News Headlines - 18 August 2019
▽Operation Chaos: Whitehall’s secret no-deal Brexit preparations leaked | The Sunday Times
Britain faces shortages of fuel, food and medicine, a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard border with Ireland and rising costs in social care in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to an unprecedented leak of government documents that lay bare the gaps in contingency planning.
The documents, which set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than worst-case scenarios, have emerged as the UK looks increasingly likely to crash out of the EU without a deal.
Compiled this month by the Cabinet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation’s infrastructure.
▽Afghanistan: Bomb kills 63 at wedding in Kabul - BBC News
Burials are taking place in the Afghan capital, Kabul after a bomb exploded at a wedding hall killing 63 people and wounding more than 180.
The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack.
The blast happened on Saturday during a wedding ceremony at around 22:40 local time (18.10 GMT).
▽Bangladesh fire: Thousands of homes destroyed in Dhaka slum | Al Jazeera
A fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka has destroyed thousands of homes and left thousands of people homeless, officials have said.
The fire started on Friday in Dhaka's Mirpur neighbourhood and destroyed about 2,000 mostly tin shacks, fire services official Ershad Hossain told AFP news agency.
Several people were injured but nobody was killed in the fire, authorities said, who confirmed thousands of people were left homeless.
Organisers say at least 1.7 million people attended a mass pro-democracy rally against the police use of force in Hong Kong on Sunday. Protesters marched peacefully from Causeway Bay to Central, as the city entered its 11th consecutive week of demonstrations.
▽Man arrested for road-rage assault | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Police in Japan have arrested a man on a national wanted list who is suspected of forcibly stopping a car and beating the driver on a highway.
Police say they arrested Fumio Miyazaki, whose address and occupation are unknown, on Sunday in Osaka, western Japan, on suspicion of causing injury.
A nationwide manhunt had been underway since police obtained an arrest warrant for the 43-year-old Miyazaki in relation to a road-rage incident on August 10 in Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
