Left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is heading for a clear victory in Mexico’s presidential election. Electoral officials said a quick count after Sunday’s poll indicated the former mayor of Mexico City had won with about 53% of the vote – more than double that of his nearest challenger. Exit ... Read More »
North Korea making ‘rapid’ upgrades to nuclear research site
But links to Trump-Kim denuclearisation agreement not clear, claim analysts North Korea has made improvements to a nuclear research facility “at a rapid pace”, analysts have claimed after reviewing satellite images on the site. The development of infrastructure at the Yongbyon site included modifications to the cooling system of its ... Read More »
French President Emmanuel Macron, accused at home of straining France’s secular foundations by seeking to mend ties with the Catholic Church, had an unusually long and cordial meeting with Pope Francis on Tuesday.
They spoke for nearly an hour in the official papal library in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, about twice as long as Francis usually spends with heads of state or government. A Vatican statement said the two discussed “protection of the environment, migration, and multilateral commitment to conflict prevention and resolution, ... Read More »
France and Germany will block May’s single market plan, says Spain
Madrid’s foreign minister says there will be no deal for goods access without free movement Theresa May’s plan to protect British industry by keeping the UK in a single market for goods without respecting the free movement of people after Brexit will be rejected by an “angry” France and Germany, ... Read More »
‘Dumb, stupid’ family separations harm children, says detention camp manager
Manager at camp close to US-Mexico border speaks out to decry Donald Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy A senior manager at a child detention camp in Texas, close to the Mexican border, spoke out on Monday to decry Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy that had been tearing migrant families apart as ... Read More »
Libya turmoil a hurdle for EU’s north Africa migration centre plan
Fighting for Libyan oil terminals highlights obstacles, ahead of emergency EU meeting on migration crisis Senior European diplomats have privately admitted that plans to stabilise Libya, on which the long-term hopes rest of an end Europe’s migration crisis, are badly off track. European leaders will meet on Sunday in a ... Read More »
Ukraine extends its Russian sanctions list
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to enact a recently adopted decision to expand sanctions on Russian companies and entities, Ukraine’s council of national security and defense said on Friday. It said 30 Russian legal entities and 14 individuals were added to the sanction list, taking it to ... Read More »
Special Report: Trump’s catch-and-detain policy snares illegal immigrants long in U.S.
Morena Vasquez didn’t want to drive that February night last year, but a co-worker at her job cleaning offices near Atlanta needed some keys dropped off. ‘I knew it was my responsibility,” Vasquez said. Driving was always risky for the 38-year-old mother of six. An El Salvador native, she had ... Read More »
North Korea, China leaders agree to boost ‘strategic, tactical’ cooperation: KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed measures to bolster “strategic and tactical” cooperation between the two countries in a second meeting on Wednesday, the North’s state media said on Thursday. The meeting between Kim and Xi came on the North Korean leader’s second and ... Read More »
World Refugee Day 2018: How many displaced people are there around the globe and what is being done to help?
2.9 million people became asylum seekers in 2017 – biggest single-year rise in history of UN refugee agency World Refugee Day is held on 20 June every year to draw attention to the plight of displaced people around the globe. Inaugurated by the UN Refugee Agency, the occasion was first ... Read More »