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All of those who arrived on Friday evening were showing signs of dehydration. Photo: Giovanni Isolino / AFP More than 150 migrants disembarked from a rescue ship Friday evening in Sicily, the NGO SOS Mediterranee said, days before hardline anti-immigrant League leader Matteo Salvini visits the island as Italy’s new interior minister. The Aquarius, a […]

A Catalan pro-independence Estelada flag held by a passerby flutters next to a Catalan Senyera flag outside the Generalitat Palace in Barcelona. Photo: AFP Catalonia’s new separatist government will be sworn in Saturday, the regional presidency announced, which will spark the automatic end of Madrid’s direct rule over the region. Before being toppled by a […]

© Paul Gypteau / AFP Saudi Arabia has reportedly threatened “military action” against Qatar should its neighbor acquire Russian S-400 missile defense systems, according to Le Monde, citing a letter from King Salman to the French presidency. In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Egypt, among other Gulf states, cut off diplomatic relations […]

U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Kim Yong-chol, left, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un’s closest aides, outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on June 1. / UPI-Yonhap U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday put a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un […]

President Donald Trump is imposing 25 per cent steel tariffs and 10 per cent aluminum tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the European Union, all of which he had previously exempted. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded Thursday with his own list of tariffs to take effect in July.  (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald […]

Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour (C) attends the UN Security Council emergency session on Israel-Gaza conflict at United Nations headquarter on May 30, 2018 in New York City. (AFP Photo) US vetoed late Friday a UN Security Council resolution calling for ensuring “international protection” for Palestinian civilians. The U.S., meanwhile, […]

Italy’s new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Close to three months after a fiercely fought election, Italy has a government – and for the first time, it’s run entirely by populists. The Local breaks down the historic cabinet in figures. One: the number of the European Union’s founding members to have elected a government […]

Kim Young-hwan, an advocate for human rights in North Korea, speaks at an international conference at the Seoul Global Center, Jongno, downtown Seoul, Thursday. / Yonhap Human rights abuses in North Korea are a global concern, but the U.S. and South Korea have taken a refrained approach to this issue recently. This is possibly because […]

Photo: AFP The no-confidence vote got underway at 11.01 in Spain’s Congress. 12:00 So long Mariano! Rajoy has become the first prime minister to be ousted by such a vote since Spain transitioned to democracy in 1977. The bespectacled 63-year-old leader got up and shook hands with Sanchez before leaving the lower house without a word. 11: […]

Japanese FinanceMinister Taro Aso, right, and other finance ministers arrive at the welcome reception dinner during the G7 Finance Ministers Summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday. Photo: REUTERS  Whistler, CanadaJapanese Finance Minister Taro Aso pushed for the United States on Thursday to permanently exempt Japan from tariffs on steel and aluminum in a meeting […]