Mario Draghi, the outgoing prime minister, will answer to parliament on Wednesday with the parties of his majority. Rome And now? On Friday, all news outlets saw political scientists and elected officials trying to decipher the strange non-parliamentary political crisis that has been shaking Italy since July 14. After a succession of twists and turns, … Read more
For several weeks, about 500 soldiers were deployed in the department of Caqueta to try to locate Nestor Vera. The Colombian government announced the death of the main leader of the dissident ex-guerrilla FARC on Friday, July 15. Nestor Vera, aka “Ivan Mordiscowas killed by the military a week ago, along with nine other rebels … Read more
It will be the first state funeral for a former Japanese prime minister since Shigeru Yoshida’s in 1967. A national funeral will be held in Japan this fall in memory of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated last Friday at the age of 67, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Thursday. Shinzo … Read more
About 25 million children will have missed one or more doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis by 2021. This low coverage has led to the emergence of preventable epidemics. The Covid-19 crisis and misinformation are at the root of the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations against other diseases in nearly three … Read more
Alex Murdaugh initially denied involvement and then tried to fake his own murder. An influential US lawyer, at the center of a shady case that has been in the news for more than a year, was charged Thursday with the murder of his son and wife. Alex Murdaugh, 54, is charged with killing his wife … Read more