(Adnkronos) – About 31,000 Syrian citizens have returned to their country from Turkey since the ouster of Bashar Al Assad. This was announced today by the Turkish Interior Minister: “The number of people who have returned is 30,663,” Minister Ali Yerlikaya told

(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) – 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, 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 crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines airliner, which killed 38 people, was caused by “external, physical and technical interference”. This is what emerged from the preliminary results of the investigation, revealed by the airline.  “Preliminary findings of the investigation into

(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) – 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

(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) – 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) – 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) – 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) – The Palestinian Ministry of Education has stated that since the beginning of the Israeli war in Gaza and the West Bank, 12,820 students have been killed and 21,351 injured. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.  In particular, according to the

(Adnkronos) – “For the purposes of national security and freedom around the world, the United States of America believes that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” US President-elect Donald Trump reiterates on Truth his aspiration, already expressed in 2019,

(Adnkronos) – Last night’s snowfall caused significant disruption to roads and railways in various parts of Switzerland. The A1, the main east-west link in the Confederation, between Bern Brünnen and Mühleberg was closed, due to a vehicle across it, reports the Swiss

(Adnkronos) – The pro-European Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu was reconfirmed as Prime Minister today, after reaching a coalition agreement to keep the far right out. “I nominate Marcel Ciolacu as Prime Minister,” said outgoing Liberal President Klaus Iohannis. “I wish him

(Adnkronos) – US President Joe Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 federal inmates, stepping in ahead of the return of Donald Trump, who oversaw a record number of lethal injections during his first term. With less than

(Adnkronos) – The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Chido, which struck last week, has risen to at least 120 dead and nearly 900 injured. The updated toll was released by local authorities, Radio France Internationale reports. 

(Adnkronos) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) yesterday announced the arrest of at least 18 suspected members of the Islamic State, during a joint counter-terrorism operation with the international coalition carried out the day before in the Syrian city of Raqqa, in

(Adnkronos) – The toll from an explosion inside a military base in the city of Gimhae, in the southeastern part of South Korea, is at least three injured. This was reported by the South Korean agency Yonhap, based on news released by

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump’s transition team is pushing to get the United States out of the World Health Organization on the first day of the new administration. The Financial Times writes, citing members of the tycoon’s team, that they have talked about

(Adnkronos) – The team of the new French government of François Bayrou will not be announced before 6 pm to respect the day of national mourning in solidarity with Mayotte, devastated by Cyclone Chido. The Elysée announced it, as reported by the

(Adnkronos) – More than a thousand North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in fighting against Ukrainian forces, after being deployed in support of Russian troops, more than two years after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is

(Adnkronos) – “Yes we have a plan, we think we are going to vote this morning, so stay tuned, but we have a plan.” This is how Mike Johnson announced that a ‘plan C’ has been reached by the Republicans in a

(Adnkronos) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend the commemoration ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on January 27. The Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita writes, explaining that the Israeli premier fears being

(Adnkronos) – German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF announced today the cancellation of the planned debate between Green chancellor candidate Robert Habeck and Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate Alice Weidel.   ARD told Dpa that Habeck had refused in writing to hold

(Adnkronos) – South Korean police interrogated acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo. It is the first time and he was heard in relation to the events of December 3, when Yoon Seul Yeol, the president ‘suspended’ after the vote for impeachment

(Adnkronos) – Nine weeks before the early vote in Germany, the Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz appears to be on the rise in the polls, so much so that he almost equals his rival Friedrich Merz, candidate for chancellor for the CDU/CSU

(Adnkronos) – UN World Food Programme executive director Cindy McCain has expressed her devastation and the humanitarian agency’s solidarity over the “unconscionable” deaths of its staff members in an air strike in southern Sudan on Thursday.  “I am shocked and heartbroken by

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni was on Friday set to attend a north-south summit in Lapland, northern Finland, where European leaders are focusing on security – chiefly Russia – and on migration.   The summit’s aim is to look at the