ROME (AA) – Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella has responded sharply to Elon Musk’s controversial comments on Italian judges. Musk, set to play a major role in the new US administration led by Donald Trump, harshly criticized a Rome court for having blocked the detention of a second batch of migrants in an Albanian detention center. [&h...
Tripoli, Libya — AFP Libya along with European and African countries agreed Wednesday to establish investment projects in Africa aiming to curb irregular migration to Europe, during an international forum on migration. Participating countries agreed to form a “working group” that would “identify priority development pro...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US, Germany, Italy and the UK continue to be the main suppliers of military equipment that intensifies the suffering in Gaza. These weapons have been used to kill more than 38,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of whom were children and women. These nations have paid little heed to calls from top […]
ATHENS (AA) – Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) has urged the government to recognize Palestine as a state and support the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu liable for “crimes against humanity” in Gaza. Speaking to the country’s state-run ANSA news agency, party’s lawmaker Angelo Bonelli ...
ROME (AA) – Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has said that attacks against Palestinian civilians in Gaza can “no longer be justified.” “There is an increasingly difficult situation, in which the Palestinian people are being squeezed without regard for the rights of innocent men, women and children who have nothing to do with Hamas...
Rome, Italy – AFP Italy said Saturday it would resume funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), as Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa made a visit to Rome. “Italy has decided to resume financing specific projects intended for assistance to Palestinian refugees but only after rigorous controls ...
ROME (AA) – The trial of four Egyptian agents accused of kidnapping and murdering Italian researcher Giulio Regeni has resumed in Rome, a high-profile, controversial case which caused years of friction between Italy and Egypt. Regeni, who was murdered in Egypt in 2016, was a postgraduate student at Britain’s Cambridge University and was carryi...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said that she is “increasingly worried” about the latest developments in Gaza, as Israel faces growing international calls to show restraint in its war. “We are increasingly worried … in particular for the safety of hostages, the protection of civilians in the area of Rafah and ...
ROME (AA) – Italy would not be intimidated by threats from Yemen’s Houthis and will respond to their attacks, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said. “We defend mercantile ships’ traffic. We don’t attack anybody, but we don’t want anybody to attack us,” he told reporters at the sidelines of an event in Rome. “There is […]...
ROME (AA) – The new European military mission in the Red Sea that Italy is promoting with France and Germany will be a “considerable step towards a true European defense,” Italy’s foreign minister said after the three countries presented their plan at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. Antonio Tajani told reporters at the [&hell...
