(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,

(Adnkronos) – The United States must pay “millions of dollars” in compensation to Iran for the damage caused to its nuclear plants in joint raids with Israel. This was underlined by Tehran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Saeed Khatibzadeh, in an interview with the

(Adnkronos) – At least 74 people have been killed and 391 injured in the last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, the scene of Israeli military operations against Hamas launched after the October 7, 2023 attack in Israel. This is the complaint

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani is “worried” at the fragile truce between rival armed groups in oil-rich Libya, which still has rival governments in Tripoli and in the east, 15 years after the ousting of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.  “I

(Adnkronos) – Iran intends to continue to focus on nuclear energy. Iran’s right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes remains intact. This was stated to al Jazeera by the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baghaei after the US and Israeli

(Adnkronos) – US President Donald Trump, when asked about Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which provides for a commitment to mutual defense in the event of an attack on NATO allies, replied: “We are with them all the way”. The

(Adnkronos) – A new political star is born in New York from the divisions and tensions into which the Democratic party has fallen after the electoral defeat. The Dem establishment is in fact experiencing as a shock the fact that Democratic voters

(Adnkronos) – The United States will reopen its embassy in Jerusalem today. The embassy itself announced this in a note, explaining that the Home Front Command has lifted all restrictions and that the diplomatic headquarters will work regularly after the ceasefire came

(Adnkronos) – Nato will ask allies to spend 5% of their national economic output (GDP) on defence but “not with pre-determined annual increases,” Italy said on Wednesday, urging fiscal flexibility to help countries achieve this target.  “It is a fair request, already

(Adnkronos) – Italy will do its utmost to mediate in direct dialogue between the United States and Iran to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East and reassure Israel, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday.  “I believe that the best solution is

(Adnkronos) – Italy has resumed command of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon after general Diodato Abagnara took over from Aroldo Lazaro of Spain at a ceremony at UNIFIL headquarters in Naquora on Tuesday.  At the handover ceremony Abagnara stressed the

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani and US counterpart Marco Rubio had a “long” phone call during a two-day Nato summit taking place in the Hague through Wednesday at which the Western military alliance’s leaders are set to commit to spending

(Adnkronos) – Italy has resumed command of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon after general Diodato Abagnara took over from Aroldo Lazaro of Spain in a special ceremony at UNIFIL headquarters in Naquora on Tuesday.  At the handover ceremony Abagnara stressed

(Adnkronos) – Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist assemblyman, surprisingly won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, beating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Admitting defeat and saying he was “very proud of the campaign we ran,” Cuomo called Mamdani to congratulate

(Adnkronos) – Nine Palestinians were killed and several others were injured while waiting for aid near the Netzarim intersection in the central Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera reported this, citing sources from the Al-Awda and Al-Aqsa martyrs’ hospitals. 

(Adnkronos) – The American bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran has delayed the country’s nuclear program by only a few months. The New York Times writes this, citing officials familiar with a classified report according to which the attacks sealed the

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites is not supported by the majority of Americans, according to a CNN-commissioned poll. 56 percent of Americans are against it, and only 44 percent are in favor. Six out of ten Americans

(Adnkronos) – The International Committee of the Red Cross has reported that one of its workers has been killed in the Gaza Strip, the fifth since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.  “Mahmoud Barakeh, who

(Adnkronos) – The Gaza Civil Defense agency said Israeli forces killed 25 people waiting for aid in the south of the Strip in the second such incident, bringing the number of people killed to 46. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the Iranian attacks against Israel is 28 dead and 3,238 injured – 17 of whom are in serious condition. This was announced by the Magen David Adom emergency services, according to the Times of Israel. According

(Adnkronos) – Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed the conversation between the Israeli prime minister and US President Donald Trump, providing a more positive version of the phone call than the version some White House officials gave to reporters. “In the conversation – says

(Adnkronos) – On the United Nations International Day of Women in Diplomacy, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani, thanked Italian women diplomats and underlined his commitment to promoting gender equality, the foreign ministry said in a statement.  “A concrete sign of progress in

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani has praised politician and academic Varsen Aghabekian’s nomination as his new Palestinian Authority counterpart, underlining Italy’s wish to strengthen bilateral ties, help Palestinians and get a two-state solution to the long-running conflict with Israel.  “Congratulations to

(Adnkronos) – The citizens of Iran will choose their future government but the first priority is to de-escalate hostilities with Israel, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said Tuesday as US president Donald Trump announced a ceasefire in a 12-day military conflict between

(Adnkronos) – The far-right magazine ‘Compact’, banned last July by then Interior Minister Nancy Faeser because it was a “mouthpiece for the right-wing extremist scene”, will be allowed to continue publishing in Germany. Today, judges of the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig

(Adnkronos) – Another massacre among Palestinians queuing for aid. According to the Gaza Civil Defense, at least 21 people were killed in Israeli attacks that hit people waiting outside an aid distribution center. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP, who also