ChinaDaily– Italy will not allow migrant rescue vessel Lifeline to dock in its ports, the country’s interior minister confirmed on Monday. The ship has been stranded off Malta for days with over 230 people on board. It had already been denied permit to dock by both Maltese and Italian authorities last week, after carrying out its […]
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Source: Xinhua Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Sunday that he is “definitely satisfied” with the migration summit in Brussels, hailing that European leaders “have the right direction in the current debate.” The prime minister expressed his satisfaction in a tweet after the summit ended, without going into detail. When leaving the summit, his German […]
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Source：ChinaDaily “Where are you, Sen. Mitch McConnell? Kentucky needs you.” That was the beginning of an editorial on June 11 in the Louisville Courier-Journal in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky that called on the Republican majority leader of the US Senate to “take off the kid gloves and do whatever it takes to resolve this […]
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Source:ChinaDaily The United States on Tuesday announced its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, marking the latest departure by the Trump administration from an international institution. US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the council had failed to conduct the “major, dramatic and systematic changes” required by the United States. “As […]
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TOKYO, June 18 (Xinhua) — At least four people have been confirmed dead and 350 others have been injured after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Osaka prefecture in western Japan on Monday. According to local authorities, in Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, a 9-year-old girl was killed on her way to school when an outer wall at […]
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Source：Xinhua Applications for international protection in the European Union (EU) nearly halved from 1.3 million in 2016 to 728,470 in 2017, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) said Monday in a statement. Applications in early 2018 averaged less than 50,000 per month, it said. Throughout 2017, migratory pressure at EU external borders remained high, but […]
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Source：Xinhua Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio said here Sunday that he had made the plan to beat defending champions Germany in the World Cup Group F opener six months before. Mexico stunned Germany 1-0 in the game at Luzhniki Stadium here on Sunday evening. Hirving Lozano scored what turned out to be the winner on […]
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