Italy marks 2016 Brussels terror attacks
Italy's foreign ministry on Monday commemorated the victims of coordinated suicide blasts at the main airport and a metro station in Brussels on 22 March 2016 which killed 32 people and injured over 300.
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Italy's foreign ministry on Monday commemorated the victims of coordinated suicide blasts at the main airport and a metro station in Brussels on 22 March 2016 which killed 32 people and injured over 300.
Lebanon's ongoing political, financial and social crisis were the focus of talks in Bkerki on Monday between Italy's envoy to Lebanon Nicoletta Bombardiere and Maronite Patriarch Mar Bechara Rahi, the embassy tweeted.
The UNSMIL peacekeeping force's chief, Stefano Del Col, appealed to Lebanon and neighbouring Israel on Friday to finish marking the 120 kilometre boundary between them, saying this was crucial to lasting peace between the two countries.
The United Nations World Food Programme gave live-saving aid to a record 114 million people last year, its executive director David Beasley tweeted on Friday, urging nations to help save millions from famine.
Priorities for Italy's presidency of the G20, cooperation in the fight against COVID-19 and on global economic revival after the pandemic were at the centre of phone talks Friday between Italy's premier Mario Draghi and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga.
The transfer of power in Libya this week to an interim unified government allows "cautious optimism" but efforts to stabilise and unify the war-torn nation need to "double", according to Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has shown Italy "solidarity" on issues ranging from the unsolved 2016 murder of researcher Giulio Regeni in Egypt to war-torn Libya and relations with Russia, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday.
Italy on Thursday welcomed the European Medical Agency's findings that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective and announced that inoculations with the jab would re-start on Friday.
The 103,432 people killed by Italy's dramatic Coronavirus outbreak over the past year can never be forgotten and the death-toll is set to rise "in the coming hours," Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio tweeted on Thursday.
Amid a third deadly spike in COVID-19 infections in the country and elsewhere in Europe, Italy on Thursday marked its first national remembrance day for the victims of the year-old pandemic.
Italy and Canada want to bolster their bilateral relations, premier Mario Draghi's office said on Wednesday after he held phone talks with Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau that centred on the battle against COVID-19 and global recovery from the devastating pandemic.
Food security is key to Italy's G20 presidency this year and it will host an event in Rome ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit in New York in September, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.
The suspension by various European countries of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid fears the jab may have led to blood clots was the focus of talks between Italy's premier Mario Draghi and France's president Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, Draghi's office said in a statement.
Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio is talking part in the high-profile Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2021 meeting this week - a leading international forum for key stakeholders of the energy sector.
Developing bilateral partnerships, strengthening coooperation over migrations and regional stability were the focus of telephone talks on Monday between Italy's premier Mario Draghi and Tunisia's prime minister Hichem Mechichi, Draghi's office said in a statement.
An Italian plane with 12 tonnes of essential supplies landed in Juba on Monday as South Sudan faces a humanitarian crisis and growing hunger, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The world has failed Syrians in the ten years since their country's devastating conflict began, United Nation refugee chief Filippo Grandi said on Friday, urging nations to boost solidarity with impoverished Syrian refugees.
Talks on Friday in Rome between foreign minister Luigi Di Maio and his Albanian counterpart Olta Xhacka centred on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, bilateral cooperation and Italy's support for the European integration of the Western Balkans, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Friday doubled down on Italy's calls for the whole European Union to show solidarity on migration with countries at the bloc's external borders.
Italy, France, Germany, the UK and the US issued a joint statement on Thursday welcoming the Libyan parliament's approval of a transitional unity government led by businessman Abdelhamid Dbeibah, calling the vote a "fundamental step" towards the war-torn country's unification.
