(Adnkronos) – The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has given the green light to a controversial law that makes environmental licenses more flexible and authorizes projects classified as strategic by the government, even if they have a high polluting potential, a measure that

(Adnkronos) – The Russian Duma has approved in second reading – the most important – a new law that significantly strengthens control over the use of the internet. The measure provides for fines of up to 5,000 rubles (about 60 euros) for

(Adnkronos) – The authorities of the Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara are taking measures to improve the safety of climbers and tourists on Mount Rinjani, a very famous and frequented volcano that rises on the island of Lombok, following a series

(Adnkronos) – The Med-Or Italian Foundation is offering two scholarships for its Master’s programme, worth 12,000 euros each, Italy’s embassy in Oman wrote Thursday on X (formerly Twitter).  The bursaries cover “full tuition fees and supporting room and board expenses during the

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday expressed “total condemnation” for the Israel Defence Forces attacks on civilians in Gaza and its Catholic church and “solidarity” with the parish priest and other victims, the foreign ministry said in a statement. 

(Adnkronos) – It will be possible to vote from the age of 16 in Great Britain, where the government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer has proposed to lower the minimum voting age by two years. Around 1.5 million sixteen and seventeen-year-olds will

(Adnkronos) – The black box recording confirms: it was the captain of the Air India flight who turned off the switches that controlled the fuel flow to the two engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed shortly after takeoff in western

(Adnkronos) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is heading into the summer break with limited public support, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by Dpa. The poll found that 32% of eligible voters believe the situation in Germany has worsened since Merz took

(Adnkronos) – 54 people have died and 227 have been injured due to the heavy monsoon rains that have occurred in the last 24 hours in Pakistan. This was stated by the Pakistani government agency for disasters. “In the last 24 hours,

(Adnkronos) – Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, was fired without official motivation in the United States. This could be a ticking time bomb for Donald Trump, with the revelations anticipated by the accomplice

(Adnkronos) – The Senate in the United States has approved, with 51 votes in favor and 48 against, the $9 billion cut package in funding, previously approved, for foreign aid and public broadcasters. The measure proposed by the White House now returns

(Adnkronos) – Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa accuses Israel of having triggered “significant complications of the situation that led to the level of a large-scale escalation. Only thanks to the effective intervention of American, Arab and Turkish mediation was the region saved

(Adnkronos) – Israeli Defence Forces attacks against civilians in Gaza and Thursday’s strike against the Palestinian enclave’s only Catholic Church, in which two people were reportedly killed and several injured, are “unacceptable” Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni said in a statement.  “The Israeli

(Adnkronos) – Italy has deplored Israeli army attacks on civilians in war-wrecked Gaza and a strike which hit its Catholic parish on Thursday, reportedly killing two women, wounding several people including a priest and damaging the Holy Family Church – the only

(Adnkronos) – Un incendio devastante è scoppiato in un centro commerciale nella città di Kut, nell’est dell’Iraq, provocando almeno 61 morti e un numero ancora non precisato di dispersi. Le fiamme hanno avvolto un edificio di cinque piani, nel momento in cui

(Adnkronos) – Raid di Israele contro siti militari nella regione siriana di Latakia oggi, giovedì 17 luglio. Lo rende noto al-Jazeera. E’ invece di almeno 350 morti il bilancio complessivo dei morti degli scontri scoppiati ad Sweida, in un primo momento fra

(Adnkronos) – Russia declared today that it has seized 820 kilograms of cocaine hidden under a load of bananas, calling it the largest drug seizure from Latin America this year. Cocaine smuggling into Russia has increased dramatically in the last two years,

(Adnkronos) – The United States Department of Homeland Security has resumed deportation flights to third countries by sending five detainees, all from different countries, to the small nation of Eswatini in southern Africa. This was announced in a post on X by

(Adnkronos) – Un nuovo raid israeliano su Damasco ha preso di mira la sede dello stato maggiore delle forze siriane nella capitale, rendono noto i media israeliani dopo che il ministro della Difesa israeliano Israel Katz aveva anticipato una intensificazione dei bombardamenti

(Adnkronos) – Nuovi raid di Israele in Siria. Il ministro della Difesa israeliano, Israel Katz, aveva anticipato un’intensificazione dei bombardamenti se le forze siriane non si fossero ritirate da Sweida, la città a maggioranza drusa in cui sono in corso scontri. Le

(Adnkronos) – A huge gas cloud has sprung from the eruption of the Sundhnukur volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland, and is heading towards the nearby towns of Vogar, Reykjanesaer, Sandgeroi and Garo. Icelandic media report this, explaining that in

(Adnkronos) – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 National Guard troops who were mobilized last year following protests in Los Angeles in response to raids to arrest migrants in Los Angeles. “Thanks to our troops who answered the

(Adnkronos) – At least 37 Palestinians have been killed since dawn today in the Gaza Strip. This was stated by the broadcaster al-Jazeera. Among the victims, 20 were killed near a Ghf food parcel distribution point in Khan Younis, in the south

(Adnkronos) – A helicopter crashed in the Russian region of Khabarovsk, in the far east of the country, the Ministry for Emergency Situations reported. There are no survivors. The bodies of five people were found at the point of impact. The helicopter,

(Adnkronos) – An eruption is underway in the Sundhnuk volcanic chain in Iceland, for the ninth time since 2023 and the twelfth since 2021. Police officers decided to evacuate the inhabitants of the village of Grindavik after more than 130 seismic tremors

(Adnkronos) – Explosive-laden drones hit three oil fields in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. Kurdish forces said this after a similar attack yesterday halted operations at a US-operated field. “At 6 and 6:15 a.m., two explosive-laden drones attacked” the Peshkabir oil field, operated

(Adnkronos) – The death sentence issued against Michael Bell, 54, was carried out in Florida in the past few hours. This is the 26th inmate executed this year, marking a record number of capital executions in the United States since 2015, when

(Adnkronos) – It was a phone thrown over the North Lawn fence that triggered the brief lockdown of the White House. This was reported by spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, according to Al Jazeera journalist Kimberly Halkett.  The security measure was triggered at 11:30

(Adnkronos) – French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has proposed eliminating two public holidays – Easter Monday and May 8, the anniversary of the victory in Europe of the Second World War – as a measure to reduce public spending in the 2026

(Adnkronos) – Starting in September, English schools will introduce new lessons to help students aged 11 to 18 recognize and counter misogynistic content and toxic masculinity models spread online by influencers like Andrew Tate. The initiative, presented by the British Department for