Matteo Salvini

At the close of Albert Camus’s novel The Plague, as the French Algerian city of Oran celebrates its recovery from a mass epidemic, the protagonist Dr Bernard Rieux reflects that “such joy is always imperilled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learnt from books:…

More than 10,000 refugees massing at the Greek border have once again become pawns in a geopolitical game, as chinks appear in “Fortress Europe”. Turkey has been accused of weaponising migrants after it opened its land border with Greece on Saturday. The move violates a deal struck with the European…

As Washington state grapples with coronavirus, Americans are getting their first up-close look at life amid an outbreak – and how the country might balance public health safety with personal liberties.Six people in the state have died, the first coronavirus-linked deaths in the United States; 18 more cases have been confirmed,…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has hopes of reaching a deal on a cease-fire in Syria's northwest when he meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Moscow. “I hope that he will take the necessary measures there, such as a cease-fire, and that we will find a…

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen to 34, five more than a day earlier, officials said on Sunday (1 March), as the government prepared to boost spending to help the fragile economy. The head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency said the cumulative number of…

(Bloomberg) -- Europe risks a repeat of a migration crisis that five years ago tested its political limits and physical borders as increasing numbers of refugees gather anew on its doorstep.The rapidly evolving emergency came after Turkey signaled it won’t stand in the way of people using its territory to…

President Donald Trump boasted about the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border as he spoke about the threat of the new coronavirus on Friday, saying at a rally: “Border security is also health security.” Health experts told HuffPost a wall at the southern border is in no way related to preventing…

Two California students went on trial in Italy on Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a Rome police officer during a brawl that shocked Italy.Finnegan Lee Elder, 20, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 19, high school classmates from Mill Valley, near San Francisco, could face life sentences for the killing last July…

ROME — Italy is asking: Why us? There are no clear answers as to why the country has been hit harder by the coronavirus than anywhere else in the EU, with more than 320 confirmed cases and 10 deaths. But there is no shortage of theories and proposed solutions, proffered by…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The surge in confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Italy has thrown up a classic dilemma for the European Union: How to protect unity between 27 member states when domestic political pressures call for national, beggar-thy-neighbor responses. In the face of a possible pandemic, the deceptively simple…