Rome / AFP NATO is three months away from launching patrols off Libya as part of a plan to stop migrants arriving in Italy, Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said in an interview published on Monday. Pinotti told daily La Stampa that Rome was expecting its allies to approve the plan at a summit of NATO leaders in Warsaw ...

  Washington / AFP Ted Cruz and John Kasich have decided to join forces to try to deny frontrunner Donald Trump their Republican Party’s presidential nomination, their campaigns said. The sudden alliance revealed in short statements arose due to the pressing timing of their party’s presidential primary season: Trump, a wealthy property developer and reality television star, has pushed close ...

  Vienna / AFP Austria’s government was licking its wounds on Monday after the anti-immigration far-right triumphed in presidential elections, in a debacle of historic proportions for a cosy political establishment seen as out of touch and ineffectual. According to preliminary results, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) came a clear first with 36 percent of the vote in ...