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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is visiting the Canary Islands on Thursday to draw attention to the plight of migrants who risk their lives every year trying to reach Europe, fulfilling a wish of Pope Francis to visit one of the epicenters of the European migration debate. Leo is spending the final two days of his weeklong trip to Spain in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago closer […]

LONDON (AP) — A savage knife attack on a Northern Ireland street led to two nights of fiery riots stoked by anti-migrant rhetoric. The suspect, a 30-year-old Sudanese man who had claimed asylum in the U.K., appeared Wednesday in Belfast Magistrates’ Court on charges of attempted murder, threatening to kill a second person and carrying a knife. The court appearance came between two nights of fiery violence that first erupted […]

GENEVA (AP) — French and Swiss authorities will impose a week of pandemic-like border restrictions as U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders attend a G7 summit starting Monday while organizers fear potentially violent protests. The summit of some of the world’s richest nations from June 15-17 in the French town of Evian-les-Bains on Lake Geneva is meant to discuss the Middle East, Ukraine and global economic imbalances. In nearby […]

MILAN (AP) — Foreign workers building a sprawling $350 million American Consulate in Milan were paid less than $2 an hour after being promised fair wages, according to Associated Press interviews with five former employees and a review of their employment letters and pay stubs. Italian prosecutors are investigating Montgomery, Alabama-based Caddell Construction, a major builder of U.S. diplomatic missions. Two of its managers in Italy were arrested this month […]

GUWAHATI, India, June 10 (Reuters) – Six men from the Naga community in India’s northeastern Manipur state have died after they were believed to have been taken hostage by an armed group nearly a month ago, state police said on Wednesday, amid escalating tensions between two predominantly Christian tribes in the state.   • The men, who were from the Christian Naga community, are believed to be among those taken hostage […]

PARIS, June 11 (Reuters) – French singer and actor Patrick Bruel, one of France’s top-selling recording artists, has been placed under formal investigation for rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, and harassment from 2008 to 2019, the local prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.  Being placed under formal investigation means there are reasonable grounds to believe a crime has been committed and is a step toward going to trial. • Bruel, who […]

By Joshua McElwee ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT, June 11 (Reuters) – Pope Leo set off on Thursday for the final leg of his visit to Spain, flying from Barcelona to the Canary Islands, where he will meet migrants who have braved dangerous Atlantic waters as he urges the world to treat immigrants more humanely. The stop in the Spanish archipelago off the western coast of Africa is a centrepiece of […]

LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) – Two days of anti-immigration violence in Northern Ireland is nothing but racist thuggery, Britain’s minister for the province said on Thursday, after police deployed water cannon to tackle rioters for a second night. Hilary Benn said there was less disorder on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday night as opposed to Tuesday, when rioters torched homes and news1vehicles, targeting ethnic minorities following a knife attack […]

NEW YORK (AP) — For the New York Knicks, a 53-year wait for another championship might have been decided by what happened in 4 1/2 seconds. And make no mistake: Those 4 1/2 seconds will never be forgotten by the Knicks. Or by the San Antonio Spurs. The situation: Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Knicks down by one in a game where they trailed by as many as 29 […]