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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has threatened to resign over his CSU party's rift over asylum policy with Chancellor Angela Merkel's fellow conservatives, the CDU. DW has the news as it happens.... The main points: Interior Minister Horst Seehofer offered his resignation as minister and CSU leader on Sunday after accusing Chancellor Angela Merkel of failing to push through the CSU'S demands on border control at a recent EU summit...… Merkel and Seehofer are expected to meet at 5 p.m on Monday. All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC + 2, Eastern US Time +6) 14:24 The Bavarian...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters)-Mexicans voted overwhelmingly for anti-establishment outsider Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Sunday's presidential election, exit polls showed, betting a leftward turn in government could end the corruption and violence that has blighted the country. One exit poll by polling firm Parametria showed Lopez-Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, winning between 53 percent and 59 percent of the vote, far ahead of his two main rivals from Mexico's traditional ruling parties....

The German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has confirmed tonight that he is offering his resignation as Interior Minister and leader of Bavaria's Christian Social Union Party. Seehofer was in crisis talks that went late into Sunday night in Germany with CSU leaders and coming out he said he would seek one more meeting with Merkel Monday to avert his resignations. Merkel had reaffirmed an open border policy to migrants when she met with Seehofer on Saturday while Seehofer insists Germany needs to close its southern border to the migrants. Seehofer told German media: "In the interest of this country and...

There were demonstrations across the United States Saturday in opposition to immigration policies separating families in detention..... President Trump, who has issued an executive order to suspend family detention separations, responded on Twitter saying.... In Portland, Oregon police revoked a permit for a 150 member Patriot Prayer group march when it came under attack by an Antifa group twice its size, declaring a riot...… Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has closed his country's ports to boats carrying migrants that are run by Non Governmental Organizations..... Mexican voters go to the polls in hours to elect candidates for 18,000 offices led...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly secured agreements with 14 European Union countries to rapidly return some asylum seekers as she seeks to end a schism in her government over migration policy. The countries included Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, which have all been harsh critics of Merkel's welcoming stance to migrants, as well as Belgium, France, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. Top CSU lawmaker Markus Soeder, Bavaria's governor, on Saturday praised the EU agreement as more than his party had expected, but at the same time suggested that it left open the...

In one night alone “vandals” destroyed 185 glass panes at 70 different bus stops across the city of Gothenburg and the nearby municipality of Mölndal. The attacks occurred the weekend before Midsummer day in Sweden and no arrests have been made, according to police, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports. The vandals have become known as “shelter breakers”, according to the public transport company, who say the incidents are not uncommon. “Unfortunately, shelter breakers are not at all an unknown phenomenon for us, and it’s not uncommon for a big weekend,” press communications officer for the public transport company Västtrafik Alice Roman...

"A monitoring group reported that five children were among those who died when aircraft identified as Russian bombed Musayfira, east of the city of Deraa" BBC story 6/28/2018 "Israel sends 300 tents, 13 tons of food, 15 tons of baby food, 3 pallets of medical equipment and medicine and 30 tons of clothes across the border as 120,00 Syrians flee from the Deraa area...." "ynetnews.com" 6/29/2018 "Once again the USA has publicly distanced itself from Syrian jihadi rebels against the Assad state....This sounds familiar. On March 30, 2017 the US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, formally and openly abandoned...

Israel is rushing to secure its northeastern border after the latest onslaught from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad drove 120,000 people to flee their homes. A war monitoring group said today that most of the refugees are heading towards the border with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. A senior Israeli minister said refugees gathering at the Golan frontier must be prevented from crossing into Israel.

Rush Limbaugh opened up today lathered up over the Democrat infighting that resulted in a Bernie Sanders socialist winning a Democrat Congressional primary yesterday. El Rushbo framed it as "Radical" verus "Progressive" which enables the GOP Establishment political machine to keep up the notion that the Pelosi's, Schumer's, Feinstein's etc. are somehow extreme to the Left along with the outsiders so you'll be afraid and keep voting Republican this fall. But those folks aren't. They are just people who talk a good game while taking money from big business and big banks like their fake "Conservative" or "Patriot" couunterparts in...

The Hungarian government has passed a bill that will give the state extraordinary powers to jail any individual or group seen to be promoting or supporting illegal migration - including help for asylum seekers. Emily Maitlis sits down with Hungary's foreign minister Péter Szijjártó and asks him if he thinks Hungary and the EU could ever find compromise on the issue of migration.

Six sent back to New York in machete murder Jose Muniz, Jr. enters court where he was extradited to New York in a homicide investigation before Superior Court Judge Ernest Caposela at the Passaic County Courthouse in Patterson, NJ.

"What, you want to tell me we can't do it until Congress appropriates the funds? I don't believe it. I understand checks and balances, but the President doesn't have that little power. If we can bomb wedding parties in Afghanistan without a Congressional declaration of war, surely we can put up a decent border barrier." John Derbyshire as published at VDARE.com 6/23/2018 "Hiring many thousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go-will always be dysfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the...

Billionaire Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's right-wing government said Monday it has set itself a target of expelling 2,000 illegal migrants from the country by the end of the year. The measure is part of a migration plan that the world's largest copper producer introduced to cope with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants over the last four years. The expulsions will prioritize foreigners with criminal records, as well as those who did not take up a government offer to regularize their situation.

Italy's two deputy prime ministers accused French President Emmanuel Macron of being "arrogant" and said that France risked becoming Italy's "No1 enemy". Writing on his Facebook page, Luigi Di Maio said: "Italy indeed faces a migration emergency and it's partly because France keeps pushing back people at the border. Macron risks making his country Italy's No.1 enemy on this emergency." The row came as the leaders of 16 European countries travel to Brussels for a highly unusual and hastily arranged meeting on migration. The migration issue has caused renewed and deep divisions between European governments and even within national coalitions....

"Left, right, populism....all are meaningless concepts. Unintelligible for the new generations. Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work. Old nation-states have been emptied from within, and we are going back to the age of city-states" Beppe Grillo-founder and first leader of Italy's Five Star Movement, partner party of Italy's new government with the League-"Newsweek" interview 5/14/2018 "I was lost in a fantasy that blinded me....." "Your Love Broke Through"-as sung by Phil Keaggy To see Rachel Maddow resort to tears on television this week reminded me of why she's there shedding the tears. The purpose of MSNBC is...

"We may be leper populists, but I take the lessons from those who open their own ports. Welcome thousands of migrants and then we can talk" Italian Deputy Prime Minister-Interior Minister-League Party leader Matteo Salvini "One day he said he doesn't want to offend Italy, the next he talks about leprosy" Italian Deputy Prime Minister-Labor Minister-Five Star Movement leader Luigi DiMaio Speaking in France Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke of a "leprosy" of anti-EU feelings spreading in "neighboring countries", an apparent jibe at the new government in Italy. Italy is taking active measures to stop migrant boats including plans...

The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border. The 20,000 beds at bases in Texas and Arkansas would house “unaccompanied alien children,” said a Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, although other federal agencies provided conflicting explanations about how the shelters would be used and who would be housed there. There were reports of widespread confusion on the border.

Italy says it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, amid a deepening row over migrants. Two German NGO ships carrying migrants "will be seized" to determine their legal status. The move comes as French President Emmanuel Macron attacked the "leprosy" of anti-EU feeling, angering Italy's new populist government. Italy sparked the fresh row earlier this month when it refused to take in the Aquarius rescue ship.... Leaders from the 10 EU member states will meet in Brussels on Sunday to discuss how best to stem the flow of migrants into the bloc. The Italian government earlier said...

The outsider party of Swedish politics, the Sweden Democrats, got some good news this week. A "You Gov" poll showed them at 28.5 percent support, that's 6.5 percent more than the Social Democrats who currently lead a coalition government after picking up 31 percent of the vote in the 2014 election. If this trend continues into the election, the Sweden Democrats will emerge as the largest single party with around 100-105 seats in the 349 seat Parliament. Voters in Sweden will go to the polls on September 9th to elect the new makeup of their Parliament (the Riksdag). The Sweden...

THE man claiming to be Bill Clinton’s “love child” has hit out at the former President, accusing him of hypocrisy over America's immigration row. Danney Williams, 32, accused the ex-leader of double standards by showing sympathy for migrant kids separated from their parents at the US border but "abandoning his own son". Williams claims his mum Bobbie Ann, a former prostitute, became pregnant with him after meeting Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1984 and had a total of 13 trysts with the then state governor. Clinton married Hillary in 1975. The father-of-five has repeatedly called for Clinton to publicly...