(Adnkronos) – India’s fears for the project of the new Chinese mega-dam, three times larger than the Three Gorges Dam, considered to date the number one hydroelectric power station in the world, have not subsided. The colossal project, along the lower reaches

(Adnkronos) – Members of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary force will “soon” be sent to the Rafah border checkpoint between the Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave and Egypt, foreign minister Antonio Tajani stated on Monday.  “The military mission that will soon go to check Rafah

(Adnkronos) – US president Donald Trump’s 2017-2021 administration was not aggressive towards Italy, and despite Trump’s campaign threat to impose tariffs, scope exists for “productive” bilateral dialogue with the US, according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani.  “Even in the past, Donald Trump’s

(Adnkronos) – Should US president Donald Trump implement his campaign threats to slap universal tariffs of 10-20% on the rest of the world, an ensuing US-EU trade war would especially harm Italy, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Monday.  “A trade war

(Adnkronos) – Agreement on easing sanctions against Syria “more or less” exists among European Union member states, which back the war-devastated country’s de facto leadership, according to Italy.  “Today there is more or less an agreement among EU foreign ministers to ease

(Adnkronos) – For China, the hypothesis of a virus leak from a laboratory to explain the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic remains “extremely unlikely.” “The scientific conclusion reached by a group of experts from China and the World Health Organization (WHO), based

(Adnkronos) – The United States will not continue to impose tariffs on Colombia, after Bogotá agreed to accept – without restrictions – the expelled migrants. The White House made it known. Donald Trump had ordered the imposition of 25% duties on all

(Adnkronos) – Palestinians have started returning to northern Gaza, the Strip’s Interior Ministry has confirmed. “The passage of displaced Palestinians has started along Al-Rashid road through the western part of the Netzarim checkpoint towards Gaza City and the northern part” of the

(Adnkronos) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, and the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel, met today at the Farnesina, during which the main topics of bilateral and multilateral cooperation were discussed. Italy and Portugal –

(Adnkronos) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is expected on Sunday on an official visit to Saudi Arabia, which “is her first accompanied by government ministers and Italian company executives.” The Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya writes, according to which Meloni will hold

(Adnkronos) – Officials from the European Commission and Germany’s Coordinator for Digital Services will meet today with representatives from Microsoft, LinkedIn, TikTok, Snap, Meta and X to discuss the preparatory measures they intend to adopt for the German elections, scheduled for February

(Adnkronos) – The German Greens are asking conservative leader Friedrich Merz for clarification on the conditions for forming a coalition government after the February 23 vote, in order to rule out any form of collaboration with Alternative for Germany. Speaking on public

(Adnkronos) – US President Donald Trump is back to talking about North Korea and his relationship with Kim Jong-un. “I got along well with him,” Trump said. “He’s not a religious fanatic. He happens to be a smart person.” The tycoon’s words

(Adnkronos) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) should try the United States and Israel for “the wars” they caused. This was stated by the Afghan Deputy Interior Minister, Mohammed Nabi Omari, after the Court’s chief prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for the

(Adnkronos) – The Secretary of the Russian National Security Council, former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, has warned the international community that the risk of a war between nuclear powers “is increasing”, and has again accused Western countries of trying to “weaken” Moscow.

(Adnkronos) – In 2024, extreme weather conditions disrupted the school attendance of approximately 242 million children – about one in seven students – across 85 countries. This was reported by Unicef, denouncing what it called a “neglected” aspect of the climate crisis. 

(Adnkronos) – In his interview on Fox News, US President Donald Trump also touched on the issue of North Korea, with a particular focus on supreme leader Kim Jong-un. “I got along well with him,” Trump said. “He is not a religious

(Adnkronos) – US authorities have arrested 538 illegal immigrants and deported hundreds in a mass operation just four days into President Donald Trump’s second administration, new White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.  “The Trump administration has arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals,” Leavitt

(Adnkronos) – A story made of blood, negotiations and military blitzes, which rekindles old imperial ambitions of the United States, returns to memory after the announcement of President Donald Trump who wants to bring the Panama Canal back under the control of

(Adnkronos) – Benjamin Netanyahu in defense of Elon Musk, at the center of controversy for the gesture made in recent days, interpreted as the Roman salute. In a post on X, the Israeli premier claims that the American billionaire was “unfairly smeared”.

(Adnkronos) – The CDU candidate for chancellor in the German elections, Friedrich Merz, anticipates “a fundamental change” to asylum law following the new knife attack, which yesterday left two dead in Bavaria, including a two-year-old child, and for which which an Afghan

(Adnkronos) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is reportedly the promoter of a secret program aimed at destabilizing the European Union. This was revealed by an investigation conducted by Politico.eu. The hybrid warfare plan, known as “Operation Inferno”, would be based on the

(Adnkronos) – “It is clear that the clean energy transition is happening and is destined to continue”. This is the view of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, after US President Donald

(Adnkronos) – NATO allies must “spend more money on defense: some fear that we will spend it as we have in recent decades, but this is not the case. We have to spend more: today we spend” about “2% of GDP, but

(Adnkronos) – The Kremlin sees “nothing new” in the ultimatum that Donald Trump gave to Vladimir Putin, asking him for an agreement to end the “ridiculous war” if he does not want further sanctions. “We do not see any particularly new elements”,

(Adnkronos) – “I don’t feel alone. The world has embraced Argentina….I have found companions in every corner of the planet, from the wonderful Elon Musk to my dear friend Giorgia Meloni, from Bukele in El Salvador to Orban in Hungary, from Netanyahu

(Adnkronos) – China is willing to work with the United States to promote the development of bilateral economic and trade relations in a ”stable, healthy and sustainable” direction, based on the principles of ”mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation”. This

(Adnkronos) – New fire in the hills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County, where about 31,000 residents have been evacuated and firefighters are busy trying to put out the flames. As CNN reports, the fire broke out near the suburb of

(Adnkronos) – Following a request from doctors in the occupied Palestinian territories, Italy will host an initial group of 21 Palestinian children with cancer while efforts are already underway in some regions and university hospitals to mobilise for international assistance, the foreign