The Italian prime minister is leading what will soon be the longest-lasting government in the country’s postwar history. She shows herself by turns funny and fierce in a rare interview.
In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.
Tens of thousands of migrants overwhelmed Spain's tiny North African territory of Ceuta in a single day, and the political fallout is now rippling across Europe as governments rush to protect their own borders. Approximately 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta within a 24-hour window, a number equal to roughly 70 percent of the […] The post 60,000 migrants flood Spain's Ceuta in 24 hours, leaving at least 41 dead and Europe scrambling appeared first on American Almanac .
Tens of thousands of migrants overwhelmed Spain's tiny North African territory of Ceuta in a single day, and the political fallout is now rippling across Europe as governments rush to protect their own borders. Approximately 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta within a 24-hour window, a number equal to roughly 70 percent of the Spanish enclave's entire population. At least 41 died in the attempt. Some drowned swimming the approximately three miles from the Moroccan coastal town of Fnideq. Others were killed in a stampede at a breakwater fence near the Tarajal beach border checkpoint. Spain deployed its armed forces and additional police to restore order, and by Friday afternoon most of the migrants who had made it across were…Open
Tilman J. Fertitta, the U.S. ambassador to Rome, is summering on his superyacht as President Trump squabbles with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
President Trump hijacked NATO's annual summit within hours of touching down in Turkey, threatening allies and declaring the Iran ceasefire "over" as Washington and Tehran lurched toward renewed war. The big picture: The carefully choreographed Ankara summit unraveled into the Trump show, with the agenda quickly overtaken by the president's grudge against allies who sat out the Iran war. Driving the news: On his quick trip to Turkey, Trump opened new wounds and rubbed salt in others by: - Threatening to cut off all trade with Spain, calling the country "hopeless" for refusing to let the U.S. use its military bases to strike Iran. - Deeming talks with Tehran a "waste of time" and suggesting the U.S. could take out "every single bridge…