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(Adnkronos) – Former mercenary and bodyguard of Calin Georgescu, Horatiu Potra, was arrested yesterday in the town of Ilfov, north of Bucharest, together with a group of 20 men, with whom he was traveling, armed to the teeth, to reach the capital.

(Adnkronos) – Taiwan said its military is on “high alert” and has launched “immediate combat drills after spotting Chinese warships and coast guard vessels in waters around the island.” The drills are also a response to restrictions imposed by Beijing’s military on

(Adnkronos) – There are no plans for a meeting in the immediate future between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, without providing details on Assad’s whereabouts. “What happened – he said, quoted by

(Adnkronos) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been banned from leaving the country. The South Korean agency Yonhap reports the ban imposed by the Justice Ministry in the context of the investigation into last week’s attempt to impose martial law

(Adnkronos) – Spotlight also on Daraa, in southern Syria, the cradle of the 2011 uprising. CNN speaks of a new insurrection underway in this province, far from the areas that are the scene of the offensive by anti-Assad forces that are at

(Adnkronos) – Tik Tok loses its appeal to the Washington Court of Appeals against the law, signed last April by Joe Biden, which provides for the platform to be banned in the United States unless the Chinese company that controls it, ByteDance,

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump has chosen David Perdue, former Senator from Georgia, as ambassador to China, with a long past as a top manager in the manufacturing and retail sectors that led him to live in Singapore and Hong Kong. “He will

(Adnkronos) – The statue of Hafiz al-Assad, president of Syria until 2000 and father of current Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, was torn down by jihadists and armed rebels who took control of the city of Hama. Videos and photos of the statue

(Adnkronos) – The number of Palestinians killed since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip has risen to 44,612. This was reported by the Ministry of Health in Gaza City, adding that 105,834 people have been injured since 7 October

(Adnkronos) – The Crimean Bridge connecting the Peninsula on the Black Sea to Russia was closed after a series of explosions this morning around seven (local time) in Kerch, in the area of the Zaliv shipyard, reported the Telegram channel Krymskiy Veter.