A fire in a farmers’ fruit market in south China’s Shenzhen has killed at least 16 people and injured at least three, officials say. The United States has suspended all non-lethal assistance into northern Syria after Islamic Front forces seized headquarters belonging to the opposition’s SMC. Pro-EU protesters in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, push back riot police from their protest bastions as the interior minister promises not to use force. The body of Nelson Mandela has arrived at the main government building in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, where it will lie in state for three days.
