(Adnkronos) – The US Treasury Department announced the imposition of new sanctions against Iran. According to the Department’s website, the new sanctions target Iranian-linked oil companies, a series of oil tankers and crude oil or chemical tankers, as well as Iranian citizens

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump has appointed Dan Bongino, a former Fox News host and now an ultra-conservative podcaster, as deputy head of the FBI, a position usually given to career agents of the federal bureau. Like Kash Patel, recently confirmed as head

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump has appointed Dan Bongino, a former Fox News host and now an ultra-conservative podcaster, as deputy head of the FBI, a position usually given to career agents of the federal bureau. Like Kash Patel, recently confirmed as head

(Adnkronos) – The EU Council has decided today to suspend some restrictive measures adopted against Syria, to support the ongoing political transition in the country after the fall of Bashar al Assad and to favor its economic recovery. In particular, it has

(Adnkronos) – The EU Council has decided today to suspend some restrictive measures adopted against Syria, to support the ongoing political transition in the country after the fall of Bashar al Assad and to favor its economic recovery. In particular, it has

(Adnkronos) – Three improvised explosive devices were thrown at the facade of the Russian consulate general in Marseille this morning around 8 a.m. There are no injuries, according to police sources. Two of the three devices exploded. The area has been cordoned

(Adnkronos) – Three improvised explosive devices were thrown at the facade of the Russian consulate general in Marseille this morning around 8 a.m. There are no injuries, according to police sources. Two of the three devices exploded. The area has been cordoned

(Adnkronos) – Robert Habeck announces his intention to leave the leadership of the Greens, after the party’s flop in yesterday’s vote. “I will no longer claim or aspire to a leadership role in the hierarchy of the Green Party,” said the outgoing

(Adnkronos) – Robert Habeck announces his intention to leave the leadership of the Greens, after the party’s flop in yesterday’s vote. “I will no longer claim or aspire to a leadership role in the hierarchy of the Green Party,” said the outgoing

(Adnkronos) – The conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused the death of “more than 7,000 nationals” since January, many of them civilians. This was denounced from Geneva by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka.  “We have not

(Adnkronos) – The conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused the death of “more than 7,000 nationals” since January, many of them civilians. This was denounced from Geneva by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka.  “We have not

(Adnkronos) – “I hope that my colleagues are now convinced that the time has come to adopt sanctions against Rwanda as well, as the United States has done”. This was stated by the Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot on the sidelines of

(Adnkronos) – German voters prefer the Grand Coalition. As already emerged on the eve of the vote, a new poll confirms – after the elections – that a coalition between the CDU/CSU conservative bloc and the SPD Social Democrats is the favoured

(Adnkronos) – A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at an oil refinery in Russia overnight, Russian media reported. Kyiv has hit several Russian energy sites with long-range drone strikes, claiming they are retaliation for Moscow’s missile attacks that have crippled Ukraine’s

(Adnkronos) – According to local sources from Aid to the Church in Need (Acs), over 70 bodies have been found in a Protestant church in Maiba, near Lubero, in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The murders took place between 12 and

(Adnkronos) – There was only a copy of a newspaper, “today’s edition of the Koelner Stadtanzeiger”, in the suspicious suitcase that caused the bomb alarm this morning in Cologne, Germany. In fact, the suitcase had been attached to a portal of the

(Adnkronos) – Slight decline for the conservative bloc Cdu-Csu and the Social Democrats, Spd, in the latest poll conducted by Forsa for RTL/ntv ahead of Sunday’s vote for the renewal of the German Bundestag: the two groups lose one percentage point and

(Adnkronos) – Turkish police have arrested an Uzbek national who was planning to carry out simultaneous attacks against Jewish schools and synagogues in Turkey and other countries. This was reported on the website of the Hurriyet newspaper, which specified that the man

(Adnkronos) – The European Union today summoned the Rwandan ambassador to ask Kigali to withdraw its troops from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and to stop supporting the offensive by the armed group M23. M23 forces have seized large areas of

(Adnkronos) – The incumbent chancellor is not discouraged, he remains combative, the Cdu/Csu of the challenger Friedrich Merz maintains its advantage. There are now only two days left before the vote that will renew the German Federal Chamber, the Bundestag, and in

(Adnkronos) – Envoy to Senegal Caterina Bertolini and Italy’s development agency AICS’s Dakar director Giovanni Grandi were among officials who attended the launch of a project that aims to integrate at least 10,000 young graduates and support at least 3,000 local businesses

(Adnkronos) – Hamas has called for an international investigation into the use of “banned weapons” by the Israeli army in the offensive against the Gaza Strip. “We demand the formation of international commissions to investigate the use of banned weapons by the

(Adnkronos) – A team of scientists in China has discovered a new coronavirus that is transmissible from bats to humans because it uses the same human receptor as Covid-19. This is reported by the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. The

(Adnkronos) – “You can’t take our country, and you can’t take our game.” This is how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrated on X the 3-2 overtime victory of the Canadian national hockey team over the United States, in the highly anticipated

(Adnkronos) – Australia and New Zealand have expressed concern over live-fire exercises by Chinese warships in the seas between the two countries, which have required the diversion of commercial flights in the skies above. The Chinese Navy alerted the Australian defense department

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani will attend a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Charlevoix in Quebec province, Canada, from 12-14 March, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.  The Charlevoix meeting will centre on the Middle East,on continuing

(Adnkronos) – Oded Lifshitz, whose body was handed over to Israeli authorities today, was killed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad while being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. The IDF reports.  Lifshitz, 83, was a peace activist and one of the founders

(Adnkronos) – A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) employee was “seriously injured” after gunshots were fired at an MSF base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The organization announced it, adding that a child was also hit.   MSF condemns “in the

(Adnkronos) – The European Union must play a leading role in ending Israel’s devastating war in Gaza and Russia’s brutal military invasion of Ukraine and must police the peace there with the US, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday.  “In

(Adnkronos) – The death toll of a Russian air raid on the industrial city of Kostiantynivka, in eastern Ukraine, is at least four, while two other people were killed in Nikopol, in the nearby Dnipropetrovsk region. Local authorities reported that the victims