(Adnkronos) – Italy’s government is striving for the release from Venezuela of jailed aid worker Alberto Trentini and other political prisoners, foreign minister Antonio Tajani underlined on Tuesday.  “We are working to free political prisoners. We sent an envoy who was also

(Adnkronos) – A special edition of the prestigious BAAL journal has highlighted “rich” bilateral cooperation in joint excavations, research and restoration work at Lebanon’s key archaeological sites, Italy’s embassy stated Tuesday.   “A special edition of BAAL (Bulletin d’Archaeologie et d’Architecture Libanaises)

(Adnkronos) – Egyptian authorities have charged the director of the online newspaper Mada Masr, Lina Attalah, with spreading “false information” and running a website “without a license”. The newspaper itself reported this. The accusation formally brought against Attalah comes following the publication,

(Adnkronos) – The espionage trial against Jian Guo, former assistant to Maximilian Krah, AfD MEP between 2019 and 2025, Spitzenkandidat of Alternative for Germany in the European elections at the time of the events, opens in Dresden, Germany. The defendant is suspected

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign ministry and some 70 business and trade associations have held a meeting of a new trade task force ahead of baseline 15% US tariffs on European Union goods due to come into force on Friday.  The task force

(Adnkronos) – Record heat in Japan. In Isesaki, in Gunma prefecture, the mercury column reached 41.8 degrees, reports the Kyodo agency based on data from the Meteorological Agency. The authorities remind the population of the importance of maintaining proper hydration and making

(Adnkronos) – Government offices, and not only, closed due to extreme heat. It happens in Iran where, in Tehran and other provinces, the authorities have ordered the closure due to the heat wave affecting the Islamic Republic and the increase in electricity

(Adnkronos) – About 50 people were arrested in New York after participating in a protest outside the Trump International Hotel, near Columbus Circle, to ask the Trump administration to pressure Israel to stop the assault on Gaza and allow humanitarian aid into

(Adnkronos) – Fincantieri’s Norwegian subsidiary, Vard, has signed a new contract with the UK’s largest shipowner-operator, North Star to design and build two hybrid Service Operation Vessels in a “very important” deal worth 100-200 million euros, the Italian shipbuilder said in a

(Adnkronos) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a predominantly Kurdish alliance backed by the US in the fight against ISIS, reported clashes with the Damascus army in Dayr Hafir, in the Aleppo province of northern Syria. According to the SDF, government forces

(Adnkronos) – Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault on the Hoptivka checkpoint in the Kharkiv oblast, preventing Russian soldiers from entering Ukraine from the Belgorod region. This was reported by Viacheslav Zadorenko, head of the Derhachi city military administration.  Ukrainian troops of

(Adnkronos) – In South Korea, thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes due to the heavy rains that hit the southern regions of the country overnight. The South Korean news agency Yonhap reports. Authorities confirm that at least one

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the migrant boat shipwreck off the coast of Abyan in southern Yemen has risen to 76. Yemeni security officials told AFP, explaining that dozens of people are still missing and 32 have been rescued. The UN

(Adnkronos) – Israeli settlers set fire to a building overnight in the village of Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, in the West Bank. Palestinian media reported this. Videos shared show the burned building and the writing “Revenge”. The building was uninhabited and therefore

(Adnkronos) – One person died due to a Russian raid on the Kherson oblast in Ukraine. The head of the Kherson Regional Administrator, Oleksandr Prokudin, wrote this on Telegram. Furthermore, 84 people were evacuated from Korabelnyi, also in the Kherson oblast, due

(Adnkronos) – For the first time, Polish police prevented a group of IDF soldiers attending a ceremony at the former Birkenau concentration camp from carrying an Israeli flag. Ynet reports this. A delegation of 180 Israeli officers and security officials – the

(Adnkronos) – The French government will expel a Palestinian student who had been welcomed from the Gaza Strip to Sciences Po in Lille for sharing an antisemitic post on her social media account and who, according to the Paris Interior Ministry, was

(Adnkronos) – A portion of the 180 South Korean K2 main battle tanks purchased under a new agreement between Warsaw and Seoul will be co-produced in Poland. This was stated today by the Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. Poland is currently receiving

(Adnkronos) – Six people have been arrested in Serbia, including a former minister, on charges of abuse of power in connection with the corruption investigation opened after the collapse of a structure at Novi Sad railway station in November 2024. The Prosecutor’s

(Adnkronos) – The Bosnian Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentence of Serb entity political leader Milorad Dodik to one year in prison and disqualification from public office for six years for failing to comply with the decisions of the High Representative,

(Adnkronos) – The Bosnian Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentence of Serb entity political leader Milorad Dodik to one year in prison and disqualification from public office for six years for failing to comply with the decisions of the High Representative,

(Adnkronos) – The Damascus government has created a commission to investigate the sectarian clashes that took place in Sweida, in southern Syria, and cost the lives of hundreds of people. With a decree, Syrian Justice Minister Muzher al-Wais stated that a seven-member

(Adnkronos) – The Damascus government has created a commission to investigate the sectarian clashes that took place in Sweida, in southern Syria, and cost the lives of hundreds of people. With a decree, Syrian Justice Minister Muzher al-Wais stated that a seven-member

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from a series of Israeli raids launched last night against the southern and eastern parts of Lebanon is four. This was announced today by the Ministry of Health in Beirut. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz had announced

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the Russian army’s missile and drone attack on Kyiv has risen to 31 dead and 159 injured. This was announced by the head of the Kyiv military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, explaining that it is the attack

(Adnkronos) – The worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza could trigger a 9/11-style terrorist attack on US soil. A senior Republican congressional official told the Telegraph that while eliminating Hamas serves American national security interests, the continued US support for Israel, in a

(Adnkronos) – “We are ready to resume negotiations immediately, as soon as the humanitarian crisis and hunger in Gaza are over and aid has reached its destination. Continuing contacts in a period of famine makes them useless, especially after Israel withdrew last

(Adnkronos) – Water emergency and heat waves in Iran. In the southwestern city of Omidiyeh, in Khuzestan, the mercury column reached 51 degrees, Iranian TV reported. In other cities of the Islamic Republic, temperatures have exceeded 45 degrees. In the coming days,

(Adnkronos) – A ‘mega lightning bolt’, 829 kilometers long, has won the world record in the category, complete with certification from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The phenomenon was observed on October 22, 2017, during a particularly intense storm over the American

(Adnkronos) – “I have informed the president that I want to resign from my position as prime minister”. This was communicated by the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Gintautas Paluckas, leader of the center-left Social Democrats. The resignation comes following some corruption scandals