The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will help fund a highway in Pakistan, an expressway running from Tajikistan’s capital to the border with Uzbekistan and a ring road in Almaty, Kazakhstan, according to people with knowledge of the projects and tender documents. Source: FT
Sweden’s top three parties are running almost level four months ahead of a general election, with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats polling a record 20 percent, according to poll in daily Dagens Nyheter. Source Reuters
Yulia Skripal and her father, Sergei, were exposed to nerve agent Novichok in the city centre on 4 March. In her first filmed public statement since the attack, Ms Skripal told Reuters that her life had been “turned upside down” but she hoped to return to Russia in the future. Source BBC
Annual summits between China and central and eastern European countries are beneficial to the European Union as a whole, the Chinese government’s told Bulgaria’s foreign minister, brushing off concern that Beijing is seeking to divide the continent. Source: Reuters
