(Adnkronos) – The Military Operations Command, which brings together the armed factions that brought down Bashar al-Assad, has announced the lifting of the curfew in Damascus and the Rif of the capital. The provision, in force from 4 pm to 5 am,

(Adnkronos) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has asked the Bundestag for a vote of confidence in order to call early parliamentary elections on February 23rd. The motion – the German press agency Dpa learned from government sources – was presented today to

(Adnkronos) – Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Italian-American indicted for the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare shot dead on a Manhattan street last Wednesday, will oppose extradition from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested, to New York State. This will allow

(Adnkronos) – The pro-European parties in Romania have committed to quickly forming a coalition government to isolate the far right, with the possibility of even going so far as to nominate a single candidate for the presidential elections, the date of which

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump appoints Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former face of Fox News who was Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, as ambassador to Greece. “Kimberly has been a friend and ally for many years, her extensive experience and leadership in the legal, media,

(Adnkronos) – South Korean Prime Minister Han Deok Soo has publicly apologized for the martial law declared by President Yoon Suk Yeol last week, which has plunged the country into political instability.  During an extraordinary session before the National Assembly, the head

(Adnkronos) – Representatives of over 80 Maori tribes have appealed to King Charles III, asking him to intervene in New Zealand politics, at a time of growing tension over the government’s policies towards the aboriginal population. The National Iwi Chairs Forum, a

(Adnkronos) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz will today submit a formal request to the German parliament for a vote of confidence in his government, thus paving the way for early elections scheduled for February. Scholz has led a minority government made up of

(Adnkronos) – Police raid the presidential offices in Seoul. Meanwhile, the former South Korean Defense Minister, Kim Yong-hyun, attempted suicide in a detention center. Kim has been formally under arrest since the early hours of this morning. For Yoon, who last week

(Adnkronos) – Abkhazia is in the dark following protests that led to the withdrawal of the package of laws to give the green light to Russian investments in the Black Sea region included within the borders of Georgia but de facto under

(Adnkronos) – For the first time since the end of the Assad era, employees of the Syrian Central Bank have returned to work. They were seen entering the institute’s headquarters for the first time since Sunday, the Dpa agency reports.  Mohamed al-Imam,

(Adnkronos) – “I have deployed nuclear warheads. Several dozen warheads. Many say it’s a joke and that no one has deployed anything. Yes, we did. And the fact that the opponents say it’s a joke means that they haven’t understood. They have

(Adnkronos) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accused of corruption, fraud and breach of trust, arrived in court in Tel Aviv to answer the charges. Israeli media reported. The hearing marks the resumption of the trial, which was interrupted by the conflict

(Adnkronos) – Massacre in a market in North Darfur. An air raid attributed to the Sudanese military yesterday left over a hundred dead and hundreds injured, according to reports from Emergency Lawyer, a group that has documented human rights abuses in the

(Adnkronos) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva underwent surgery for an “intracranial hemorrhage” after falling at home on Oct. 19, Brazilian media reported.   According to a note released by the Syrian-Lebanese hospital in Sao Paulo, the 79-year-old president underwent

(Adnkronos) – Dozens of Chinese naval units around Taiwan, never before has a fleet of this magnitude been seen around Taipei. The complaint came from the authorities of the island, de facto independent, but which Beijing considers a “rebel province” to be

(Adnkronos) – The National Assembly of Seoul, the South Korean parliament, has approved a resolution calling for the immediate arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol and seven other people in connection with last week’s declaration with which the president attempted to impose

(Adnkronos) – 26-year-old Luigi Mangione has been indicted on charges of second-degree murder. He was arrested yesterday in Pennsylvania on suspicion of being the killer who shot and killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s executive branch in New York last week. According to

(Adnkronos) – The Syrian Parliament has announced that it will support “the will” of the people to build a new country in the aftermath of the capture of Damascus by armed factions and the flight of Bashar al-Assad. “December 8 was a

(Adnkronos) – The Syrian rebels who overthrew President Bashar Assad have assured that they will not impose any religious dress code on women and have promised to guarantee personal freedom to all.  In a statement published on social media, the rebel General

(Adnkronos) – China has launched an investigation into US chip giant Nvidia for alleged violation of antitrust laws. This was announced by the state broadcaster Cctv.  According to the broadcaster, the State Administration for Market Regulation has launched an investigation into Nvidia

(Adnkronos) – The former head of the Salvation Government in Idlib, what was the rebel stronghold, Mohammed al-Bashir, will be the new prime minister of the government that will manage the transition in Syria. Al-Jazeera reported this the day after the capture

(Adnkronos) – Former mercenary and bodyguard of Calin Georgescu, Horatiu Potra, was arrested yesterday in the town of Ilfov, north of Bucharest, together with a group of 20 men, with whom he was traveling, armed to the teeth, to reach the capital.

(Adnkronos) – Taiwan said its military is on “high alert” and has launched “immediate combat drills after spotting Chinese warships and coast guard vessels in waters around the island.” The drills are also a response to restrictions imposed by Beijing’s military on

(Adnkronos) – There are no plans for a meeting in the immediate future between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, without providing details on Assad’s whereabouts. “What happened – he said, quoted by

(Adnkronos) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been banned from leaving the country. The South Korean agency Yonhap reports the ban imposed by the Justice Ministry in the context of the investigation into last week’s attempt to impose martial law

(Adnkronos) – Spotlight also on Daraa, in southern Syria, the cradle of the 2011 uprising. CNN speaks of a new insurrection underway in this province, far from the areas that are the scene of the offensive by anti-Assad forces that are at

(Adnkronos) – Tik Tok loses its appeal to the Washington Court of Appeals against the law, signed last April by Joe Biden, which provides for the platform to be banned in the United States unless the Chinese company that controls it, ByteDance,

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump has chosen David Perdue, former Senator from Georgia, as ambassador to China, with a long past as a top manager in the manufacturing and retail sectors that led him to live in Singapore and Hong Kong. “He will

(Adnkronos) – The statue of Hafiz al-Assad, president of Syria until 2000 and father of current Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, was torn down by jihadists and armed rebels who took control of the city of Hama. Videos and photos of the statue