EU could fail over outbreak, warns Italy's Giuseppe Conte

3 hours ago

"Media captionItalian PM Giuseppe Conte said he might begin to relax some measures by the end of this month

Italy's prime minister has told the BBC that the European Union risks failing as a project in the coronavirus crisis.

Giuseppe Conte says the EU must act in an adequate and co-ordinated way to help countries worst hit by the virus.

Mr Conte says the European Union needs to rise to the challenge of what he calls "the biggest test since the Second World War".

This was his first interview with the UK broadcast media since the pandemic exploded in Italy seven weeks ago.

He was speaking as Italy and some other EU countries try to push more frugal members of the bloc to issue so-called "corona bonds" - sharing debt that all EU nations would help to pay off. The Netherlands in particular has opposed the idea, leading to a clash between finance ministers of the eurozone."

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Linda Tripp, whose tapes exposed Clinton scandal

dies at 70

April 8, 2020, 8:34 PM

The Associated Press

"WASHINGTON – Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at age 70.

Her death was confirmed by attorney Joseph Murtha. He provided no further details.

In August 1994, Tripp became a public affairs specialist at the Pentagon, where Lewinsky worked after being a White House intern. The two reportedly became friends.

Tripp made secret tapes of conversations with Lewinsky, who told her she had had an affair with Clinton. Tripp turned almost 20 hours of tapes over to Kenneth Starr, the independent prosecutor investigating the president, prompting the investigation that led to his impeachment.

As news broke Wednesday that Tripp was near death, Lewinsky tweeted that she hoped for her recovery “no matter the past.”"

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Barack and Michelle Obama to come off sidelines after

Bernie Sanders drops out

Obama’s former campaign manager says party will unite

behind Joe Biden

Thursday 9 April 2020 08:59

"Barack and Michelle Obama will “come off the sidelines and get involved” to support presidential candidate Joe Biden, according to Mr Obama’s former campaign manager.

Jim Messina told MSNBC on Wednesday that the withdrawal of senator Bernie Sanders from the 2020 race would allow the former president and first lady support their former vice president in a way that was “a very, very big deal”.

“This move by Bernie Sanders allows the two big powers in the democratic party, Barack and in some ways as importantly Michelle Obama, to now come off the sidelines and get involved,” Mr Messina said.

“I mean people forget that Michelle Obama is the most popular political figure in America by far. Having Barack and Michelle Obama on the trail talking to both the base and the swing voters. Especially these swing women voters who abandoned the Democrats in 2016, came back big time in 2018 to give Nancy Pelosi the House of Representatives.”"

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/barack-michelle-obama-support-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-out-presidential-race-a9456551.html

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