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BrexitThe future of Great Britain  

Survey shows that Britons want closer ties to the EU 

 

Over half of British voters, 53 percent, believe that Britain should try to build closer ties with the EU. Only 14 percent want the ties to be loosened further. That shows a new survey from the group Best for Britain with over 10,000 Britons, writes The Guardian.  

 

The desire to get closer to Brussels is also clearly visible in the areas that were most critical of the EU at the vote in 2016. The newspaper describes it as a dramatic shift.  

 

The survey also shows that 63 percent believe that Brexit has created more problems than it has solved, compared to 21 percent who believe that leaving the EU has solved more problems. 

 

 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Archive image. Hajarah Nalwadda / AP  

 

The violence in Somalia  

Uganda confirms: Soldiers victims in the attack in Somalia  

 

Soldiers from the Ugandan peacekeeping force stationed in Somalia were among the victims of Friday's attack on a military base, Reuters reports. The deed was carried out by the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab. 

 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni confirms that Ugandan soldiers fell victim to the terrorists but does not state how many were wounded or killed.  

 

"Condolences to the country and the families whose relatives died," he writes in a statement.  

 

Terrorist attacks by al-Shabaab, which has links to al-Qaeda, have plagued Somalia for more than 15 years. 

  

Dried up water reservoir in India. R. Parthibhan / AP  

 

Water scarcity in India 

Inspector shuts down – emptied dust to find mobile  

 

The health inspector who drained 2,000 cubic meters of water from a reservoir to fish out his lost cell phone has been suspended from his job, the AP reports.  

 

The water could instead have been used to water parched farmland in the region, according to local media. Inspector Rajesh Vishwas is now accused of wasting the water, but he himself claims that the water could not be used for irrigation and that he had received permission from a superior to pump it out. 

 

Vishwas managed to retrieve the mobile, but it was not working as it had been water damaged. 

 

Kherkatta Reservoir. Renuka Sarkar / Wikimedia commons  

 

Official had dust emptied in search of cell phone  

 

A health inspector in central India had a large water reservoir emptied into which he had dropped his mobile phone, the BBC reports. 

 

When divers initially failed to find the phone, the official paid for a diesel-powered pump that pumped out 2,000 cubic meters. The move was halted after complaints were received.  

 

Once the phone was found, it was unusable.