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(Adnkronos) – Saudi Arabia “is a priority economic and trade partner for Italy,” foreign under-secretary Maria Tripodi said on Tuesday after premier Giorgia Meloni inked a landmark accord for a bilateral strategic partnership with the Kingdom’s de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign ministry “is closely following” the unrest in eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma and protests in the capital, Kinshasha, after Rwandan-backed rebels marched into Goma on Monday.  “The foreign ministry is closely following the riots in Goma and

(Adnkronos) – The Italian government’s overseas aid cooperation department will give youth training and help in rebuilding the flood-hit southern Brazilian city of Santa Tereza in Rio Grande do Sul state, the department wrote Tuesday on X.  “Youth training and reconstruction in

(Adnkronos) – The Senate of Islamabad has passed a bill against online misinformation and so-called “fake news” that provides for up to three years in prison for those who spread it. A decision that, according to Pakistani journalists, aims to suppress critical

(Adnkronos) – The US Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary overnight with 68 votes in favor and 29 against. Bessent is the fifth candidate of the Trump administration to be confirmed by the Senate in a week.  

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani will on Tuesday chair a pioneering event in Rome to look at strategies and priorities for internationalising Italy’s “crucial” fashion industry – a sector which already accounts for over an eighth of national exports, said a

(Adnkronos) – Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune has called for a review of the association agreement with the European Union – signed in 2002 and entered into force in 2005 – so that it better responds to the “win-win principle”, while specifying that

(Adnkronos) – EU foreign ministers “have just agreed a roadmap to ease sanctions on Syria. While our aim is to move quickly, the lifting of sanctions can be reversed if wrong steps are taken”. This was announced in a post on social

(Adnkronos) – UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi has called for “a global effort” to help Syrians since longtime dictator Bashar-al Assad’s ouster in December, ending a 14-year-old civil war that triggered a major humanitarian crisis in their country.  “In Aleppo, I spoke

(Adnkronos) – The European Union will provide 30 million euros in aid as a “first step” to support the Republic of Moldova in addressing the serious energy crisis caused by the Russian giant Gazprom. The EU says it is ready to finance