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Jean-Claude Juncker (l) and Italian PM Giuseppe Conte don’t see eye-to-eye on migration. Photo: Yves Herman/AFP/POOL. The European Union’s migrant strategy suffered a major new setback Friday July 20th with Italy refusing to freely accept people rescued at sea and Libya spurning a proposal for asylum processing centres. The salvoes follow a fractious EU summit […]

Two Japanese national research institutes said Saturday they have succeeded in using artificial intelligence to identify early-stage stomach cancer with a high accuracy rate. The breakthrough may help extend the lives of more cancer patients in Japan, where stomach cancer is one of the leading causes of death. According to Riken and the National Cancer […]

Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Akesson in Visby, Sweden [Staff/Reuters] Concerns over migration drive support for the far right, which is also anti-EU, ahead of September 9 elections. Sweden’s far-right party has gained support in the polls as it pushes an agenda focused on refugees and migrants. The Sweden Democrats polled at a record high 20 percent in […]

A fireball exploding during an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, July 20, 2018.AFP An Israeli army spokesperson has announced Israeli communities adjacent to the Gaza border could return to a normal “civilian routine” as calm seems to be restored after a deadly exchange with Gaza militants on Friday. “At the end […]

The United States on Friday welcomed the U.N. Security Council’s united support for the fully verified denuclearization of North Korea and pressed China and Russia to strictly enforce U.N. sanctions to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused North Korea of violating an array of tough sanctions […]

Buses line up at border as seen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights [Gil Eliyahu/Reuters] Evacuation comes as UN calls for safe passage for estimated 140,000 civilians displaced by fighting in southwest Syria. Rebels in the southwest province of Quneitra in Syria have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces near the frontier […]

A picture taken on July 20, 2018 shows explosions from Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli aircraft and tanks hit targets across the Gaza Strip on July 20 after shots were fired at troops on the border, the army said, with Hamas reporting several members of its military wing killed […]

Yonhap North Korea and Eritrea have the world’s highest rates of modern slavery, said a global survey on Thursday that highlighted how conflict and government repression are the main drivers of a crime estimated to affect more than 40 million people worldwide. The Central African nation of Burundi also has a high prevalence of slavery, […]

Time magazine illustrated its latest cover story, entitled “Summit Crisis,” with a morphed image of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.  (TIME) Time magazine’s latest cover is sure to make some readers do a double-take, as it features a morphed image of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The July issue was […]