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A Barcelona restaurant that tells refugee tales

, June 22, 2018

A Barcelona restaurant that tells refugee tales

By Sophie DaviesTUCKED away in a medieval Spanish square, an unconventional restaurant is training refugees and telling their stories, hoping to change the lives of migrants and how people see them.Espai Mescladis is both a restaurant and culinary school — and part publishing house.It trains migrants from as far afield as Venezuela, Senegal and Pakistan to cook and cater so they have a better shot at finding jobs and integrating ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer attend an event on the occasion of the World Refugee Day at the German Historical Museum in Berlin on Wednesday. — AFP

, June 20, 2018

European leaders meet to tackle growing divisions over migration

BRUSSELS — Several European leaders including those of France, Germany, Italy and Austria will hold talks on Sunday on migration, an issue bringing bitter political divisions to a head in Europe and increasingly in the United States.Sources said the leaders of Greece and Bulgaria would also attend the gathering, which will explore how to stop people from moving around the European Union after claiming asylum in one of the Mediterranean ...

Supporters of opposition party VMRO-DPMNE wave Macedonian flags as they take part in a protest over compromise solution in Macedonia’s dispute with Greece over the country’s name in Skopje, Macedonia, in this June 2, 2018 file photo. — Reuters

, June 20, 2018

Macedonia parliament ratifies new name deal

SKOPJE — The Macedonian parliament ratified on Wednesday a historic accord with Greece to rename the small Balkan nation the Republic of North Macedonia in a bid to end a 27-year row between the two neighbors.“We have a deal that clearly defines our identity, our Macedonian language for ever,” Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told lawmakers ahead of the vote, urging them to back the agreement.A total of 69 MPs in ...

A German forensic expert in protective clothes stands on a balcony of an apartment building in Cologne’s Chorweiler district, where a Tunisian suspected of trying to build a biological weapon was arrested in this June 15, 2018 file photo. — AFP

, June 20, 2018

German police claim to have foiled biological attack

BERLIN — German police said on Wednesday they had foiled a biological attack with last week’s arrest of a Tunisian suspected militant in possession of the deadly poison ricin and bomb-making material.“Very concrete preparations had been made for an act with a ... biological bomb, which is a first for Germany,” said Holger Muench, head of the BKA Federal Criminal Police Office.German police commandos on June 12 stormed the Cologne ...

, June 19, 2018

World Cup panel apologizes to Saudi Arabia for plane malfunction

Saudi Gazette reportMOSCOW - The Organizing Committee of the World Cup has apologized on Tuesday to Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF) for the malfunction of the plane carrying the Saudi national soccer team to Rostov on Monday.In the letter, sent to Dr. Adel Ezzat, chairman of the board of directors of SAFF, the committee said that planes would no longer be used for the transportation of Saudi team or any ...

Italy’s Interior Minister and Deputy PM Matteo Salvini attends a meeting with the Italian Confesercenti ( Association of commercial businesses ) in Rome in this June 13, 2018 file photo. — AFP

, June 19, 2018

Italian interior minister sparks row over Roma census plans

ROME — Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday defended his plans to count the Roma community living in the country and deport those without legal status, despite outrage at home and abroad.“I’m not giving up and I’m pushing ahead! The Italians and their safety first,” Salvini tweeted, after opposition MPs slammed the idea of a census as “racist” and “fascist.”Salvini — already under fire when he refused last ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, gestures as she welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron at the Meseberg Palace, northeastern Germany, on Tuesday. — AFP

, June 19, 2018

Merkel hosts Macron as EU faces risk of ‘disintegration’

MESEBERG, Germany — German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to hammer out reforms that can stop the “disintegration” of the European Union, torn by populist forces and deep discord over immigration.The two leaders of Europe’s biggest economies will seek to thrash out a compromise between Macron’s bold vision for sweeping EU change and Germany’s stance that is more cautious, especially when it comes to finance.Merkel ...

Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid, left, and Jeremy Corbyn, opposition Labour party leader applaud on the steps of Islington Town Hall on the anniversary of the Finsbury park attack in London on Tuesday. — AFP

, June 19, 2018

UK marks anniversary of London mosque terror attack

LONDON — Britain on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of a deadly terror attack against a north London mosque, with Prime Minister Theresa May vowing that “vile extremism” will not divide the nation.Mourners held a minute’s silence at 9.30 a.m. (0830GMT) to remember father-of-six Makram Ali, who died when Darren Osborne ploughed a hire van onto a crowded pavement close to Finsbury Park mosque, intending to kill as many Muslims ...

French Front National (National Front - FN) far-right party’s President, European MP and presidential candidate for the 2017 election Marine Le Pen, takes part in a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, in this Jan. 17, 2017 file photo. — AFP

, June 19, 2018

Le Pen must repay 300,000 euros to European Parliament: Top court

LUXEMBOURG — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen must repay nearly 300,000 euros to the European Parliament for funds paid incorrectly to an assistant, a top EU court ruled on Tuesday.The General Court of the European Union, the bloc’s second-highest tribunal, rejected a bid by Le Pen to overturn a ruling that she had wrongly used parliamentary funds to pay an aide who was based at her party’s headquarters in ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech at the Royal Free Hospital in north London on Monday. — EPA

, June 19, 2018

Setting up new showdown, May rejects Brexit proposal

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May cannot accept a proposal to hand parliament more control over Brexit, her spokesman said on Tuesday, setting up a showdown with lawmakers who want the right to step in if Britain risks crashing out of the EU with no deal.May has struggled to get backing for an EU withdrawal bill that would cut ties with the bloc. She tried to find a compromise last ...