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LONDON — Two very completely different British politicians who usually clashed, Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon each led their events to nice heights - and each have had sudden and dramatic falls. ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Monday marked the Day of Russia nationwide vacation by lauding the nation’s patriotic custom as a help for troopers preventing in Ukraine. ...

At least 10 U.S. navy personnel have been medically evacuated whereas 12 others proceed to obtain remedy within the U.S. Central Command area after they have been injured in a “helicopter mishap” in northeast Syria, officers stated late Monday. ...

ROME — Silvio Berlusconi, the colourful Italian tycoon and four-time premier whose unlikely profession supplied a template for Donald Trump and different populist political outsiders all over the world, died Monday on the age of 86, a watershed second in Italian political historical past that elicited reactions from world leaders as different as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis. ...

Mired in a intercourse scandal, Silvio Berlusconi held a cocktail party at a complicated Rome resort in 2010 to appeal reporters - however struggled to play it straight: "You're all invited to the bunga bunga!" he informed us defiantly. Then the impish smile. "But you'd be disappointed." When it got here to leisure, Berlusconi - the media mogul-turned-prime minister, his hair slicked again and face orange from a faux tan - hardly ever disillusioned. When it got here to governing, he disillusioned many elements of his nation.Yet upon leaving workplace a yr after that dinner, by no means to return to energy, the Milanese magnate left behind a permanent political legacy - and management vacuum - that impacts Italy greater than a decade later.Over the course of his life and polit...

JEJU, South Korea – His grandfather fled, his father was executed, his mom was tortured, his village was burned — and for many years, his reminiscences have been suppressed. ...

Italy's controversial former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died.The 86-year-old senator and chief of the Forza Italia get together, whose string of monetary and intercourse scandals made him essentially the most polarising determine in trendy Italy, was admitted to hospital on Friday. He had been discharged from hospital final month the place he was handled for over six weeks for a lung an infection linked to continual leukaemia.Mr Berlusconi's dying brings an finish to some of the vibrant and controversial political careers of latest occasions, with the scandal-hit prime minister well-known for his infamous "bunga bunga" events.The intercourse events, which concerned prostitutes, brought on a serious scandal in Italy. 'Many cherished him, many hated him' - response a...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops have retaken a complete of seven villages spanning 35 sq. miles from Russian forces prior to now week, Kyiv’s deputy protection minister mentioned Monday because the early levels of Kyiv’s counteroffensive notched small successes and the majority of Ukraine’s offensive power nonetheless waited to deploy for battle. ...

Donald Trump has arrived in Miami for an historic federal court docket look on costs he stole categorized info and lied to dam efforts to get it again.He touched down in his non-public airplane on Monday afternoon, sooner or later earlier than his preliminary look in entrance of a choose. Supporters gathered exterior considered one of his golf golf equipment the place he is because of spend the night time.Mr Trump faces 37 felony counts over paperwork discovered at his Florida house, in addition to claims he obstructed justice and made false statements.Pictures launched after the Department of Justice unsealed its indictment confirmed containers of paperwork stacked inside his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, together with in a rest room. Details on nuclear weapons programmes,...

PARIS — The leaders of France, Germany and Poland met in Paris Monday for talks specializing in navy assist for Ukraine’s counteroffensive and future safety ensures to be given to the nation, forward of a NATO summit in July. ...