(Adnkronos) – Sicily’s governor Renato Schifani has voiced gratitude to foreign minister Antonio Tajani for a taskforce created to internationalise Sicilian companies and for his “constant attention to southern Italy”.  “‘I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Minister Tajani for

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani was set to attend the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday in Rome of 46 young recruits who passed their probationary period – the first step in their diplomatic careers – the foreign ministry said in a

(Adnkronos) – A severe heatwave sweeping through Iran has compromised water and electricity supplies across much of the country, with reservoir levels dropping to their lowest in a century, according to state media. At least 18 of the country’s 31 provinces, including

(Adnkronos) – 221 people have died and more than 500 have been injured in incidents related to almost a month of heavy monsoon rains. The Pakistani disaster management agency reports, stating that “from June 26 to July 21, 221 people have lost

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the crash of a Bangladesh Air Force plane against a school complex in Dhaka has risen to 27. “At the moment 27 people have died, including 25 children and the pilot,” Health and Family Welfare Ministry

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli army arrested a “cell of terrorists planning an attack” during a night operation in Bethlehem, in the West Bank. The IDF reports this, adding that a total of 16 suspects were arrested during the raids. 

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani and 24 counterparts in Europe Asia and Oceana on Monday urged Israel to immediately halt its over-20-month-old war against Islamist Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, saying the “unacceptable” suffering of civilians had “reached new depths”. 

(Adnkronos) – Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced today that the first steps have already been taken for the construction of a new pipeline that will connect his country to Serbia, at a time, he said, when the European Union is “cutting

(Adnkronos) – At least 16 people, mostly students, were killed and over one hundred were injured when a Bangladesh Air Force training plane crashed into a school campus in the capital Dhaka. The office of Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus said that at

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Iraq has risen to 30, with a total of 231 cases registered nationwide since the beginning of this year, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced today. Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr said

(Adnkronos) – The Bombay (Mumbai) High Court today acquitted the 12 people convicted, including five sentenced to death, for the July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, which killed 189 people and injured more than 800. The judges ruled that the prosecution had failed

(Adnkronos) – The European Union and China are “major economies and global players” whose relations impact the entire world, EU Council president Antonio Costa stated ahead of an EU-China summit in Beijing on Thursday.  “50 years of bilateral relations, 25th #EUChina summit

(Adnkronos) – The death toll of Palestinian victims in Deir Al-Balah has risen to at least 8 after Israeli tanks entered the city, in the central Gaza Strip, in what is the IDF’s first ground incursion into the area. The Israeli army

(Adnkronos) – Tomorrow, Iran will hold a trilateral meeting with Russia and China on Tehran’s nuclear program. This was announced by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei. The meeting will also discuss the UN “snapback” mechanism, i.e. efforts to reimpose international sanctions

(Adnkronos) – The Milan-based Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the MedOr Italian Foundation are teaming up to choose candidates for the Milan-based university’s Masters in Middle Eastern Studies, the Italian embassy in Saudi Arabia wrote Monday on X.  “The @Unicatt

(Adnkronos) – US authorities have announced the opening of humanitarian corridors from the Syrian province of Sweida, in the southwest of the country, due to the “risk of armed conflict” after a week of clashes that have so far caused over 1,100

(Adnkronos) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced that he will remain in office, despite the electoral defeat, to face challenges such as the tariffs announced by the Trump Administration which should come into effect on August 1st and the rising

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani voiced solidarity with deputy premier and transport minister Matteo Salvini after prosecutors said Friday they had lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against his acquittal of charges of kidnapping over 100 migrants for nearly three

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani will open an Italy-Algeria business forum in Rome attended by around 500 Italian and Algerian companies on Wednesday which aims to bolster bilateral trade and investment and give new impetus to excellent economic ties between the

(Adnkronos) – Colombian rescue services managed to rescue 18 miners, trapped for twelve hours due to the collapse of a mine in the northeast of the country. The workers of the El Minón mine, in the rural area of Remedios, are now

(Adnkronos) – Three doctors in Poland have been convicted for the death of a woman who died from pregnancy-related complications after they refrained from performing an abortion that could have saved her life. The case has sparked mass protests, as it is

(Adnkronos) – Italy has sent condolences to Iraq over a massive fire at a new shopping centre in the eastern city of Kut on Thursday that killed at least 61 people, triggering an investigation into the cause of the blaze.  “The Embassy

(Adnkronos) – Italy strongly supports the European integration of the western Balkans and will work with Greece, Croatia, Slovenia and Bulgaria to take candidate countries from the region into the European Union, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday.   “Things have

(Adnkronos) – The reduction of Antarctic sea ice is pushing humpback whales to migrate south about three weeks earlier than 21 years ago. This is revealed by Australian research. According to a long-term study by the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia,

(Adnkronos) – “It’s time for WhatsApp to prepare to leave the Russian market”. This was announced by Anton Gorelkin, vice president of the Duma commission for information policy, explaining that the app – owned by the Meta group, defined as an “extremist

(Adnkronos) – The twenty-seven EU member states today gave their final approval to the European Commission’s proposal to extend by two years the current obligation for member states to have their gas storage facilities at 90% of capacity before the winter season.

(Adnkronos) – Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has entered war-ravaged Gaza with 500 tonnes of aid for the civilian population after the deadly Israeli military strike on its only Catholic church on Thursday, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said Friday. 

(Adnkronos) – “I welcome the agreement on our 18th package of sanctions against Russia. We are hitting the heart of the Russian war machine, targeting the banking, energy and military-industrial sectors and including a new dynamic oil price cap. The pressure is

(Adnkronos) – Damascus is preparing to redeploy its military units to Sweida after interim President Ahlmad al Sharaa accused the Druze of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement that led, on Wednesday evening, to the withdrawal of the contingents. Groups of