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March 21, 2019
Stop Brexit: 700,000 sign UK petition to stay in EU
LONDON — More than 700,000 people have rushed to sign a petition on the British parliament’s website calling for the government to revoke its divorce notice to the European Union and remain in the bloc.Attracting thousands of signatures every few minutes, the petition took off in the hours after Prime Minister Theresa May made a televised address to the country late on Wednesday, criticizing squabbling lawmakers for failing to agree ...
March 21, 2019
Dutch anti-immigration populist surge stuns PM Rutte
THE HAGUE — Dutch anti-immigration populists stunned Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become the joint biggest party in the senate on Thursday following elections that took place just days after a suspected terror attack.Thierry Baudet’s Forum for Democracy party, which also backs a “Nexit” from the European Union, came from nowhere to win most votes in the provincial elections, with 93 percent of ballots counted, the NOS broadcaster said.The result ...
March 21, 2019
Besieged May pleads with EU to help save her Brexit plan
BRUSSELS — A dogged but isolated Prime Minister Theresa May was headed back to Brussels on Thursday to beg for more time to deliver her Brexit plan, in defiance of the MPs who twice rejected the withdrawal deal.May’s fellow European Union leaders, meeting for their spring summit, say they will tell her that Britain can postpone Brexit until May 22, but only if she can win over British lawmakers next ...
March 20, 2019
EU chief says Brexit delay possible if MPs approve deal
LONDON — The EU could approve Britain’s request for a short delay to Brexit but only if British MPs next week vote through the withdrawal deal they have twice rejected, European Council president Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.“I believe a short extension will be possible but it will be conditional on a positive vote on the withdrawal agreement in the House of Commons,” Tusk told reporters, a day before leaders ...
March 20, 2019
Driver hijacks, sets ablaze school bus in Italy, children flee unharmed
MILAN, Italy — A bus full of schoolchildren was hijacked and set on fire by its own driver on Wednesday in an apparent protest against migrant drownings in the Mediterranean, Italian authorities said.All 51 children managed to escape unhurt before the bus was engulfed in flames on the outskirts of Milan, Italy’s business capital. Police named the driver as Ousseynou Sy, a 47-year-old Italian citizen of Senegalese origin.“He shouted, ‘Stop ...
March 20, 2019
Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime leader Karadzic sentenced to life in prison
THE HAGUE — UN judges on Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic to life in prison on appeal, ending one of the most momentous trials over genocide committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.Appeals judges upheld Karadzic’s conviction for the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica and ruled that the 40-year sentence imposed at the close of his trial was too light, ...
March 20, 2019
Italian parliament saves Salvini from migrant kidnapping probe
ROME — The Italian parliament on Wednesday blocked prosecutors from pursuing an investigation into Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini for abuse of power and kidnapping migrants.Salvini, who is interior minister and leader of the right-wing League party, has declared Italy’s ports closed to illegal migrants and asylum seekers since he formed a ruling coalition last year with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement.In August, he blocked an Italian coastguard ship with 150 ...
March 20, 2019
UK PM May seeks brief delay from hesitant EU
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May was expected to request a short delay to Brexit on Wednesday after her failure to get a deal ratified by parliament left the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union in turmoil.Nearly three years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, British politicians are still arguing over how, when or even if the world’s fifth largest economy should leave the bloc ...
March 20, 2019
Musicians brace for Brexit disharmony
AS the Brexit saga reaches a crescendo, classical musicians based in Britain fear that a disorderly divorce could threaten their European livelihood and stunt the development of potential maestros.Viola player Aliye Cornish said she was particularly concerned because she is due to start a European tour in Spain on March 30 — the day after Britain is scheduled to leave the EU.“At the moment we have no formal guidance on ...
March 20, 2019
Italy resumes vintage snow train service from Rome to Roccaraso after decades
DESTROYED first by the Nazis and then by government cuts, Italy’s very own “Trans-Siberian” railway has reopened thanks to the work of hobbyists, taking travelers back in time through the snowy Abruzzo mountains.Today, lovingly restored, almost 100-year-old carriages take tourists along the 120-kilometer (80-mile) line from Rome to the Roccaraso ski resort to the east, passing over countless precarious viaducts.The Sulmona-Roccaraso section, reaching an altitude of 1,269 meters (4,163 feet) ...
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