Italy's president is expected to ask a former International Monetary Fund official on Monday to head a stopgap government amidst political and constitutional turmoil, with early elections looking inevitable.
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 | | | | Italy's president is expected to ask a former International Monetary Fund official on Monday to head a stopgap government amidst political and constitutional turmoil, with early elections looking inevitable. | | | | | |
| | | The country could be headed for another election in coming months. Italy's tentative ruling coalition unraveled after President Sergio Mattarella rejected the appointment of euroskeptic Paolo Savona as economics minister. Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte quit following the decision. | | | | | | |
| | | Images have been circulating on Twitter of a Russian Spetsnaz soldier apparently testing out a PKM heavy machine gun with an unusual ammunition-feeding backpack. | | | | | | |
| | | Broadly speaking, the cities that rank highly are in the northern hemisphere in developed Western economies, but southern-hemisphere powerhouses like Australia and New Zealand also feature. | | | | | | |
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| | | If you can't get your money you can't buy food, you can't buy petrol etc. There was a grave risk of going from an economic crisis to a political crisis, where you have a breakdown of law and order. We were that close to the brink." | | | | | | |
| | | A surgeon describes how he felt about going into surgery with a patient had just committed a brutal murder. Surgeons are human beings and experience emotion, but they are trained to control their emotions while carrying out a surgery. | | | | | | |
| | | Unadjusted housing prices increased 6.4% in March compared to a year ago, rising above prices during the housing boom peak. However as prices have risen, so has consumer purchasing power. Real housing prices show housing prices aren't even close to their peak. | | | | | | |
| | | Sir Peter Westmacott, who served in Washington between 2012 and 2016, warned that Britain would be forced to open up its markets to cheap American meat as the "price" of any new arrangement. 'Many of our farmers and poultry producers will be under severe threat,' he said. | | | | | | |
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| | | China is eyeing off Taiwan's last diplomatic ally in Africa, Swaziland, after Burkino Faso cut ties with Taipei. China's foreign minister said it is Beijing's "sincere hope" that eSwatini soon joins the "China-Africa family." China doesn't have relations with countries that recognize Taiwan. | | | | | | |
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