EUROPE - The newly-appointed Italian leader revealed his country had presented 15 leaders attending the European Union migration summit in Brussels with the new proposals. Giuseppe Conte told the press: "We are here to present the Italian proposal for a new migration policy. A completely new Italian proposal based on the new resolution paradigm to solve the migration issue. It’s called the European Multi-Level Strategy for Migration, articulated on six premises and ten objectives. It’s aimed at proposing a timely regulation and management policy to control migration flows that is truly effective and sustainable." The new proposal demands EU member states accept their share of economic migrants entering the bloc through Italian shares or face a reduction of EU money.

MEXICO - What would the United States look like right now if 113 political figures had been gunned down since last September?  Well, that is precisely what has happened in Mexico.  Once upon a time, Mexico had a thriving economy and a very stable government, but now the nation is devolving into a Mad Max society in which the drug cartels gun down any politicians that they do not like.  The murder rate has surged to the highest level ever recorded, and no end to the violence is in sight.  In fact, the drug cartels seem to just get more brutal with each passing day. 

MEXICO - Andrés Manuel López Obrador (otherwise known as “AMLO”) is about to become the next president of Mexico.  He has a seemingly insurmountable lead in the polls, and at this point it would be a complete and utter shock if anyone else were to win on July 1st.  So what he has to say is likely to become the official policy of the Mexican government in the very near future, and that is quite frightening because he is a crazed radical leftist and an extremely bold proponent of illegal immigration to the United States. 

IRAN - A senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader has condemned the United States’ uninvited military presence in Syria, warning that the conflict in the country could become a second Vietnam War for Washington. Ali Akbar Velayati, a top aide on international affairs for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blamed the United States for the creation of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and said that the US military’s continued presence in Syria would result in catastrophe. Although the conflict’s complexity makes it a logistical nightmare for the occupying forces, experts questioned whether the United States would ever commit enough ground forces to make its Syria operations as catastrophic as the war in Vietnam.

GERMANY - Horst Seehofer, German Interior Minister and the head of Bavaria’s Christian Socialist Party (CSU) and Chancellor Angela Merkel have been engaged in a heated debate over the country’s immigration policy. Speaking with the newspaper Passauer Neuer Presse on Friday, Seehofer warned Angela Merkel against dismissing him as interior minister over a unilateral approach to immigration in Germany. The CSU leader elaborated that if it happened it would mark the first time that “looking after and taking care of the security and order of the country is the reason given for firing a minister.”

USA - Facebook says it is in the midst of a fight against “fake news” on its platform, but has allowed activists to raise nearly $20 million for migrants using a photo that is incorrectly said to show a daughter being separated from her mother.

VATICAN - Pope Francis urged countries yesterday to take in as many refugees as they can and to invest in migrants' home countries, especially in Africa, to stop them turning to human traffickers in desperation. Italy's new populist government is trying to reduce arrivals of rescued migrants, but the Pope praised both Italy and Greece for being 'most generous' in taking in migrants rescued at sea. 'Each country must do this with the virtue of government, which is prudence, and take in as many refugees as it can, as many as it can integrate, educate, give jobs to,' he said.  The Pope also renewed his criticism of the Trump administration's immigration policy, supporting Roman Catholic bishops in the US who have condemned separating children from parents who enter the country illegally.

NIGERIA - At least 86 people have died in central Nigeria after violent clashes broke out between farmers and cattle herders, police in Plateau state said. Some reports say fighting began on Thursday when ethnic Berom farmers attacked Fulani herders, killing five of them. A retaliatory attack on Saturday led to more deaths. The area has a decades-long history of violence between ethnic groups competing for land. Earlier, dozens of people were killed in a similar round of violence between Fulani herders and local hunters in Mali.

NIGERIA - It's an age-old conflict that has recently taken on a new level of brutality. In Nigeria's central region settled farming communities and nomadic cattle herders often clash - usually over access to land and grazing rights. But these tit-for-tat clashes have erupted into inter-communal warfare, killing thousands in the last year. This region, where the Muslim north meets the Christian south is prone to religious tension - herders are ethnic Fulani and mostly Muslim, while the farmers are mostly Christian. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari - himself a Fulani - is under increasing pressure to address the tensions ahead of elections in 2019.

UK - British designer’s new creations not only blurred lines between genders, but also blew them away. John Galliano set out Friday to redefine 21st-century masculinity with corsets, sensual satins and vinyl trousers to “liberate” men from their sartorial shackles. The British designer’s new collection for Maison Margiela at Paris men’s fashion week not only blurred the lines between genders, but blew them away with shiny pink ribbon belts and a haute couture decadence that rarely treads the male catwalk.

EUROPE - Angela Merkel has suffered a humiliating setback in her search for a swift EU migration deal with Italy blocking a key proposal ahead of a mini-summit to discuss the crisis. Officials in Rome have rejected Ms Merkel’s proposals for stricter measures to curb the “secondary movements” of migrants which would in effect require Italy to take back asylum seekers who had landed in its ports but moved on to northern EU countries such as Germany.

UK - MEP David Coburn warned it is a “bad idea” for the European Union to treat Britain unfairly in negotiations as he hit out at Michel Barnier and Guy Verhofstadt for treating Brits like “enemies”. The furious MEP warned the European Union could be at risk of losing trade if they do not work with Britain to get a good trade deal after Brexit. He told the European Parliament on Wednesday: “What you need to do is negotiate with us fairly – not the way that Mr Verhofstadt and his chum Monsieur Barnier are behaving in a way that turns British people off and turns us into your enemies. It’s a very bad idea. You sell more things to us than we buy from you. So, it is in your interests to make sure you keep a good trade deal with us, not the other way around."

USA - A California congressman has put forth a resolution proposing that the US recognize the island of Taiwan as a “sovereign and independent country.” The move is sure to anger China, which considers Taiwan to be a rogue province. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (Republican for California) submitted a ‘sense of Congress’ resolution to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, urging the US to declare the ‘One China’ policy “effectively obsolete” and recognize the “obvious reality” that Taiwan has been an independent country for over 50 years.

USA - Most Americans Still Don’t Know that Federal Reserve Banks Are Private Corporations. The country’s most powerful “agency” – the Federal Reserve – is actually no more federal than Federal Express. The senior counsel for the Federal Reserve confirmed in a court hearing in the Bloomberg lawsuit that the Federal Reserve Banks are “independent corporations”, which are “not agencies”, are “privately held”, and have “private boards of directors”. And Federal Reserve law enforcement officers agree.

EUROPE - Bannon, Salvini, And A Powerful Catholic Cardinal Are Gunning For Pope Francis. As the populist wave continues to rise throughout Europe - most recently in Italy where refugees are now being turned away, prominent conservative Catholics are coming together to take on Pope Francis.