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'Amazing News': Rights Groups Celebrate After Italy Bans Use of Circus Animals

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Other G7 Leaders Plow Ahead After Trump Throws 'Tantrum' Over Climate Accord

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, centre, gestures to U.S. President Donald Trump, right, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on as they attend a session at the G7 summit in Taormina, Sicily on Saturday. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/AFP/Getty Images)

In addition to stymying action on fossil fuels, Trump also 'forced the Italian prime minister Paulo Gentiloni to shred plans for an ambitious statement stressing the plight of migrants'

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Beyond Trump, Campaigners Demand G7 Leaders Commit to Climate Action

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Greenpeace activists in Taormina, Sicily on Friday unveiled a four-meter-high Statue of Liberty covered with a life jacket to symbolize the threat that climate change and rising seas pose. (Photo: Tommaso Galli/Greenpeace)

"Our answer to Trump's 'America first' has to be 'Planet Earth First'"

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Anti-Euro Populists Embolded by Italy Vote—But Should They Be?

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

"Italy's no vote does not fit quite so neatly into the narrative of a populist...

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5,600 Refugees Rescued in 48 Hours an Indictment of Crises Created by West

Italian Court Rules Stealing Food is Not a Crime If You are Poor and Hungry

New WikiLeaks Release Exposes 'Most Highly Classified' NSA Spy Ops

Refugees Face Fences and Force in 'Prison-Like' European Hotspots

Beppe: Nationalize Banks to Throw Off 'Anti-Democratic Straitjacket' of Eurozone

Dominoes of Democracy? Europe's Left Finds Hope in Anti-Austerity Vote

Rescue of Thousands at Sea Highlights Dangers of 'Migration Season'

Exemplifying Brutal New Trend, Hundreds of Refugees Cast Adrift Off Italian Coast

'Così Non Va!': General Strike Against Austerity Sweeps Italy

Big Winner in Italian Election?<br>The Five Star Movement

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Friends of the Earth

Italian Oil Giant ENI Appears in Court Over Oil Pollution in Nigeria

Animal Defenders International (ADI)

Italy Bans All Animal Circus Acts

Amnesty International

Italy Ready to Consign Refugees and Migrants to Horrific Abuse in Libyan Detention Centres

Reprieve

Italy Trains Egyptian Judges Despite Death Sentences and Torture

Oxfam International

Lampedusa One Year On: EU Still Failing to Deal with Migration Crisis as Death Toll Rises

Oceana

New Italian Vessel List is Not Enough to Recover Heavily Overfished Mediterranean Swordfish

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