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The E.U. rejected Italy’s budget. That’s just what Rome’s populist government wanted.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, center, flanked by deputies Luigi Di Maio, left, and Matteo Salvini. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA/AP) October 23 at 4:36 PM On Tuesday, the European Union did something it had never done before: It rejected the proposed budget of one of its members. The European Commission said Italy’s proposal, which would swell the country’s deficit to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product to fund tax cuts and stronger welfare programs, posed “unacceptable risks” to Italy and the euro zone. “We see no alternatives,” European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said Tuesday. “The ball is now in the court of the Italian government.” The Italian government now has three weeks to make a choice: It can draw up a more austere budget, or stick to its guns and pay a heavy fine to the E.U. next year. So far, Italian leaders have remained defiant. And why not? This is a fight that Italy’s populist government, which took power in June, has been waiting for. Th...

World’s oldest shipwreck from more than 2,400 years ago found at the bottom of the Black Sea

A photo released by Black Sea MAP/EEF Expeditions in London on Oct. 23, 2018, shows the remains of an ancient Greek trading ship laying on the sea bed at the bottom of the Black Sea near Bulgaria. (HO/Black Sea MAP/EEF Expeditions/AFP) (Ho/AFP/Getty Images) Rick Noack Foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security October 23 at 6:08 AM BERLIN — Over the last 600 years, Europe’s Black Sea has been one of the world’s maritime areas hardest-hit by war and nationalism. Tugged between Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, among other nations, the inland stretch of water was de-facto cut off from international trade after the Ottoman Turks occupied Constantinople in 1453. It was a key battlefield during World War II and has once again become contested with Ukraine and Russia now clashing there in recent years. But there was a time when trade flourished in the Black Sea. And on Tuesday, European researchers revealed some stunning details about a period when Greek ...

How China plays into Trump’s decision to pull out of INF treaty with Russia

President Trump delivers a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) Adam Taylor Foreign reporter who writes about a variety of subjects October 23 at 3:33 AM When President Trump announced on Saturday that the United States would be pulling out of a landmark nuclear-arms agreement with Russia, he blamed Moscow for the decision. “Russia has violated the agreement. They’ve been violating it for many years,” Trump told reporters in Nevada, referring to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. “I don’t know why President Obama didn’t negotiate or pull out.” But Trump also hinted that another country played a role, one that it isn’t even party to the treaty: China. “Unless Russia comes to us and China comes to us and they all come to us and say, ‘Let’s really get smart and let’s none of us develop those weapons,’” Trump said. “But if Russia’s doing it and if China’s doing it and we’re adhering to the agreement,...

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