Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy is heading the budget talks in conjunction with his deputies, Matteo Salvini, and Luigi Di Maio, in an effort to fix Italy’s economic situation, as it has been on a slow decline.
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More than 6,000 migrants are camping outside of a sports complex in Tijuana, Mexico hoping to seek asylum in the United States
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A mysterious group of hackers, calling itself the Shadow Brokers, stole a few disks full of National Security Agency secrets in 2013. They have waited to unleash those disks’ secrets onto the Internet – until now.
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The Trump administration levied new tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods in an escalating trade dispute between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
Read moreRajaa Altalli presented a lecture on Women Mediators and Civil Society Peacebuilders in Syria to the School of Diplomacy & International Relations at Seton Hall University.
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French activists fired a flare at a police helicopter and clashed with riot officers as authorities cleared out a protest camp erected nearly a decade ago to block construction of an airport.
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This year’s flu season is “already the most widespread on record since health officials began keeping track 13 years ago,” and has already caused the deaths of more children than what normally would be expected at this time of the year.
Read moreOn January 22, 2018, Seton Hall University’s Student Government Association (SGA) passed a resolution supporting victims of sexual harassment and assault on campus by “condemn[ing] the heinous actions of sexual predator.”
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After two attempts at passing legislation in 2016 and 2017, both failed after the oppositional Labor and Greens parties blocked it, Australia is finally following suit of many other countries and voting on the Same-Sex marriage rights.
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Iraq’s government has said that all measures to isolate the Kurdish region would be temporary and reversed if the Kurds annulled the results of the vote, which Iraq’s Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional.
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