As the Italian city of Venice was deluged this week with the highest tidewaters in more than 50 years, images of the historic floods stunned the world and captured the scale of the floods: A centuries-old city facing potentially irreversible damage. Residents and tourists wading through knee-high water in popular spots. And the mayor blaming climate change, in an indication that worse things may lie… Read more »
LONDON — For months, Prime Minister Boris Johnson planned on calling a general election in Britain, figuring he could break the logjam in Parliament by taking his case for Brexit directly to the people. Instead, as he has floundered in the early stages of the campaign, Mr. Johnson has discovered that the people are taking their case to him. “Where have you been?” asked a… Read more »
Caleb Smith block 5 French police have used batons and pepper spray to clear Catalan independence activists who have been blocking the motorway between France and Spain in the hope of bringing the Spanish government to the negotiating table. Gendarmes moved in on hundreds of protesters gathered around La Jonquera crossing early on Tuesday as officers from the Catalan regional force, the Mossos… Read more »
Caleb Smith block 7 Washington (CNN)US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s cell phone call to President Donald Trump from a restaurant in Ukraine this summer appears to be a shocking security breach that raises significant counterintelligence concerns, according to several former officials, who told CNN there is a high probability that intelligence agencies from numerous foreign countries, including Russia, were… Read more »