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July 18, 2019
Cyprus new route for migrants prepared to 'die at sea'
NICOSIA — For 26 hours, Mustafa hid on a ferry from Turkey to Cyprus, joining thousands of other refugees now looking to the divided Mediterranean island as their gateway to the European Union.In two years, the number of first-time asylum applications in Cyprus has more than tripled, rising from 730 people at the beginning of 2017 to 3,015 at the beginning of 2019.Mustafa is among those who are optimistic about ...
July 18, 2019
Italy police deal blow to 'violent' Nigerian mafia
ROME — Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested 19 suspected members of a Nigerian mob, including the leaders of a clan which forged alliances with other mafias and violently punished anyone who rebelled.In an operation dubbed "Burning Flame", coordinated by police in Bologna and Turin, over 300 officers carried out arrests and searches in nine cities across northern Italy from Bergamo to Modena, Parma and Ravenna.A two-year probe ...
July 18, 2019
UK lawmakers back proposal to hamper a no-deal Brexit
LONDON — British lawmakers on Thursday backed proposals to make it harder for the next prime minister to force through a no-deal Brexit by suspending parliament, showing again their determination to stop a divorce from the European Union without agreement.Boris Johnson, the clear front-runner to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May next week, has said Britain must leave the EU on Oct. 31 with or without a deal.He has refused to ...
July 18, 2019
Cyprus holds 12 Israelis over alleged rape of UK teen
NICOSIA — Twelve Israeli tourists were remanded in custody in Cyprus on Thursday over the alleged gang rape of a British teenager at her hotel in the popular resort of Ayia Napa.The suspects appeared before a district court in Paralimni where the judge agreed to a police request to detain them for eight days pending investigations into possible charges of rape and conspiracy to rape.The Israelis — who entered the ...
July 18, 2019
UK hit with recession warning as Brexit battle builds in parliament
LONDON — Britain might be entering a full-blown recession that a no-deal exit from the European Union would compound, blowing a 30 billion-pound hole in the public finances, a budget watchdog said on Thursday.As lawmakers prepared for a vote that could hinder any attempt by the next prime minister to pursue a no-deal Brexit, the Office for Budget Responsibility said the economy probably flat-lined or might have contracted in the ...
July 17, 2019
UK arrests Manchester bomber's brother after Libya extradition
TRIPOLI — The brother of a suicide bomber who attacked a concert in the British city of Manchester in 2017 was extradited from Libya on Wednesday and arrested in London on suspicion of helping plan the blast, police said.Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton born to Libyan parents, blew himself up at the end of a show by US singer Ariana Grande in the deadliest militant attack in Britain for 12 ...
July 17, 2019
Criticizing populism, UK PM May has Brexit advice for successor
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May launched a broadside against populism on Wednesday, using a valedictory speech to encourage her successor to embrace compromise to secure Britain's exit from the European Union.With only a few days left in power, the 62-year-old May railed against the coarsening of politics in what her audience took to be words aimed at Britain's probable next leader Boris Johnson or US President Donald Trump.While she ...
July 17, 2019
Man found guilty over car attack outside UK parliament
LONDON — A London jury on Wednesday convicted a man of attempted murder after he tried to mow down cyclists, pedestrians and police with his car outside the British parliament last year, in an attack prosecutors said had a terrorist motive.Jurors at the Old Bailey, England's central criminal court, agreed with the prosecution that Salih Khater, 30, had made "a deliberate attempt to kill and maim as many people ...
July 17, 2019
Italian, US police make arrests as Mafia clan looks to regroup
PALERMO, Italy — Italian and US police have launched a coordinated crackdown on a Sicilian Mafia family that was seeking to rebuild its power base after years of exile in the United States, Italian investigators said on Wednesday.More than 200 police, including officers from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrested 18 people in Sicily as part of their investigation into the Inzerillo clan in the island's capital Palermo ...
July 17, 2019
UN nuclear watchdog's chief plans to step down early
VIENNA — UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano plans to step down early, in March of next year, because of an unspecified illness that has visibly weakened him over the past year, diplomats who follow his agency's work said on Wednesday.Amano, a 72-year-old Japanese diplomat, was reappointed in 2017 to a third four-year term in charge of the International Atomic Energy Agency, until Nov. 30, 2021.The IAEA's responsibilities include policing ...
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