News Headlines - 15 May 2016

▽Boris Johnson: The EU wants a superstate, just as Hitler did

The European Union is pursuing a similar goal to Hitler in trying to create a powerful superstate, Boris Johnson says.
In a dramatic interview with the Telegraph, he warns that while bureaucrats in Brussels are using “different methods” from the Nazi dictator, they share the aim of unifying Europe under one “authority”.

▽Italy set to double baby bonus to fight birth rate 'apocalypse' - Breitbart

Italy’s health minister is proposing doubling a ‘baby bonus’ incentive for couples to have more children to combat what she calls a catastrophic decline in the country’s birth rate.

▽116-year-old Italian woman seen as last living person born in 1800s

Surrounded by relatives and friends, Italy’s Emma Morano greeted with a smile the news that she, at 116, is now the oldest person in the world. Not only that, but Morano is believed to be the last surviving person in the world born in the 1800s, with a birth date of November 29, 1899. That’s just 4 ½ months after Susannah Mushatt Jones , who died Thursday in New York, also at 116.

▽Nomura Blames Biggest-Ever Loss on ‘Incompetent’ Bond Trader - Bloomberg

A Nomura Holdings Inc. trader who failed to tell his bosses about the deteriorating performance of a client that helped cause the bank’s biggest-ever trading loss was "at best incompetent or at worst deceitful,” a senior manager said during the first day of a London employment lawsuit.

▽Eurovision Song Contest: Ukraine's Jamala wins competition - BBC News

Ukraine's Jamala has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, held in Stockholm, Sweden.
The country scored 534 points with its song 1944, about the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin.