Food sent to migrants off Sicily as Italy awaits EU offers

Another day’s worth of food and beverages was sent to a pair of military ships off Sicily as Italy waited for more European nations to

Charges undermine Assange denials about hacked email origins

At the beginning of 2017, one of Julian Assange’s biggest media boosters traveled to the WikiLeaks founder’s refuge inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and asked him

Haiti | Prime minister resigns amid fuel price hike fallout

Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned Saturday amid calls for him to step down over his handling of a failed plan to raise fuel prices that

Trump’s remarks about changing European culture draw ire

President Donald Trump’s lament this week that immigration is “changing the culture” of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant feelings on both sides of the Atlantic, where Europe

Offbeat | Finnish brewery creates quirky beer for Trump-Putin summit

A small Finnish craft brewery is paying a humorous tribute to the Helsinki summit. RPS Brewing has issued a limited-edition lager depicting cartoon U.S. and Russian

This Day in History | 1969 – Apollo 11 takes off for the Moon

The Apollo 11 space rocket has taken off successfully from Cape Kennedy, Florida, at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon.

World briefs

VIETNAM A court in southern Vietnam is scheduled to put on trial an American citizen of Vietnamese descent accused of disturbing public order after he took part

Yemen | Amnesty urges ‘war crimes’ probe on UAE-run prisons

An international rights group yesterday called for an investigation into alleged disappearances, torture and possible deaths in detention facilities run by the United Arab Emirates

Europe-US | Trump back at NATO after rattling allies, condemning Germany

President Donald Trump renewed his pressure tactics on fellow NATO nations to increase their defense spending yesterday, hammering U.S. allies on Twitter as he attended a second

This Day in History | 1985 Live Aid makes millions for Africa

The Live Aid concert for the starving in Africa has raised triple the £10m expected. And as the London event draws to a close at Wembley Stadium, Britain

Offbeat | Daily dose of national anthem in hospitals stuns Egyptians

A decision by Egypt’s new health minister to have intercoms in state hospitals play the national anthem every morning, followed by a recitation of the Hippocratic oath, has

World briefs

PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte came under renewed pressure yesterday to seek Chinese compliance to an arbitration ruling that invalidated China’s claims to much of the South China Sea

The Buzz | Lawyer: Stormy Daniels will plead not guilty after arrest

The lawyer for Stormy Daniels says the porn actress will plead not guilty to charges of allowing patrons to touch her after being arrested at an Ohio

Show tells backstory of icons like Mount Rushmore, Lady Liberty

Did you know that the original symbolism of the Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with welcoming immigrants? And that Mount Rushmore was basically built as a scheme

US | Government falls short of deadline to reunite kids, parents

Some immigrant toddlers are back in the arms of their parents, but others remained in holding facilities away from relatives as federal officials fell short of meeting

Europe-US | Trump claims Germany ‘controlled’ by Russia

President Donald Trump claimed a pipeline project has made Germany “totally controlled” by and “captive to Russia” during a combative breakfast yesterday that kicked off what was

Offbeat | Video shows moment of Clooney crash, actor thrown in air

Actor George Clooney slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane Tuesday and was thrown several meters in the air on the

This Day in History | 1990 – Yeltsin resignation splits Soviet Communists

The populist politician and president of the Russian parliament, Boris Yeltsin, has resigned from the Soviet Communist Party. The resignation has also led to a declaration

The Buzz | Courts finds suspect in neo-Nazi trial guilty of 10 killings

A Munich court has found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty of murder over the killing of 10 people — most of them migrants —

Europe-US | Friend or foe at NATO? Who knows when Trump comes to dinner

When Donald Trump walks into a NATO summit today, international politics are bound to become intensely personal — again. Since moving into the White House almost 18

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