He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald ...

Indeed, in theory, Meloni has much to benefit by being in Trump's good books. NATO member Italy has a big trade surplus with ...

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the US president’s favourite EU interlocutor, with hopes growing she could talk him out ...

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

ROME — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed ...

But with Trump preparing to rip up federal regulation and rethink the parameters of government action, the EU’s moves look altogether more tentative. “The engagement is not to deregulate, but to ...

Rooted in history that stretches back to Ancient Greece, Rome, and the English monarchy, the presidential pardon was ...

Pope Francis sent “cordial greetings” and “assurance of my prayers” to Donald J. Trump on Jan. 20, the day of his ...

President-elect boasts international group of Right-wing proxies with equally provocative styles and a hostility toward ...

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