(Adnkronos) – Europe must provide for its own defence and maintain political unity with Ukraine and the United States to safeguard the “fundamental” Western value of freedom, according to Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani.  “Europa must defend itself and become Nato’s second

(Adnkronos) – The work of the ‘Two Sessions’ (‘Lianghui’), the annual sessions of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s Assembly, kicks off in China. The annual session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference has begun in Beijing,

(Adnkronos) – Retaliation by China after Donald Trump’s decision to impose additional tariffs of 10% on Chinese goods. Beijing, reports the Global Times, has announced tariffs of 15% starting March 10 that hit imports from the US with the agri-food sector in

(Adnkronos) – Canada responds to Donald Trump and will introduce 25% duties on imports from the United States starting today. “After a 30-day pause, the US Administration has decided to proceed with 25% duties on Canadian exports and 10% on energy resources,”

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump has temporarily suspended the delivery of all US military aid to Ukraine. The New York Times reports, citing US officials and officials. The decision, after last Friday’s clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a series of meetings

(Adnkronos) – Some Italian students were involved in a “minor” road accident in Spain, on the Diagonal in Barcelona, which involved two buses. This was reported by sources from the Farnesina, according to which one student was slightly injured. The consulate in

(Adnkronos) – First public appearance today, since her husband returned to the White House on January 20, for Melania Trump. The first lady will participate in a round table on Capitol Hill, according to her office, to talk about the ‘Take it

(Adnkronos) – In China, fewer and fewer people are getting married, the demographic crisis is worsening, and the latest ‘idea’ is to lower the minimum age to be able to say ‘I do’. This would at least be one of the proposals

(Adnkronos) – Christian Stocker was sworn in as the new Austrian Chancellor, leading a coalition government between the centre-right People’s Party (Ovp), the Social Democrats of the Spo and the Liberals of Neos. A three-party government, the first since the late 1940s,

(Adnkronos) – Tomorrow is the new deadline for the imposition by the United States of Donald Trump of tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico, but the situation is described as “fluid” by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. “There will be tariffs for

(Adnkronos) – At least two people have died and 25 have been injured, 15 of them seriously, after a car plowed into a crowd in the center of Mannheim, along the Planken shopping street, in southwestern Germany. Bild reports it citing local

(Adnkronos) – Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has responded to accusations of human rights violations following the forced repatriation of about 40 Uyghur citizens to China. Despite criticism from several international organizations, which denounce the persecution of the minority, the Thai leader

(Adnkronos) – On the eve of his first official speech to Congress since his return to the White House, Donald Trump is seeing a sharp drop in popularity in the polls. According to a CNN poll, 52% of Americans now disapprove of

(Adnkronos) – The manufacturing sector is slowing down in Russia, which in recent years of war has instead driven the economy despite Western economic sanctions. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), the main factor in describing the performance of the sector, fell from

(Adnkronos) – Iran’s Vice President for Strategic Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has announced his resignation. He stepped down less than seven months after his appointment, saying he had made the decision on the ‘advice’ of the head of the judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni

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(Adnkronos) – The pro-European coalition government of Romania, led by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, survived a no-confidence vote in parliament, thus avoiding further political turmoil in the NATO and European Union member state.  There have been months of great tension in the

(Adnkronos) – Britain’s International Development Secretary Anneliese Dodds has announced her resignation following Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to halve the foreign aid budget. With a reduction of around £6 billion by 2027, Dodds said, it will be ”impossible” to maintain aid

(Adnkronos) – Exploratory talks are underway in Germany between the Social Democrats of the Spd and the Union (Cdu and Csu) with a view to forming a coalition government after last Sunday’s vote. Representatives of the two sides met in an office

(Adnkronos) – At least 23 civilians have been killed in the past two days during a series of attacks by Allied Democratic Forces (Adf) militias in the Congolese province of Ituri, in the country’s far northeast. According to civil society sources, most

(Adnkronos) – Clashes broke out in the capital between youths armed with petrol bombs and police who responded with tear gas during demonstrations marking the second anniversary of Greece’s worst rail tragedy, live television footage from Greek broadcasters showed.  As some 200,000

(Adnkronos) – The provisional death toll of a suicide attack carried out during Friday prayers in northwestern Pakistan is at least four dead. Local media report it. Among the victims, according to The Express Tribune newspaper, is the leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

(Adnkronos) – Authorities in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand have launched a rescue operation to try to rescue 41 workers trapped under a massive avalanche in the town of Chamoli in the Indian Himalayas. The trapped workers were part of a

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(Adnkronos) – Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni will attend a summit in London on Sunday of over a dozen European and EU leaders to propel action on Ukraine and strengthen its position including military support and ratcheting up economic pressure on Russia.  Meloni

(Adnkronos) – A ‘first list’ of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, arrested in July 2019 on charges of human trafficking for sexual purposes, was declassified and released by US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. At the same time, she asked the FBI to

(Adnkronos) – The call for disarmament and the dissolution of the PKK issued by its founder Abdullah Ocalan is ”important”. This was stated by Ozgur Ozel, leader of the main opposition party in Turkey, the CHP, expressing the hope that the PKK

(Adnkronos) – “Numerous difficulties and challenges”. That’s what the Chinese economy still has to deal with. The official Xinhua news agency reports on an article signed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to be published in the coming days in Qiushi, the official

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s new ambassador to New Zealand, Cristiano Maggipinto, has taken up his post, the foreign ministry wrote Friday on X, congratulating the envoy on his appointment.  “I am honoured to assume my post as Ambassador of Italy to New Zealand,

(Adnkronos) – Three years after Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Europe and the United States share the certainty that a peace settlement is imperative, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday, welcoming the start of direct talks between the