More than 21,000 people reached Italy between August 2019 and the end of July, up 148% year-on-year, the minister said, speaking at an annual Aug. 15 press conference. Lamorgese said the majority of the arrivals were “autonomous landings, hard to manage... with small boats and...

US President Donald Trump, who has used belittling nicknames to describe his opponents throughout his political career, toyed with a name change Friday for his Democratic rival in the Nov. 3 election, Joe Biden. Unable to hold his signature large campaign rallies because of the...

Trailblazing Afghan women's rights campaigner Fawzia Koofi, a member of the Afghan negotiating team that will hold talks with the Taliban, has been wounded in a gun attack near Kabul, officials said Saturday.a Gunmen opened fire on Koofi, 45, and her sister Friday when they were...

The US Postal Service is warning states that it may not be able to meet deadlines for delivering mail-in ballots before Election Day, according to a report Friday.    The ballots would complicate an already tricky electoral process in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic....