(Adnkronos) – The European Union must strive to reach an accord with the United States on tariffs to prevent a trade war that “benefits no one”, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday.  “We must work to reach an agreement: a

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli Air Force has attacked about 120 “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, including “terrorist cells”, tunnels and other “terrorist infrastructures”. The Times of Israel reports, based on what was reported by the military, specifying that

(Adnkronos) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spurred the military alliance to rapidly grow stronger, above all politically, and to confirm its peacekeeping role, especially with the accession of previously neutral Finland and Sweden, Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella said on Tuesday.  

(Adnkronos) – Russia has ousted Germany from the top five beer producers in the world. While Germany produced slightly less beer last year, production in the Eurasian giant increased significantly, according to a report by BarthHaas, the world’s largest hop trader.  Germany

(Adnkronos) – The United States has imposed sanctions against what it has called an oil smuggling and sanctions evasion network linked to the Houthis, operating between Yemen and the United Arab Emirates. The US Treasury Department announced this in a statement explaining

(Adnkronos) – In Pakistan, the new official death toll from the consequences of the monsoon rains is at least 223 dead and about 600 injured. The National Disaster Management Authority updated the toll. Among the 223 victims, there are 12 deaths reported

(Adnkronos) – Turkey did not offer a fair trial to 239 opponents, incarcerated for alleged links to the failed 2016 coup simply because they used a mobile phone app. This is the condemnation of the European Court of Human Rights, which condemned

(Adnkronos) – Italy and Ethiopia are jointly hosting the three-day United Nations Food Systems summit in Addis Ababa which kicks off on Sunday, the overseas aid department wrote Tuesday on X (formerly Twitter).  “Ready? The 2nd UN Food Systems Summit will take

(Adnkronos) – An official investigation has revealed that dozens of provincial officials and health workers attempted to cover up the serious case of lead poisoning that affected 235 children in a private kindergarten in Tianshui, in the Chinese province of Gansu. Blood

(Adnkronos) – Israel and Syria have resumed talks on security issues, according to the Saudi channel Al-Hadath, after the recent sectarian clashes and Israeli raids in Damascus and the southern province of Suwayda. The negotiations, mediated by Turkey and the United States,

(Adnkronos) – Russian attacks in Ukraine in the last 24 hours have killed at least three civilians and injured another 45, according to regional authorities. Among the victims there are also children. Russian forces launched 42 Shahed-type attack drones and other drones

(Adnkronos) – Members of Italy’s lower house of parliament’s foreign affairs committee are set on Wednesday to hold a question and answer session on “issues within the purview of the foreign and overseas development ministry”, the parliament said in a statement without

(Adnkronos) – Sicily’s governor Renato Schifani has voiced gratitude to foreign minister Antonio Tajani for a taskforce created to internationalise Sicilian companies and for his “constant attention to southern Italy”.  “‘I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Minister Tajani for

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani was set to attend the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday in Rome of 46 young recruits who passed their probationary period – the first step in their diplomatic careers – the foreign ministry said in a

(Adnkronos) – A severe heatwave sweeping through Iran has compromised water and electricity supplies across much of the country, with reservoir levels dropping to their lowest in a century, according to state media. At least 18 of the country’s 31 provinces, including

(Adnkronos) – 221 people have died and more than 500 have been injured in incidents related to almost a month of heavy monsoon rains. The Pakistani disaster management agency reports, stating that “from June 26 to July 21, 221 people have lost

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the crash of a Bangladesh Air Force plane against a school complex in Dhaka has risen to 27. “At the moment 27 people have died, including 25 children and the pilot,” Health and Family Welfare Ministry

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli army arrested a “cell of terrorists planning an attack” during a night operation in Bethlehem, in the West Bank. The IDF reports this, adding that a total of 16 suspects were arrested during the raids. 

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani and 24 counterparts in Europe Asia and Oceana on Monday urged Israel to immediately halt its over-20-month-old war against Islamist Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, saying the “unacceptable” suffering of civilians had “reached new depths”. 

(Adnkronos) – Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced today that the first steps have already been taken for the construction of a new pipeline that will connect his country to Serbia, at a time, he said, when the European Union is “cutting

(Adnkronos) – At least 16 people, mostly students, were killed and over one hundred were injured when a Bangladesh Air Force training plane crashed into a school campus in the capital Dhaka. The office of Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus said that at

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Iraq has risen to 30, with a total of 231 cases registered nationwide since the beginning of this year, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced today. Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr said

(Adnkronos) – The Bombay (Mumbai) High Court today acquitted the 12 people convicted, including five sentenced to death, for the July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, which killed 189 people and injured more than 800. The judges ruled that the prosecution had failed

(Adnkronos) – The European Union and China are “major economies and global players” whose relations impact the entire world, EU Council president Antonio Costa stated ahead of an EU-China summit in Beijing on Thursday.  “50 years of bilateral relations, 25th #EUChina summit

(Adnkronos) – The death toll of Palestinian victims in Deir Al-Balah has risen to at least 8 after Israeli tanks entered the city, in the central Gaza Strip, in what is the IDF’s first ground incursion into the area. The Israeli army

(Adnkronos) – Tomorrow, Iran will hold a trilateral meeting with Russia and China on Tehran’s nuclear program. This was announced by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei. The meeting will also discuss the UN “snapback” mechanism, i.e. efforts to reimpose international sanctions

(Adnkronos) – The Milan-based Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the MedOr Italian Foundation are teaming up to choose candidates for the Milan-based university’s Masters in Middle Eastern Studies, the Italian embassy in Saudi Arabia wrote Monday on X.  “The @Unicatt

(Adnkronos) – US authorities have announced the opening of humanitarian corridors from the Syrian province of Sweida, in the southwest of the country, due to the “risk of armed conflict” after a week of clashes that have so far caused over 1,100

(Adnkronos) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced that he will remain in office, despite the electoral defeat, to face challenges such as the tariffs announced by the Trump Administration which should come into effect on August 1st and the rising

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani voiced solidarity with deputy premier and transport minister Matteo Salvini after prosecutors said Friday they had lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against his acquittal of charges of kidnapping over 100 migrants for nearly three