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After more than 25 years of negotiations, the free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur is close to being finalised after a qualified majority of EU ambassadors approved it on Friday, overruling countries like France and Poland. Now, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen can put her signature to it with the partners in South America, and then the EU Parliament must also vote on it.

A woman was shot dead during a raid by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The US Department of Homeland Security has said the officer who shot her was acting in self-defence, as the woman had attempted to run him over. The city's Democratic mayor, Jacob Frey, has described this as "bullshit". Protests against ICE have broken out in Minneapolis and other cities.