Europe
By closing ports to migrants, Italy’s new government has joined a host of European nations that have toughened their stance on immigrants and splintered any hope of a pan-continent policy on welcoming [...]
Americas
Politicians in Europe are howling about President Trump’s cruel and inept executive order on refugees, and comparing his scattershot treatment to Europe’s which they argue is benign and in line with [...]
Americas
Rome–The New York Times has just published a two-part series on Hillary Clinton’s role in the Libya fiasco and there are telling moments that could serve as lessons of what not to do when [...]
Africa
Rome—The European Union is planning surgical air attacks on Islamic State groups and affiliated radical militias in Libya in an effort to ease military pressure on a reconstituted government there. [...]
Africa
London–European countries expressed shock at the deaths and migration in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, even though the crisis has been going on for months. They tried hard to avoid one [...]
Europe
Rome—About 700 African migrants are believed drowned off the coast of Sicily overnight as the massive flow of refugees who transit an out-of-control Libya continues non-stop. And the response of [...]
Africa
Rome—The violent deaths of 12 migrants at sea off Libya today is a sad fable about the perfect storm of chaos on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. The terrible twist was this: Some sort of [...]