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(Adnkronos) – Lee Jae-myung, leader of the opposition in South Korea, has been acquitted. The Supreme Court of Seoul, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports, overturned the conviction, with a suspended sentence, which had been imposed on charges of lying when

(Adnkronos) – A Russian court has sentenced 23 Ukrainians, including soldiers and former soldiers, taken prisoner at the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine to prison terms ranging from 13 to 23 years for terrorism and other charges. The sentence was

(Adnkronos) – Three years in prison. On charges of “inciting secession”. It happens in China to a publisher who lived in Taiwan and published books critical of the Chinese Communist Party or in any case on topics considered ‘sensitive’. The story of

(Adnkronos) – At least 19 people have died in what has been one of South Korea’s worst wildfires, with multiple blazes causing “unprecedented damage”. South Korean Acting President Han Duck-soo said, adding that “chaos continued throughout the night, with power and communication

(Adnkronos) – Over 1,400 people have been arrested in connection with mass protests that have swept Turkey since March 19, following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya reported this. “To date, 1,418 suspects have been arrested in

(Adnkronos) – Student protests against corruption, which began in Serbia, are spreading throughout the Balkans, with thousands of young people taking to the streets under the slogan “Corruption kills”. The wave of demonstrations, unprecedented since the 1990s, was triggered by the collapse

(Adnkronos) – Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declined to answer a question about her possible involvement in the Signal group chat, an unsecured channel, where raid plans in Yemen were discussed.  “Senator, I don’t want to get into the merits,” Gabbard

(Adnkronos) – Dante Alighieri was “the first great Europeanist, foreign minister Antonio Tajani wrote on social media Tuesday – the national day dedicated to Italy’s revered Florentine poet  ‘‘Ye were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge’,”

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign policy is made by its top diplomat and its premier, foreign minister and deputy premier, Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday, denying that a phone call last week between transport minister Matteo Salvini and US vice-president JD Vance had

(Adnkronos) – Instruments worth over a billion euros are being rolled out to support the development of Italian products in markets with the highest growth potential, notably Latin America and Africa, Italian state lender CDP’s service provider Simest said on Tuesday in