Flint / AFP With the Democratic presidential nomination in sight, Hillary Clinton sought to repel sharp attacks from party rival Bernie Sanders, while training some fire on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. “Donald Trump’s bigotry, his bullying, his bluster are not going to wear well on the American people,” Clinton said in a sometimes testy debate with Sanders sponsored by CNN ...

London / AFP Brussels is to propose centralising claims for asylum in the European Union as it struggles to address Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War II, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The European Commission will make the proposal as part of a radical overhaul of its refugee policy to be announced at a summit of EU leaders ...

Jakarta / AFP Indonesia’s leader on Monday held talks with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, who has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, with Jakarta defending having invited him to a summit of Muslim countries. Bashir met President Joko Widodo and the Indonesian foreign minister briefly on the sidelines of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit ...