(Adnkronos) – There was only a copy of a newspaper, “today’s edition of the Koelner Stadtanzeiger”, in the suspicious suitcase that caused the bomb alarm this morning in Cologne, Germany. In fact, the suitcase had been attached to a portal of the

(Adnkronos) – Slight decline for the conservative bloc Cdu-Csu and the Social Democrats, Spd, in the latest poll conducted by Forsa for RTL/ntv ahead of Sunday’s vote for the renewal of the German Bundestag: the two groups lose one percentage point and

(Adnkronos) – Turkish police have arrested an Uzbek national who was planning to carry out simultaneous attacks against Jewish schools and synagogues in Turkey and other countries. This was reported on the website of the Hurriyet newspaper, which specified that the man

(Adnkronos) – The European Union today summoned the Rwandan ambassador to ask Kigali to withdraw its troops from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and to stop supporting the offensive by the armed group M23. M23 forces have seized large areas of

(Adnkronos) – The incumbent chancellor is not discouraged, he remains combative, the Cdu/Csu of the challenger Friedrich Merz maintains its advantage. There are now only two days left before the vote that will renew the German Federal Chamber, the Bundestag, and in

(Adnkronos) – Envoy to Senegal Caterina Bertolini and Italy’s development agency AICS’s Dakar director Giovanni Grandi were among officials who attended the launch of a project that aims to integrate at least 10,000 young graduates and support at least 3,000 local businesses

(Adnkronos) – Hamas has called for an international investigation into the use of “banned weapons” by the Israeli army in the offensive against the Gaza Strip. “We demand the formation of international commissions to investigate the use of banned weapons by the

(Adnkronos) – A team of scientists in China has discovered a new coronavirus that is transmissible from bats to humans because it uses the same human receptor as Covid-19. This is reported by the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. The

(Adnkronos) – “You can’t take our country, and you can’t take our game.” This is how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrated on X the 3-2 overtime victory of the Canadian national hockey team over the United States, in the highly anticipated

(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