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People rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa wait to board a plane in February 2015. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini threatened on Sunday to shut the country’s airports after media reported that Germany planned to send charter flights of rejected asylum-seekers to Italy. “If someone in Berlin or Brussels thinks of […]

The two leading vote-getters on Sunday, right-winger Jair Bolsonaro will face leftist Fernando Haddad in a deciding runoff on October 28th, photo internet reproduction. RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s divisive 2018 presidential election will go to a deciding second round after controversial far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won an emphatic victory in the first round […]

Military reinforcement units of the Arab Coalition arrived at a number of military fronts in the west coast of the port city of Hodeidah on Sunday to strengthen the presence of legitimate government in Yemen. Military sources confirmed that a unit of Sudanese forces operating in Yemen under the Ccoalition command was deployed in the […]

yo_co – stock.adobe.com Twenty people are dead, state police confirmed, after a crash that reportedly involved a wedding limousine in upstate New York. Local officials told the Times Union of Albany that a limo speeding down a hill hit bystanders Saturday afternoon at the Apple Barrel Country Store in Schoharie, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) north of […]

Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, Articulation of Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations and other groups present a “common front”. “Blue and White National Unity” was presented Thursday in Managua. As well as the Civic Alliance and the Articulation of Social Movements (which bring together students and rural population, as well as social, feminist, […]

Khashoggi’s fiancee and friends posted outside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday [Osman Orsal/Reuters] Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, has been killed. “The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr […]

Lockheed Martin © Andy Wolfe / Reuters* The US will reportedly provide Israel with more F-35s after Russia supplied Syria with S-300 missile systems. Moscow’s move came in response to the downing of a Russian military plane, which it partly blamed on Israel. US President Donald Trump decided to lend a hand to America’s most […]

Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, was killed inside the consulate, two Turkish sources said on Saturday.”The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe […]

One expert said some of the evidence the administration has offered is a normal reaction to the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images   White House claims that China is meddling in the midterms do not ring true to experts and cybersecurity firms that have long tracked Beijing’s digital […]

Prisoners gather in the yard during a fire that raged through Donggala Penitentiary in Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi, following a riot on Sept. 29. (Kompas.com/Kristianto Purnomo) More than 1,000 escaped prisoners in Central Sulawesi remain free following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that damaged several correctional facilities in the area. During an inspection of six prisons and detention centers […]