brexit supporters say there would be short-term disruption but in the long-term the UK would thrive if cut free from what they cast as a doomed experiment in German-dominated unity that has led to Europe falling behind China and the US.
Kono warned yesterday about the impact of a disorderly exit on the sector.
“If there’s a no-deal Brexit and if they have to go through actual custom inspections physically, those operations may not be able to continue,” he said. biggest producer. British media have suggested that the couple could move to Africa to carry out work on behalf of the Commonwealth along with doing charity work and a role promoting Britain.