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(Adnkronos) – Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, arrested in Tehran on December 19, has been held “in solitary confinement” in Evin prison, “where dissidents are held,” for a week. This was reported by Chora Media, the Italian podcast company for which the journalist

(Adnkronos) – The 62-year-old who ran over and killed 35 people with his car in the Chinese city of Zhuhai last month has been sentenced to death. This was announced by the state broadcaster Cctv.   “The court publicly tried the case

(Adnkronos) – Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, in Iran to carry out journalistic services, was stopped on December 19 by the Tehran police authorities. The Farnesina announces it, specifying that on the instructions of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, the Italian

(Adnkronos) – Turkish authorities have announced that they have “neutralized” 14 suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in a raid against northern Iraq. The Turkish Defense Ministry announced this in a post on X, specifying that the airstrikes were carried

(Adnkronos) – German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has dissolved the Bundestag and called for new elections on February 23 next year. In difficult times like these for stability, “an able government and reliable majorities in Parliament” are needed, Steinmeier said in Berlin. 

(Adnkronos) – A Dutch court has sentenced five men for last month’s violence against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam, which shocked the world and sparked accusations of anti-Semitism.  The Amsterdam District Court found them guilty of a range of offences, from kicking

(Adnkronos) – Russia has lost 777,720 soldiers in Ukraine since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has reported. This figure includes the 1,630 casualties inflicted on Russian forces in the last

(Adnkronos) – The Russian merchant ship Ursa Major sank in international waters, between Águilas (Murcia) and Oran (Algeria), after an explosion occurred in its engine room. Fourteen crew members were rescued and transferred to the port of Cartagena, while two crew members

(Adnkronos) – Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in the Christian quarters of Damascus to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama, in central Syria.  “We demand the rights of Christians,” the demonstrators shouted as they marched through the

(Adnkronos) – Twelve people died and three were injured in an explosion at an explosives factory in the city of Balikesir, western Turkey. Turkish CNN reports, quoting Governor Ismail Ustaoglu, who adds that “the possibility of a terrorist attack is not being