Rome / AFP Italy is to begin removing the remains of hundreds of people from a sunken migrant boat after raising it from the Mediterranean seabed and towing it to Sicily, the navy announced Wednesday. The boat’s sinking off Libya in April 2015 left as many as 800 people dead in the worst maritime tragedy in the Mediterranean since ...

  Financial markets are still trying to make sense of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, and almost everyone is wringing their hands over what it all means — popular anger at elites, an eruption of racism and xenophobia, the collapse of the liberal world order, the resurgence of English nationalism. The uncomfortable truth is that it’s probably all ...

  Ankara’s move to thaw tensions with both Tel Aviv and Moscow could counter the negative impact of terrorist attacks on Turkey’s tourism and economy, and end its current isolation. Tuesday’s attack on Ataturk airport in Istanbul came just as Turkey is rebuilding relations with Israel and Russia. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s apology to Moscow prompted Russia’s President ...