Break-up of United Kingdom impending?
The Brexit may signal the beginning of the dissolution of the UK, renewing calls for Scottish independence, a united Ireland, and even for London to secede as a free city-state.
The Brexit may signal the beginning of the dissolution of the UK, renewing calls for Scottish independence, a united Ireland, and even for London to secede as a free city-state.
Pakistan and Afghanistan saw deadly border clashes and a tense stand-off over Islamabad's plan to build a barbed-wire separation barrier at its Torkham crossing.
A court on the Greek island of Lesbos ruled that Turkey is an "unsafe third country" for asylum seekers, throwing into doubt the EU-Turkey migrant deal.
Far-right anti-immigration protesters in Berlin were confronted by anti-fascist counter-protesters, as Italian anarchists clashed with police at the Austrian border.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that he does not plan to change the country's anti-terrorism law, a requirement of the deal struck between Turkey and the EU.
A newly formed Alliance of Syrian and Iranian Socialists issues a call for civil struggle against the ayatollahs, regional strongmen like Assad and Erdogan, and the jihadists alike.
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruled that Australia's detention of refugees on Manus Island is illegal—but Canberra stood by its policy of intercepting migrants at sea.
Thousands of migrants are being held in detention camps in Greece and many are returned to Turkey without proper asylum hearings, rights groups and aid agencies protest.
Turkey has been forcibly returning up to 100 refugees to Syria per day since mid-January, Amnesty International charges—casting doubt on Ankara’s migrant deal with the EU.
Mexican immigration authorities are improperly returning children who might qualify for formal protection from violence in Central America, Human Rights Watch charges.
Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to exploit the Brussels attacks, with Ted Cruz calling for police surveillance of Muslims and Trump actually broaching nuclear strikes.
Erdogan cynically blames the mounting terror attacks in Turkey on Kurdish miitants—as Europe grooms his consolidating dictatorship as a buffer state to keep refugees at bay.