(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani welcomed the government’s final okay on Wednesday to build world’s longest suspension bridge – a controversial 13.5 billion euro project that should link Sicily to the mainland by 2030 – saying it would have a “positive

(Adnkronos) – Italy is opposed to settlements in the occupied West Bank, as they “undermine the foundations” of a peace process leading to a two-state solution to Israel’s long-running conflict with the Palestinians, foreign minister Antonio Tajani stated on Wednesday.  “Minister @Antonio_Tajani

(Adnkronos) – Ukrainians’ trust in President Volodymyr Zelensky has fallen from 65% in June to 58% in early August. This is revealed by a new poll published by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and commissioned to the institute on July 23,

(Adnkronos) – The president of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik has been formally removed from office after being sentenced to one year in prison and six years of disqualification from public office. Dodik was found guilty

(Adnkronos) – The Lebanese authorities have decided to rename one of the country’s main arteries, so far named after former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar, in honor of the musician and playwright, Ziad Rahbani, an iconic figure of Lebanese culture,

(Adnkronos) – A group of protesters stormed the Belgrade headquarters of Serbian President Alexander Vucic’s party, the Progressive Party, at dawn today, throwing eggs, bottles and other objects, shattering several windows. The protest is part of the anti-government and anti-corruption demonstrations underway

(Adnkronos) – The new right-wing Polish president, Karol Nawrocki, was sworn in at the National Assembly and immediately issued an anti-immigration and anti-euro statement. “No to illegal immigration, yes to the zloty, no to the euro,” Nawrocki said in his inaugural address,

(Adnkronos) – Barack Obama unequivocally condemns the Texas Republicans’ attempt to redraw electoral district boundaries. “We cannot lose sight of what matters: right now, Texas Republicans are trying to manipulate electoral district boundaries to unfairly secure five seats in next year’s midterm

(Adnkronos) – Warfare that deploys nuclear weapons “is a crime against humanity”, Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella wrote on the 80th anniversary of the United States’ bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of World War II.  “Today, in a

(Adnkronos) – Giorgia Meloni held talks with Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade late Tuesday after he and Italy’s envoy to Serbia, Luca Gori, met the premier upon her arrival at the capital’s Nikola Tesla International Airport.   Meloni and Vucic’s meeting

(Adnkronos) – The death sentence of a man convicted of spying for Israel was carried out this morning in Iran. “Roozbeh Vadi… was executed following a judicial proceeding and the confirmation of his sentence by the Supreme Court,” reads the judicial website

(Adnkronos) – US President Donald Trump has established a task force to support preparations for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the first Olympics to be held in the United States after the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.  Trump

(Adnkronos) – With a minute of silence, Hiroshima commemorated this morning at 8:15 a.m. local time the dropping by the United States on August 6, 1945, of the atomic bomb that killed about 140,000 people. Three days later, an identical bomb hit

(Adnkronos) – In South Sudan, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been forced to temporarily suspend all activities in Yei River and Morobo counties, in Central Equatoria state, following a security incident that saw a staff member kidnapped for several hours. Activities will

(Adnkronos) – “Russia no longer has any restrictions” on the deployment of ground-launched short and medium-range missiles, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after the Foreign Ministry yesterday announced the suspension of the unilateral moratorium on the deployment of this type of system

(Adnkronos) – Eighty years after the destruction, the survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, known as hibakusha, have fallen below 100,000. The Guardian, in a new era of nuclear risk, interviewed some of the last survivors

(Adnkronos) – With the help of open-source AI systems like ChatGPT, which has a record number of accesses in North Korea, Google Translate, and software capable of masking their image, thousands of North Korean IT specialists have managed in recent years to

(Adnkronos) – Evghenia Gutul, the pro-Russian leader of Gagauzia, an autonomous region of Moldova, has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a Chisinau court for illegal financing of tycoon Ilhan Shor’s party – now a refugee in Moscow – during

(Adnkronos) – Recognising a Palestinian state that doesn’t yet exist is “legal fiction”, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said Tuesday, underlining that Italy continues to back a peace process leading to a two-state solution to the long-running conflict with Israel.  “We are in

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s government is striving for the release from Venezuela of jailed aid worker Alberto Trentini and other political prisoners, foreign minister Antonio Tajani underlined on Tuesday.  “We are working to free political prisoners. We sent an envoy who was also

(Adnkronos) – A special edition of the prestigious BAAL journal has highlighted “rich” bilateral cooperation in joint excavations, research and restoration work at Lebanon’s key archaeological sites, Italy’s embassy stated Tuesday.   “A special edition of BAAL (Bulletin d’Archaeologie et d’Architecture Libanaises)

(Adnkronos) – Egyptian authorities have charged the director of the online newspaper Mada Masr, Lina Attalah, with spreading “false information” and running a website “without a license”. The newspaper itself reported this. The accusation formally brought against Attalah comes following the publication,

(Adnkronos) – The espionage trial against Jian Guo, former assistant to Maximilian Krah, AfD MEP between 2019 and 2025, Spitzenkandidat of Alternative for Germany in the European elections at the time of the events, opens in Dresden, Germany. The defendant is suspected

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign ministry and some 70 business and trade associations have held a meeting of a new trade task force ahead of baseline 15% US tariffs on European Union goods due to come into force on Friday.  The task force

(Adnkronos) – Record heat in Japan. In Isesaki, in Gunma prefecture, the mercury column reached 41.8 degrees, reports the Kyodo agency based on data from the Meteorological Agency. The authorities remind the population of the importance of maintaining proper hydration and making

(Adnkronos) – Government offices, and not only, closed due to extreme heat. It happens in Iran where, in Tehran and other provinces, the authorities have ordered the closure due to the heat wave affecting the Islamic Republic and the increase in electricity

(Adnkronos) – About 50 people were arrested in New York after participating in a protest outside the Trump International Hotel, near Columbus Circle, to ask the Trump administration to pressure Israel to stop the assault on Gaza and allow humanitarian aid into

(Adnkronos) – Fincantieri’s Norwegian subsidiary, Vard, has signed a new contract with the UK’s largest shipowner-operator, North Star to design and build two hybrid Service Operation Vessels in a “very important” deal worth 100-200 million euros, the Italian shipbuilder said in a

(Adnkronos) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a predominantly Kurdish alliance backed by the US in the fight against ISIS, reported clashes with the Damascus army in Dayr Hafir, in the Aleppo province of northern Syria. According to the SDF, government forces

(Adnkronos) – Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault on the Hoptivka checkpoint in the Kharkiv oblast, preventing Russian soldiers from entering Ukraine from the Belgorod region. This was reported by Viacheslav Zadorenko, head of the Derhachi city military administration.  Ukrainian troops of