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Italy 'strongly supports' the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation and will give up to 150 million dollars to its financing tool that aims to propel the vaccine manufacturing industry's growth in Africa by making up to a billion dollars available to beneficiary countries over the next decade.
Foreign minister Antonio Tajani posed for a photo in front of red bench installed in the embassy garden in Paris as a symbol of the fight against violence and discrimination towards women, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
The Italian foreign ministry's art and sculpture collection and building will next be open to the public on 28 June for the last time this summer, the foreign ministry said in statement on Friday.
Italy's state-backed Fincantieri and travel firm Viking have signed a deal to build two state-of-the-art cruise liners for delivery in 2028 and 2029, bolstering the companies' solid 12-year-old ties amid a buoyant post-pandemic cruise market, Fincantieri said in statement on Friday.
Italy and Argentina will mull renewable energy transition opportunities as part of a drive to cement economic and trade ties at a gathering in Milan on Tuesday that foreign minister Antonio Tajani will open.
Russia's offer to end its more-than-two-year-old war in Ukraine if the country ditches its Nato ambitions and yields four southeastern provinces is "not a peace proposal but one for surrender", according to Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
Nations must act to swiftly create a separate Palestinian state that will co-exist alongside Israel "which recognizes Israel and is at the same time recognized by Israel," Italy stated on Tuesday.
Italy and Moldova enjoy "excellent and intense" bilateral ties and are bound by "strong and historical ties", president Sergio Mattarella stated after talks in Chisinau Tuesday with Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu.
During an historic visit to Moldava on Tuesday, president Sergio Mattarella underscored Italy and other western countries' unrelenting support for Ukraine's fight for independence amid the war with Russia that is now in its third year.
Head of state Sergio Mattarella was set to hold talks with Moldova's president Maia Sandu and parliament speaker Igor Grosu on Tuesday during the first visit by an Italian president to the European Union candidate country, according to the Quirinal Palace.
The devastating nine-month-old Israel-Gaza conflict must be ended with "a comprehensive agreement", Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni and US president Joe Biden agreed Friday in talks at the G7 summit in Borgo Ignazia, Pugiia, Meloni's office said in a statement.
Newly elected MEP and anti-fascist Ilaria Salis was freed from house arrest in Budapest on Friday, according to sources. Salis went on trial in May for attacking neo-Nazis at a rally in the Hungarian capital, where she was detained in February last year.
Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni greeted Pope Francis on his arrival by helicopter at the G7 summit in Borgo Ignazia, Puglia, where he is joining Friday's session on artificial intelligence. It is the first time a pontiff has attended a Group of Seven summit.
US president Joe Biden praised premier Giorgia Meloni for Italy's "steadfast support" for Ukraine amid Russia's "brutal war of aggression", the White House said in a statement on Friday.
Italy has joined forces with Europe and the United States with a pledge to invest up to 320 million dollars in a new African railway line as part of efforts to boost sustainable development, US president Joe Biden stated late Thursday, thanking premier Giorgia Meloni.
By backing Ukraine's military struggle to repel Russia's 28-month-old invasion, western countries are defending "freedom security, and the prosperity of our peoples'," according to Italy's president Sergio Mattarella.
Italy has thanked United Nations chief Antonio Guterres for "the work we have started, also together with Austria" on South Tyrol-Alto Adige province, saying it can be a blueprint for other areas in the world.
The government will continue to send food and other essential items including tents for the war-hit Palestinian coastal enclave of Gaza, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said during a visit to the UN logistics hub in Brindisi, southern Italy on Thursday.
