Italy’s Senate gave the green light to Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s government on Wednesday, officially ending the country’s political crisis following ex-premier Matteo Renzi’s downfall. Of the 268 senators who voted, 169 backed the government while 99 voted against, completing the required parliamentary approval of the new administration. Several opposition ...
France’s lower house of Parliament Wednesday voted to extend the nation’s state of emergency until July 15, 2017. It is the fifth extension of the state of emergency, first put in place in November 2015 after attacks by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group ...
