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MILAN, May 20 (Reuters) - The European Commission is in contact with EU member states to set up a redistribution system for migrants arriving in Italy during the summer, its home affairs commissioner was quoted as saying on Thursday.
“I am in contact with governments to set up a network of voluntary aid, of voluntary redistribution that can help Italy throughout the summer months until we approve the EU reform,” Ylva Johansson told Italian daily La Repubblica, adding that would not happen before the end of summer.
The EU executive also said she was ready to engage with Libya in order to reach a new accord over migration and was confident it would happen before elections there in December.
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BERLIN (Reuters) -A young German army officer went on trial on Thursday accused of planning to attack one or more politicians while posing as an Syrian asylum seeker to try to whip up anger against migrants.
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In a case that rattled the government in Berlin when it first came to light, the man, identified as Franco A., is accused of posing under a false identity in 2017 and planning an attack he hoped would be blamed on refugees and migrants.
The prosecution says Franco A. also stole ammunition from the German military, with former justice and current Foreign Minister Heiko Maas or the parliament’s Vice-President Claudia Roth seen as possible targets of an attack.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Friday he would raise the question of the redistribution of migrants landing on the southern shores of Europe at next week's summit of European Union leaders.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that overwhelmingly passed Congress in a rare show of bipartisanship following a spate of high-profile attacks on Asian Americans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - When Joe Biden returned on Tuesday to one of the battleground states that handed him the presidential election, he was met with rage over how his administration has handled the sudden escalation of violence in the Middle East.
Biden, on a visit to a Ford Motor Co facility in Dearborn, Michigan, to promote electric vehicles, faced protest over his administration’s approach to Israel as it attacks Gaza in response to rockets launched by Palestinian militants there eight days ago.
At a rally in Dearborn, the heart of Michigan’s Arab-American community, over 1,000 people gathered a few miles away from Biden’s event and booed at mentions of the Democratic president’s name.