(Adnkronos) – Olaf Scholz rejects the proposal to double the defense budget. In an interview with “Stern”, the German Chancellor argues that significantly increasing defense spending “without saying what the money will be spent on and where it will come from” is

(Adnkronos) – Herbert Kickl will express himself in the afternoon on the mandate given to him by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen to form a new government after the failure of the negotiations conducted by outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer.   Less

(Adnkronos) – The Damascus airport, in Syria, has been reopened, returning to being operational after the closure following the overthrow of Bashar Assad by the Syrian rebels. The first flight from Qatar, after 13 years of interrupted connections, landed at the international

(Adnkronos) – Syria’s transitional government and the challenges posed by its planned national dialogue conference, the drafting of a new constitution, social inclusion and the war-torn country’s social and economic recovery will be at the centre of this week’s ‘Quint’ foreign ministers

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani will hold a ‘Quint’ meeting in Rome focussed on the Middle East countries of Syria and Iran, which will be attended by his US, French, German and British counterparts and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas,

(Adnkronos) – Italian major Eni’s non-carbon unit Plenitude has more than doubled its capacity from renewables in Spain since 2023- including solar and wind projects – due to “significant organic growth”, Eni said in a statement on Tuesday.  Plenitude has expanded its

(Adnkronos) – The death toll from the earthquake in Tibet, hit by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on the Richter scale at 9.05 local time, is worsening: the confirmed deaths are 95, 130 injured, according to the toll released at 3 pm local

(Adnkronos) – A South Korean court has granted an extension of the detention warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached following an attempt to impose martial law in the country. The Seoul Western District Court granted the extension requested

(Adnkronos) – France today commemorates the jihadist attack carried out ten years ago against the Charlie Hebdo newspaper. The nation was hit in 2015 by a series of attacks, from the one on the famous satirical weekly to those against the Bataclan

(Adnkronos) – North Korea has announced that it has successfully tested a new “hypersonic missile” intended, according to leader Kim Jong Un, to deter “all rivals” of the country in the Pacific region. The test took place yesterday while US Secretary of

(Adnkronos) – The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed the first death from avian influenza in the United States. The deceased patient, exposed to contact with wild and non-commercial backyard birds, was over the age of 65 and suffered from previous pathologies,

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s office bearers celebrated the 228th anniversary of National Flag Day on Tuesday, paying tribute to the Tricolour as a powerful symbol of patriotism, freedom, democracy and national unity.  “Today we celebrate the 228th anniversary of the #Tricolour, symbol of

(Adnkronos) – A thick fog is enveloping northern India, causing real chaos in the transport sector due to “zero” visibility, as defined by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). More than one hundred planes were unable to depart on time from New Delhi’s

(Adnkronos) – Russia has recruited about 180,000 inmates and sent them to fight in Ukraine since last November. This is according to Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service. The Kyiv Independent recalled that since the summer of 2022 Moscow has been recruiting detainees for

(Adnkronos) – Former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, has left the social media platform after seven years. He was replaced by Joel Kaplan, his deputy and former member of the Republican Party, former White House

(Adnkronos) – The Polish government has excluded high-level representatives of the Hungarian government from the list of guests invited to the event that will formally begin the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union in Warsaw today, as a direct

(Adnkronos) – Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese Foreign Minister, will visit Namibia, the Republic of Congo, Chad and Nigeria from January 5 to 11, at the invitation

(Adnkronos) – Investigators who tried to arrest South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been impeached, today failed to enter the head of state’s residence because the presidential security service prevented them from entering. The South Korean agency Yonhap reports.  

(Adnkronos) – Republican leader Mike Johnson will face his critics today, in a congressional vote that could see him confirmed as one of the top-ranking officials in the US or relegated to the back benches and the shadows of American politics. After

(Adnkronos) – The Guatemalan Public Prosecutor’s Office has announced the arrest in El Salvador of the leader of the Jewish sect Lev Tahor, Jonathan Emmanuel Cardona Castillo, days after Interpol issued an international red alert, on charges of human trafficking, forced pregnancy

(Adnkronos) – Qatar Airways has announced that air connections with Damascus will resume from Tuesday, January 7, with a frequency of three flights a week. The Doha-based airline explains that the decision follows the desire to increase connections between the countries of

(Adnkronos) – The sanctions that the international community has imposed on Syria are ”useless and ineffective” after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and therefore ”must be removed”. This was stated by the interim Foreign Minister of the new Syrian authority, Asaad

(Adnkronos) – The Ukrainian armed forces carried out a precision air raid on a Russian army command post in the Maryino area, in the Kursk region. The General Staff of the Ukrainian army announced this, explaining that all necessary measures were taken

(Adnkronos) – The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected a part of a new law that would have increased the power of control of the Minister of National Security, Ben Gvir, over the police. However, the part of the measure that will allow

(Adnkronos) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado today called for new mobilizations against the government of Nicolas Maduro, days before his inauguration ceremony as president for a second term, after he proclaimed himself the winner of the elections last July. The

(Adnkronos) – The man who yesterday killed at least 10 people, including two children, in a shooting at a club in southern Montenegro is dead after shooting himself. Local police reported this.  The police surrounded the man and when they ordered him

(Adnkronos) – At least 10 people were injured in a shooting in New York outside the Amazura nightclub in the Queens borough. The New York Post reports, citing local police. None of the injured are believed to be in a life-threatening condition.

(Adnkronos) – The leader of the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, has assured that since November 27 – the date on which the ceasefire with Israel in Lebanon came into force – the group “has regained health”, becoming stronger.  “The resistance

(Adnkronos) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the Jerusalem hospital this morning where he underwent prostate surgery two days ago to be present at a parliamentary vote on the budget. According to the Walla website, Netanyahu left the hospital despite doctors’