(Adnkronos) – Australia and New Zealand have expressed concern over live-fire exercises by Chinese warships in the seas between the two countries, which have required the diversion of commercial flights in the skies above. The Chinese Navy alerted the Australian defense department

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani will attend a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Charlevoix in Quebec province, Canada, from 12-14 March, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.  The Charlevoix meeting will centre on the Middle East,on continuing

(Adnkronos) – Oded Lifshitz, whose body was handed over to Israeli authorities today, was killed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad while being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. The IDF reports.  Lifshitz, 83, was a peace activist and one of the founders

(Adnkronos) – A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) employee was “seriously injured” after gunshots were fired at an MSF base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The organization announced it, adding that a child was also hit.   MSF condemns “in the

(Adnkronos) – The European Union must play a leading role in ending Israel’s devastating war in Gaza and Russia’s brutal military invasion of Ukraine and must police the peace there with the US, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday.  “In

(Adnkronos) – France condemns “in the strongest possible terms” the increase in executions in Iran, 975 in 2024 as reported by a report, and calls on the Islamic Republic to stop, to “put an end” to the use of the death penalty.

(Adnkronos) – Despite initial talks in Saudi Arabia between the US and Russia this week which excluded Ukrainian and European leaders, European Union sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine mean Europe has to take part in peace negotiations to end

(Adnkronos) – Six elephants on the tracks derail a passenger train. It happens in Sri Lanka. The six elephants died, two others were entrusted to the care of veterinarians. No consequences for the passengers of the train which was traveling near a

(Adnkronos) – A 16-year-old boy stabbed two women to death in a shop in Hradec Kralove, about a hundred kilometers from Prague, in the Czech Republic, police said, adding that the motive for the attack is not yet clear. The boy, who

(Adnkronos) – US President Donald ”Trump wants to be emperor of the world”. So said Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. ”Trump was elected to govern the United States, not to govern the world,” Lula said.  Speaking about the duties that

(Adnkronos) – The fragile ceasefire deal between Israel and Islamist Palestinian group Hamas must hold in order to alleviate the suffering of the Gaza Strip’s population, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday.  ‘We must work to build peace in the

(Adnkronos) – According to Donald Trump, Russia holds the cards in the negotiation for peace in Ukraine, said the American President Donald Trump aboard the plane that yesterday brought him back to Washington from Florida. The Russians, he added, “have taken control

(Adnkronos) – A three-judge panel of a US appeals court has rejected the Justice Department’s request to immediately reinstate the executive order signed by Donald Trump to limit ‘birthright citizenship’, the ius soli, which a lower court had ruled against, paving the

(Adnkronos) – A few days after the Villach attack, police and the Internal Intelligence Service foiled another terrorist attack, planned, according to media reports, by a 14-year-old and directed against Vienna’s Westbahnhof railway station. The “Kurier” reports – citing the Austrian Interior

(Adnkronos) – Since the end of the traffic light coalition – in government in Germany until last November 6 – the German environmentalist party has recorded a boom in membership. “Our party now has a total of over 168,000 members. This means

(Adnkronos) – A bounty on mosquitoes. It is happening in the Philippines. In one of the country’s most populous urban centers, a cash reward is being offered to anyone who catches or kills mosquitoes. It is presented as the latest weapon in

(Adnkronos) – Italy and Israel enjoy “excellent”, “intense” and “friendly” relations, president Sergio Mattarella told his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog during their meeting at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on Wednesday.  Herzog’s visit to Rome – the second in a matter of

(Adnkronos) – The Seoul authorities have said they are willing to welcome North Korean soldiers who were captured on Ukrainian territory while fighting alongside Russian troops and who intend to desert. This was announced by the South Korean Foreign Ministry in a

(Adnkronos) – The Trump administration has also asked the Pentagon and other federal government defense agencies to hand over – the deadline was last night – the list of probationary employees in view of their possible dismissal as early as this week,

(Adnkronos) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it will resume the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza on Saturday. In a note, the WHO underlines that “the current environmental conditions in Gaza, including overcrowding in shelters and the serious damage

(Adnkronos) – A conference in Miami hosted by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and new executive orders. These are the two ‘appointments’ that will mark today’s day for US President Donald Trump. In the aftermath of talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh

(Adnkronos) – One-year-old Ethan Nichols is due to return to Italy on Wednesday after his father abducted him last August in the southern Puglia region aged seven months and took him to the United States, the foreign ministry announced.   “I am

(Adnkronos) – The meeting between the Russian and US presidents, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, could take place before the end of February, but it is also possible that it will be held later. This was underlined during a press briefing by

(Adnkronos) – US President Donald Trump has promised that healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid or Social Security will not be affected by the federal spending cuts that his administration intends to pursue. “Social Security will not be touched – other

(Adnkronos) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted for an alleged “coup” plot to prevent his successor Lula’s return to power after the 2022 elections. The prosecutor’s office detailed in a statement the indictment of the former far-right leader (2019-2022)

(Adnkronos) – Italy is ready play a leading role in Europe’s security including Ukraine’s and wants to see a “fair and just” peace in the war-wracked country that will allow it to rebuild, according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani.  “Cohesion and coordination

(Adnkronos) – Another Palestinian child has arrived in Italy from Gaza as part of the operation that saw fourteen young Gazan cancer patients airlifted with their families to Italy for treatment last Thursday, the foreign ministry said in a statement.   The

(Adnkronos) – Italy is lending its judicial and organised crime busting expertise to ‘friend’ Brazil, the foreign ministry wrote on X late after foreign minister Antonio Tajani held talks in Rome with the South American country’s justice minister Mariano Cuneo Libarona on

(Adnkronos) – A crocodile head, a large quantity of “erection stimulants”, fake luxury watches and five knives. This is the incredible ‘booty’ found inside the luggage of a Swiss man, stopped last December 14 at Zurich airport on his return from Thailand.