GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned immigrants to “integrate or face consequences” in a last desperate bid to gain support for her crisis-stricken coalition as she attempts to cling to power. The Chancellor came under fire for her decision in 2015 to open Germany’s borders to one million migrants at the height of the refugee crisis gripping…
After 1945 Europe said “never again” but never again is happening before our eyes in the Middle East, says Guardian columnist Natalie Nougayrède. Syrian civilians flee airstrikes in eastern Ghouta, February 2018. Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images Syria is a European crisis as well as a Middle Eastern one, and the world’s worst human rights disaster…
© Getty French President Emmanuel Macron’s government introduced a bill last week that would accelerate the expulsion of migrants who do not qualify for asylum and make illegal border crossings a criminal offense punishable by one year in jail and a fine. And Hungary is considering a bill that would include entry bans on foreigners and restraining orders to stop Hungarians…
South Korea’s presidential office said today that North Korea’s delegation to the Olympics agreed that there should be talks between the United States and North Korea. im Eui-kyeom, a spokesperson for the Blue House, the presidential office, said that just like South Korea, the delegation from Pyongyang believed that U.S.-North Korean relations should improve. The announcement followed…
© Getty Images In the snow-covered, fairy-tale city of Munich, global security leaders gathered for their yearly conclave, the Munich Security Conference, the Davos of foreign policy and power. However, instead of Bavarian glory, tension was in the air. This participant repeatedly saw speakers talking past each other, creating an impression that this was not…
ONLY 14 EU member states have agreed to pay more into the union’s vast budget as bloc officials attempt to recover the damage caused by the UK’s decision to leave. EU officials have been grappling with members to pay up in order to avoid financial ruin for the European project – with estimates of the…
A man walks next to damaged buildings following air strikes today in the rebel-held town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta The German and French leaders have urged Russia to exert “maximum pressure” on Syria for an “immediate” implementation of a UN ceasefire in the war-ravaged country, according to the German government. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French…
Much to the chagrin of the Palestinian Authority, US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he’d be accelerating the transfer of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The US mission is slated to being moving in phases to its consular facility in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Arnona starting in May. The first…
PAPUA New Guinea has been rocked by a huge 7.5 magnitude earthquake just moments after a smaller seismic event struck Japan, increasing fears of a natural disaster impacting the dangerous region dubbed the ‘Ring of Fire’. The 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the heart of the island near the near the Southern Highlands area, with tremors…