(Adnkronos) – Water emergency and heat waves in Iran. In the southwestern city of Omidiyeh, in Khuzestan, the mercury column reached 51 degrees, Iranian TV reported. In other cities of the Islamic Republic, temperatures have exceeded 45 degrees. In the coming days,

(Adnkronos) – A ‘mega lightning bolt’, 829 kilometers long, has won the world record in the category, complete with certification from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The phenomenon was observed on October 22, 2017, during a particularly intense storm over the American

(Adnkronos) – “I have informed the president that I want to resign from my position as prime minister”. This was communicated by the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Gintautas Paluckas, leader of the center-left Social Democrats. The resignation comes following some corruption scandals

(Adnkronos) – A 76-year-old man has been taken into custody in Leicestershire, in the south of the United Kingdom, on charges of administering poison to children at a summer camp. The BBC reports this, citing local police, according to whom the alarm

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli Defense Forces have announced that Roi Wasserstein, a soldier who died by suicide after serving 300 days of combat in the Gaza war, will not be granted “fallen” recognition, as he was not on duty at the time

(Adnkronos) – The Italian passenger ship Moby Drea, loaded with asbestos-containing panels, was sighted around 10 a.m. this morning from Marjan Forest Park, while being towed by a tugboat towards the Brodosplit shipyard in Split, where it is expected to arrive today.

(Adnkronos) – At least six people were killed by suspected terrorists in the Ancuabe district, in the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, local sources told the Lusa agency, confirming that three boys were kidnapped. According to the sources, the attack occurred

(Adnkronos) – A Swedish court will issue its verdict today against jihadist Osama Krayem, already convicted for the Paris and Brussels attacks. The 32-year-old Swedish national is accused of participating in the execution of a Jordanian pilot, who was burned alive locked

(Adnkronos) – The United States Senate has blocked two resolutions that would have prevented the sale of weapons to Israel in response to civilian casualties in Gaza. The two resolutions had been presented by Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent aligned with

(Adnkronos) – Israel denounces Canada’s decision to recognize the Palestinian state in September, as it has already done with France and Great Britain. In a post on X, the Israeli Foreign Ministry writes: “The Canadian government’s change of position at this time

(Adnkronos) – The United Arab Emirates has started construction of a large water pipeline to transport desalinated water from Egypt to the south of the Gaza Strip. Emirati technical teams have begun transporting the necessary equipment for the project, the Emirati state

(Adnkronos) – “At this time, the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano is erupting”, said the Kamchatka section of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as reported by the Russian agency Tass. 

(Adnkronos) – The ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism (Utj) announced in a joint statement that they will support any agreement for the release of the hostages that is submitted to the Knesset. The Times of Israel reports this, recalling that

(Adnkronos) – The tsunami waves have begun to hit the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, about 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles) away from the epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred off the far east of Russia. This is according to local

(Adnkronos) – The death toll in Angola following the unrest that broke out on Monday following protests against the fuel price hike has risen to 22. This was announced by the Interior Minister, Manuel Homem, adding that a police officer was also

(Adnkronos) – The European Commission has set October 12, 2025 as the date for the progressive start of operations of the Entry/Exit System (EES), the new and more advanced EU border system that will digitally record the entries and exits of citizens

(Adnkronos) – Ten people died following the disappearance of a bus in Shanxi province, northern China, last Sunday, as heavy rains lashed the region. The state news agency Xinhua reports, explaining that the bodies of ten missing people have been recovered and

(Adnkronos) – Over 1.9 million people have been placed on evacuation alert in Japan due to the tsunami following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that was recorded about 136 kilometers southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Bering Sea.  According to Japan’s National

(Adnkronos) – Typhoon Co-May is approaching Shanghai, where almost 283,000 people have been evacuated from areas considered at risk. Between yesterday evening and this morning “282,800 people have been relocated,” Cctv reported in an update on precautionary measures. 

(Adnkronos) – Tsunami warning also in China, where the alarm concerns areas along the east coast after the strong earthquake recorded off Kamchatka. “The Tsunami Prevention Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources has determined that this earthquake caused a tsunami, which

(Adnkronos) – The European Union has confirmed that the agreement reached with Israel provides for access to the Gaza Strip of 160 humanitarian trucks per day, in addition to the distribution of 200,000 liters of fuel per day. The agreement, which European

(Adnkronos) – Greek riot police today intervened by firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators who were protesting, chanting slogans “Freedom for Gaza” and “stop the genocide”, against the arrival in the port of Agios Nikolaos, Crete, of an Israeli cruise ship.  

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(Adnkronos) – Russia has sentenced Olga Komleva, a journalist and former volunteer for Alexey Navalny’s party, to 12 years in prison, under the rules by which Moscow considers any collaboration with the opponent’s organizations illegal, even if it occurred in the past.

(Adnkronos) – Residents of Pakistani-administered Kashmir killed a leopard after a series of consecutive attacks on civilians, in which a girl was killed, the Wildlife Department said today.  A common leopard attacked an 8-year-old girl and dragged her into the forest in

(Adnkronos) – Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, invites Donald Trump to recognize what she considers the new “reality”, reminding the American president that the situation has “changed” compared to his first term at the

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the rains and floods that have particularly affected the Beijing region and around the Chinese capital has risen to at least 34, while about 80,000 people have been evacuated. According to Cctv television, 28 deaths were

(Adnkronos) – The three gunmen killed by the Indian army in the Jammu and Kashmir region were involved in the terrorist attack against Hindu tourists near Pahalgam, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, last April, which triggered the war between India and Pakistan the following

(Adnkronos) – The Netherlands is ‘forbidden’ for the Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and the National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir. The Dutch government, local media report, as also relaunched by Israeli media, has banned them from entering the country, as part of

(Adnkronos) – Thailand has accused Cambodia of “deliberately” violating the ceasefire announced yesterday after the escalation on the border between the two countries that has left at least 33 dead and thousands displaced. The Thai military, reports the BBC, accused Cambodia of