Commentary / World Sep 19, 2019
How Boris Johnson can pull off Brexit
by David Howell
Britain's new prime minister and new government are about to pull off a remarkable victory.
World / Politics Sep 19, 2019
Macron and Conte call for overhaul of 'ineffective' EU migrant policy
French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called Wednesday for a reform of Europe's "ineffective" EU immigration policy, bemoaning a lack of solidarity as they met to turn the page on Italy's previous anti-migrant populist government. "The European Union hasn't shown enough ...
World / Crime & Legal Sep 19, 2019
U.K. Supreme Court is told Boris Johnson is 'father of lies'
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is the "father of lies" who shut down the mother of parliaments in the run-up to Brexit, Britain's Supreme Court heard Wednesday. In the second of three days of highly charged arguments over whether Johnson's advice to Queen Elizabeth II to ...
World / Social Issues Sep 19, 2019
Malta saves stricken pregnant migrant and 44 others adrift in Mediterranean after SOS
Malta on Wednesday said it had rescued 45 stricken migrants attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing, including airlifting a pregnant woman at risk of miscarriage. The migrants sent an SOS signal to Alarm Phone, a volunteer-run Mediterranean rescue hot-line, saying the wooden boat they were in ...
World / Politics Sep 18, 2019
High drama at U.K. Supreme Court in Brexit challenge case over Johnson's Parliament shutdown
The British government and its opponents faced off Tuesday at the U.K. Supreme Court in a high-stakes legal drama over Brexit that will determine whether new Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law by suspending Parliament at a crucial time ahead of Britain's impending ...
Business Sep 17, 2019
Airbus, French exporters reel as U.S. tariffs loom in aircraft subsidy row
Shares in Airbus and French luxury goods exporters fell on Monday as the European Union acknowledged it may face U.S. tariffs in a long-running dispute over aircraft subsidies, part of an escalating tit-for-tat trade row. The World Trade Organization has approved a U.S. request to ...
World / Social Issues Sep 16, 2019
Ocean Viking set to resume migrant rescues off Libya after 82 disembark in Italy
Charity rescue vessel Ocean Viking was on Sunday preparing to return to rescuing shipwreck survivors off Libya after disembarking 82 migrants in Italy following a reversal of government policy in Rome. Italian authorities identified and carried out medical checks on the sub-Saharan African migrants after ...
World / Politics Sep 16, 2019
Italian hard-liner Matteo Salvini vows to return League to power
Down but not out, Matteo Salvini pledged Sunday to tens of thousands of die-hard backers of his populist League that the party will return to government with even more power than before, and he hit a euro-skeptic note as he warned Italy's European allies ...
World / Politics Sep 15, 2019
Johnson set to defy ban on no-deal Brexit and fight on in court
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to defy a new law designed to stop him from forcing the U.K. out of the European Union with no deal next month, and is bracing for a fight to settle Brexit in the courts. According to a senior ...
World / Politics Sep 13, 2019
U.K.'s Johnson denies lying to queen and wins Belfast Brexit court case
The British government insisted Thursday that its forecast of food and medicine shortages, gridlock at ports and riots in the streets after a no-deal Brexit is an avoidable worst-case scenario, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied misleading Queen Elizabeth II about his reasons for ...
World / Politics Sep 12, 2019
Boris Johnson faces calls to reverse suspension of Parliament after court rules it illegal
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced calls Thursday to reverse his suspension of Parliament after a Scottish court ruled it illegal, and government documents warned that a no-deal Brexit could lead to civil unrest and shortages of food and medicines. The Operation Yellowhammer documents, which ...