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Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Monday deplored the army's crackdown in cities across Myanmar at the weekend that killed over 100 people including at least seven children amid a brutal bid to quash opposition to the two-month-old military coup.
During talks in Algiers on Monday, Italy's ambassador Giovanni Pugliese and Algeria's digitalisation minister Hocine Cherhabil looked at boosting bilateral cooperation in strategic sectors for the future, the embassy tweeted.
Italian major Eni's subsidiary Versalis has signed an accord with Bridgestone EMIA to jointly develop a joint agreement for the research, production and supply of synthetic rubber with advanced properties, Eni said in a statement.
Demitu Hambsia Bonsa is set to take up her post as Ethiopia's new envoy to Italy after a president Sergio Mattarella approved her appointment, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Foreign minister Luigi Di Maio began a two-day visit to Montenegro and Bosnia on Monday aimed at boosting bilateral relations between Italy and the two Balkan countries, especially business ties.
Italy on Friday underlined its continuing support for "a just and sustainable" two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urged the re-launch of negotiations between the two sides.
Italy wants to bolster relations with Tunisia - its "strategic partner" in the Mediterranean region - and help it enact reforms needed boost the North African country's stability and prosperity, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
Amid tensions between the European Union and pharmaceutical companies and over Coronavirus vaccine supply chains, Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Friday urged the 27-nation bloc to unite and stand firm.
A rich calendar of events is underway in Israel on 700th anniversary of the death of Italy's greatest poet, Dante, and the programme kicked off with a webinar on the first Hebrew edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's 'Tratello in laude Di Dante', the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Eni on Thursday signed cooperation deals with Algeria's state energy company Sonatrach in the upstream, research-and-development, decarbonization and training sectors, bolstering a partnership between the two companies, the Italian major said in a statement.
A new annual festival - ‘Under One Sky’ - is taking place in the Saudi capital, Riyadh through 3rd April, showcasing 33 stunning large-scale light installations under the creative lead of award-winning Italian impresario Marco Balich and artistic director Lida Castelli.
The Italian government is ready to boost training of Libya's navy within the European Union's anti-smuggling mission in the Mediterranean, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday.
Italy is working to bring home a four-year-old girl from the southern town of Teggiano whose mother took her to Russia in 2018 and it is "closely following" the case, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio stated on Thursday.
Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio and his French and German counterparts Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas travelled to war-torn Libya on Thursday for talks in Tripoli, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Premier Mario Draghi will visit Libya "in the first week in April", he told lawmakers on Wednesday after a unified interim government took power in Italy's war-torn former colony in mid-March.
China's reliatory sanctions against the European Union are "unacceptable", Italy's deputy foreign minister Marina Sereni told China's ambassador Li Junha at a meeting at the foreign ministry on Wednesday.
The Italian government on Wednesday praised Saudi Arabia's proposal for a ceasefire in war-torn Yemen, where millions face famine, calling it an "important signal" amid the country's "dramatic" six-year-old conflict.
Italy summoned China's ambassador for a meeting on Wednesday amid worsening tensions after it imposed retaliatory sanctions on the 27-nation European Union.
Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Tuesday urged Coronavirus vaccinations to be speeded up in the 27-nation European Union, saying the bloc should aim to complete inoculations by the end of the year.
Italy must further strengthen relations with its ally the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio stated on Tuesday after talks with US counterpart Antony Blinken on the sidelines of a Nato summit in Brussels.
