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Spain Offers Safe Port After 'Completely Inhuman' Italy and Malta Refuse Ship of 600+ Refugees Rescued at Sea

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Thousands of Italian Women March Across Country. Demand: 'My Body, My Choice'

Common Dreams staff

Thousands of women protest in a demonstration 'Obiezione Respinta' organized by 'Non una di meno' movement to remember the 194 law after 40 years, on Saturday, May 26, 2018 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

'40 years on from the passing of Law 194, there is still a long road ahead of us'

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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Advocates for animal welfare praised the Italian parliament while calling on...

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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...

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Beyond Trump, Campaigners Demand G7 Leaders Commit to Climate Action

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

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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Amnesty International - USA

Italy/Malta: Stranded Refugees and Migrants Must Be Immediately Allowed to Dock

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

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Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra

We’ve Launched a Migrant Rescue Ship to Resist the Racist Right in Italy

Conn Hallinan

These Are the Elections That Will Decide Europe’s Fate

Gwynne Dyer

Italy: "I Say No"

Yanis Varoufakis

A Message to a Pro-Austerity Bully from a Pro-Democracy "Apostate"

Kathy Kelly

'Uncomplicated' in Afghanistan: On Health and Healing in a War-Torn Nation

Mark Weisbrot

The US and the Euro-Crisis: Lessons From a Comparison

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