In La Spezia, Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini inaugurated SeaFuture 2021(daily newspaperil

An Italian Parliament committee that deals with intelligence matters summoned former Premier Giuseppe Conte on Thursday over growing concerns that a Russian military and medical team sent to help Italy early in the COVID-19 pandemic was really on a spying mission.... “ That is so no one has any scruples, perplexity, doubts ” about his role while premier, the Italian agency LaPresse quoted him as saying.... The conflict simply explained Sign The Independent’s petition to help the people of Ukra

EMMANUEL Macron’s party has suffered a fresh blow in France’s local elections as rival Marine Le Pen failed to win a single region. Both the French President’s La République en Marche( LREM) and Le Pen’s Rassemblement National( RN) are on course for a humiliating defeat, according to exit polls.... Victory would give Le Pen momentum and a platform to challenge Mr Macron in 2022-a repeat of their election battle in 2017.... Emmanuel Macron and his wife vote in the first round of the French regi

Italian Army soldiers carry the flag of the Folgore Brigade as the last Italian troops withdraw from Afghanistan, in Herat, on June 29, 2021.... Germany and Italy declared their missions in Afghanistan over on Wednesday and Poland's last troops returned home, bringing their deployments to a low-key end nearly 20 years after the first Western soldiers were deployed there.... But with the passing years, NATO and U.S. troops took on greater roles developing Afghanistan's National Security and Def

Sunday’s nationwide ballot was a disaster for the French President, with exit polls revealing the conservative Republicans party as the winners.... National, Mr Macron’s La République En Marche received less than 10 percent of the vote.... He added: “ I think the abstention from the first and second rounds cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand.“ This is obviously a major political fact, which cannot leave any political indifferent....

BRUSSELS/ WARSAW( Reuters)-Polish security forces fired water cannon at rock-throwing migrants on the border with Belarus on Tuesday, and NATO reiterated its support for Warsaw in a crisis that has left thousands stranded on the frontier in icy temperatures.... The West has also warned the Kremlin over what NATO says is a Russian military buildup on the border with neighbouring Ukraine.... Belarusian state news agency BELTA said border guards had started moving migrants who gathered at a close

The TAKE with Rick KleinPresident Joe Biden's promise as a candidate was to bring stability after chaos--and his approval rating through the first six months of his time in office was nothing if not stable. Then came August, and there that went.... A wild month of national, international, meteorological and epidemiological events leaves Biden at the low point of his presidency, after an acutely low stretch for the country. Biden's approval rating is down to 44% in the new ABC News/ Washington P