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Macron puts France top of 'soft power' rankings

France has leapfrogged the United States and Britain as the world's top so-called soft power, helped by the election of President Emmanuel Macron, a study of countries' non-military global influence showed Tuesday. While France has risen, Donald Trump's ascent to the White House has seen the...

Italy delays citizenship rights bill under migrant pressure

Italy's government has delayed a parliamentary vote on a citizenship rights bill as tensions rise over the number of migrants arriving on the country's shores. The proposal to give children born on Italian soil to foreign parents citizenship rights at birth or after at least five years of...

Merkel seeks solution to new airbase dispute with Turkey

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says a dispute with Turkey over a visit by lawmakers to air crews at a NATO base is "decidedly unfortunate" and Berlin will work with NATO to defuse it. Ankara blocked a visit planned Monday to German troops serving on AWACS surveillance planes in Konya. It...