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(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

(Adnkronos) – France condemns “in the strongest possible terms” the increase in executions in Iran, 975 in 2024 as reported by a report, and calls on the Islamic Republic to stop, to “put an end” to the use of the death penalty.

(Adnkronos) – Despite initial talks in Saudi Arabia between the US and Russia this week which excluded Ukrainian and European leaders, European Union sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine mean Europe has to take part in peace negotiations to end

(Adnkronos) – Six elephants on the tracks derail a passenger train. It happens in Sri Lanka. The six elephants died, two others were entrusted to the care of veterinarians. No consequences for the passengers of the train which was traveling near a

(Adnkronos) – A 16-year-old boy stabbed two women to death in a shop in Hradec Kralove, about a hundred kilometers from Prague, in the Czech Republic, police said, adding that the motive for the attack is not yet clear. The boy, who

(Adnkronos) – US President Donald ”Trump wants to be emperor of the world”. So said Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. ”Trump was elected to govern the United States, not to govern the world,” Lula said.  Speaking about the duties that

(Adnkronos) – The fragile ceasefire deal between Israel and Islamist Palestinian group Hamas must hold in order to alleviate the suffering of the Gaza Strip’s population, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday.  ‘We must work to build peace in the