(Adnkronos) – Canada revokes the digital tax on US technology companies, with which it resumes negotiations for an agreement by July 21. The announcement came overnight from Ottawa’s Finance Minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, according to whom Canada “will revoke the Digital services tax

(Adnkronos) – Italy has condemned the ongoing killings of civilians in war-shattered Gaza as Israel on Monday ordered Palestinians to leave northern part of the Strip ahead of an intensification of military action.  “I hope that a ceasefire in Gaza is reached

(Adnkronos) – The conservative majority of the Supreme Court has decided to allow Donald Trump to adopt measures to enforce his controversial order to end birthright citizenship, the ius soli that has been the basis of the very formation of the United

(Adnkronos) – More than a third of Tuvalu’s population has already applied for a “climate visa” that would allow permanent migration to Australia, as part of a program launched on June 16th, which is already unique in its kind. Out of a

(Adnkronos) – Family reunification for migrants in Germany who only enjoy limited protection status – most of whom are Syrian – will be suspended for two years, according to a bill approved by lawmakers today. The bill put forward by the conservative

(Adnkronos) – A Syrian minor, Mohamed A., has been charged by the German federal prosecutor’s office with collaborating with a then 19-year-old Austrian, Beran A., in an attempt to carry out an attack on Taylor Swift’s concerts last August in Vienna. Three

(Adnkronos) – The Jerusalem court before which Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial is underway has rejected the request to suspend the proceedings, deeming the reasons given for the postponement request insufficient, including the war in Gaza and the recently concluded conflict with Iran.

(Adnkronos) – Representatives of EU member states have formalized the renewal of sectoral sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine, agreed last night at the end of the European Council. Diplomatic sources report this. The sanctions are renewed for six months,

(Adnkronos) – German voters confirm the choices made on February 23 at the polls: a new poll conducted by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen institute for the public broadcaster Zdf attributes 29% of the preferences, therefore slightly more than in the general elections (28.5%),

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli defense forces hit over 900 targets in Iran during the 12-day “Rising Lion” operation, which ended Tuesday. The IDF reported this in a report on the attacks in which eleven nuclear scientists and over 30 senior military officers

(Adnkronos) – In Hong Kong, a former British colony increasingly in China’s orbit, one of the last opposition groups of the pro-democracy front announces its dissolution. The ‘story’ of the League of Social Democrats ends. “Next year will be the 20th anniversary

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(Adnkronos) – The minimum wage in Germany will increase from 12.82 euros to 14.60 euros per hour by 2027 in two phases. This was announced today by the commission in charge of proposing the adjustments. At the beginning of next year, the

(Adnkronos) – German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius reiterated his intention to regulate the issue of conscription through a law, while stressing that the army should primarily rely on volunteers. Speaking to Dpa a few hours before the start of the Social Democratic

(Adnkronos) – Japan has executed a death row inmate. The announcement was made by public broadcaster NHK and other media: this is the first time since 2022 that the country has carried out the death penalty.  The Ministry of Justice did not

(Adnkronos) – The legal team of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has filed a request with the Jerusalem District Court to postpone the testimonies in the trial in which he is accused for two weeks. Defense attorney Amit Hadad pointed out how

(Adnkronos) – Polish deputies have approved a bill to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, the agreement banning the use and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines. The decision has drawn harsh criticism from numerous Nobel Peace Prize winners, but Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz defended

(Adnkronos) – A new arms race could precipitate the collapse of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin as happened with the USSR in the 1990s. The warning was launched by the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski. Vladimir Putin “should understand that

(Adnkronos) – Ecuadorian authorities have announced the recapture of Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, the country’s most wanted drug trafficker and leader of the powerful criminal cartel ‘Los Choneros’. Villamar’s capture is a major victory for the Noboa government, which based its

(Adnkronos) – North Korea has completed the construction of a large seaside resort in the eastern coastal region of Kalma. The completion ceremony of the new tourist area took place “with fanfare” on Tuesday in the presence of the North Korean leader,

(Adnkronos) – Tragedy in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, where at least 29 high school students lost their lives in the stampede that followed the explosion of an electrical transformer. The Ministry of Health reported this to AFP.  The incident

(Adnkronos) – South Korean intelligence services believe it is likely that North Korea will deploy additional troops to Russia next month or in August to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow had announced that Pyongyang would send thousands of workers to

(Adnkronos) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered to cut off all aid destined for the northern Gaza Strip, after the far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to leave the government.  Smotrich threatened to resign from the coalition after a video

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli government welcomed the appeal by US President Donald Trump to cancel the criminal trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which he called “a witch hunt”. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted on ‘X’ that “Israel is indeed

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni and her Danish and Dutch counterparts Mette Frederiksen and Dick Schoof on Thursday hosted an informal meeting that centred on how to strengthen the legal framework for migrant repatriations, Meloni’s office said in a statement.  Representatives

(Adnkronos) – At least 40 thousand hectares of land have been devastated and reduced to ashes by a series of fires that have been raging since Sunday on the Greek island of Chios, in the eastern Aegean, and involve over 400 firefighters,

(Adnkronos) – The European Union must “move forward” with managing migration and on defence policy, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani told reporters on Thursday on the sidelines of a European Peoples’ Party pre-summit in Brussels.  “Today, we need to have a united

(Adnkronos) – Spain, whose government is currently led by Socialist Pedro Sanchez, “will have to meet” within a decade the 5% defence spending target set by Nato leaders at a summit in The Hague on Wednesday, according to Italy.  “Spain signed up

(Adnkronos) – A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Rome made an emergency landing in Iceland Sunday morning due to a mechanical problem that occurred while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. Flight UA507, a Boeing 777-200ER with registration N76010, declared an

(Adnkronos) – Two years and two months in prison. This is the sentence imposed in Taiwan on a soldier accused of spying for Chinese intelligence in exchange for a sum equivalent to about 2,300 euros. Chen, as the soldier has been identified,