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In response, Formula One officials and the FIA and teams are discussing possible changes ahead of next year's race as drivers say the narrow technical layout makes racing side-by-side too difficult.

And finally, Gaia Neyman writes for the EU Observer about continuing migration crisis in Ceuta and why it matters far beyond the small enclave.

Ceuta's unique history is Spanish territory on the North African coast.

make it one of the EU's key external borders.

And it looks like she didn't even run it past them before she sent it out.

I mean, there were reports in some of the papers around Brussels, Politico and the EU Observer and that talking about diplomats saying that in the versions of the speech that their governments got, There was no message at all about this terminology, associate membership.

So we know that this person likes to do things, put them out there and then later come along and try and get them ratified.

That's essentially what she did.

So they've recounted that the elections were held on 13th August, and President Hakainde Hichilema was deemed to have been reelected for a second five-year term.

The EU observer mission assessed the election day as calm and competitive.

Exactly what we had said.

Usually the election day is peaceful, but election is a process.

Whereas lawyers of both indicated that they had difficulty, uh, difficulties in being allowed to meet the defendants in prison.

Whereas due to the security concerns, Zambia's High Court was exceptionally closed on August 24th, the last day to file complaints about the elections.

Whereas-" There were already violent incidents during the campaign and the EU Observer, uh, EU Observer Mission delegation had repeatedly called on all political leaders and their supporters to stop the violent acts.

Takes note of the election results and expresses serious concern about the killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya.