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(Adnkronos) – Polish deputies have approved a bill to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, the agreement banning the use and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines. The decision has drawn harsh criticism from numerous Nobel Peace Prize winners, but Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz defended

(Adnkronos) – A new arms race could precipitate the collapse of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin as happened with the USSR in the 1990s. The warning was launched by the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski. Vladimir Putin “should understand that

(Adnkronos) – Ecuadorian authorities have announced the recapture of Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, the country’s most wanted drug trafficker and leader of the powerful criminal cartel ‘Los Choneros’. Villamar’s capture is a major victory for the Noboa government, which based its

(Adnkronos) – North Korea has completed the construction of a large seaside resort in the eastern coastal region of Kalma. The completion ceremony of the new tourist area took place “with fanfare” on Tuesday in the presence of the North Korean leader,

(Adnkronos) – Tragedy in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, where at least 29 high school students lost their lives in the stampede that followed the explosion of an electrical transformer. The Ministry of Health reported this to AFP.  The incident

(Adnkronos) – South Korean intelligence services believe it is likely that North Korea will deploy additional troops to Russia next month or in August to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow had announced that Pyongyang would send thousands of workers to

(Adnkronos) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered to cut off all aid destined for the northern Gaza Strip, after the far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to leave the government.  Smotrich threatened to resign from the coalition after a video

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli government welcomed the appeal by US President Donald Trump to cancel the criminal trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which he called “a witch hunt”. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted on ‘X’ that “Israel is indeed

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni and her Danish and Dutch counterparts Mette Frederiksen and Dick Schoof on Thursday hosted an informal meeting that centred on how to strengthen the legal framework for migrant repatriations, Meloni’s office said in a statement.  Representatives

(Adnkronos) – At least 40 thousand hectares of land have been devastated and reduced to ashes by a series of fires that have been raging since Sunday on the Greek island of Chios, in the eastern Aegean, and involve over 400 firefighters,