Italian judges on Friday again denied the government’s request to hold asylum seekers in Albania while their cases are being processed, dealing another major setback to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s anti-immigration policy. It was the third ruling against the policy since Ms. Meloni’s right-wing government began carrying out the plan in October, which has become … Read more
The man who has been heavily favored to become Germany’s next chancellor took an extraordinary gamble this week, both for his political future and his country’s longstanding firewall against political extremism. It did not go as he hoped. In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader … Read more
When President Gustavo Petro of Colombia announced on social media on Sunday that he had turned back U.S. military planes carrying deportees, President Trump came down hard. He threatened tariffs and penalties so extreme Mr. Petro was forced to back down. “They pushed until he had to bend,” Jorge Enrique Robledo, a former longtime Colombian … Read more
The Gaîté Lyrique theater has been a jewel in Paris’s glittering cultural scene since the 19th century. It once hosted the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and performances by the Ballets Russes. This season, though, its most talked-about drama has been generated by more than 300 homeless immigrants who are camping in the venue, sleeping on … Read more
Three weeks after a very public rift, the populist British politician Nigel Farage said on Wednesday that his relationship with Elon Musk was “fine” and that the two men had spoken just last week. Mr. Farage, in a brief interview with The New York Times, said that Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man, remained open … Read more
For two summers during high school, instead of joining her classmates at the beach, Noura Ghazoui had an internship at the town hall of her hometown, Borghetto Santo Spirito, on the Ligurian coast. But when she tried to apply for a job there at age 19, she found herself ineligiblebecause, like hundreds of thousands of … Read more
Temperatures were rising inside the plane. Eighty-eight Brazilian deportees, most of them handcuffed and shackled, were getting restless on Friday under the watch of U.S. immigration agents. The passenger jet, dealing with repeated technical problems, was stuck on the tarmac in a sweltering city in the Amazon rainforest. Then the air conditioning broke — again. … Read more
Britain’s populist party, Reform U.K., was expected to bring in more than $1.25 million dollars at a glitzy fund-raiser on Tuesday, a party official said, an extraordinary amount for a party that six months ago was on the fringe of national politics. The big-ticket, American-style event was the first major fund-raiser since Nigel Farage took … Read more
They are ripe for disruption. Well before Mr. Musk first backed the AfD, it had become the second most-popular party in Germany. The Social Democrats, the country’s oldest party which once routinely won more than 40 percent of the vote, are polling at a historic low of 16 percent ahead of next month’s election. The … Read more
Among the requirements for those seeking permanent residency or citizenship in Britain is a 24-question test designed to assess applicants’ knowledge of their adopted home, covering topics including rugby, the country’s first curry house and the War of the Roses. The test is supposed to prove that applicants have “sufficient knowledge of British values, history … Read more