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(Adnkronos) – A two-day conference to support Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery and on accelerate its European Union entry opens in Rome on Thursday, attended by over 5,000 participants including the war-ravaged country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, Italy’s entire cabinet and 2,000 companies.  “The

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s companies can “add value” to war-ravaged Ukraine’s reconstruction and supporting Kiev is “a duty and an extraordinary opportunity for shared growth”, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday.  “I believe that the experience of the Italian private sector can

(Adnkronos) – Two Chinese citizens, father and son, have been arrested in Ukraine. They are accused of espionage, of having tried to smuggle missile technology out of the country. According to Ukrinform news, on June 26, a 24-year-old Chinese man, a former

(Adnkronos) – Italy has praised a “concrete” US proposal for a truce in Israel’s war against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, which focuses on Israeli hostage releases, and has vowed to support US, Egyptian and Qatari efforts to mediate an end

(Adnkronos) – In a report adopted Wednesday with 490 votes in favor, 147 against and 49 abstentions, the European Parliament defines the “rigged parliamentary elections” of October 2024 in Georgia “a clear turn towards authoritarian rule”, following which the Georgian Dream party

(Adnkronos) – The leader of the Ennahda opposition party in Tunisia, Rachid Ghannouchi, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of “conspiracy against state security”. Ghannouchi’s lawyers, who is 84 years old, have rejected the accusations and

(Adnkronos) – Attack in Mogadishu. In the Somali capital, the Jaalle Siyaad military academy, one of the main recruit training centers in Somalia, was targeted by a suicide bomber. The attack was claimed by Al-Shabaab.  According to a Somali policeman quoted by

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s state investment agency SIMEST is making available 300 million euros for small and medium-sized enterprises involved in the reconstruction of war-shattered Ukraine, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday.  The SIMEST funds will “provide concrete support to our SMEs

(Adnkronos) – Italy on Wednesday expressed solidarity with Christians in Pakistan and called for their protection and the safeguarding of minorities and their religious freedom fundamental rights in the Muslim country and elsewhere in the world.  Cabinet undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano voiced the

(Adnkronos) – Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky is holding talks in Rome on Wednesday with Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella and Pope Leo XIV ahead of a conference on rebuilding the war-torn country that kicks off on Thursday.  Zelensky is also set to meet