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Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has warned that a new wave of migrants could be on the horizon as landings in Italy and Greece rise.

ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – A ship carrying 182 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean Sea said Sunday that Italy has granted permission for its passengers to disembark in Sicily.

Former Italian mayor Domenico Lucano could face house arrest as he and several others are on trial for aiding illegal migration.

Populist former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini is now the most trusted political leader in the country, according to a poll.

An Italian police officer was stabbed in the throat by a migrant in Milan as he yelled “Allah hu Akbar!”.

Populist League leader Senator Matteo Salvini promised to trigger referendums to block the new leftist coalition from opening Italy’s borders to mass migration.

Populist League (Lega) leader Matteo Salvini met with former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi this week to forge a new alliance against the new leftist coalition government.

Underage migrants from Muslim-majority Albania and Kosovo often end up in leftist government areas due to higher benefits, according to a report.

ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – An NGO migrant transport with 82 migrants aboard says it has been given permission to dock at a tiny Italian island.

Former 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spent nearly an hour sifting through emails as part of an art exhibit in Venice, Italy.

A poll has revealed that most Italians do not approve of the new Five Star Movement-Democratic Party coalition, with many preferring the former populist government.

A significant majority of Italians would have preferred snap elections rather than the unelected coalition government that excluded their most popular party, a national poll revealed Thursday.

An Italian think-tank has predicted that due to mass migration and birthrates, half of all Italians could be Muslims by the end of the century.

Populist former interior minister Matteo Salvini launched an attack on Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stating that he may have left his post as a minister but he kept his dignity.

The economic picture for the United Kingdom continues to look positive while indications for the European Union progressively worsen, with the latest figures showing another rise in the number of people in employment, and wage rises in Britain.

Aircraft from the Israeli Air Force (IAF) have joined allies from Germany, Italy and the UK in British skies to participate in Exercise Cobra Warrior.

Members of the populist League party interrupted Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s inaugural speech demanding a fresh election.

ROME (AP) — Italian police have detained 10 people in the central Abruzzo region for alleged tax crimes and money laundering aimed at financing Islamic extremist groups.

Several European Union establishment figures have praised the new, broadly unpopular Italian government saying it will be more “pro Europe.” Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker approved of the new coalition between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the leftist

Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Lives has complained of “revenge” after their ship, the Mare Jonio, was seized in Italian waters this week.

According to a new poll, only 32 per cent of Italians are positive about the new coalition deal between the populist Five Star Movement and the establishment left-wing Democratic Party (PD).

Several sources within the police and a major Italian police union have expressed concern that the proposed Five Star Movement (M5S) coalition with the left-wing Democratic Party could harm officers.

At least nine senators from the Five Star Movement (M5S) are ready to reject a coalition with the left-wing establishment Democratic Party (PD), according to a member of populist Matteo Salvini’s League party.

Ten migrant transport NGO vessels are now operating in the Mediterranean as the left-wing establishment Democratic Party looks to reopen Italy’s ports.

The proposed coalition between the Five Star Movement and the establishment left-wing Democratic Party (PD) faces resistance from many, including potential rebels within the Five Star Movement.

Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has sent a warm letter to Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini, who is leaving government as the formerly anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) forms a new coalition with the left-establishment Democratic Party (PD) to avoid fresh elections.

Populist Italian politician, and now former Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini has blasted the new Five Star Movement-Democratic Party (PD) coalition as being the least democratic government of all time.

Italy’s caretaker Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has accepted a mandate to form a new coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the left-wing Democratic Party after former deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini pulled out of the governing partnership with the M5S.

A member of the left-wing Democratic Party (PD), which is looking to form a new government coalition, has called for a “noose” to be prepared for populist leader Matteo Salvini.

Maltese local councilor Justin Schembri has praised Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini for standing up to the European Union (EU) on the migration issue, not “letting his country be accomplices” in the “wave of organized crime” occurring on the Mediterranean Sea.

The superior general of the Jesuits said this week that no country has the right to turn away migrants, claiming the land belongs to everyone.

Italy’s left-liberal Democratic Party has demanded the scrapping of populist leader Matteo Salvini’s anti-illegal immigration decrees as part of a potential coalition deal to keep the Five Star Movement in government without elections.

Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo says a navy ship will stay close to an Italian island in case a group of migrants disembarked there need to be transported to Spain in coming days.

Pope Francis has further dug in his heels as the anti-populist pope, writing in the forward to a new book that organized citizens in action are the “antidote to populism.”

Migrant rescue NGO Proactiva Open Arms has rejected an offer from the Spanish government to dock in Spain and land migrants onboard, claiming the voyage would take too long. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez invited the NGO to land the migrants

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned, forcing the collapse of the populist coalition between the Five Star Movement and Matteo Salvini’s Populist-right Lega (League).