Islamic militants from al-Shabaab have killed at least 28 people in an attack on a hotel in Somalia?s capital, Mogadishu. Police said the attackers rammed a car bomb into the gates of the Dayah hotel shortly after 8am on Wednesday before storming inside. It has repeatedly attacked high-profile targets in Mogadishu and elsewhere in an attempt to derail ongoing presidential polls. But security experts in Mogadishu said that police, security guards and soldiers had prevented the militants from penetrating the hotel building itself, though a fierce firefight took place outside. An attempt by the militant group to bring down a passenger jet on takeoff from Mogadishu airport failed last year.

In the event of a US-UK trade deal, farmers on both sides of the Atlantic might argue that GM labelling, and cultivation and import bans, are discriminatory barriers to trade. A US-UK trade deal opens the door to imports of American foods grown using these pesticides. The UK?s willingness to accept imports of animal feed manufactured with animal byproducts (and GM soya) could be a prerequisite of any US trade deal. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A US-UK trade deal could lead to GM crops being grown commercially in the UK. The only GM foods currently on British shelves are sweet imported American junk foods, and cheap cooking oils aimed at the catering trade.

Mexico sent $295 billion worth of goods across the U.S. border in 2015, the office of the Trade Representative says. "Fresh vegetables purchased from Mexico totaled $4.8 billion in 2015, according to the office of the Trade Representative. The U.S. has made use of services from Mexico in transportation, travel, technology and other industries. But cars are far from the only product that U.S. importers bring in from Mexico. "Consider the impact on American consumers of a 20% hike in the cost of foods such as bananas, mangoes and other products that we simply cannot grow in the United States.