(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

(Adnkronos) – Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the disarmament and dissolution of the PKK comes almost ten years after the July 2015 breakdown of the two-and-a-half-year ceasefire agreement with Turkey. Since then, according to the International Crisis Group, 7,152 people have been killed

(Adnkronos) – At least 11 people died and about 60 were injured in a series of explosions during an M23 rally in Bukavu, a city conquered by the anti-government group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A hospital source told AFP. DRC

(Adnkronos) – Sudan risks hundreds of thousands of deaths if the devastating war in the country does not end and aid does not arrive. This was stated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk speaking at the Human

(Adnkronos) – The agreement for the formation of a new government in Austria reached today between the three moderate centrist forces – the Austrian People’s Party (Oevp), the Social Democratic Party (Spoe) and the liberals of Neos – is focused on consolidating

(Adnkronos) – PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan has asked the Kurdish militant group to lay down its arms and disband, in a historic statement read out in Istanbul. “All armed groups must lay down their arms and the PKK must disband,” he said

(Adnkronos) – The assisted voluntary repatriation from Libya of migrants to their homelands is “an effective solution” to stemming illegal immigration, Italy’s interior minister Matteo Piantedosi and Libyan counterpart Imad Trabelsi agreed on Thursday, the interior ministry said in a statement.  During

(Adnkronos) – The captain of the cargo ship with a Chinese crew accused of damaging a submarine cable in the Taiwan Strait was arrested in Taiwan. The Chinese captain of the vessel has been remanded in custody pending the outcome of the

(Adnkronos) – Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison by a Sarajevo court for his separatist activities, therefore for failing to comply with the pronouncements of the UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, at

(Adnkronos) – The Austrian People’s Party (Oevp), the Social Democratic Party (Spoe) and the liberals of Neos have reached an agreement for the formation of the new government. This was announced by an Oevp spokesperson.  

(Adnkronos) – The Trump administration is cutting back on development and assistance programs abroad, a reduction of 92%, for a total of $54 billion. The State Department has announced it. “At the end of the process led by Usaid’s leadership, including tranches

(Adnkronos) – More North Korean soldiers would have been deployed alongside Russian forces in the war against Ukraine. South Korean intelligence believes that North Korea has sent additional troops, deployed on the front lines in the Russian region of Kursk, reports the