Gabriele Pecchini

A 45-year-old woman has been killed and thrown off a motorway bridge near Florence, marking the seventh alleged femicide in Italy since mid-August. Lorana Isceri was abducted on Thursday afternoon, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend, Federico Vella, in the Rifredi area of Florence, before being forced into

A political dispute has erupted in Colombia after President Abelardo De La Espriella shared footage on social media showing him walking among white body bags, which he claimed held the remains of 23 “neutralised” guerrillas. De La Espriella assumed office last month pledging “all-out war” against illegal armed groups.

Germany is urging its European partners to introduce tighter limitations on Russian citizens entering the EU on tourist visas, after recent sabotage attacks which Berlin has blamed on Moscow. German authorities are investigating a Belarusian national, who also holds a Russian passport, over the alleged attempt to attack Leipzig airport

A Russian drone strike hit the central headquarters of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency in central Kyiv, producing thick black smoke over the city. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he ordered the SBU to deliver an “appropriate, tangible response,” while foreign minister Andrii Sybiha called the strike a “major escalation.” Shortly

US Vice-President JD Vance responded to questions about an American strike that killed four people, including a child, at a wedding in southern Iran, saying only that "sometimes things happen." The strike hit Kuhestak, a town in Sirik county on the Strait of Hormuz. The death toll

Two psychiatrists in New Zealand received approval on Friday to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to individuals with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The decision by New Zealand’s pharmaceutical regulatory body Medsafe makes the country the second worldwide to approve the party drug for use in treating PTSD, following