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Italy will launch its 'Food for Gaza' scheme in a bid to avert "an even more devastating humanitarian catastrophe" in the blockaded and bombarded Palestinian enclave, where the United Nations says a quarter of its 2.3 million population is facing famine.
Italy backs Bosnia-Herzegovina's full European Union entry, the possible start of accession talks, and wants to bolster investment and trade with the EU candidate country, foreign minister Antonio Tajani has said.
Italy's government is weighing the possibility of aidropping food into the blockaded and bombarded Gaza Strip as well as trucking humanitarian aid to the Palestinian coastal enclave via the Rafah crossing with Egypt.
An "export-driven" country, Italy has "a duty" to safeguard merchant shipping in the key Red Sea waterway - where Iran-backed Houthi militants have been staging missile and drone attacks from Yemen since October - according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
Italy and Germany's recent 'action plan' will cement the two countries' "extraordinary solid" relations, president Sergio Mattarella told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in talks in Rome.
Political instability in Lebanon - which has been without a president or a fully functioning government since 2022 - "does not help" the crisis-hit Middle East, Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani argues.
Italy's charge d'affaires laid flowers at the grave of Russia's late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was buried in Moscow on Friday after his sudden death last month at a Siberian prison, where he was serving sentences totalling over 30 years.
On the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Mexico, the two countries want to cement their ties, the foreign ministry wrote Friday on X (formerly Twitter).
Italy's unwavering support for Ukraine "is not an act of aggression against Russia" and does not envision the deployment of troops to the embattled country, the government has reaffirmed.
Italy's charge d'affairs is attending the funeral in Moscow on Friday of Russia's late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani. Navalny died suddenly on 16 February at an Artic prison, where he was serving sentences of over 30 years.
Foreign minister Antonio Tajani has called on the Jewish state to "establish what happened" after 100 Palestinians were killed and over 760 were injured during an aid delivery in the war-devastated Gaza Strip when ruling Islamist group Hamas claims Israel shot at civilians.
Italy's foreign minister on Thursday tweeted an appeal for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the release of over 100 hostages and the protection of civilians in the war-ravaged Palestinian coastal enclave, whose authorities say over 30,000 people have been killed since October.
Strategic vision and energy autonomy are crucial for Italy, Europe's second biggest manufacturer - with 4 million small and medium-sized firms - and an important agriculture sector - according to foreign ministry Antonio Tajani.
Foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday rejected claims by Hungary of alleged Italian meddling in the case of jailed antifascist Ilaria Salis, who is to stand trial in Budapest for attacking two neo-Nazis there last February.
Prime minister Giorgia Meloni's office on Tuesday reaffirmed Italy's "full commitment" to Ukraine but ruled out sending European or Nato ground troops to help fight Russia after France appeared to float the possibility.
Italy joined Germany, Britain and other European nations in saying on Tuesday they did not plan to deploy troops to Ukraine after France's president, Emmanuel Macron hinted at the possibility amid arms shortages and Russian battlefield gains.
Italy wants to strengthen "excellent" cooperation with Croatia in a raft of areas from culture and research to business amid "strong harmony" between the two nations "on the priorities of the European agenda".
Foreign minister Antonio Tajani has welcomed the release of an Italian couple and their son held hostage by Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists in Mali since 2022 and expressed "relief" at the success of the operation.
Three Italian citizens held by al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists in Mali for over 21 months were set to arrive at Ciampino airport near Rome on Tuesday after their release, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
France's ambassador Martin Briens paid a visit to Italy's Adnkronos news agency's headquarters in Rome on Tuesday, where he met the Adnkronos group (GMC)'s president and owner, Giuseppe Marra.
