G7 leaders seek to punish Russia and China, but doubts hang over Italy summit
FASANO, Italy (CN) — With sunny southern Italy as their backdrop, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Group of Seven counterparts on Friday sought to display a united front as they capped a week marked...
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G7 summit: Pope Francis warns against ‘dooming’ humanity with AI
FASANO, Italy (CN) — In the first speech ever by a pontiff to the Group of Seven, Pope Francis on Friday warned against allowing artificial intelligence to overtake humanity and leave humans dependent...
View Article2 migrant boats sink in Mediterranean, more than 70 feared dead
PALERMO, Sicily (CN) — Italy’s coast guard said on Tuesday it had retrieved the first bodies from an overcrowded sailboat that capsized in the Ionian Sea with dozens of migrants aboard. The sailboat...
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Far-right Meloni enjoys trust of Italians, but they expect results
FASANO, Italy (CN) — From across the street, Oronzo Turchiarulo watched and listened as left-wingers and peaceniks shouted and marched against their enemies: The Group of Seven — and everything it...
View ArticleCentrists stake claim to top EU jobs, rebuff Meloni and surging far right
(CN) — The European Union’s opaque system for choosing who gets the bloc’s top jobs following bloc-wide European Parliament elections is turning nasty this year as the traditional centrist forces seek...
View ArticleEl Niño-fueled record heat streak stretched to 13 months in June
(CN) — The planet’s run of record-breaking heat stretched to 13 months in June as the world continued to swelter in the above-average temperatures that scientists warn will become a dangerous normal...
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Far-right force emerges in Brussels, led by Le Pen and Orbán
(CN) — The emergence of a powerful new political group in Brussels on the extreme right, led by France’s Marine Le Pen and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is shaking up European politics....
View ArticleEU dreams of green hydrogen revolution need ‘reality check,’ auditors say
(CN) — Calling for a “reality check,” the European Union’s auditors on Wednesday faulted Brussels for being “overly ambitious” in bold but flawed plans for much-hyped “green hydrogen,” a complex and...
View ArticleVon der Leyen reelected as EU chief
(CN) — Ursula von der Leyen, a 65-year-old conservative politician and former German defense minister, was reelected Thursday by the European Parliament to a second five-year term as the European...
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Amid revisionist moment in Italy, fascist monument gets face-lift
BELMONTE CALABRO, Italy (CN) — Along this sun-drenched stretch of southern Italian coastline, a massive and mostly neglected mausoleum to Italian fascist leader Michele Bianchi stands like a ghost of...
View ArticleMosque attacked, police injured in far-right riot after 3 girls killed in...
(CN) — Great Britain was in a state of shock Wednesday after far-right anti-immigrant rioters injured more than 50 police officers and attacked a mosque in Southport, a northwest English seaside town...
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UK reels from days of rioting against immigrants, Muslims
(CN) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday vowed to use the “full force of the law” against anti-immigrant rioters who’ve caused mayhem across England following a mass stabbing that killed...
View ArticleCopernicus: Record global heat spell ends in July, 2024 likely to be hottest...
(CN) — A record 13-month spell of global heat ended in July after the warmth-churning El Niño weather pattern dissipated in May, but this year remains on track to be the hottest ever measured, the...
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After Barcelona speech, fugitive Catalan leader Puigdemont does disappearing act
(CN) — The Spanish political world was rocked Thursday after former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont returned to Barcelona to deliver an impassioned pro-Catalan independence speech to adoring...
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In Meloni’s authoritarianism, some Italians see echoes of Mussolini
FASANO, Italy (CN) — For Ernesto Palatrasio, a holdover from Italy’s student-protest movements in the 1970s, there was never any doubt: The rise of Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party means...
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Greece fights wildfires on outskirts of Athens
(CN) — A dangerously hot and dry Greece is getting ravaged by wildfires again. Wildfires ripped through areas northeast of Athens on Monday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate as a series of...
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In town famed for Churchill’s ‘iron curtain’ speech, Americans reflect on a...
FULTON, Mo. (CN) — Rebecca Morgan looked out the window of her secondhand bookstore on this town’s historic main street and whispered her fear about what a new Donald Trump presidency could bring....
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Moving toward green transition, EU backs mining in Balkans
LAKE KOMAN, Albania (CN) — A contentious new era of mining, this time for minerals needed in the green transition toward renewable energy, is kicking off in the Dinaric Alps, the wild and rugged...
View ArticleTelegram co-founder faces criminal charges as Europe cracks down on social media
(CN) — Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire co-founder of Telegram, remained in French custody on Monday following his weekend arrest over illegal activity and harmful content on his popular...
View ArticleTelegram co-founder charged in France over illegal activity on platform
(CN) — Pavel Durov, the Russian-born co-founder of Telegram, was formally charged late Wednesday by French authorities on suspicion of allowing illegal activity to take place on his popular social...
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