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© Filippo Monteforte, AFP | Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio shakes hands with League leader Matteo Salvini on March 1, 2018 Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the far-right League on Monday proposed Giuseppe Conte, a little-known law professor, as prime minister to lead their big-spending coalition government. But instead of immediately endorsing their choice, […]

Maduro will begin a second six-year term as Venezuela’s president in January 2019 [Ariana Cubillos/AP] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected as president on Sunday in an election marred by controversy.A bloc of countries from the Americas opposing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that all its 14 members will recall their ambassadors to the […]

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani attends an extraordinary meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Turkey May 18, 2018. (REUTERS Photo) Iran’s president said on Monday that the United States could not decide for Iran after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded sweeping changes in the country’s foreign and nuclear policies, the […]

  The US secretary of state laid out a list of 12 ‘basic requirements’ for Iran [Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters] The US secretary of state has outlined a series of steep demands to be included in a new nuclear treaty with Iran, including withdrawing all its forces from Syria, and threatened “the strongest sanctions in history” if […]

A picture of M5S leader Luigi Di Maio in Milan. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League party prepared on Monday to present their pick for future premier of the country’s new populist government and end more than two months of deadlock after inconclusive elections. They are due to […]

Trump beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in 2016 US election [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] “If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement late on Sunday. Trump had demanded that the Justice Department look […]

South Korean reporters at Incheon International Airport, Monday. / Yonhap North Korea is demanding that each foreign reporter pay $10,000 for a visa to cover the planned dismantlement of a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, Seoul government officials said Monday. South Korean reporters were exempt, the officials said. But people familiar with the situation said […]

Several bombs exploded nearly simultaneously at a cricket match in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least eight people, a provincial official said Saturday. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said about 45 others were wounded at the sports stadium late Friday night in the provincial capital Jalalabad. The blasts exploded among spectators crowded […]

North Korea has not responded to the Seoul government’s list of journalists chosen to attend the ceremony for the dismantlement of its nuclear test site, the unification ministry said Friday. “The government tried to notify (North Korea of the names of) our journalists who will cover the event for the nuclear test site dismantlement in […]