Italian populists declare win
ROME — Italy’s victorious anti-establishment forces declared a new epoch of their country’s political life on Monday, hours after an election demolition of the traditional parties that dominated the nation for decades.
Both the surging populist Five Star Movement and the anti-migrant farright League party claimed a win after Italians cleared their rivals and left them as the most potent forces in the country. The shift all but guarantees an anti-establishment leader for Italy and was a powerful display of Italians’ fury with old-line politicians and with the European Union in Brussels.
With the shattered landscape leaving no single force with a clear route to power, it remained unclear on Monday whether the Five Star Movement or the League would get the first chance at trying to form a coalition.
UN convoy aids Ghouta
ISTANBUL — A United Nations convoy carrying lifesaving assistance entered the besieged Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Monday, reaching civilians for the first time in weeks amid a punishing government assault that has created one of the worst humanitarian crises of the war.
Food parcels, nutritional supplements and some medical supplies were aboard the 46-truck convoy, which was organized by U.N. agencies, the International Committee for the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. The Syrian government, however, stripped the convoy of much its medical supplies and continued airstrikes on Eastern Ghouta, killing dozens.
Trump Hotels ousted
PANAMA CITY — Workers pried President Donald Trump’s name from signs outside his family company’s luxury hotel in Panama on Monday, as Mr. Trump’s executives were ousted from their management offices in a business dispute under orders from Panamanian officials, ending a 12day standoff over control of the property.
The Trump Organization’s lawyers, however, said Panamanian courts had in fact made no determination on the underlying dispute and had only appointed an interim management until an international arbitration panel rules on the issue.