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Moviemaker Costa-Gavras is currently filming the book by Yanis Varoufakis in which the former Greek finance minister describes the negotiations with international financiers during the first six months after the Syriza government came to power. The fact that the Greek-born filmmaker, who has lived in France since the 1950s, is getting money from Athens for the project is highly controversial among the country's media.

Plenary session, Strasbourg

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Brunei has defended its draconian anti-gay laws in a letter to MEPs by saying that few homosexuals are actually stoned to death in practice.

Congress would torpedo a UK trade deal if Brexit led to a hard border in Ireland, a senior US politician has warned in a blow to Brexiteers.

Pro-Brexit pressure group Leave.eu faked photos back in 2016 of migrants attacking women in the UK and a video about migrant boats said to be in UK waters, according to an investigation by British broadcaster Channel 4 News. Aaron Banks, a British businessman who bankrolled the group, denied the accusation on Twitter. Centre-left Labour Party MP Jo Stevens said the fakes were designed to stoke "hatred and anti-immigrant feeling".

The Sudanese military junta should hand back power to civilian authorities, the EU foreign relations chief, Federica Mogherini, has said following a coup which left protesters urging army chiefs to stand down. "The European Union will not recognize the legitimacy of the Transitional Military Council," Mogherini told MEPs in Strasbourg Tuesday. Instability in Sudan could prompt new waves of refugees, also from nearby Somalia and Eritrea, to make for Europe.