Shock in Italy: Bulgarian Woman Fatally Stabbed by Partner in Civitavecchia
In the Italian city of Civitavecchia, a 46-year-old Bulgarian woman was brutally murdered by her partner,
Hours after the official death toll of Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy rose to 250, Brussels proposed a Mediterranean-wide search and rescue mission to intercept migrant boats.
Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem presented the plan to EU ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
Before putting forward her plan, Malmstroem told reporters she was going to ask ministers from the 28 member states to allow a major operation by the EU's Frontex border agency "covering the whole Mediterranean, from Cyprus to Spain".
The search and rescue operation would "help better tracking, identification and rescue of boats, especially migrants' boats", her spokesman Michele Cercone said.
"It could help prevent tragedies like the one in Lampedusa," he added.
Meanwhile, the search for bodies from the boat that sank on Thursday off Lampedusa, an Italian island between Sicily and Africa, has resumed.
Divers, who have already recovered dozens of bodies, brought up another 18 on Tuesday, bringing the total number to 250.
Many of the 500 people who were on board are still missing. The victims were mostly from Eritrea and Somalia.
The peace negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian delegations, held on May 16 in Istanbul, Türkiye, have been paused without reaching a ceasefire agreement
US President Donald Trump announced on Friday his intention to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin “as soon as we can set it up”
The European Union’s General Court has delivered a significant blow to the European Commission
The Ukrainian Air Force reported the loss of contact with an F-16 fighter jet during a combat mission in the early hours of May 16
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski made it clear at a press briefing in Skopje alongside European Council President Antonio Costa that constitutional changes to include Bulgarians won’t happen without tangible progress from Bulgaria
The United States has floated the idea of resuming the NATO-Russia Council as part of a broader effort to resolve the conflict in Ukraine
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