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Sonny Olumati was born in Italy - but still has no citizenship at 39
Italian citizenship referendum polarizes country
ROME — Sonny Olumati was born in Rome and has lived in Italy all his life but the country he calls home does not recognize him as its own.To Italy, Sonny is Nigerian, like his passport, and the 39-year-old is only welcome as long as his latest residence permit."I've been born here. I will live here. I will die here," the dancer and activist tells me in what he calls "macaroni" Italian-English beneath the palm trees of a scruffy Roman park."But not having citizenship is like... being rejected from your country. And I don't think this is a feeling we should have".That is why Sonny and others have been campaigning for a "Yes" vote in a national referendum on Sunday and Monday that proposes halving the time required to apply for Italian...
June 08, 2025

Italian citizenship referendum polarizes country

Firefighters on the scene of an apartment building hit by Russian airstrikes in Kharkiv, Ukraine,
Massive Russian aerial attack targets Kharkiv
KYIV — A large Russian attack with drones and missiles has hit Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring 21, local officials said. The barrage — the latest in near-daily widescale attacks — included aerial glide bombs that have become part of a fierce Russian onslaught in the three-year war.The intensity of the Russian attacks on Ukraine over the past weeks has further dampened hopes that the warring sides could reach a peace deal anytime soon — especially after Kyiv recently embarrassed the Kremlin with a surprise drone attack on military air bases deep inside Russia.According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russia struck with 215 missiles and drones overnight, and Ukrainian air defenses shot down and neutralized 87 drones and seven...
June 07, 2025

Massive Russian aerial attack targets Kharkiv

Protesters, including one wearing a Guantanamo Bay style prison jumpsuit, gather during the visit of US President George W. Bush to Tallinn, Estonia (File photo)
Estonia's plan to rent prison space to Sweden sparks fears of imported organized crime
TALLINN — Estonia will lease space at Tartu Prison to Sweden and accept up to 600 inmates under a new agreement being negotiated between the two countries. The draft legislation has been sent to the parliament.Meanwhile, the Estonian Office of the Chancellor of Justice and the Internal Security Service emphasizes the risks that placing foreign prisoners in Tartu may bring.Amid the possible worsening situation for the Estonian prisoners, the main concern is that people with connections to extremism or international organized crime may arrive in Estonia.The Internal Security Service has forwarded the recommendations to the government and hopes that it will take them into account to the greatest extent possible.Marta Tuul, spokesperson of the Internal Security Service commented on Estonian...
June 07, 2025

Estonia's plan to rent prison space to Sweden sparks fears of imported organized crime

Trump's call with Putin was the first since a major Ukraine attack on missile-carrying aircraft deep inside Russia
Putin will seek revenge for Ukraine drone attack, warns Trump
WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin has said he will have to respond to Ukraine's major drone attack on Russian airbases, US President Donald Trump has warned.Speaking after a phone call with the Russian president, Trump said: "President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields."Russian officials declined to confirm this on Wednesday night, but Moscow had earlier said that military options were "on the table" for its response.Trump warned in a social media post that the phone call, which lasted more than an hour, would not "lead to immediate peace" between Russia and Ukraine.Russia's RIA Novosti, a state-owned news agency, said Putin told Trump that Ukraine has tried to "disrupt" the...
June 05, 2025

Putin will seek revenge for Ukraine drone attack, warns Trump

Police cordoned off large areas of the city of Cologne to enable a safe bomb defusal exercise
Cologne evacuates 20,000 so WW2 bombs can be defused
COLOGNE — The German city of Cologne is evacuating some 20,500 people from a large area in the city center so experts can defuse three unexploded bombs from World War Two.The American bombs were discovered on Monday in a shipyard in the Deutz neighborhood.Unexploded bombs can still pose a danger and the city has sealed off the zone within a 1,000m (3280ft) radius, in what it described as "the largest operation since the end of WW2".Homes, shops, hotels and schools have been told to evacuate, as well as a large hospital and major train station."If you refuse, we will escort you from your home - if necessary by force - along with the police," the authorities said.Residents were told if they refused to leave their homes after the evacuation began they could face...
June 04, 2025

Cologne evacuates 20,000 so WW2 bombs can be defused

Roberta Metsola (left) holding a bilateral meeting with Mette Frederiksen (right).European Union, 2025
Denmark quits the Frugal Four to focus on rearming Europe, says PM Frederiksen
COPENHAGEN — Denmark has quit the so-called Frugal Four to embrace instead a "more flexible" attitude towards the European Union's seven-year budget, the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has said, insisting the imperative goal of rearming the bloc against Russia should take precedence over "all other priorities"."As Danes, we will always be tough in the negotiations on the budget. We don't want money to be spent on (anything) that is not necessary for Europe. So we will be tough, but being a part of the Frugal Four is no longer the right place for us," Frederiksen said on Tuesday, speaking next to Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament."For me, the most important thing is to rearm Europe. That's my starting...
June 04, 2025

Denmark quits the Frugal Four to focus on rearming Europe, says PM Frederiksen

A SPIKE missile is launched during live-fire drills at Yeonpyeong Island near the maritime border with North Korea, 26 June, 2024
Spain cancels contract for anti-tank missiles built by Israeli company
MADRID — Spain has canceled a deal to purchase anti-tank missile systems that were to be manufactured in Madrid by a subsidiary of an Israeli company in a bid to move away from Israeli military technology, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.The decision will affect the license for 168 SPIKE LR2 anti-tank missile systems with an estimated value of €285 million.The systems would have been developed in Spain by Pap Tecnos, a Madrid-based subsidiary of Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, local media said."The goal is clear...a total disconnection from Israeli technology," government spokesperson Pilar Alegría told reporters, adding the government is studying "the effects of the cancellation."Israel's Defense Ministry referred questions on the decision...
June 04, 2025

Spain cancels contract for anti-tank missiles built by Israeli company

The court ruled that entry with a minor is not aiding and abetting illegal immigration
Migrants with minors not aiding illegal immigration, top EU court rules
LUXEMBOURG — The Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday ruled in favor of migrants' rights in a case filed by an Italian court regarding what can be considered aiding and abetting illegal immigration.The court ruling noted that, in the case of a third-country national entering the EU irregularly accompanied by a child in their care, their conduct "cannot be regarded as aiding and abetting illegal immigration.""In fact, the parent in this case assumes an obligation related to his or her personal responsibility towards the child in accordance with fundamental rights, in particular respect for family life and the child," the president of the EU's highest legal authority, Koen Lenaerts, explained in his judgment.With this preliminary ruling, the court...
June 04, 2025

Migrants with minors not aiding illegal immigration, top EU court rules

Geert Wilders speak with reporters in The Hague on June 3 as he withdraws his party from the Netherlands' governing coalition
Dutch government collapses as Wilders’ far-right party leaves coalition
THE HAGUE — The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is leaving the Netherlands’ government over its policy for asylum-seekers, its leader Geert Wilders said on Tuesday, toppling the governing coalition.“I signed up for the strictest asylum policy, not for the downfall of the Netherlands,” Wilders told reporters Tuesday morning. “And our responsibility for this cabinet therefore ends here.”Wilders’ decision to withdraw support for the most right-leaning government in Dutch history has plunged the country’s politics into chaos. It leaves the government, led by Prime Minister Dick Schoof, with just 51 out of 150 seats in parliament.Opposition leaders have called for immediate elections. Schoof, who has clashed with Wilders over policy, has not yet commented.Polls suggest that,...
June 03, 2025

Dutch government collapses as Wilders’ far-right party leaves coalition

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk to seek confidence vote after ally's election loss
WARSAW — Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said he would ask parliament to hold a vote of confidence in his coalition government after his ally, the liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, lost Sunday's presidential runoff.Conservative Karol Nawrocki won the election, finishing with 50.89% of the vote."Regardless of how we evaluate the winning candidate, we should acknowledge his victory and congratulate his voters," Tusk said in a televised speech on Monday."I want to declare to you that I will not stop for a moment as prime minister of our government. The presidential elections have not changed anything here and will not change anything. We will cooperate with the new president where necessary and possible."The result leaves Tusk politically weakened...
June 03, 2025

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk to seek confidence vote after ally's election loss

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