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Paris Recalls Ambassador From Rome

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02/07/2019

02/07/2019

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Paris Recalls Ambassador From Rome

Top News: France recalled its ambassador to Italy, in an escalation of a diplomatic spat over Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio’s meeting with yellow-vest protestors.

The French Foreign Ministry put out a statement accusing Italy of “meddling” in French affairs. “The latest interference constitutes a supplemental and unacceptable provocation,” the statement said. “The European election campaign can’t justify a lack of respect for each people and its democracy.”

European Parliament elections are set for May.

South Africa: An explosion in an abandoned coal mine in Middelburg left six people dead and some 20 people trapped. According to the country’s national broadcaster, people were scavenging for copper when a gas pipe exploded.

AFRICA

•  The United States suspended some of its military assistance to Cameroon over human rights concerns.

•  Tunisia reached a deal with a public sector union to raise wages for 670,000 public employees.

•  Former Ethiopian official Abdi Mohammed Omer pleaded not guilty to charges of inciting ethnic violence in Somali province, in the country’s east.

AMERICAS

•  Colombian President Iván Duque rolled out a new security policy that would prohibit peace talks with National Liberation Army (ELN) armed rebels.

•  The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the United States has asked Brazil to lift ethanol tariffs.

•  Mexico is preparing to send a wave of police and soldiers to gun violence hot spots around the country.

ASIA

•  LGBT activists in Japan are set to file on Valentine’s Day lawsuits aiming to legalize same-sex marriage.

•  Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena intends to lift the country’s moratorium on the death penalty.

•  Pakistan’s Supreme Court criticized the country’s military and intelligence agencies for their involvement in politics.

EUROPE

•  British Prime Minister Theresa May held talks in Brussels in an attempt to salvage Brexit.

•  Germany blocked Facebook from combining user data from Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook without user consent.

•  French film icon Brigitte Bardot said she would run in the European Parliament elections as a member of the Animalist Party.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Islamic State militants and their families have begun fleeing the final strip of land in Syria they control.

•  Academics at the American University in Cairo declared no confidence in Francis J. Ricciardone, the university’s president, after his decision last month to give U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a platform.

•  Doctors in Yemen are calling for the evacuation from the country of newborn conjoined twins, who will die otherwise.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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