Huge crowds spontaneously greeted Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini during an appearance at a traditional religious observance in the central city of Viterbo yesterday, confirming opinion polls which said his party was now the single biggest in Italy, surpassing even his senior coalition partner the Five Star Movement. In a video Salvini posted to social media, which showed the crowd’s pop... 

The United Nations has urged European countries to “do the right thing” and take in more endless numbers of migrants who are now refused by Italy. “The time has come to end the back-and-forth that has seen countries competing in a race to the bottom on who can take the least responsibility for people rescued at sea,” the UN’s high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi said in... 

Why is the number of earthquakes happening around the world increasing so dramatically? In recent days, we have seen very large earthquakes in Venezuela, Fiji, Italy and elsewhere. Here in North America, significant quakes have rattled Oregon, Alaska and the west coast of Mexico. As I reported on all of these important seismic events, it sure seemed like the number of earthquakes was rising, but I... 

Connoisseurs say that the taste of cheese improves with age – but what if it was left to age for 3,200 years? Archaeologists in Egypt now have the chance to find out, but it comes with an unexpected bonus: deadly ancient bacteria. A team from the University of Catania in Italy found the cheese at the tomb of Ptahmes, a 13th-century BC mayor of Memphis in Egypt. The cheese was found wrapped with... 

A European aid group says migrants are telling rescuers that several ships passed them by in the Mediterranean Sea without helping. SOS Mediterranee says Sunday that due to the recent refusal of Italy and Malta to let rescue vessels carrying migrants dock, ships might be unwilling to do rescues “due to the high risk of being stranded and denied a place of safety.” On Friday the group’s... 

Italy’s Lega leader Matteo Salvini is now that country’s most popular politician as news emerged that his anti-invasion policies have brought the African invasion down by more than 95 percent—and seems set to halt completely within a short while. News of Salvini’s boost in popularity—to over 30 percent of the electorate—and the success of his anti-invasion policies have been deliberately... 

As seen on CCTV footage, he can be seen trying to assault her from behind but she successfully defends herself with pepper spray, causing him to flee. Newly released footage shows how a Nigerian man assaulted and attempted to rape a, 25-year-old woman on 20 July this year. Fortunately she was able to defend herself with pepper spray, Italian newspaper Milano Corriere reports. When the young woman... 

WOW! Just wow! This guy must be a Roman caesar reincarnate. He’s so awesome! The Italians are so lucky to have this guy as a leader. Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said that Crimea “legitimately” belongs to Russia as he argued with a US journalist who called the 2014 referendum held on the peninsula “fake.” When Washington Post journalist Lally Weymouth... 

Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has rejected Italy’s request for European Union states to “share” out some 450 African invaders recently plucked from the sea and said that taking in any more nonwhite invaders “was a road to hell.” According to a report on Czech Radio, Babiš said Italy’s decision to admit more invaders “went against the agreement reached at the last EU summit... 

“The next goal of stopping once and for all the mafia of human trafficking, will be to bring the migrants back to their places of origin,” Salvini said. Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Minister of the Interior, has warned the EU that his country will no longer be the world’s refugee camp. “Italy is no longer the refugee camp of the world. There is now a government that protects the interests of... 

67 Africans trying to invade Europe via the Mediterranean Sea have been landed and arrested in Italy after launching a mutiny and threatening their white rescuers with violence—because they thought they were being taken back to Africa, Italian media have reported. The Africans were picked up off the Libyan coast by the private supply vessel Vos Thalassa over the past weekend after their invasion... 

Recall now that boat–the Aquarius–full of vibrant and exciting Africans who were denied docking in Italy, but was redirected to Spain? On June 24th several Facebook users criticized the fact that many migrants from the Aquarius boat had thrown away clothes and towels donated to them by the Red Cross. The clothes were found in a dumpster in Cheste’s Educational Complex, where many of... 

The European Union has been dealt a crushing blow as Matteo Salvini warned Italy is ready to “ignore” the bloc’s regulations and “tear down the Brussels wall”, as support to his party soared in the polls. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Mr Salvini attacked the EU yesterday during the annual gathering of his party. Speaking about the one-month old government’s priorities for the country,... 

Italy has said it will give ships and equipment to the Libyan Coast Guard to help it intercept and bring migrants back home. Italy’s government has announced Monday it will provide 10 motor launches and two ships, as well as an unspecified amount of equipment and other material, to the Libyan Coast Guard service, in order to increase its capacity to intercept and bring back illegal migrants... 

Despite dire predictions of a European Union meltdown, the leaders’ summit this week appeared to succeed in delivering a compromise agreement on dealing with the troublesome migration issue. Beneath the “everyone’s a winner” smiles, however, the upshot was undoubtedly a victory for Italy and other governments that have been pushing the EU to take a harder line on the question of refugees. French...