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Petrol bombs thrown at Albania PM's office
Albania's center-right opposition has chose to continue protests calling for the resignation of the government and for an early parliamentary election. The EU and the United States have expressed support for the government and have urged the opposition to return to parliament and take part in local elections on June 30. [Full Article...]
The Moon is shrinking
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. This creates stair-step cliffs called thrust faults as part of the crust is pushed up and over another close part of the crust. [Full Article...]
Brexit: EU vote demand is 'torpedoing' Labour-Tory talks
The Prime Minister is set to meet with the executive branch of the Conservatives' backbench 1922 committee on Thursday to set out a detailed timetable for her departure, including what she will do if she can not get her three-times defeated deal through parliament before the end of October - when the current negotiating extension agreed by the European Union expires. [Full Article...]
N Korea says ship seizure by U.S. illegal, demands immediate return
President Donald Trump held an unprecedented summit on June 12 past year in Singapore and pledged to establish new relations and a peace regime on the Korean peninsula. The announcement of the USA seizure of the vessel came as tensions rose over Pyongyang's test launches of short-range missiles last week. North Korea is banned from exporting coal under United Nations sanctioned that were tou... [Full Article...]
Sen. Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to ignore Senate subpoena
Graham suggested that the subpoena is related to testimony that Michael Cohen gave surrounding the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 and the pursuit of a Trump Tower in Moscow. Graham referred to Cohen as a "worthless" witness, but said he understood Sen. Trump Jr.is reportedly resisting the subpoena and may invoke his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions. [Full Article...]
WATCH AGAIN: Trump praises 'respected' Viktor Orban at White House
Unlike many other news organizations, we have not put up a paywall. Nine Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, five of them Jewish, asked Trump to cancel the meeting with Orban because of his alleged anti-Semitism and expressions of bias against Muslims and other minorities, among other reasons. [Full Article...]
Pope's power struggle with Salvini over squatters
Sister Adriana Domenici, who works with the homeless, told Italian broadcaster RaiNews24 that after the building's electricity was cut off on 6 May, she called Krajewski for help. "I didn't do it because I'm drunk", Krajewski added. Pope Francis has transformed the centuries-old job of Vatican Almoner into a hands-on, door-to-door charitable mission. [Full Article...]
Senior Palestinian official says her U.S. visa was rejected
The US Embassy told T he Jerusalem Post that "visa records are confidential under US law; therefore, we can not discuss the details of individual visa cases". Ashrawi- my door is always open to the PA & Palestinians to speak". Ashrawi said she is indeed "guilty of all the above" and as such does "not deserve to set foot in the United States". [Full Article...]