(Adnkronos) – Two British citizens have been arrested in Iran. A Foreign Office spokesperson confirmed this, adding that “we are providing consular assistance” to the two and that the government is “in contact with the local authorities”.  Yesterday, Iranian state media reported

(Adnkronos) – “Everyone in our country must feel safe again. Something has to change in Germany.” Following the events in Munich, Friedrich Merz, the CDU/CSU candidate for chancellor in the snap elections to be held in Germany in ten days, wrote this

(Adnkronos) – Germany goes to the polls on 23 February to renew the Bundestag, the Federal Chamber. The vote was scheduled for 28 September next, 4 years after the previous one, but was brought forward to February following the political crisis that

(Adnkronos) – Great Britain intends to lift some of the sanctions against Syria, the government has announced. The plan includes “the easing of restrictions on energy, transport and finance”, said Undersecretary Stephen Doughty, specifying that the proposal will be submitted to the

(Adnkronos) – At the wheel of the car that plunged into a crowd of people in Munich was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker. The German police reported this, which – reports the BBC – specified that the young man was already known

(Adnkronos) – In a resolution adopted today during the plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament refuses to recognize the “self-proclaimed” authority of the ruling Georgian Dream party following the “rigged elections” of last October 26 and calls for EU member states

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(Adnkronos) – An explosion at a shopping mall in Taiwan has killed at least 4 people and injured 7, firefighters said, adding that the accident occurred in the food court on the 12th floor of the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi mall in the

(Adnkronos) – Australia has rebuked Beijing for “unsafe” military conduct, accusing a Chinese fighter jet of firing flares near an Australian air force plane patrolling the South China Sea. The Australian aircraft was conducting a “routine” surveillance patrol over the disputed waters

(Adnkronos) – A car ran into a group of people in the Bavarian capital. The Munich police reported it, quoted by Bild. The current toll would be 15 injured.  

(Adnkronos) – Negotiations to form a government coalition between the Freedom Party (FPOe) and the conservative Austrian People’s Party (OeVP) have failed. Fpoe chairman Herbert Kickl resigned from office, announcing his decision in a letter to Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen,

(Adnkronos) – At least 20 people were injured in a fire at a Carnival costume factory in Rio de Janeiro, local health authorities said.  Television images show people being rescued from windows as flames engulfed the facility in Rio’s Ramos neighborhood. The

(Adnkronos) – Eni and the Italy’s overseas development agency AICS have inked an accord to improve technical education and employment for Egypt’s youth, Eni said in a statement on Wednesday.  The initiative aims to boost the quality of technical education in Egypt

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister and deputy premier Antonio Tajani has called off his enagagements on Wednesday, due to a bad bout of influenza, his press office said in a statement.  Tajani had been set to take questions from lawmakers later on

(Adnkronos) – The German government has extended border controls for six months with the aim of reducing illegal immigration and protecting national security. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced it. “With border controls we are effectively rejecting irregular immigration, as the data shows,”

(Adnkronos) – The Greek Parliament has elected – with 160 votes in favor out of 300 – 65-year-old Constantine Tasoulas, a member of New Democracy (ND), the conservative party to which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also belongs, as the new President of

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump has signed an executive order that gives Elon Musk’s Doge even more power than the department has already amassed in its first three weeks in government, asking federal agencies to work together to voluntarily downsize their staffs and

(Adnkronos) – The Wuhan Institute of Virology was not involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus. This was stated by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun during a press conference in Beijing. The institute, he added, has never conducted

(Adnkronos) – A shocking video has been circulating on TikTok showing two Australian nurses from Bankstown Hospital in Sydney threatening to kill Jewish patients, or at least not provide them with the necessary care. ”A disgusting and shameful video”, as Australian Prime

(Adnkronos) – Within 48 hours, 62 military aircraft, 15 warships and two Chinese coast guard units were detected around the island of Taiwan. This was stated by the Taipei Ministry of Defense in a note, explaining that it had ”monitored the situation

(Adnkronos) – Egypt will present a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without the need to relocate the Palestinians who live there. This was stated by the Cairo Foreign Ministry in a note explaining that it intends to “present a comprehensive vision

(Adnkronos) – The foreign ministry and public broadcaster Rai were set to present on Wednesday the ‘Sanremo Youth World Tour ‘ a spinoff of the iconic annual festival, which aims to showcase young talent from Italian music worldwide.  The tour will take

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Wednesday congratulated Greece’s former parliament speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas on his election as president by its lawmakers in a fourth and final round of voting.  “Congratulations to Konstantinos Tasoulas on his election as President of

(Adnkronos) – Members of Italy’s lower house of parliament will grill foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Wednesday over US president Donald Trump’s controversial plan to take control of the war-shattered Gaza Strip and permanently re-locate its population elsewhere in the Middle East. 

(Adnkronos) – After two days of truce, fighting has resumed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, triggered by a dawn attack by M23 fighters and their Rwandan allies against Congolese positions in South Kivu province, according to security and

(Adnkronos) – Fear but no casualties in Morocco after the earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale recorded during the night. Local media reported that the earthquake was recorded around midnight local time in the northwestern region of Ouezzane, with its

(Adnkronos) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said his country “will oppose” any US tariffs on steel announced by President Donald Trump.  Such tariffs would be “totally unjustified” and “Canadians will oppose them strongly and firmly if necessary,” Trudeau said during

(Adnkronos) – Swedish police have announced the arrest of a person in the Stockholm area suspected of preparing Islamic terrorist crimes. The Times of Israel reports.   The person is suspected of preparing a terrorist crime, aggravated participation in a terrorist organization,

(Adnkronos) – Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has denounced alleged “irregularities” in the first round of the presidential elections, in which he won by a narrow margin over leftist rival Luisa Gonzalez, with whom he will go to a runoff.   “There have

(Adnkronos) – The German party Die Linke (The Left) has recorded a boom in subscriptions in recent weeks, bringing the number of its members to 81,200. In announcing this, the movement itself underlined that this is the biggest increase in membership since