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Photo: Paolo Giandotto/AFP/Italian Presidency press office Italy’s caretaker prime minister Carlo Cottarelli met with the president on Wednesday morning after delays in his announcement of a cabinet line-up. Meanwhile, Five Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio has backtracked on calls to impeach the president and reopened the door to a government with the nationalist […]

Reuters Photo Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Tuesday lashed out at French President Emmanuel Macron for defending a French magazine that drew criticism by Turkish people after labeling President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “The Dictator” on its front cover. Çavuşoğlu quoted a tweet sent by Macron earlier Tuesday in which the French president criticized a group […]

The USS Laboon fires a Tomahawk land attack missile. © US Navy A Russian military contractor, specializing in electronic warfare, will use information gained from dissecting a US Tomahawk cruise missile, used during an attack on Syria, to boost the capabilities of its own equipment. The missile, delivered to Russia after the tri-party night attack […]

mU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice Chairman of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party Central Committee Kim Yong-chol will meet in New York this week amid intensifying U.S.-North Korean summit preparations. / AFP General Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the central committee of the Workers’ Party and right-hand man to Kim, will meet U.S. […]

The Capitol in Rome. Photo: Patrick Herzog/AFP Italy grapples with a political crisis, The Local takes a look what provisions the Italian constitution makes for times like these. Depending on who you listen to, President Sergio Mattarella is either the hero or the villain of Italy’s latest drama. The head of state has faced everything […]

(File photo) © Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters Joking about bombs while aboard a plane is never a good idea – and so it has proved once again after a passenger’s ill-advised japes sparked a mass evacuation that left 10 people injured. READ MORE: London City Airport closed, all flights canceled after discovery of WWII bomb […]

More information has emerged about Tuesday morning’s shootings in Liège. The Judicial authorities held a press conference shortly after 1pm in which they gave more information about the circumstance surrounding the shootings and the identity of the gunman. Gunman claims three victims before being shot dead At around 10:30am Benjamin Herman, a prisoner that was […]

Preliminary results of the first round of the Colombian presidential election go on display. Photograph: Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images With nearly all ballots counted in Sunday’s first round, Ivan Duque was leading with 39.7% ahead of Gustavo Petro on 24.8%. Former Medellin Mayor Sergio Fajardo came third with 23.8%. Preliminary results of the first round of the Colombian presidential election go on display. Photograph: […]

File photo. Yves Herman / Reuters Two police officers and a passer-by have been shot dead after a man opened fire in Liege, Belgium. The attacker was shot dead after taking a woman hostage in a local high school. Another two people have been injured in the incident, according to Belgian broadcaster RTBF. Police have now […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a conference with science ministers from around the world in Jerusalem on May 28, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) PM holds Hamas responsible for not preventing Islamic Jihad fire, says ‘Israel will make anyone trying to harm it pay a heavy price’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to respond “with great force” […]