Giorgia Meloni has toned down her hardline politics in government. This has created an opening for a more extreme figure to threaten her coalition

As the war of words over Greenland escalated, the role of Italy’s right-wing prime minister won praise – but also criticism

Conservatives had hoped the new pontiff would prove to be less liberal than Francis. Then the glacier-blessing and migrant-defending started...

Osama Al-Masri Njeem is suspected of war crimes at the brutal Mitiga prison – and his case shines an uneasy light on how Europe has outsourced cruelty