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Women wail at the funeral of David Popp, who was killed in his sleep by suspected ultranationalists [Anya Denysenko/Al Jazeera]   David Popp was attacked on the night of June 23, while he slept in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lviv [Anya Denysenko/Al Jazeera] ANTI-ROMA ATTACKS IN UKRAINE On June 23, ultranationalists attack Roma […]

Migrants aboard a rescue ship. Photo: Louisa Gouli AFP/The Local Italy’s hardline interior minister, Matteo Salvini, announced Friday that Italian ports would be closed “all summer” to NGO ships which rescue migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe. “The NGOs will only see Italy on a postcard,” quipped Salvini, who is also the […]

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov © Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters A new multipolar order, driven by economics and history, is emerging in the world and Western attempts to stop or to slow it down are unlikely to succeed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told UK’s Channel 4. “I think that we are in the post-West world […]

AA Photo Turkey won’t back down from its deal with Moscow for S-400 missiles despite threats of sanctions from the U.S., presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın said on Thursday. In an interview with Turkish Bloomberg HT channel, Kalın said “Turkey has the final say on these issues as a sovereign nation. Turkey will decide which defense […]

South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo, center, and United States Forces Korea (USFK) commander General Vincent Brooks, second from right, cut a tape during a relocation ceremony for the new USFK headquarters at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Friday. / Yonhap The United States military opened its largest overseas base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeoggi Province, […]

  Photo: AFP After a nude yoga class in a Paris park and a “no clothes day” at the city’s trendiest art museum, hundreds of naturists are due to descend on a theme park near the French capital Sunday for a spot of trampolining. France may be the world’s top destination for naturist tourism — […]

Demonstrators calling for “an end to family detention” and in opposition to the immigration policies of the Trump administration, rally at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. June 29, 2018. (Reuters Phot As protests flare across the United States over the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy, 575 protesters, including a Democratic […]

In this frame from video, people leave the Capital Gazette newspaper after multiple people have been shot on Thursday, June 28, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. (WJLA via AP) ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked a newspaper in Maryland’s capital Thursday, killing four journalists and a staffer before […]

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Photo: Aris Oikonomou/AFP Italy’s new premier threatened on Thursday to block a joint EU statement on migration, at a summit that German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned could decide the bloc’s fate. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who heads Italy’s month-old populist and anti-immigration government, said he would refuse to endorse the […]

Shelling has resumed for the ninth consecutive day in the rebel-held towns of Deraa [SANA/Handout via Reuters] Syrian government air strikes have killed at least 20 civilians, mostly women and children, in parts of Deraa province, as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad continued in their offensive to retake the area from rebels. Shelling resumed for the […]